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  • Secret Gardens of New York

    Green Hideaways in the Heart of the City

    by Marie Viljoen ...
    Millions flock to New York every year, but most never scratch the surface of its myriad green spaces, abundant with wildlife, flora and fauna.Beyond the biggest sights lies a quieter city, boasting tucked-away gardens, calming waterfront parks and unexpected oases. Whether it’s a riverside perch at Little Island, a hidden community garden on the Lower East Side, or the serenity of Green-Wood ... Read more

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  • 66 Square Feet

    A Delicious Life

    by Marie Viljoen ...
    "With lush photographs and spare prose" a Brooklyn blogger shares recipes and "records her life as a gardener, a cook and an urban forager." (The New York Times)Marie Viljoen's beautiful first book draws the reader into a world of unfolding seasons, seen from the perspective of an expert gardener, cook and photographer. Each chapter is a month, divided into three parts: New York City, the author's ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comics and Women's Mental Health

    Five Stories

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book discusses five recent, hand-drawn, comics memoirs of women’s mental health experiences, not easily captured in words alone. It deals with a range of mental health experiences that are not simply diagnoseable mental disorders, and do not always stem from visible physical conditions (heavy feelings, loneliness, postpartum depression, grief, schizophrenia and suicide). Yet, by also ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • War Comics

    A Postcolonial Perspective

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual ... Read more

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  • Gardenista

    The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces

    Series series Remodelista
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  • Narrative Medicine : Honoring the Stories of Illness

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

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    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine primary care medicine narratology and the study of doctor-patient relationships narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize absorb ... Read more

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  • Quick and Easy Paint Transformations

    50 step-by-step ways to makeover your home for next to nothing

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    Series series Writing Matters!
    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Read more

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    Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living

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    Techniques and painting secrets for the absolute beginner

    by Hazel Soan ...
    Series series Learn Quickly
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  • Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences

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