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'Breathtakingly beautiful' i 'Tender and wholehearted' Helen Jukes LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES AND I When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, grieving and living out of a suitcase in her late twenties, Alice Vincent begins planting seeds. She nurtures pot plants and vines on windowsills and draining boards, filling her many temporary London homes with green. As the months pass, and with each unfurling petal and budding leaf, she begins to come back to life. Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.
Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regulated and incorporated into everyday social practices. The various authors in this volume each locate their contributions within the circuit of culture model. More specifically, this book engages with issues of production and regulation in the case of the electrical infrastructure supporting smartphones and the development of mobile social gambling apps. It examines issues of consumption through looking at parental practices relating to children’s smartphone use, children’s experience of the regulation of this technology, both in the home and in...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
For years the only thing he knew from his muddled past was the fact his name was Daemon and he was a vampire; the rest was a blur until now. Slowly he will recover bits and pieces of his past that spans a time longer than he or others around him could ever imagine on a journey that will take him to finish a task he failed to accomplish nearly a century earlier. On the way Daemon will encounter all types of supernatural races who are all concentrated on one goal; his demise. Each time he survives an ordeal or wins any battle a piece of his life comes back to his memory, up to the very end. It will deliver Daemon to a choice he must make that will hold the fate of the vampiric race in the balance. Like it or not their future is controlled by Daemon.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.