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The garden against time : in search of a common paradise / by Laing, Olivia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312)."In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the story of the garden doesn't always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It's also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden." --
Subjects: Laing, Olivia; Gardening; Gardens; Gardens; Gardens; Historic gardens;
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The encyclopedia of acrylic techniques / by Harrison, Hazel.; Forrester, Paul.; Wilder, Chas.; Weis, Les.;
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Subjects: Acrylic painting; Acrylic painting;
© 2009., Search Press,
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Dogs and monsters : stories / by Haddon, Mark,1962-author.;
"Greek myths have fascinated people for millennia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and sees them anew. The dawn goddess Eos asked asks Zeus to give her lover Tithonus eternal life, but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In "The Quiet Limit of the World" Haddon imagines Tithonus' life as he slowly ages over thousands of years, turning the cautionary tale of tempting the gods into a spellbinding meditation on witnessing death from the outside, and ultimately, how carnal love evolves into something richer and more poignant with time. In "The Mother's Story," Haddon takes the myth of the minotaur in his labyrinth, in which the beast is the spawn of the monstrous lust of the king's wife Pasiphae, and turns it into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child, and the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. In "D.O.G.Z." the story of Actaeon, who was turned into a stag after glimpsing the naked goddess Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about the continuum of human and animal behavior. Other stories play with contemporary mythic tropes - genetic engineering, trying to escape the future, the viciousness of adolescent ostracism - to showcase how modern humans are subject to the same capriciousness that obsessed the Greeks. Haddon's tales cover a vast range, from the mythic to the domestic, from ancient Greece to the present day, from stories about love to stories about cruelty, from battlefields to bed and breakfasts, from dogs in space to doors between worlds, all of them bound together by a profound sympathy and an understanding of how human beings act and think and feel when pushed to the very edge. Throughout Haddon's supple prose showcases his astonishing powers of observation, of both the physical world and the workings of the psyche. His vision is clear-eyed, but always resolutely empathetic"--
Subjects: Short stories.;
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Amazonia [videorecording] / by Ragobert, Thierry.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Capuchin monkeys; Children's films.; Feature films.; Feature films.; Jungle animals; Video recordings for children.;
© c2014., Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Journey to the edge of the world / by Connolly, Billy.; ITV Productions.;
National treasure Billy Connolly is our personal guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic.
Subjects: Connolly, Billy; Voyages and travels.;
© 2009., Headline,
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Wildlike. by Hall, Frank,film director.; Geraghty, Brian,actor.; Greenwood, Bruce,actor.; Purnell, Ella,actor.; Bayview Entertainment (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Brian Geraghty, Bruce Greenwood, Ella PurnellOriginally produced by Bayview Entertainment in 2014.After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Action and adventure films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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Pig [videorecording] / by Arkin, Adam,actor.; Belforte, Nina,actor.; Block, Vanessa,film producer.; Cage, Nicolas,1965-actor.; Sarnoski, Michael,film director,screenwriter.; Wolff, Alex,1997-actor.; Aywon Film Corp.,presenter.; Blockbox Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Decal (Firm),production company.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Endeavor Content (Firm),production company.; Neon (Firm),presenter.; Pulse Films,production company.; Saturn Films,production company.; Valparaiso Pictures,production company.;
Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Nina Belforte, Dalene Young, Gretchen Corbett, Darius Pierce.A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language and some violence.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Abduction; Hermits; Human-animal relationships; Pet loss; Swine; Truffle culture;
For private home use only.
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Mammals [videorecording] / by Attenborough, David,1926-narrator.; Webb, Roger,television producer.; Armstrong, Stuart,television director,television producer.; Baines, Lydia,television director,television producer.; Rasmussen, Daniel,1987-television director,television producer.; Larsen, Will,television director,television producer.; Pilley, Rob,television director,television producer.; Allan, Justine,television director,television producer.; BBC Studios,publisher.;
Narrator, David Attenborough.The contemporary and unfiltered series offers fascinating insights into the most successful animal group ever, from the tiny Etruscan shrew to the giant blue whale. Mammals, the most loved group of all animals, are found on every continent and in every ocean, from the frozen wildernesses to the densest jungles, in the hottest deserts and the darkest depths. Discover the secrets to their success their winning design, incredible adaptability, unrivalled intelligence and unique sociability. The series also highlights many of the challenges facing mammals in a rapidly changing world and how they endeavour to overcome them.E.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television mini-series.; Documentary television programs.; Animal television programs.; Wildlife television programs.; Mammals.; Mammalia (class); Animal behavior.;
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The magic school bus rides again. [videorecording] / by Baruchel, Jay,1982-voice actor.; Blake, Mikaela,voice actor.; Clarke, Gabby,voice actor.; Fillion, Nathan,1971-voice actor.; McKinnon, Kate,1984-voice actor.; O'Hara, Catherine,voice actor.; Pandya, Dirva,voice actor.; Short, Martin,1950-voice actor.; Tomlin, Lily,voice actor.; Weston, Richard,television director.; television adaptation of (work):Cole, Joanna.Magic school bus.; NCircle Entertainment,publisher.;
Kate McKinnon, Lily Tomlin, Mikaela Blake, Gabby Clarke, Dirva Pandya, Jay Baruchel, Nathan Fillion, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short.Bus, do your stuff! Field trips with Ms. Frizzle are wilder than ever, into space, over to the Galapagos Islands, even a plunge into the depths of the Sun itself.G.DVD.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Educational television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Frizzle, Ms. (Fictitious character); School buses.; School field trips.; Science.;
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The pioneers : the heroic story of the settlers who brought the American ideal west / by McCullough, David G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Best-selling author David McCullough tells the story of the settlers who began America's migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated America's highest ideals"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Pioneers;
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