Take charge of your estate with this essential guide to forestry and cultivation. The Estate Nursery provides practical advice on planting and caring for forest trees, adapted for the modern forestry system. Whether you're a landowner, agent, or woodman, this handy book has everything you need to know to ensure your forest thrives.
This authoritative guide outlines a new system of forestry that is specially adapted to British woodlands and game preservation. It provides detailed information on the planning, planting, and maintenance of forests. A resourceful guide for foresters, conservationists, and wildlife enthusiasts, this book is a must-read.
Find your way into the wonder of everyday and live a life full of nows with the powerful advice in The Way of Wonder.
The mysterious death of James Lodge on a mine road three decades ago resurfaces when Sophie Addison arrives, prompting questions that have long been ignored. Her unexpected interest raises suspicions about the events surrounding his death and why no one has sought answers until now. As Sophie delves into the past, the buried truths and hidden motives of those involved begin to unravel, revealing a complex web of secrets that could change everything.
Jon Swift is in trouble. His journalism career is in freefall. He's too old to be part of the new world order and he's never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his instincts. When, for the first time in years, Jon runs into Lin Lifeng in a café in Oxford he wonders if the meeting is a coincidence. When Lin asks him to pass on a coded message, he knows it's not. Travelling to Beijing, Jon starts to follow a tangled web in which it is hard to know who he can trust. Under the watchful eyes of an international network of spies, double-agents and politicians, all with a ruthless desire for power, Jon is in a high-stakes race to expose the truth, before it's too late. About the Author John Simpson has been the BBC's World Affairs Editor for more than half his fifty-two year career. In his time with the BBC, he has reported on major events all over the world, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, a News and Current Affairs award and an Emmy. He lives in Oxford.
Individual lives and history collide. Tommy is a catholic teenager living in the protestant half of Belfast. In the 1960's not a problem, but in the 1970's all hell breaks loose. Revolutionary upheaval degenerates into tribal violence - some choose to get involved, others have no choice. Childhood friends become enemies and families are uprooted. Tommy decides to take matters into his own hands. But there are consequences - there are always consequences - and the boy becomes a man long before his time.
Exploring the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the text emphasizes the transformative power of understanding God's love through Christ as essential for genuine love towards God and others. It challenges the notion of inherent righteousness, asserting that true uprightness comes from recognizing salvation as a gift, rather than a result of personal merit. The author reflects on the teachings of Jesus, particularly the Parable of the Two Debtors, urging readers to grasp this doctrine for spiritual enlightenment and heart transformation.