Parkes: 113 books
The Price of Love
The selected works of Colin Murray Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In the course of a long career Colin Murray Parkes, one of the most important and influential psychiatrists working in the field of bereavement and loss, has produced a body of work which can be considered truly ground-breaking. His early studies involved working alongside John Bowlby in the development...
Knitlandia
A Knitter Sees the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
**A New York Times Bestseller
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world.**
Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes’s rich personal...
The Knitter's Book of Wool
The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving this Most Fabulous Fiber
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
In this complete guide to wool - the most popular yarn around - passionate wool expert Clara Parkes translates the vast world of sheep and their wool into the language and context of knitting.
What is wool? Clara starts with the fundamentals: what wool is made of, how it gets off the sheep,...
Vanishing Fleece
Adventures in American Wool
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way
Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers,...
Reiki
The Essential Guide to Ancient Healing Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Reiki is a Japanese word meaning Universal Life Force Energy. Drawing on ancient practices, which are said to have dated back to Buddha, Reiki balances the energy in the body, renewing vitality and bringing about a powerful feeling of serenity and relaxation through the laying on of hands. Reiki can...
by Henry Bamford Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
"Remarkably well balanced and sound . . . " - The New Republic. Here, from award-winning historian Henry Bamford Parkes and the editors of American Heritage, is the dramatic story of Mexico - from the Aztecs, Maya, and other ancient peoples who gave birth to a vast civilization to the Spanish Conquest,...
Business Facilitation
An essential leadership skill for employee engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Facilitation is the art of helping others to do things for themselves. It is fundamental to the engagement challenges within the current business environment. In this revolutionary book, the first to examine the link between business facilitation and employee engagement, Mike Parkes provides practical...
by Clara Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Not all yarns are alike. Some make our hearts and hands sing, some get the job done without much fanfare, and some cause nothing but frustration and disappointment. The gorgeous pair of socks that emerged from their first bath twice as long as when they went in. The delicate baby sweater that started...
Begums, Thugs & White Mughals
The Journals of Fanny Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Fanny Parkes lived in India between 1822 and 1846 and was the ideal travel writer -courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her journals trace her transformation from prim memsahib to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate...
Pages from the Past
Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In the present collection of articles by Malcolm Parkes two overarching concerns emerge: the palaeography of manuscript books in relation to what Parkes has previously called the 'grammar of legibility'; and the importance of considering the circumstances in which medieval books were produced, copied...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2
Genetics, breeding, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Originating in South America, cassava is now grown in over 100 countries around the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics after rice and maize. Its caloric value, as well as its ability to tolerate dry conditions and poor soils, makes it a key food security crop in...
by Jocelyn Modo, Gemma Parkes, Eve McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
A Collection of Four Stories by Gemma Parkes, Eve McFadden, Jocelyn Modo, Jacqueline George.
Authors are a talkative bunch, especially now we can communicate online and spend far too much time on social media. Time that would be better spent writing, no doubt. Still, chatting strikes up...
by Gemma Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Mandy knew that it would take more than a short holiday to a quiet seaside town to turn her struggling relationship with long time partner John into one of passion and honesty. She seems to be fighting a one-sided battle, but then help and advice was offered by a voyeuristic stranger. The path he...
by Gemma Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Six sizzling stories in an anthology of lust from the pen of Gemma Parkes:
Between The Pages:
A notebook carelessly left in a café brings a new lease of life to Alice. What will she do with the information she discovers inside? Some things are worth trying out for ourselves!
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