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The rusty rake gardener: beautiful Canadian gardens with minimum toil
Par John Lawrence Reynolds, Dave Cummins, Cathy Cummins. 1999
According to the authors, anyone can maintain a beautiful garden with a minimum amount of work if they just know…
a few simple gardening secrets. Through a combination of anecdotes and instruction the authors share these secrets with the reader. 1999.The rare and the beautiful: the art, loves, and lives of the Garman sisters
Par Cressida Connolly. 2004
The scandalous, bohemian Garman sisters were famous for their passion for the arts, defiance of convention, and the power to…
turn heads and break hearts. Kathleen, an artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover of sculptor Jacob Epstein; Mary married poet Roy Campbell; and Lorna became the lover of poet Laurie Lee and of painter Lucian Freud. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
Par Witold Rybczynski. 2002
An appreciation of the residential work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The author provides a detailed analysis, both historical and…
architectural, of ten of the 30 villas attributed to Palladio. Includes biographical detail, precise descriptions of design elements, and insights into daily life in the 16th century. 2002.The organic lawn care manual: a natural, low-maintenance system for a beautiful, safe lawn
Par Paul Boardway Tukey. 2007
Explains how to evaluate lawn-care needs, how grass grows, how to create healthy soil, and how to select grass that…
is drought tolerant and disease and pest resistant. There are chapters on starting a lawn from scratch or refurbishing an existing lawn, making the transition from synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, watering, weeding, dealing with pests and diseases, and mowing and maintenance. Includes a glossary and a list of ground covers. 2007.The paper garden: an artist {begins her life's work} at 72 (Maple leaf audio)
Par Molly Peacock. 2011
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age…
of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper "mosaick" flowers still revered today. 2011.The many deaths of Tom Thomson: separating fact from fiction
Par Gregory Klages. 2016
Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, the book offers a…
review of the historical record, testimony, and archives about the artist's tragic and mysterious demise. Putting the whole range of theories under examination, the author separates truth from legend in this great Canadian mystery. 2016.The life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
Par Marie Kondō. 2015
Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an…
organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health. 2015. Uniform title: Jinsei ga tokimeku katazuke no mahō.The life of William Morris
Par J. W Mackail. 1995
William Morris was a poet, an artist, a manufacturer and a socialist whose works and ideas had a great effect…
on Victorian art, design and industry. This biography was first published within a few years of his death and remains the primary biographical source on his life and work. 1995.The last mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the hidden history of Hollywood
Par Dennis McDougal. 1998
Biography of one of Hollywood's most powerful moguls who joined the industry at the beginning of talking films and could…
singlehandedly make or break a career. Wasserman was also a confidant to other powerful people; politicians and businessmen as well as Mafia bosses, as the head of Universal Studios. Some strong language. c1998.The laughing one: a journey to Emily Carr
Par S. M Crean. 2001
A combination of historical research and fictionalized accounts of five key periods in the life of Canadian artist and writer…
Emily Carr, that attempts to discover how and why she became a national icon. The book touches on issues of feminism, colonialism, native-white relations, and art, presented in the context of legal and illegal events shaping the fate of BC's native peoples. Crean attempts to discover Carr's true attitude to native culture and to explore not her famous eccentricities but her work. 2001.The kitchen gardener: grow your own fruit and veg
Par Alan Titchmarsh. 2008
Alan's comprehensive guide will tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about fruit and veg and…
how to grow it, including herbs, baby veg, salads, every-day fruits plus gourmet or unusual varieties. The book takes a very practical approach, starting from scratch for the benefit of anyone who's never grown their own before, but is also ideal for those with some experience. 2008.The Kids Can Press jumbo book of gardening (Kids Can Press jumbo book series)
Par Karyn Morris. 2000
The inlet: memoir of a modern pioneer
Par Helen Piddington. 2001
The physiology of taste: or, Meditations on transcendental gastronomy (Virago Modern Classics)
Par M. F. K Fisher, Brillat-Savarin. 1949
First published in France in 1825, this book on the delights of eating is a practical guide to the enjoyment…
and preparation of food. 1971, c1949. Uniform title: Physiologie du goût.Châteaux et châtelains: les siècles passent, le symbole demeure
Par Michel Pinçon, Monique Pinçon-Charlot. 2005
Attirer la faune au jardin: [insectes bénéfiques, papillons, grenouilles et oiseaux dans votre cour]
Par Albert Mondor, Daniel Gingras. 2009
Les abeilles, les coccinelles, les mantes religieuses, les papillons, les chauves-souris, les colibris et bien dautres sont autant d'animaux dont…
il faut souhaiter la présence dans nos jardins. Vous en doutez? La biodiversité est un terme présent dans toutes les bouches depuis plusieurs années. Mais que peut-on faire à notre échelle pour favoriser la diversité animale et végétale et éviter les catastrophes écologiques de la monoculture? Faites de votre jardin un écosystème équilibré grâce à cet ouvrage. 2009.The eye: an insider's memoir of masterpieces, money, and the magnetism of art
Par Philippe Costamagna. 2019
This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance…
whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art market and scholarship alike. 2019. Uniform title: Histoires d'œils.Va où il est impossible d'aller: mémoires
Par Costa-Gavras. 2018
Né en Arcadie, dans une Grèce déchirée par l'Occupation et la guerre civile, le jeune Costa-Gavras arrive à Paris en…
1955, immigré sans argent. Son rêve : suivre des études. Au hasard des rencontres, il découvrira la Sorbonne, la Cinémathèque d'Henri Langlois, et deviendra rapidement l'assistant des plus grands : René Clair, René Clément, Jacques Demy, Henri Verneuil, Jean Becker, Jean Giono... Il passe à la réalisation avec un premier film coup de poing, Compartiment tueurs. Et enchaîne les succès internationaux : ce sera Z, L'Aveu, Section spéciale, Music Box, Missing, Amen... Il est l'auteur de dix-huit films qui ont autant changé le cinéma que notre manière de voir le monde. Ses Mémoires retracent sa jeunesse, sa vie d' avant , et fourmillent de détails sur Hollywood, les acteurs, les tournages... On y croise bien sûr des légendes, Luis Bunuel ou John Ford, des actrices et acteurs tels Romy Schneider, Jessica Lange, Jean Seberg, Jack Lemmon, Marlon Brando, John Travolta ou Dustin Hoffman. Mais plus encore, ce livre redonne vie à une magnifique famille de pensée dont il suffit d'évoquer les noms - Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Salvador Allende, Artur et Lise London, Chris Marker, Romain Gary - pour faire comprendre que Costa-Gavras a été nourri des plus grands rêves de notre époque, comme de ses combats les plus rudes. 2018.You must change your life: the story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Par Rachel Corbett. 2016
In 1902, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and suffering from writer’s block, accepted a commission to go to Paris to…
research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rodin in his sixties, notoriously carnal, revered; Rilke in his twenties, delicate, unknown. Nonetheless, they fell into an instantaneous friendship and would work closely together as master and disciple for the next few years, as Rodin showed Rilke how to become the writer he wished to be. Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. 2016.Ma vie avec Chagall
Par Virginia Haggard-Leirens, Eleonore Bakhtadze. 1987
En 1945, Chagall jouit d'une renommée mondiale lorsqu'il rencontre Virginia Haggard. Elle a trente ans de moins que lui. Une…
liaison profonde, marquée par l'admiration et l'entraide mutuelle, va les unir pendant sept ans. 1987.