Helen O'Neill

Daffodil

A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the world's most popular and most powerful flower. The daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure - trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love, rebirth, eternal life and misfortune. Over centuries, the daffodil has been so many things to so many people: it was called 'Narcissus' by the Greeks and prized by the Romans as guarantee of passage to the Underworld; it was used by medieval Arabs and ancient Chinese for its medicinal properties and it has inspired poets, lovers, artists and scientists down the ages. But in telling the story of the daffodil, what award - winning, best - selling writer Helen O'Neill is really telling is the story of humanity. It's a narrative of progress from superstition and myth, taking in politics, greed, religion, science, chance, redemption and love. But, appropriately enough for a flower that is now used on a worldwide basis to raise funds for cancer research, it is, above all, a story of hope. Moving, fascinating, eloquent, and also beautiful.

Biography of a Flower

Winner of 2007 APA Book Design award for Best Designed Book of the Year and also for Best Designed Non-fiction Illustrated Book.

Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives

Florence Broadhurst

With stunning full-page prints of Florence Broadhurst's distinctive fabric and wallpaper designs, together with gorgeous photographs of interiors from around the world, this deluxe edition of Helen O'Neill's award-winning book is a must-have for lovers of design In a volume as captivating as its subject, Florence Broadhurst paints an unforgettable portrait of a woman ahead of her time. To this day, mystery shrouds her myriad personae of starlet, couturier, and painter?as well as her unsolved murder. One thing is certain, however?Broadhurst's place in the history of interior decor. She created more than 800 hugely popular designs that defined the swinging sixties. Recognized worldwide for her groundbreaking wallpaper patterns, this enigmatic Australian left behind a trove of exquisite work, brilliantly displayed here in this authorized biography. Her extraordinary life led to a tragic end, when on October 16, 1977, the design icon was found murdered in her Paddington wallpaper showroom. This amazing package showcases more than 100 of her never-before-published patterns and popular prints such as those owned by Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney, and Carly Simon, alongside a fascinating murder mystery.

Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives

Marina Pitisano

Lolita Conboy

Wisdom hides under the thick weave of life's experiences; Uncovering your individual learning from your unique life will provide you with the insight you may have thought impossible to gain about yourself. It starts with an honest self-reflection.The aim of this book is to awaken women to the realisation that understanding followed by acceptance is where life's difficulties and complications ease. It is also where life takes on meaning, meaning that arises from a place of wise reflection and contemplation rather than unravelling the threads of confusion based on an old paradigm and an outdated and misaligned framework. The letters within the pages of this book were written with love, empathy and devotion FOR you and WITH you in mind.

Wise Women Predict Their Future By Creating It

Wise Women Rise

Upřímná a strhující zpověď člena elitní bojové jednotky Navy SEALs Robert O ́Neill. Účastník 400 bojových misí, bývalý člen Navy SEALs a žijící legenda. Jeho memoáry, psané s brutální upřímností a doprovázené osobitým černým humorem, vás zavedou nejen do první frontové linie či týlu nepřítele. Seznámíte se s jeho životní filosofií a tím, co ho formovalo jako člověka. Tato zpověď není jen o něm. Je o Navy SEALs i o tom, že když spustí jedna zbraň, jako by spustily všechny. O tom, že jediný snadný den byl včerejšek...

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