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482 tulosta hakusanalla Sian MacKay
This first biography of the poet Allan Ramsay (1684-1758) takes the form of a historical novel set in the tumultuous world of early eighteenth-century Edinburgh. All the known facts of the Makar's shapeshifting life are here, interwoven with the author's original research and imaginative passages based on her extensive knowledge of the locations he inhabited. Sales of his masterwork, The Gentle Shepherd (1725), enable Ramsay to give up wig making and open a bookshop - and Britain's first subscription library - adjacent to St Giles Cathedral. Not content with this meteoric rise, and influenced by John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, the makar establishes his New Theatre in the High Street. But disaster soon strikes, forcing the poet ingeniously to re-invent himself with the support of family, friends and notables of the day, including the young David Hume; Clerk of Pennycuik; and the Countess of Eglintoun. Then, as now, the thorny subject of Union divides the country, before Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Tartan Army invades Edinburgh in 1745 and attempts to seize the castle from the garden of the Makar's 'country villa', the Guse-pye House on the slopes of Castlehill. There he dies, just before drainage of the Nor' Loch makes way for the construction of Edinburgh's New Town. 'This book is a tremendous achievement - so much research, so much information, but not only that: a seamless interweaving of fact and fiction to create an imagined life for the man which comes leaping out of every page with its authenticity intact.' Elizabeth Adam of Blairadam 'The author vividly evokes the hustle and bustle of eighteenth-century Edinburgh and restores to his rightful place the poet Allan Ramsay, too often eclipsed by his son, the painter of the same name. A great read.'Ray Perman, author of The Rise and Fall of the City of Money
Bring entertainment to the kitchen to please every crowd. Sian's Kitchen is a collection of comforting dishes with Caribbean flair.BBC Radio 1Xtra broadcaster, DJ, Channel 5/BET presenter and restaurateur Sian Anderson is an exciting new voice in the culinary scene. After founding her immensely popular restaurant Octaves, Sian is now celebrating her Black British identity with Jamaican and St Lucian heritage in a modern Caribbean cookbook.Among the 80 fresh and flavoursome recipes are interviews with Big Zuu, Julie Adenuga and Big Narstie, as Sian invites them to dinner to discuss their favourite food, plus there is a playlist for every chapter to help you set the mood.This is an invitation to enjoy a taste of what makes Caribbean culture in the UK so special – gathering around the table to share comforting, vibrant dishes. With chapters including 20-Minute Fixes, Comfort Classics and From the Islands, you’ll find plenty of inspiration with recipes such as:Caribbean Plantain & Black Bean Bowl Ackee Fried RiceJamaican Curry Snapper FishOxtail StewCurry ChickenJerk Lamb with all the extrasAnd keep the conversation flowing with:Jam TartsSprinkle CakeRum PunchSian's Kitchen is a crowd-pleasing, love letter of a cookbook containing everything Sian holds close to her heart: cooking, culture and entertainment.
Beautiful and human portraits taken in renowned British photographer Sian Davey's garden. Starting from a neglected back yard, with her son she built a garden so beautiful that over the course of three years hundreds of people flocked from near and far to be photographed by her surrounded by the flowers, revealing to her the love of humanity and nature.“Why don’t we fill our back garden with wildflowers and bees, and the people we meet over the garden wall – we’ll invite them in to be photographed by you.” This is what my son Luke announced in the kitchen, midwinter, our back garden abandoned for at least ten years. I was sitting at the kitchen table, navigating a family deep in crisis.What came next was a pilgrimage: an ongoing act to cultivate a space grounded in love, a reverential offering to humanity. This is what became The Garden. In a short window of time, we worked intensively to clear our longneglected garden. During the process, we intensively researched native flowers, soil and biodiversity. We sourced organic local seeds and sowed under the moon cycles, biodynamically.We offered prayers along the way. We invited the pollinators and nature spirits. Luke and I obsessively shared our dreams, our insights and visions. We called in our ancestors to support and strengthen our vision. We collected stories from the people we met over the garden wall whilst we worked, which soon came to feel like an intimate, confessional space. We then watched the flowers emerge, silently appearing from every corner of the garden. Mullein, meadowsweet, wild carrot, giant sunflowers and thousands of poppies and cornflowers. We built structures for climbing gourds, tromboncinos, and sweet peas to clamber over. And as the flowers opened, they called in the community; the mothers and daughters, grandparents, the lonely, the marginalised, teenagers, new lovers, the heartbroken and those that had concealed a lifetime of shame. They became enfolded into the story of the garden, creating and partaking in the story equally. As the garden evolved it became an expression of joy, interconnectedness, yearning, sexuality, and defiance. The garden became a metaphor for the human heart itself. Those who entered the garden reflected back to me my history and who I had become.Everyone has a place in our garden. I am the garden. Those who enter are the garden. Without distinction, without separation.
Viivin ja Wagnerin ratkiriemukasta historiaa luotaava sarja jatkuu!Uusin "Sian vuodet" sisältää aikajärjestyksessä kaikki vuosien 2004 ja 2005 aikana ilmestyneet Viivi ja Wagner -stripit. Näissä tarinoissa Wagnerista tulee muotiguru, Viivi palkkaa siankouluttajan ja pariskunta lähtee saareen viettämään kesälomaa.
Viivin ja Wagnerin ratkiriemukasta historiaa luotaava sarja jatkuu!Uusin "Sian vuodet" sisältää aikajärjestyksessä kaikki vuosien 2006 ja 2007 aikana ilmestyneet Viivi ja Wagner -stripit. Näissä tarinoissa luodaan katsaus sankariparin tulevaisuuteen sekä nähdään, miten Wagner tilaa itselleen postimyyntimorsiamen.
