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RHS Your Wellbeing Garden

(2020) Your garden could be even better for you.

Discover…

How certain plants can form a barrier against air and noise pollution

Which birdsong alleviates anxiety

How plants can help to save energy

Why green is so good for us

Learn how connecting with nature can reduce stress and improve wellbeing. You don’t even need a garden – even a balcony or houseplants can help to boost your mood. Every recommendation is backed by scientific research, drawn together by the team of RHS scientists and experts. Favourite garden designer at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Matt Keightley then suggests how to translate the science into ideas for your green space.

With this groundbreaking book, find out how, in sometimes very simple ways, you can create an outdoor space that nourishes your mind and body, and is good for our planet too.

Women Our History

(2019) Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.

Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women’s history – from early matriarchal societies through women’s suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th-century feminism and gender politics, to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women’s Day – and the key role women have had in shaping our past.

Learn about the everyday lives of women through the ages as well as the big ?names of women’s history – powerful, inspirational, and trailblazing women such as Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eva Peron, and Rosa Parks – and discover the unsung contributions of lesser-known women who have changed the world, and the “forgotten” events of women’s history.

Placing women firmly centre stage, Women – Our History shows women where they have come from, and, in celebrating the achievements of women of the past offers positive role models for women of today

How Not to Wear Black

(2018) Shop better, buy less, and dress to tell the world “this is me”! As the high street embraces individuality, Anna Murphy, Fashion Director of The Times, shares her tricks for dressing well without always resorting to black. She helps you define your personal style to feel confident and comfortable. Your clothes stake your place in the world to a voice, a path, a future. Choose who you want to be and how to dress well accordingly. As Mark Twain said, “There is no power without clothes”.

Anna draws on her years of inside fashion knowledge and style experience to help you work out your “clothing happy place”. What best flatters your body? What expresses your sense of self? And how do you build a sustainable wardrobe that will serve you day in, day out, for years to come? Explore why less is more; how to layer, the tricks of mixing and non-matching, and how to dress up neutrals. Follow Anna’s tips on the 9-5 work wardrobe, what to wear for that special event, and how to carry off athleisure in style.

Immerse yourself in this inspiring, realistic, and practical style book and you, too, will be able to throw chic outfits together effortlessly, have something you want to wear for every occasion, and create a wardrobe that, with occasional shopping forays, can last forever. Make fashion your friend!

Manmade Wonders of the World

(2019) Discover and explore the most incredible statues, monuments, temples, bridges, and ancient cities with this unparalleled survey of the most famous buildings and structures created by humans.

From Stonehenge to the Sagrada Familia, from the Great Wall of China to the Burj Khalifa, Manmade Wonders of the Worldplots a continent-by-continent journey around the world, exploring and charting the ingenuity and imagination used by different cultures to create iconic buildings. This truly global approach reveals how humans have tackled similar challenges – such as keeping the enemy out or venerating their gods – in vastly different parts of the world. As writer, historian, and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank writes in his foreword, “reading this book is like taking a journey through the world not only of the present but also of the past, because the roots of many wonders lie in antiquity.”

By combining breathtaking photography with 3D cutaway artworks, floorplans, and other illustrations, the hidden details and engineering innovations that make each building remarkable are revealed.

Featuring the most visited monuments in the world – such as the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, and Machu Picchu – as well as some hidden gems, Manmade Wonders of the World can help you to map out the trip of a lifetime or simply be enjoyed as a celebration of the world that humans have built over thousands of years.

101 Essential Tips Crochet

(2015) A pocket-sized guide offering bite-size information at a great price, 101 Essential Tips makes learning quick and easy, offering speedy answers to key questions.

101 Essential Tips: Crochet takes you through everything you need to know to start crocheting, from choosing yarn and making your first slip knot, this book takes you step-by-step through stiches and techniques so you can master crochet patterns. Enjoy making a phone cover, a friendship bracelet or even a baby’s hat. With clear explanations of crochet charts and abbreviations, it has all you need to get the best results.

Summarizing the essential tips needed to crochet, this guide is perfect for the absolute beginner, giving fully illustrated top tips that can be grasped in an instant.

