Kirjahaku

The year 1645 saw the biggest witch-hunt in English history. Faced by the extreme challenges of religious dissent, poverty, sickness and the threat of foreign invasion, Ipswich became an ideological battlefield during the English Civil Wars. Here Puritanism struggled against Catholic sensibilities, the Devil loomed at the door of every English home, and the age of the witchfinder was born. This book focuses on witchcraft in Ipswich and the most extreme punishment ever given to an English witch, and challenges some stereotypes of the period: reflecting on the growth in Puritan sects, gender politics, the exploitation of the poor, the importance of beliefs in the occult and the rise of English power in the New World.

Procrastination is a very complex beast, and the more we understand it and how it affects people in their daily lives, the better.This book is centered around the theme of productivity. Productivity is crucial for us all in our daily lives. It is how we complete our daily tasks at work, it is how we help our children with their homework and class projects, it is how we finish that final chapter of our romance novels. No matter what our job is, no matter who we are, no matter how many children we might have, we all need to implement a level of productivity into our lives, even if it's just to 'get by'. But what happens when procrastination is thrown into that mix? This is what we're going to look at in this book's chapters In this book, we'll take a look at the very nature of procrastination, analyzing its effects on productivity, and seeing whether or not procrastination can be controlled and effectively utilized in your daily life.In this book you will find: Effects of procrastinationWhat is positive procrastinationHow to manage procrastinationProcrastination and productivityProcrastination and creativityFamous procrastinatorsMuch More

The most comprehensive book ever published on the subject, this revised third edition of A Complete Guide to Native Orchids of Australia is a legacy resulting from a lifetime’s work by David L. Jones and is an importantcontribution to Australia’s recorded flora. The text provides details of when and where the taxa were named, etymology of the scientific names used, descriptions, distributions, habitats and notes for the 1,698 taxa of Australian native orchids, more than twice the number covered in the original edition of the book in 1988 and 394 more species than detailed in the second edition published in 2006. Of these, about 1,459 taxa are terrestrials, 239 epiphytes or lithophytes and six or seven exotic taxa have become naturalised.

Ipswich like every other town, had its own war. This new book provides a penetrating view of the war as it affected Ipswich. Within the compass of one provincial town it is possible to reveal the inter-relationship of events, authorities and the general public. By using previously unknown police and civic documents, other original archives, unpublished diaries and oral history, the author gives an intimate and fascinating picture of how one town organised for total war. Key incidents were shared in the memory of an entire generation and overlapping accounts by different voices enabled the author to build up a powerful mosaic of their experiences. The book includes the histories of the disturbed and the disaffected as well as those of the better-known ‘Home Front’ organisations from Dig for Victory to the A.R.P. and the Home Guard. A rigid and sometimes inept local bureaucracy was forced to transform itself quickly under the pressure of near defeat and possible invasion. The author reveals a world both remote and familiar. The seeds of modern youth culture germinated and the ongoing struggle between the attitudes of the Poor Law and of the Welfare State began. Neither official nor reverential, the author tries to give an honest picture of a town, at times near the end of its tether; how it coped with its war and how it was changed by it. His book will be welcomed well beyond the borders of Ipswich by those interested in the period, while it will have strong appeal to all who live in the town or whose family did at the time.