Great Grapes

Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1603424091
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill. In Great Grapes, you'll learn all you need to know to grow superb grapes, including how to: -Choose the most suitable cultivars for your area -Choose the right site -Prepare the soil -Build trellises -Plant and train the vines -Prune for maximum yield -Propagate new vines -Control pests -Harvest the grapes at the peak of ripeness

It's Gone Dark Over Bill's Mother's

Author: Lisa Blower
Publisher: Myriad Editions
ISBN: 1912408171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Lisa Blower celebrates her characters with stories that they wouldn't want told. She makes the bleak funny, in a voice reminiscent of Alan Bennett, and strikes a new chord in regional and working-class fiction. With a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower brings to life the silent histories and harsh realities of those living on the margins. The matriarch dominates these award-winning stories in Lisa Blower's debut collection. From the wise, witty and outspoken Nan of 'Broken Crockery', who has lived and worked in Stoke-on-Trent for all of her 92 years, never owning a passport, to happy hooker Ruthie in 'The Land of Make Believe' or young mum Roxanne in 'The Cherry Tree', she appears in many shapes and forms, and always with a stoicism that is hard to break down. The title is a Potteries saying that means it's looking a bit bleak, a little like rain.

Halloween

Author: Nicholas Rogers
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195168969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
A wide-ranging, illustrated look at the history of Halloween illuminates the holiday from ancient Celtic ritual to billion-dollar industry. 32 halftones & line illustrations.

Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World

Author: Raija Mattila
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3658243880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487

Book Description
While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.

Environmental Heavy Metal Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development

Author: Lubomir I. Simeonov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400702523
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity. Human exposure occurs through all environmental media. Infants are more susceptible to the adverse effects of exposure. Increasing attention is now being paid to the mental development of children exposed to heavy metals. The purpose of this book is to evaluate the existing knowledge on intellectual impairment in children exposed to heavy metals in their living environment and to identify the research needs in order to obtain a clearer picture of the situation in countries and regions at risk, in which the economy is closely related to metallurgy and heavy metals emission, and to recommend a strategy for human protection. In greater detail the main objectives could be formulated as follows: to review the principal sources of single, and complex mixtures of, heavy metal pollutants in the environment; to identify suitable methodology for chemical analyses in the environment and in humans; to evaluate the existing methods for measuring mental impairment, including their reliability and validity; to recommend a standard testing protocol to be used in future research; to assess the future role of environmental heavy metal pollution in countries and regions at risk and its effects on children’s neurological development; to recommend a prevention strategy for protecting children’s health and development.

Monitoring Southern California's Coastal Waters

Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309043271
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description

Ancient Sex

Author: Ruby Blondell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814252116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Elucidates some of the ways that ancient Greek and Roman texts and visual arts articulate a culturally specific discourse about sexual matters.

The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing – Fifth Canadian Edition

Author: Doug Babington
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770488146
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key grammatical points, a glossary of usage, advice on various forms of academic writing, coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics, and helpful advice on how to research academic papers. MLA, APA, and Chicago styles of citation and documentation are covered, and each has been revised to include the latest updates. A companion website provides a wealth of interactive exercises, information on the CSE style of citation and documentation, and much more.

Excavations at Pylos in Elis

Author: John E. Coleman
Publisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 9780876615218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
When the site of Elean Pylos was threatened by the construction of a dam in 1968, a team from the University of Colorado moved in to salvage as much information as possible about the ancient town before it was submerged. This report is divided chronologically: Middle Helladic, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Roman, Byzantine, and Frankish. Each chapter consists of a brief description of the remains in the field, followed by a catalogue of the finds. While earlier finds are mainly of wells, the Classical settlement was the size of a large village providing everyday finds of bronze, lead, iron, and pottery. Some fragments of terracotta figurines and amber suggest a certain amount of wealth, but the primary character of the whole site is agricultural. Roman and Frankish remains are primarily funerary.

The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking

Author: Adiraja dasa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780902677074
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking is a definitive and complete guide to Indian vegetarian cooking.