Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 A garden is a place where you can be alone and feel safe. It is where you can first grow something, and it is where you can experience the rush of discovery. #2 My father was a Bronx boy who had been swept to the suburbs in the postwar migration. He was not much of a gardener, and the yard behind our house was a mess. My mother's father, who lived nearby, was constantly...

Time Out: A Second Look at Nature engages readers with an opportunity to ask, examine, and ponder critical questions which fundamentally challenge conventional thinking and beliefs about God, nature and our very humanness. It is natural to be curious about such questions but we are trained as children that it is forbidden to ask them. We consider ourselves fortunate to live in the most highly developed technological time that has ever existed. It...

"A comprehensive look at the environmental movement of rewilding whereby habitats are restored to their natural states and native plants and animals are reintroduced to these habitats around the world."--

Partez à la découverte des surprenants paysages de l'Ouest américain Dans ce court tableau, Jonathan Raban nous entraîne des profondes forêts du Pacifique à la vaste plaine du fleuve Columbia, à la recherche de ce que ces immenses paysages révèlent du rapport de l'homme à la nature. Lui, l'écrivain bercé par son enfance dans la douce campage anglaise, est frappé par le rapport qu'entretiennent les Américains avec la nature. « En dépit...

Second Nature

Getting an exclusive interview with notoriously reclusive horror writer Hunter Brown was all Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe ever wanted. And when Hunter agrees to the interview on the condition that Lee conduct it on a camping trip, she can hardly refuse. But after spending some time alone with the seductively mysterious author, Lee discovers the only thing she wants exclusively is Hunter.

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Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret, and above all, shame. Then one of them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was responsible. Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner quickly finds her investigation hampered by the strict confidentiality that binds these people and their therapist together. So what could be shameful enough...