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Dylan Thomas hörspel ”Nedan Milk Wood, ett spel för stämmor” tar oss med till byn Llareggub i Wales. Under ett vårdygn färdas vi genom bybornas drömmar, längtan, liv och hemligheter. BBCs radiouppsättning från 1954 med Richard Burton och en walesisk ensemble är den mest kända och älskade. Men ett antal…
’It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black…’
Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in British literature. Lyrical, funny, moving, it is rooted in place but with a universality that…
I boken kan man följa Bettys Ehrenborgs utveckling från osjälvständig men intelligent adelsfröken i Västergötland via 1840- talets litterära salonger i Uppsala, fram till samarbetet med Marie Cederskjöld och Fredrika Bremer i diakonala och sociala frågor. Under ett år i London följde hon undervisningen av blivande…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel
Wrap up warmly and settle down to enjoy these very special Winnie-the-Pooh winter stories.
'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.' Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees – and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods. One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig,…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Bilderböcker Bilderböcker, pysselböcker och pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år
At last, there before them, the great oak trees stood, As the sun cast its beams through the boughs of the wood . . . Get ready to discover the timeless magic of Muggleswick Wood in this beautiful treasury of five interlinked bedtime stories. From fairy revels and mysterious kelpies to troublesome moles and wishing…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: kärlek och relationer
Betty is clueless about boys and her only kiss so far has been with her cat! So when she notices fabulously hot new boy Toby at school, she needs guidance urgently. If only her best friend was actually speaking to her at the moment! More than ever, Betty wishes her mum was still around to advise her, but she did at…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Bilderböcker Bilderböcker, pysselböcker och pedagogiska böcker 0–5 år Småbarnsbilderböcker och pekböcker
Ett skogsäventyr för de allra minsta!
Betty ska plocka blåbär i skogen. Men var finns blåbären? På sin väg genom skogen stöter hon på flera utmaningar. Kan du hjälpa henne att klara av dem? Lyckas hon ta sig förbi den stora stenen? Följ med och hjälp Betty på hennes spännande äventyr.
Året är 1955 och det har gått fyra år sedan Bettys make Olof avled. Dottern Martina är nu 17 år och lika gammal som Betty var när hon kom till Stockholm för att arbeta som hembiträde. Martina spås en lysande framtid som sångerska. Sonen Anders är en klipsk liten kille men har problem i umgänget med…
Kategorier: Genusvetenskap Genusvetenskap: kvinnor och flickor Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Livsstil, hobby och fritid Mat och dryck Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
1800-talet var en tid av självhushållning då nästan allt gjordes från ax till limpa i hemmet. Vardagsmaten kunde kvinnorna laga utan recept, men när det skulle ordnas fest plockade man fram sin receptsamling. Likt många andra högreståndskvinnor hade Betty Gyllensvärd en sådan. Hennes samling omfattade så småningom…
This book offers a unique overview of wood as the main construction material for residential buildings worldwide, and introduces architects, interior designers, and builders to the diversity of contemporary timber architecture.
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone – Season 2 streaming now!
Discover the origin story of the Darkling from Shadow and Bone in this beautifully illustrated, first-ever Grishaverse graphic novel.
Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold,…
’Delicious … dark … sinister’ Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of number one bestseller, Pandora ’Thrilling’ Emilia Hart, author of Sunday Times bestseller Weyward ’Stunning’ Lianne Dillsworth, author of Theatre of Marvels ’Marvellous’ Naomi Kelsey, author of The…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops…
Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: rysare och spökhistorier
_____One of The Observer’s Best Children’s Books of 2018!
Fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood…
”The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me…
Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents — and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Busy Betty has always been busy. Every day she wakes up with a million questions and a billion ideas! And today she has an amazing idea: she’s throwing her mum a birthday party. Shhh . . . It’s a surprise! Then Betty and her best friend, Mae, have the best idea of all: What if they threw Mum a circus…
A Revolution in Wood celebrates the magnificent gift of sixty-six pieces of turned and carved wood to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the distinguished collectors Fleur and Charles Bresler. Illustrated in lavish detail, works by this country’s best-known wood artists highlight the…
It may be true that no athlete is bigger than the game, but one thing is certain: Tiger Woods is golf. From dominating the junior ranks in his boyhood, to becoming the first player in history to hold four major championship trophies at once—the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA—it has been his mental game that…
Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to…
Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories-some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine-explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with…
Wood collects a number of essays and recent projects in wood by the renowned Danish architecture studio Vandkunsten Architects, who has shaped the contemporary use of wood in Nordic architecture for over five decades. Divided into themes of exible, regional, modular and solid, the book covers projects such as…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Busy Betty has always been busy . . . even when she was just a baby! When Betty gives Frank a big hug, she realises he needs a bath, PRONTO! Her best friend, Mae, is coming over, and Betty can’t have the smelliest dog in the whole world! But giving Frank a bath is harder than she thought and just when everything…
A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the authorWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student…
Kategorier: Andlighet och religiös erfarenhet Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Religion och tro
More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote:
Magical Power, Marvellous Action!
