Narrative Landscape Press Ltd
Narrative Landscape Press is an independent publisher and a provider of publishing services and independent authors in Nigeria.
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View Rights PortalTherapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. Hickman narrates the story of the landscapes associated with psychiatric, general and specialist medical institutions and asks what did they look like, how were they used and how did this relate to medical concepts? It traces the history of these gardens from the grottos, Chinese galleries and summer houses of elite nineteenth-century lunatic asylums, through Florence Nightingale's championing of the Victorian pavilion hospital design with its courtyard gardens, and the open-air institutions of the Edwardian period with their revolving chalets. It concludes with a discussion of new hospital gardens being created by designers such as Dan Pearson in the twenty-first century. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the histories of place, space and material culture, and in particular medical historians, garden historians and historical geographers. ;
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and America as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.
Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel and Eakins, or the question of nineteenth-century realism's historical antecedents, it is contemporary in orientation in that many contributors are particularly concerned with the questions that sculpture, photography and non-traditional media pose for realism as an aesthetic norm. It will be essential reading for students of art history concerned with art's truth value or more broadly with conceptual problems of representation and the intersections of art and politics.
Younger and younger people and families have gone in search of their own garden in recent years. This trend intensified further as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. While the original purpose of gardening was self-sufficiency, the idea of promoting health has recently come to the fore. Horticultural therapist Andreas Niepel reaches out to new, young gardeners with this book. In a vivid and relaxed way, he describes how gardening promotes positive emotions of pleasure, vitality, improved self-esteem, social integration, closeness to nature, well-being, a sense of security and control as well as relaxation.
"Peter Tschaikowsky ist der berühmteste Komponist des alten Rußlands. Mit einer detaillierten Werkanalyse verknüpft Garden die farbige Schilderung des unruhigen Musikerlebens; präzise aufgehellt werden auch die Hintergründe von Tschaikowskys erzwungenem Selbstmord."
Heinrich Archer, genannt Hades, das kriminelle Mastermind von Sydney, wird bedroht. Er ›bittet‹ Detective Frank Bennett, den Kollegen seiner Tochter Eden, um diskrete Hilfe, denn die Spuren könnten tief in das faszinierende, gewaltsatte Vorleben von Hades führen.Gleichzeitig hat Eden, Top-Detective bei der Mordkommission mit dem seltenen Talent, Verbrecher aufzuspüren und zur Strecke zu bringen, einen extrem schwierigen Auftrag: Drei Mädchen sind verschwunden, und die Spur führt sie zu einer verlassenen Farm, auf der sich ein Serienkiller rumtreibt. Sie begibt sich dort undercover in eine Kommune, ein rabenschwarzes, gefährliches Paralleluniversum mit Mördern und Vergewaltigern. Sie muss all ihre erstaunlichen Fähigkeiten einsetzen, um zu überleben. Zudem ist ihre Beziehung zu ihrem Partner Bennett kompliziert, beide sind traumatisiert, und dass Bennett gerade auf Alkohol und Drogen ist, macht die Sache nicht einfacher. Aber die beiden sind auf Gedeih und Verderb aufeinander angewiesen. Eden ist ein düsterer, vielschichtiger Roman voller Geheimnisse. Wild, hart und ganz und gar ungewöhnlich.
A daring investigation that explores how women are targeted and recruited by the far right. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, Lois Shearing provides a cutting-edge account of how the far right has used the internet to recruit women, while shedding light on what life is like for women within these movements, including their experiences of misogyny and violence. Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.
Krötiger Olchi-Spaß im Zoo. "Schlabber-Kröten-Furz! Ihr habt ja wohl gar keine Ahnung", raunzt der Olchi-Opa. Denn die Olchi-Kinder wissen nicht einmal, was ein Elefant ist. Das kann auch ein Olchi nicht durchgehen lassen und deshalb machen Olchi-Oma und Olchi-Opa mit den Olchi-Kindern einen Ausflug in den Zoo. Und das kann ja nur im Chaos enden. Die Lesestarter von Oetinger motivieren auch leseschwache Kinder zum Lesen. Wie? Mit bekannten Autoren, starken Charakteren und populären Themen, die Kinder im Alter von fünf bis zehn Jahren begeistern. Und mit vielen Bildern, Spielen und Leserätseln. So einfach ist Lesenlernen mit den Olchis: Liebenswerte Figuren, einfache Texte, und beliebte Themen motivieren und machen Spaß.
