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The use of natural and seeded grass pastures for the feeding of livestock and other unfamiliar uses for the ubiquitous grass family are described in this succinct and beautifully illustrated work. The New Naturalist series has already covered many facets of the interrelationship between man and nature, but the grass family is probably the most important man in the whole plant kingdom - just how important is shown in this book. Dr. Moore, the Principal...
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From the bestselling author of Death and Croissants comes a murder mystery perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Julia Chapman, or MC Beaton
On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.
Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's...
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Book 3 in the Times-bestselling murder mystery series, by leading TV/radio comedian Ian Moore! Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Richard Coles or M.C. Beaton
'Cosy, quirky and wry, but most of all, hilariously funny!'
JANICE HALLETT
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Richard Ainsworth's French B&B has been taken over by a production company shooting a historical film at the Château de Valençay. But everything grinds to a halt with the sudden...
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Wo ist Monsieur Grandchamps? Wer hat etwas zu verbergen im Val de Follet? Und was hat das Huhn mit alldem zu tun?
Richard ist Engländer, und eigentlich will er einfach seine Ruhe. Seit ein paar Jahren führt er eine kleine Pension im französischen Loiretal - dort passiert absolut nie etwas, und das ist wunderbar so. Bis eines Tages einer seiner Gäste verschwindet: der alte Monsieur Grandchamps. Was er zurücklässt, ist nicht mehr und nicht weniger...
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"Middle-aged Englishman and B&B owner Richard Ainsworth is living a quiet life in the Val de Follet--and that's the way he likes it. His quiet routine is suddenly disrrupted when scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver by way of its famous restaurant being downgraded from three 'Michelin' stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock and the leading goat's cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurisation tanks....
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"Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance. Richard remains a dazed passenger in the case until things...
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In the early 1950s, German philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl to be the poet of his generation and of the hidden Occident. Trakl, a guilt-ridden lyricist who died of a cocaine overdose in the early days of World War I, thus became for Heidegger a redemptive successor to Hölderlin. Drawing on Derrida's “Geschlecht” series and substantial archival research, “Dialogue on the Threshold” explores the...
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Una serena comunidad rural se ve atrapada en la lucha entre el Consejo de la Asociación de Residentes y una implacable Corporación de Gas Natural que ha dado inicio a la fractura del subsuelo del pueblo, con resultados aterradores. Un periodista independiente forma una alianza con la misteriosa dirigente del consejo para dirigir la lucha de la humanidad contra una mortal arma bioquímica creada por el hombre. Juntos, deberán encontrar la cura y...
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Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger's relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.
In the late Middle Ages the philosopher and mystic Meister Eckhart preached that to know the truth you must be the truth. But how to be the truth? Eckhart's answer comes in the form of an imperative: release yourself, let be. Only then will you be able to understand that the deepest meaning...
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PROLOGUETwo wounded souls, both alike in identityMeet as strangers searching for dignity.The land of their birth denied them their dreamWhile they strove and fought their nation's scheme.Held by stubborn fate, they built hardened shellsTo protect themselves from their world of hells.Each day brought them showers of bitter tearsFrom parents whose acts evoked frightened years.They crossed paths at last, and sparks flew all nightBut they loved so intense...
11) She Was Her Man
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Clarissa MacWashington had become Claire Langton and married the aging Delray Roberts, a career congressman who was burnt out. Rumors had it she had been a porn star. The internet expanded opportunities for entrepreneurs; Clarissa built a website, hired a cameraman, and began performing oral sex six days a week. She wore a mask and titled herself Ms. Ebony Fantasy.Along the way, allegedly, she relieved many of her clients of their excess cash when...
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Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to
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