Author: Brenda Little
Publisher: Silverleaf Press
Keywords: plants, hurt, planting, companion, secrets
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933317930
ISBN-13: 9781933317939

Transform a messy, tangled garden into a lush, productive retreat with this simple yet thorough handbook. The basics of companion gardening can be easily integrated into one’s gardening style using the nurturing power of Mother Nature and taking fundamental principles into account. Not merely a seasonal occupation or hobby, companion planting is a natural way to restore balance to outdoor spaces. By planting certain plants in close proximity, each helps the others. Easily implemented techniques such as increasing the essential oils and nutrients in plants, conditioning the soil, and attracti

Authors:Rory C. Reid MSW, Dan Gray LCSW,
Publisher: Silverleaf Press
Keywords: problem, pornography, spouse, confronting
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933317434
ISBN-13: 9781933317434

Addressing the modern issue of addiction to Internet pornography, this evaluation guides spouses struggling to find ways to confront this problem in their married lives. Calling on years of counseling experience and clinical study, the authors cover the most concerning issues of this addiction, from understanding the importance of disclosure to reestablishing trust for the success of a long-term marriage. Containing valuable information gathered from experience, research, and the testimonies of clients struggling to overcome these issues, this guide helps couples confront and overcome the hurd

Author: Jessie Hawkins
Publisher: Silverleaf Press
Keywords: lavender, amp, care, mood, using, growing, fragrance
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1933317787
ISBN-13: 9781933317786

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ

Author: Lorae Parry
Publisher: Victoria University Press in association with the Women’s Play Press
Keywords: playscripts, zealand, new, eugenia
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864733046
ISBN-13: 9780864733047

Author: Francisco E. Thoumi
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: wilson, center, press, woodrow, andes, drugs, economy, society, illegal
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2003-12-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0801878543
ISBN-13: 9780801878541

Some countries develop illegal drugs industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics—social, economic, and political—of countries with these industries forms the subject of this sophisticated and humane study. The author, Francisco E. Thoumi, though trained as an economist, rejects simplistic economic solutions as well as simplistic moral ones as he addresses the Andean countries of Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia and the attitudes and responses of the United States. He investigates how the United States and the Andean countries perceive drugs issues; the