This practical book introduces “nature-based therapy” (NBT) as a newer therapeutic approach to the treatment of stressrelated illnesses. The authors, with many years of experience in the felds of psychosomatics and garden therapy, use NBT as an extension of garden therapy and landscape medicine. They present the theoretical foundations and justify the use of nature as a therapeutic space. They show how the therapeutic approach can be applied in the felds of stress research, psycho neuroimmunology, epigenetics, personality psychology, and lifestyle research. In 20 case descriptions they present the use of concrete therapy modules and describe each module with preparatory nature anamnesis, core topics, goals, materials and exercises.
Schleime-Schlamm-und-Käsefuß! Olchi-Chaos im Tierpark Olchi-Opa ist entsetzt: Seine Enkel wissen nicht, was ein Elefant ist! Um das zu ändern, machen er und Olchi-Oma mit den Olchi-Kindern einen Ausflug in den Zoo. Wer staunt hier wohl am meisten - die Tiere, die anderen Besucher oder die Olchis? Hörspiel mit den frechen Olchi-Stimmen.
In "Vincent und das Geisterlama" entführt Sonja Kaiblinger ihre jungen Zuhörer in eine abenteuerliche Welt, in der Vincent, eine Fledermaus mit einem großen Herzen, sich nach einer Superkraft sehnt, um endlich mit seinen Freunden, dem witzigen Werschweinchen Fritzi und der energiegeladenen Polly, mithalten zu können. Sein Wunsch führt das Trio in den nächtlichen Zoo, in der Hoffnung, andere Halb-Geistertiere zu treffen, die Vincent den Weg zu seiner eigenen Besonderheit weisen könnten. Was als aufregende Suche beginnt, verwandelt sich schnell in ein gruseliges Abenteuer voller überraschender Wendungen und unerwarteter Begegnungen. Diese Geschichte ist nicht nur ein Spaß für junge Grusel-Fans, sondern lehrt auch wichtige Lektionen über Freundschaft, Mut und das Akzeptieren der eigenen Identität. Spannendes Hörerlebnis: Eingebettet in die beliebte „Scary Harry“-Welt, bietet dieses Hörbuch eine packende Geschichte, die Kinder in den Bann zieht. Beliebte Charaktere und neue Abenteuer: Begleite Vincent, Polly und Fritzi auf ihrer neuesten Mission, die mit Humor und Spannung junge Zuhörer fesselt. Wertvolle Moral: Neben Unterhaltung vermittelt das Hörbuch wichtige Botschaften über Freundschaft, Selbstakzeptanz und den Mut, eigene Ängste zu überwinden. Fantasiereiche Inszenierung: Mit lebendigen Beschreibungen und sympathischen Charakteren tauchen die Zuhörer tief in die Geschichte ein und erleben ein unvergessliches Abenteuer. Ideal für junge Grusel-Fans: Das Hörbuch verbindet Grusel-Elemente mit Humor und ist somit perfekt für Kinder, die spannende Geschichten mit einer Prise Grusel lieben. Hochwertige Produktion: Mit professioneller Vertonung und atmosphärischer Hintergrundmusik wird "Vincent und das Geisterlama" zu einem akustischen Highlight für Kinder.
This book examines the study of natural history in the Spanish empire in the years 1750-1850. During this period, Spain made strenuous efforts to survey, inventory and exploit the natural productions of her overseas possessions, orchestrating a serries of scientific expeditions and cultivating and displaying American fauna and flora in metropolitan gardens and museums. This book assesses the cultural significance of natural history, emphasising the figurative and utilitarian value with which eighteenth-century Spaniards invested natural objects, from globetrotting elephants to three-legged chickens. It considers how the creation, legitimisation and dissemination of scientific knowledge reflected broader questions of imperial power and national identity. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Spanish and Latin American History, the History of Science and Imperial Culture
The Strawberry Fairy works her magic again! For this top-quality gift edition, decorated with glitter and foil embossing, the author and illustrator Stefanie Dahle has chosen her own favourite stories from the three books. There is always something going on in the strawberry garden: the little fairy cures the sore throats of the frog choir, helps Don Carlo to win the love of his sweetheart, and enjoys some jolly parties in the garden. Later everyone cuddles up by the fire and makes plans for the spring while drinking a delicious cup of strawberry tea. A book to treasure, and not just for Strawberry Fairy fans.
The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth. For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth's wild places. We'll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men's climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain's first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai's daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women's adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be 'wildly different'.
The very smallest children can identify and name objects from their homes in this award-winning, large-format board book. Magdalena Skala’s fantastic illustrations use bright colours and clear forms to depict the most important objects from the nursery, kitchen, garden, lounge, bathroom – in short from children’s everyday worlds: a great start into the world of words – and books! Magdalena Skala was awarded the 2019 Meefisch Prize and the Marktheidenfeld Prize for picture book illustration for THINGS. MY 200-PICTURE BOOK.