Bøger af David Briggs

Dive into the world of 'Crochet Baby Hat Patterns, ' a book that celebrates the art of crafting love and warmth for the tiniest members of your family. In this book, we provide you with the essential tools in 'Crochet Basics' to set you up for a journey of creativity. Discover the materials, learn various stitches and techniques, and decode the common crochet abbreviations - all ensuring that you are well-prepared to embark on crafting adorable baby hats. The heart of this book can be found in 'Baby Hat Patterns.' From trendy 'Bucket Hat' to playful 'Kitty Hat, ' imaginative 'Rocketship Hat, ' and many more, this collection of designs is not just about cuteness but also about keeping little heads snug and cozy. Each pattern is accompanied by step-by-step instructions and captivating photography, making it a joy for both experienced crocheters and newcomers to create heartfelt and adorable baby hats. 'Crochet Baby Hat Patterns' is your trusted guide to crafting handmade treasures that envelop your little ones in love and warmth, one stitch at a time.

Walking in the Otago hills of New Zealand, Rogan Fielding stumbles across the body of a dead man - JT Nielsen. Intrigued, Rogan tries to discover more about the man, and to reconstruct the details of his life. As he does so, he is led ever more deeply not just into Nielsen's past, but the lives of the people who knew him - including neighbours, Jenny and her autistic son. And as Nielsen's story unfolds, Rogan finds himself confronted by two irreconcilable versions of the man: local hero, international villain. Which he chooses to believe seems likely to affect not only Nielsen's legacy, but Rogan's own future and happiness. Meanwhile, in the background, the memories of others who knew JT Nielsen, or whose lives he touched, hint at a man Rogan will never really know ...

Opportunities often come disguised as obstacles. You can climb over them or be crushed beneath them. What do you see? What is your choice? Choose well, for your future may rest on a choice you make today. There is no more time to blame others for how they did not support you or believe in you, or even abandoned you in the pursuit of your dreams. You have the power within you to overwrite any negative programming. It is time to put your name on your life!This inspirational self-help journal is a month-long journey of wisdom and encouragement to becoming a better you, and by doing so creating a better world. D.S. Briggs uses an easy-to-read conversational tone to illustrate how to go from being an exception to being exceptional. Real life applications, both positive and negative, are used to highlight how we can all grow.

In the days before the outbreak of war in Syria, a young Kurdish woman, Zarrin, has brought shame on her family. She has paid a high price – as is the way for such dishonour – and fearing for her life, she flees, stumbling her way blindly to the border with Turkey, where she finds herself amongst a growing tide of migrants in a refugee camp. There, a son, Elend, is born – the product of her punishment.She makes her way to Britain, scraping a living as best she can, but she is betrayed over and over as she moves from job to job, living hand to mouth and supporting her young son with what little she has. When her friend is killed and the police arrive, she once more has to flee, moving away from the city to find work as a vegetable picker, exploited, unappreciated but, importantly, largely unnoticed.Then, at last, her fortunes change. She joins a group of itinerant workers who travel the waterways of England. With them, she finds happiness and companionship at last. Elend grows strong, love beckons and in a scene that might have come from Hardy' s Wessex, she is crowned Queen in a festival of hops on a Kentish heritage farm.But her happiness is crushed once again when she is outed inadvertently on social media by one of her friends and, just as she has begun to find sanctuary, Zarrin's safety is at risk once again.

On a morning commuter train in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, the lives of three people briefly intersect. Sally is a 17-year-old, tentatively stepping into womanhood. Brendan is a middle-aged widower, living in the shadow of his wife's death. Tamás is a Hungarian immigrant, missing his wife and child as he struggles to begin a new life far from home. Meanwhile, in a nondescript building near Dunedin's Otago University, Farida translates messages for the security services and catches glimpses of a plot that could threaten them all. Author David Briggs explores themes of love and loss and the tangle of human relationships - and of the struggle to choose our destiny in a shifting and uncertain world.

We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also offering the opportunity for significant progress in the investigation of long-term evolution of flowering plants, as part of molecular phylogenetic studies of the Tree of Life. This long-awaited fourth edition, fully revised by David Briggs, reflects new insights provided by molecular investigations and advances in computer science. Briggs considers the implications of these for our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants, as well as the potential for future advances. Numerous new sections on important topics such as the evolutionary impact of human activities, taxonomic challenges, gene flow and distribution, hybridisation, speciation and extinction, conservation and the molecular genetic basis of breeding systems will ensure that this remains a classic text for both undergraduate and graduate students in the field.

As human activities are increasingly domesticating the Earth's ecosystems, new selection pressures are acting to produce winners and losers amongst our wildlife. With particular emphasis on plants, Briggs examines the implications of human influences on micro-evolutionary processes in different groups of organisms, including wild, weedy, invasive, feral, and endangered species. Using case studies from around the world, he argues that Darwinian evolution is ongoing. He considers how far it is possible to conserve endangered species and threatened ecosystems through management, and questions the extent to which damaged landscapes and their plant and animal communities can be precisely recreated or restored. Many of Darwin's ideas are highlighted, including his insights into natural selection, speciation, the vulnerability of rare organisms, the impact of invasive species, and the effects of climate change on organisms. An important text for students and researchers of evolution, conservation, climate change and sustainable use of resources.

How much truth can true love stand? Briggs' writing has touches of Banville and Barnes and this moving and accomplished exploration of the challenges of love and truth nods towards a modern-day Silas Marner.