Chopping Wood, Carrying Water…
The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life. It is the greatest challenge for people…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
The Darkling’s origin story comes alive in this exquisitely illustrated prequel to Shadow and Bone, the hit Netflix original series. Before he led Ravka’s Second Army, before he created the Fold, and long before he became the Darkling, he was just a lonely boy burdened by an extraordinary power. Eryk and…
Denna bok introducerar en fängslande berättelse om kärlek, melankoli och ungdom, satt mot en nostalgisk bakgrund.
Norwegian Wood 2 är en coming-of-age roman av Haruki Murakami. Berättelsen utspelar sig på 1960-talet i Japan och följer Toru Watanabe, en ung college-student, när han navigerar kärlek, förlust och de komplexiteter som följer med att växa upp. Boken är en melankolisk och introspektiv utforskning av den mänskliga…
Nationally known carver Bob Lundy shares the techniques of relief carving in an easy to follow book. Amply illustrated, it takes the reader step-by-step through two carving projects and offers the information needed to carry out even more. With everything carved by hand, the book is written for both the beginner and…
A fun guide to creating simple wooden jewelry. Craft pins, beads, pendants, and earrings evoke delightful desert art. With practical safety tips and a discussion of the best tools, anyone can get started. Design discussion and many project photographs will launch you in creating exquisite jewelry perfect for gifts.…
This second installment in the Laminated
Wood Art series focuses on using a multi-generational process to create unique, symmetrical wood art patterns with
intricate designs. This straightforward
method involves cutting laminated strips of different wood species at various angles and gluing them back together to…
For the first time, the history of spalted wood—wood coloration caused by fungi—is detailed in a comprehensive resource covering the science, the history, and the applications of spalting. Featuring 870 photos and photomicrographs, this resource goes back 700 years to the beginning of written records of spalting, and…
This second installment in the Laminated
Wood Art series focuses on using a multi-generational process to create unique, symmetrical wood art patterns with
intricate designs. This straightforward
method involves cutting laminated strips of different wood species at various angles and gluing them back together to…
Join Anna Carpenter as she shares memories of growing up in Italy, where she learned to prepare gourmet meals and enjoyed them around the fire with family and friends. Wood-fired ovens are enormously popular today because of the unique taste only real wood fire can instill into meat and fish, vegetables, fresh bread,…
Now anyone can make their own, custom-built canoe guaranteed to draw raves on land and water alike. The Illustrated Guide to Wood Strip Canoe Building is a comprehensive, detailed guide to the process of contructing a high-quality wood strip canoe, written especially for the novice boat builder. Sheathed strip boat…
The art of pyrography — burning designs into wood and many other materials — can add a special touch to any project, including wooden trunks and jewelry, wildlife carvings, leather pictures, and paper collages. In this book, Al Chapman will explain the different tools and mediums that can be used, and will…
Kategorier: Konst
Nothing is more challenging to the carver than carving a realistic face. To help in the process Terry Kramer begins with modeling clay. With this pliable medium, he leads the reader through the exploration of the planes and features of the face. In a series of exercises, the carver learns the basics about shaping the…
This idea-packed compendium presents the work of today’s top wood artists in over 500 photos. More than 130 artists from nine countries are showcased, including furniture makers, turners, and sculptors who borrow ideas and techniques from one another to create their art. Their disciplines have blurred as furniture…
Outdoor Wood Works is a collection of ideas for improving the environment around our houses. From the fences that frame our homes to the walkways that lead to our front doors, this book explores ways in which wood can improve our little stake in the great outdoors. Hundreds of ideas are presented in full-color…
Block and solid wood make up one of the oldest construction methods and one that ever more people are opting for when building their homes. Not only are contemporary log homes environmentally sustainable and planet-friendly, they provide comfortable and healthy living. In addition, many of these buildings use…
With clear instructions and vivid color photographs, Al Streetman takes woodcarvers through all the steps necessary to release a wood spirit from a cypress knee. Using the shapes suggested by the forms of the knees themselves, Al carves both a complete Santa figure and a Santa ornament as the central projects of the…
Santa rides again! This highly animated Santa carving depicts the jolly old elf getting more than he bargained for on an off-season fishing expedition. David Sabol demonstrates his traditional wood carving techniques, taking the reader through each step from wood blank to finished carving with clear, step-by-step…
Wood speaks to Dick Sing. With his skill as a woodturner, and his keen understanding of both the lathe and the wood, Dick has created a number of projects which offer something a little different. In this new book, he leads the turner through four projects which are easy enough for the beginner and fun enough for…
Written for every wood turner, this complete guide uses clear language and more than 125 detailed photos to cover every step required to turn beautiful bangles. Bangles are easy to make with common shop tools and a small lathe, if you have the right techniques. This book, starting with the basic design steps for…
In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. Rebellious, radical, and romantic, Wood (1893–1998) defied propriety to become a true national, and international, treasure. Her absorbing autobiography includes vintage…