Mark Griffiths

Michael Pollock

From gardening experts at RHS, this book contains the answers to thousands of questions gardeners ask. With over 18,000 plants and essential information on techniques, pests, diseases and simple botany, this is your one-stop guide to becoming a better gardener.

Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Mikko Joronen

Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and political geographies and offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel. Organized around the theme of encountering and focusing on the ways violence and struggle are un/made in the encounter between the colonizer and colonized, the essays focus on power relations as they manifest in cultural practices and everyday lives in anti/colonial Palestine. Covering numerous sites in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel, Encountering Palestine addresses a range of empirical topics—from marriage and queer aesthetics to policing, demolition, armament failure, and violence. The contributors utilize diverse theoretical frameworks, such as hyperreality, settler capitalism, intimate biopolitics, and politics of vulnerability, to help us better understand the cultural making and unmaking of colonial and anti-colonial space in Palestine. Encountering Palestine asks us to rethink how colonialism and power operate in Palestine, the ways Palestinians struggle, and the lifeways that constantly encounter, un/make, and counter the spaces of colonial violence.

Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence

Encountering Palestine

Index of Garden Plants

Praise for Geek Inc: Technoslime Terror "Full to the brim with fun, mysteries and oddities. Add to that a large, welcoming typescript and some very funny illustrations, and you have a book that both boys and girls will want to settle down and read." The Bookbag "Sure to be a hit with kids" The Book Zone 4 Boys Praise for Space Lizards Stole My Brain! "Very funny debut novel... loaded with goofy characters, daft situations and laugh-out-loud lines. Douglas Adams himself would have relished the surly triceratops who goes on a rampage towards the end" The Financial Times "Wacky fun that will appeal to younger readers." Parents in Touch "very amusing" Armadillo Magazine "Packed full of clever, witty prose and vibrant illustrations." Creative Steps "I think this is a great book. I like the illustrations, it's exciting and funny."Guardian online TheX-Filesmeets Dr Whoin this hilarious series from Mark Griffiths. Somewhere in the small, dull town of Blue Hills, the impossible is happening. Inanimate objects are coming to life. Time travellers from the future are mingling unnoticed with the shoppers in the high street. School children are developing uncanny powers. Strange creatures are lurking within the grounds of a forgotten stately home. And with each of these mysteries comes a terrible threat that just might endanger the entire world... Fortunately, help with these extraordinary phenomena is at hand in the form of Gabby Grayling and Barney Watkins aka The Odd Squad! Gabby and Barney are set to investigate all the odd happenings in their town and find out the truth…

The Impossible Boy

This inspiring resource contains 48 of the world's greatest stories dramatically retold for reading aloud with children aged 5-11. They vary in length and topic, but all contain important Christian truths. There are a few Bible stories, but most are taken from classic literature or from folk tales. Drawing on the rich imaginations of master storytellers throughout the ages author Mark Griffiths brings their creations vividly to life. He includes three delightful tales from Oscar Wilde. His retelling of the Russian Shoemaker by Leo Tolstoy is enchanting and a must read for Christmas. There are other more traditional stories from around the world, such as Antonio the Juggler from Italy and the tragic tale of Gelert from Wales. Some of the stories are true the story of Gladys Aylward who rescued children in China and the delightful tale of how Amy Carmichael prayed for blue eyes others tell of wondrous adventure such as Ruth Sanderson's "The Enchanted Wood" and the delightful "Hugs and Kisses" contest. There are many, many more. This is a charming book that will be enjoyed time and again. It will hold the attention of both children and adults and will lead to fruitful discussions of bigger themes such as truth, courage and identity.

48 of the world's greatest stories, retold for reading aloud

Hanging on Every Word

This inspiring resource contains 50 of the world’s greatest stories dramatically retold for telling aloud, with children aged 5–11. They vary in length and topic, but all contain important truths. Most are taken from classic literature or from folk tales, a few are new stories dug out of the authors imagination. Drawing on the rich imaginations of master storytellers throughout the ages author Mark Griffiths brings their creations vividly to life. He includes three delightful tales from Oscar Wilde. His retelling of “The Russian Shoemaker” by Leo Tolstoy is enchanting and a must for Christmas. There are other more traditional stories from around the world, such as the legend of Antonio the juggler from Italy, and the tragic tale of Gelert from Wales. Some are historical – the story of Gladys Aylward who rescued children in China, or the delightful tale of how Amy Carmichael prayed for blue eyes – while others tell of wondrous adventure such as the delightful "Hugs and Kisses" contest. This charming book will be enjoyed time and again. It will hold the attention of both children and adults and will lead to fruitful discussions of bigger themes such as truth, courage and identity.

