Twelve-year-old Ashleigh rules the Lady Jean Ladies South Florida's most exclusive horse club. News that her family's stables are being sold and their horses killed for meat throws the Ladies into crisis in this dark comedy of middle school deception and lies. Horse Girls is a play about pre-teens: their obsessions their insecurities their desperate need to find a place in the world.
Englantilaistaiteilija Rachel Kneebonen arvoituksellisissa posliiniveistoksissa ihmiskehon fragmentit tuntuvat jatkuvasti kyseenalaistavan ajatuksen kokonaisesta, loppuun viedystä muodosta. Veistosten materiaali, valkoinen posliini, reagoi herkästi valoon ja näyttää välillä raskaalta ja kiinteältä, välillä kevyeltä ja läpikuultavalta. Myös Kneebonelle tärkeä tanssillinen liike määrittää veistoksia, joissa irralliset torsot ja raajat moninkertaistuvat ja punoutuvat toisiinsa.Kneebone tarkastelee taiteessaan ihmisyyttä, elämän kiertokulkua, muodonmuutoksia ja uudistumista. Kaikki on liikkeessä: rokokoon kepeys sekoittuu nykymaailman ongelmiin ja tulevaisuus sulautuu renessanssin optimismiin. Punoutua-kirja esittelee taiteilijan ensimmäistä kertaa Suomessa.
Completely updated with new content and full-colour figures throughout, the second edition of this successful book continues to provide complete coverage relating to the production of cucurbits, including cucumbers, gourds, muskmelons, pumpkins, squashes and watermelons. These crops are grown worldwide and represent one of the largest and most important groups of horticultural food plants. This second edition of Cucurbits provides up-to-date, succinct and authoritative knowledge on this variety of crops and reflects on significant advances in the areas of production, breeding and evolution. This new edition: - Contains new chapters on abiotic stresses and cucurbits for health - Includes major updates in research on the evolution, movement and distribution of species - Explores new genetic resources and breeding advancements - Delivers current information on methods of improving yield (e.g. grafting) and the management and resistance for pests and diseases - Has an updated list of the most recent taxonomic names This book represents a current and comprehensive guide to cucurbits, is highly illustrated and written in an accessible style. It is an essential resource for students, growers and researchers.
Torn from her mother soon after she was born, lost to a world of deprivation and poverty, she grew up hard and fast, using any means necessary to escape from her broken childhood. Rachel became a product of her environment: a tenacious, spirited, forthright young woman with a sharp mind and a mission to accomplish. Armed only with a faded photograph, she embarks on a quest to reunite herself with her mother and leave the world of prostitution behind her once and for all. When she discovers there is more to her family than expected, Rachel is dragged back into a world of drugs, crime and murder. Although not unfamiliar with the criminal underworld, it's a place to which she would rather not return. Unfortunately for Rachel, she's in it up to her neck. Contains Adult content
Rachel's journey from Chipola Roads, the rural community in northwest Florida where she was born in the mid-ninteen-twenties, was so much further than the few miles it took to arrive in the small town where the highschool was located Her naC/ve approach to life was a result of her plain-spoken, down to earth poor farm family's upbringing, where life's rules came mostly from their understanding of the Good Book as handed down to them.
