This beautiful guide includes creative ways to style a table - for dinner, a cocktail party, brunch, picnic in the park, and other fun occasions. Whatever the size of your home or budget, How to Set a Table features stylish, modern ideas for welcoming friends and family in your

#1 on BookRiot\'s 15 MUST-READ REGENCY ROMANCE NOVELSGeorgette Heyer is known as the \"Queen of Regency Romance,\" and you won\'t want to wait to find out why! You\'ll fall in love with Arabella Tallant, one of the most memorable and delightfully exuberant heroines you\'ve ever met.Daughter of a modest country clergyman, Arabella Tallant still dreams of a proper romance, and is on her way to London

This book offers a new ecosystemic approach to the understanding of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems. Both salt marsh and mangrove plants and the associated macroalgae will be characterized in their ecophysiological and phenological aspects, as well as genetic and epigenetic

Presents cutting-edge, evidence-based interventions for dealing with specific difficulties of reading comprehension in children aged 7-11. An in-depth introduction to the \'poor comprehender profile\', which describes children who despite being fluent readers have difficulty extracting meaning from text. Sets out a range of practical interventions for improving reading skills in this group - along

The irresistible companion to I Was Born a Baby--a hilarious read-aloud with catchy rhymes and bold, silly art about animals and the places they call home! I live in a tree trunk. I live in a barn. I live in a shoebox. I\'m down on the farm...Soon all the other animals can\'t help but share what their homes are called, too. Readers will learn about porcupines, salamanders, groundhogs, and more. But

Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Brazilian Portuguese, ideal for use alongside the Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar or as an independent resource. The book is divided into two sections. Part A provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures whilst Part B practises everyday functions, including making

Children will have hours of coloring fun with this busy book of construction vehicles. Features a spectacular foil cover! This busy coloring book is perfect for young fans of construction vehicles and machines. Little ones will find all kinds of exciting construction scenes, from big buildings and bustling workers to rumbling dump trucks, steamrollers, and diggers. With a shiny foil cover and bold

As a genre of poetry, the country house poem was born in the seventeenth century. As English country house society itself grew in prominence, the poem of commemoration diminished in popularity; not until the Edwardian era, when the country house as an institution began to wane, was there arenewed interest in country house poetry. As the power and influence of landed society dwindled, the country house

In April 1956, C S Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and the author found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In this journal, he freely confesses his pain, rage, and struggle to sustain his

In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia\'s foremost Muslim leaders received their educations in Middle Eastern madrasas or the archipelago\'s own Islamic schools. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, however, growing numbers traveled

A simple, five-step program to overcome the social anxiety standing between you and a happier, more confident lifeDo you worry about what others think of you? Does fear of being judged trigger intense anxiety? If you\'re one of millions of teens suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD), you know how it feels to miss out on life because you\'re avoiding people or situations that you feel like you

Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a \"giant hairball\"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many of which he spent inspiring his colleagues to slip

A tale of intrigue and suspense from Haymarket\'s glittering cafes to Victorian London\'s crime-infested

The Holy Vedas are the oldest and most respected scriptural Hindu writings. They were passed down orally for generations before being written in Sanskrit in 1500 BCE.This book contains the English translation of all four Vedas: Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Atharva Veda, and Sam Veda. These collections feature poetry, hymns, prayers, and religious thought.The hymns impart a deep understanding of Indian mythology

Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt\'s November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies

Some have made deliverance their ultimate goal in life. Deliverance is not a final goal, it is only a sub-goal on the way to fulfill God\'s purpose in life. Deliverance is no more the goal for us than for the children of Israel escaping their bondage in Egypt. God said to Pharaoh, \"Let my people go that they may serve Me...\" (Exod. 7:16). There was a purpose for Israel beyond their escape from bondage,

Interior design is a multidiscipline profession blending spatial, technical, and aesthetic knowledge, and one of the key skills needed to manage these elements is an ability to properly draw interior spaces. This insightful resource explores all aspects of interior design drawing and provides both an overview of the process of interior design itself, as well as instructions on how to sketch interiors,

It\'s warm up time in this newest installment in the Brinkley Yearbook series. Will Alexandra make the cut and help the historically boys baseball team defend their 9-year championship title? Alexandra, also known as Al, has been playing baseball with her older brothers for as long as she can remember. But when she ages out of Little League, it seems like it\'s the end of the road for Al and the sport

How do cultural complexes affect the collective psyche? Based on Jung\'s theory of complexes, this book offers a new perspective on the psychological nature of conflicts between groups and cultures by introducing the concept of the cultural complex. This modern version of Jung\'s idea offers an original view of the forces that prevent human attempts to bring a peaceful, collaborative spirit to conflict