Viivin ja Wagnerin historiaa luotaava sarja jatkuu! Millaisia ovat Wagnerin lautapelit? Mikä tuo kumajava ääni on? No, sehän on Viivin biologinen kello.Monet näistä stripeistä julkaistaan nyt ensi kertaa albumimuodossa. Riemastuttavien sarjojen lisäksi kirjassa on kattava artikkeli ja bonuskuvitusta. Bonuksena mukana myös muiden piirtäjien tulkintoja Viivistä Ja Wagnerista, mukana mm. Ville Ranta, Tiitu Takalo ja Petteri Tikkanen.
Ylikomisario Pujol on jäämässä eläkkeelle ja tutkii viimeistä tapaustaan, jossa nainen on murhattu raa'asti ja paloiteltu pienessä vuoristokylässä sijaitsevassa teurastamossa. Naisen suusta löytyy viesti, jossa lukee: "Sian nimeen tuli." Näin alkaa hätkähdyttävä romaani, jossa ylikomisarion lisäksi seikkailevat rikostarkastaja T, sekalainen joukko epäiltyjä, eriskummalliset vuoristokyläläiset, sekä omintakeinen kirjailija Quique Aribau, joka on joitain vuosia aikaisemmin kirjoittanut menestysromaanin. Näistä osasista syntyy vangitseva, psykologisesti tarkkanäköinen ja ironinenkin romaani. Pablo Tusset luo maailman, jossa helvetilliset ja paratiisilliset, rakkauden ja kuoleman maisemat vuorottelevat. Sian nimeen saa lukijan ahmimaan sivuja. Tarinan käänteet imaisevat mukaansa, ja hersyvä huumori ja kerronnan taidokkuus kutkuttavat ja pitävät otteessaan.Pablo Tusset (s. 1965 Barcelonassa) on aiemmin kirjoittanut romaanin Parasta mitä voisarvelle voi tapahtua (Sammakko, 2006), julkean ja hilpeän teoksen, joka voitti arvostetun Premio Tigre Juan -kirjallisuuspalkinnon ja oli Espanjan myydyimpiä kirjoja useamman vuoden ajan. Paco Mir ohjasi romaanista elokuvan, ja romaanista tuli käännösten myötä bestseller ympäri Eurooppaa.Suomentanut Einari Aaltonen
When Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Sian in the fall of 1936 and laid plans for launching his last campaign against the Red Army with an expectation of exterminating it in a month, he badly misjudged the mood of the Tungpei (Northeast) Army and more so its leader, Chang Hsueh-liang, better known as the Young Marshal. Refusing to fight the Communists, Chang with the loyal support of his officers staged a coup d’état by kidnapping Chiang Kai-shek for two weeks at Sian. Almost forty years after the melodrama was over, the Sian Incident still absorbs much attention from both Chinese and Western scholars as well as the reading public. The Sian Incident attempts to bring together whatever information has been thus far gleaned about the subject, and to cover all aspects and controversies involved in it. [1, xi, xii]
Tensions are high in the Hidden Lands. A rogue tribe of elves, the Svellvega, are recruiting their fae brethren and preparing for war. Galessel and her friends have stopped Queen Victoria's invasion but rumors fly like ripe strawfaeries that humans are attempting to infiltrate the Hidden Lands once again, carrying weapons of deadly cold iron. In this third and final installment of Galessel's tale, Galessel is still sikevra - an outcast due to the mutilation of her elven ears by a Svellvegan pirate. Forced to hide in her family's palace in Anisbar, she trains daily with the human sword-master, Navarre, ready for the opportunity to sneak away and help her people. Meanwhile, her erstwhile companions; Clove, her faun best friend, Morgan the sharp-shooter, Samga the archer, and Eirsal the sylph, range throughout the Hidden Lands to find the truth of the human incursion and the Svellvega's treachery. What they don't know is that Queen Victoria has a new plan and the help of a ruthless pirate to carry it out, one who is hellbent on destroying the Hidden Lands, one genocide at a time. Will Galessel and her friends be able to save the Hidden Lands? Or will magic fade from the world forever?
The Lamborghini Sián is Lamborghini's first ever hybrid car. It is also one of their most powerful cars yet! In this hi-lo title, readers will learn about the history and features of this car through vibrant photos and engaging text. Special features highlight the engine specs and basics of the Sián and map where it began. This hybrid car is the future of sports cars!
Peces de La Reserva de La Biosfera de Sian Ka'an
Garcia-Bedoya Daniel
Editorial Academica Espanola
2014
pokkari
The third show-stopping adventure from The Magical Peppers. Don’t miss it! The Magical Pepper twins Esme and Monty are back with their Uncle Potty again – a professional magician, with a knack of getting himself – and the twins – into trouble! Potty’s been asked to perform for the Queen at the Monolith Museum in London. But in a museum full of Egyptian mummies, and secret passageways, and enchanted crystal skulls, you can be sure things won’t go to plan… This book includes real magic tricks and tips which readers can try at home!
Escape reality and reconnect with nature Journey to 40 unforgettable getaways in Britain’s wild corners, from floating cabins to miniature castles, tree pods to moored boats. Lose yourself in cosy reading nooks after a day hillwalking in the Peak District, go foraging in Yorkshire’s woodlands, or warm up by the campfire after taking a dip in coastal Cornish waters. Stay in the heart of Wales’ myths and legends, or pitch up at the birthplace of scouting. These rural retreats are ideal for slowing down and switching off, with tips on local walks and watering holes on the doorstep. With spectacular photography on every page, just reading Wild Escapes is an escape in itself.
A warm, funny picture book about fitting in, from an exciting debut author and illustrator team!