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A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets

This photographic overview of the beautifully wild gardens by the Belgium-based 'green guerillas' Bart Haverkamp and Pieter Croes will inspire gardeners everywhere to let nature take the lead.

From a home-improvement expert, a guide to building just the right fence to serve your individualized needs. This complete guide shows homeowners how to: *build fences that provide privacy and security *mark boundaries *hide unpleasant views *keep animals in or out *beautify a yard *provide protection from the elements. Author Jeff Beneke guides readers through the building process with illustrated step-by-step instructions. Also included is information on how to repair fences and gates that have been damaged over time.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being and explores specific Indigenous cultural and social dimensions of well-being. The chapters feature case studies, theoretical and application-based research, and photo essays.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being and explores specific Indigenous cultural and social dimensions of well-being. The chapters feature case studies, theoretical and application-based research, and photo essays.

The definitive guide to water-efficient gardening to grow healthy, resilient plants in the face of climate change. Conserving water has always been appealing. Yet with rising temperatures, groundwater depletion, violent floods and intense periods of drought all on the rise, the need for water-wise gardening techniques has never been so important. In The Water-Efficient Gardener, environmental gardening specialist Angela Youngman delves into the ways we can not only protect our gardens against the impacts of climate change but transform them into colourful and biodiverse havens. This practical guide is illustrated throughout with helpful photographs and insightful case studies to inspire a range of beautiful outdoor spaces. From inventive methods for collecting rainwater to drought-tolerant plant recommendations and advice on minimising the impact of flooding on lawns, Angela presents clear solutions to the challenges of modern-day gardening. An issue that will affect all gardeners in Britain and beyond, find the joy in sustainable gardening with this timely read.

A gorgeously illustrated look at snuff boxes and bottles carved from the Brazilian coquilla nut reveals a larger history of commerce, cultural exchange, and power in the Atlantic world.  Portraits in a Nutshell showcases intricately carved snuff boxes and bottles sculpted from coquilla nuts between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Both utilitarian and decorative, these containers represent a stunning diversity of artistic approaches and subject matter. Just as the use of snuff crossed lines of geographic origin and racial and social hierarchy, so too, did the objects that contained it. As a result, coquilla nut snuff boxes and bottles present a rich material archive of the Atlantic world and the central role of Indigenous and Black histories within it. Coquilla nuts, the fruit of the Brazilian palm, are just three or four inches long. This book demonstrates how, soon after Europeans and Africans first found a use for the nut in Brazil as an object that could both hold snuff and be decorative, it spread throughout the Atlantic world. Today, coquille nut snuff boxes and bottles are an understudied art form that, despite the objects' small size, encapsulates an early modern history of transoceanic movement and creativity. The carvings depict animals and fantastical creatures drawn from throughout the Atlantic world, scenes of religious and courtly life, portraits of political and military leaders, abolitionists and activists, and people at the margins of colonial society.   Over 250 detailed photographs of snuff bottles and boxes not only illustrate the exceptional skill of their creators but also illustrate the story of millions of Africans transported to Brazil during centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. The text demonstrates the interconnectedness of the Atlantic world, the movements of peoples and ideas, and the commercial exchange of goods and cultural and material objects in Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

Bogen ”At samle på duge” fortæller om de seneste 100 års samlinger af duge. I bogen beskrives 10 forskellige duge. Der er beskrivelser af forskellige duge, trends og tidens tendenser i det årti hvorpå dugen blev fremstillet eller anskaffet. Bogen har fokus på hverdagens dugesamlinger, og indeholder duge, som du helt sikkert kan genkende.Duge er noget vi alle sammen bruger hver dag. Det er noget vi kan associere os med, og derfor er bogen et vigtigt supplement i vores kultur- og designhistorie.