48 of the greatest stories, retold for reading aloud

20 projects using reclaimed timber. If youve always admired experienced makers woodwork but felt too daunted to try wood as a hobby yourself, Woodworking in a Weekend will change your mind. Twenty easy-to-make projects will give you the confidence to give wood a try, and each project gives such good results that even beginners will want to make them all. Projects are laid out like recipes: ingredients, techniques, and steps to follow and there are fast fixes to cover your back if you make a mistake. So whether you fancy making a Shaker-barn-style chicken house, a sun lounger on wheels or a modern-but-rustic table with bench seats, youll find it here in a truly appealing and achievable form.

20 Projects Using Reclaimed Timber

Woodworking for the Weekend

Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)

This checklist of garden plants in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa has been researched by 250 botanists worldwide. It also contains 22,000 botanical names that are no longer officially in use and 10,000 popular names.

Gerhard Meyer

Tobias Hayer

Problem Gambling in Europe Challenges, Prevention, and Interventions Edited by Gerhard Meyer, University of Bremen, Germany Tobias Hayer, University of Bremen, Germany Mark Griffiths, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom As a leisure activity, gambling dates back to ancient times. More recently, the surge in avenues for gambling—casinos, sports betting, lotteries, and remote media (e.g.,Internet, mobile phone, interactive television) among them—finds growing numbers of people losing control over their gambling behaviour, usually at great personal and financial expense. Problem Gambling in Europe is the first book to offer a robust international knowledge base compiled by an interdisciplinary panel of researchers in gambling behaviour. Reports from 21 countries throughout Western, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Europe reveal wide variations in types of wagering activities, participation by populations, social and criminal consequences related to pathological gambling, the extent to which governments acknowledge the problem, and efforts to control it (often with the involvement of the gaming industries). For each country, noted experts discuss: Current legislation regulating gambling. Forms of gambling and their addictive potential. Participation rates and demographics. Prevalence of pathological gambling. National policies to address problem gambling. Prevention strategies and treatment methods. Problem Gambling in Europe brings insight and clarity to a widespread and complex phenomenon, and will be of considerable interest to all parties working to reduce their negative effects: social science researchers in addictions, gambling behaviour, and public health; clinical, social, and health psychologists and psychiatrists; treatment practitioners; the gaming industry; regulators; and policy makers.

Challenges, Prevention, and Interventions

Problem Gambling in Europe

A story of one of the world's most iconic flowers documents the author's research into the lotus's ancient origins and historical significance in various world regions, tracking its medicinal uses, inspiration in art and role as a spiritual symbol.

In Search of the Sacred Flower

The Lotus Quest

You may think that Premium Bonds are an outdated, old-fashioned way of saving, one step away from stashing money under the bed mattress. Yet, remarkably, 40 per cent of the population hold them, with no signs of this declining. Just how have Premium Bonds, after 50 years, managed to stay with us? This book answers this by exploring the Premium Bonds brand which over the years has evolved and turned into a 21st century financial success story. The personification of the brand is ERNIE, the computer that spins the numbers and makes two people millionaires each month (and others a little richer than before). As a brand, Premium Bonds is the envy of the financial sector. No other financial brand has such recognition and loyalty. Mark Griffiths tells a remarkable story of the brand, its place in our world, and the future of what has become a national treasure.

Great Brand Stories Premium Bonds

The lotus is the world's most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan. The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era, as Griffiths visits shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes, and meets priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists, and even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo café. Beautifully illustrated, intensely atmospheric and full of suspense, The Lotus Quest shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.

Although in theory gambling is against the law for children, there is one form of gambling that young people do have access to: fruit (i.e. slot) machines. Mark Griffiths has carried out extensive research into why some adolescents get hooked on gambling, how they gamble and what can be done about it. He provides an overview of adolescent gambling worldwide in addition to individual case studies, treatment approaches, and an insight into how the gaming industry induces young people to gamble. Adolescent Gambling is the first book to address the issue of underage gambling. It raises the crucial issue of who is to blame - is it something about the personality of the young person or is it the addictive nature of the machines? Anyone involved with the lives of young people should read this important book, especially social workers, teachers, youth leaders, probation officers and clinical psychologists.

Adolescent Gambling

Chung-Ying Lin

Amir H. Pakpour

Anders Broström

Maurice M. Ohayon

A Good Sleep: The Role of Factors in Psychosocial Health

Finally, a nuts-and-bolts woodworking guide with achievable and beautiful projects that people actually want to use! Woodworking in a Weekend is the ultimate go-to basic woodworking handbook, featuring 20 simple yet eye-catching projects that require only basic tools and reusable wood. With creative and practical projects, including a rustic table made from axe handles, attractive shelves made of ladders, and even instructions for building a beehive, this gorgeous book is perfect for anyone who wants the satisfaction of building their own furniture without the hassle of extensive time commitments or fancy tools. Including clear, step-by-step instructions, inspiring photographs, and helpful how-to illustrations, crafters will soon be building classic, long-lasting home décor.

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