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Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy JonesWhere nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life. Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditating on and renaming her favourite mosses - from Glowflake to Little Loss - and draw...

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This book serves as an introduction to inscriptions from the Greco-Roman world that demonstrates sound methodological use of inscriptions in the study of the New Testament"--

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Burnett stretches the limits of prose, infusing it with poetic intensity to create a powerful, original voice' GuardianGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . . Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains its own irrepressible light.In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett celebrates the unsung hero of the plant world with a unique blend of poetry, nature writing and memoir.Making her...

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This is a collection of essays by 12 Muslim writers explaining why the city of Jerusalem is important to each of them. Religious, historical, cultural, architectural, social, and economic aspects of the city are described, as well as personal experiences of living in or visiting Jerusalem. Prince El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan wrote the Foreword in the book. The book is the result of a partnership between the Holy Land ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Pedagogical and participatory art from the coauthor of Making and BeingIn Art, Engagement, Economy: the Working Practice of Caroline Woolard, this acclaimed New York-based artist and educator (born 1984) proposes a politics of transparent production in the arts, whereby heated negotiations and mundane budgets are presented alongside documentation of finished gallery installations. Readers follow the behind-the-scenes work that is required to p...

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Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and international bestselling author of The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

The greater diseases of the liver: - Jaundice, gall-stones, enlargements, tumours, and cancer: And their treatment is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historica...

Excerpt from Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Vol. 3: January 1, 1785, to July 25, 1789 With Supplement 1783-1784The facilities of the Library Of Congress, essential at every stage Of the undertaking, have been liberally and courteously afforded, and are in full measure appreciated and acknowledged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

Excerpt from Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Vol. 3: January 1, 1785, to July 25, 1789 With Supplement 1783-1784The facilities of the Library Of Congress, essential at every stage Of the undertaking, have been liberally and courteously afforded, and are in full measure appreciated and acknowledged.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThi...

Excerpt from Enlarged Tonsils Cured by MedicinesTo those of us who have children it is of some interest to know Whether enlarged tonsils should be cut off, or treated by medicines. Most medical men have made up their minds that enlarged tonsils can not be cured by medicines, but must be cut off, and there fore for most people, professional and lay, there exists no question of enlarged tonsils, and whether they should or should not be removed. ...

Excerpt from Cataract: Its Nature, Causes, Prevention, and CureThat wonderful, wonderfully beautiful complicated apparatus known as the eye, in all its ailings is really and literally and always treated in handworker-fashion with washes, greases. And those endless pretty little clipping, scooping, cutting, and scraping instruments.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...

Excerpt from Hearing and How to Keep ItThe internal ear is often called the labyrinth, on account of its perplexing structure and the obscurity which has hung about its composition and function, and which still hangs about some parts of it, so that it still deserves its name. It comprises the vestibule, an anterior part, as implied in its name, and the cochlea, or snail-shell, lying in front of the vestibule, the semicircular canals which lie ...