People We Meet on Vacation

(2021) Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek · Oprah Magazine · Marie Claire · Parade · PopSugar · BookPage · BookBub · Betches · SheReads · Good Housekeeping · BuzzFeed · and more!

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

From the bestselling author of Beach Read comes a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

“توقيع “حكايات المماليك المصرية

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حفل اطلاق وتوقيع مباراة على ملعب الموت‎‎

نبش الغراب في واحة العربي: الأشياء

قالوا عنه: • «أحيانًا يُذكِّرني صديقي محمد مستجاب بالسحرة» – صبري موسى• «محمد مستجاب واحد من أهم كُتَّاب جيل الستينيات» – د. طه وادي• «محمد مستجاب: أدب السخریة الضاحك الجاد والعمیق والمثقل بالزاد المعرفي» – سليمان العسكري، مجلة العربي• «استطاع مستجاب أن يبتدع لغة جديدة في السرد العربي الحكائي. قام بالتأليف بلغة عربية فخمة للحديث عن ناس من قاع الحياة، فخلق بذلك مفارقة مذهلة» – خيري شلبي• «مستجاب من أهم كُتَّابنا المصريين المعاصرين» – د. عبد المنعم تليمةمحمد مستجاب عبقري القصة القصيرة، وحكَّاء مصر الأول، وآخر طابور الساخرين العظام» – د. خالد منتصرمحمد مستجاب حالة إبداعية خاصة على خارطة الإبداع المصري والعربي، فكتاباته تسلك مسلكًا خاصًّا في لغتها وأسلوبها وتقنياتها وطرائق المعالجة وجرأة مضامينها، ما يجعلها متوهجة وقادرة على الإمساك بتلابيب القارئ دومًا، حيث ا لمتعة الفنية، والإثارة الجمالية، والمفارقة الساخرة، والمفاجأة الصادمة، والنكتة البليغة» – محمد الحمامصي، جريدة السفيريجمع الجزء الأول من المجموعة الكاملة لمقالات محمد مستجاب البديعة عالم الإنسان وأعضاءه وأحواله، ويتناول الجزء الثاني عالم الكائنات والحيوانات والنباتات، أما الجزء الثالث فمخصص لعالم الأشياء. مقالات ممتعة تعكس ذكائه الشديد ووجهة نظره المتفردة وقلمه السلس. وتحتوي الأجزاء الثلاثة على حِكمه الساخرة التي كان ينشرها مع كل مقالة

نبش الغراب في واحة العربي: الكائنات

قالوا عنه: • «أحيانًا يُذكِّرني صديقي محمد مستجاب بالسحرة» – صبري موسى• «محمد مستجاب واحد من أهم كُتَّاب جيل الستينيات» – د. طه وادي• «محمد مستجاب: أدب السخریة الضاحك الجاد والعمیق والمثقل بالزاد المعرفي» – سليمان العسكري، مجلة العربي• «استطاع مستجاب أن يبتدع لغة جديدة في السرد العربي الحكائي. قام بالتأليف بلغة عربية فخمة للحديث عن ناس من قاع الحياة، فخلق بذلك مفارقة مذهلة» – خيري شلبي• «مستجاب من أهم كُتَّابنا المصريين المعاصرين» – د. عبد المنعم تليمةمحمد مستجاب عبقري القصة القصيرة، وحكَّاء مصر الأول، وآخر طابور الساخرين العظام» – د. خالد منتصرمحمد مستجاب حالة إبداعية خاصة على خارطة الإبداع المصري والعربي، فكتاباته تسلك مسلكًا خاصًّا في لغتها وأسلوبها وتقنياتها وطرائق المعالجة وجرأة مضامينها، ما يجعلها متوهجة وقادرة على الإمساك بتلابيب القارئ دومًا، حيث ا لمتعة الفنية، والإثارة الجمالية، والمفارقة الساخرة، والمفاجأة الصادمة، والنكتة البليغة» – محمد الحمامصي، جريدة السفيريجمع الجزء الأول من المجموعة الكاملة لمقالات محمد مستجاب البديعة عالم الإنسان وأعضاءه وأحواله، ويتناول الجزء الثاني عالم الكائنات والحيوانات والنباتات، أما الجزء الثالث فمخصص لعالم الأشياء. مقالات ممتعة تعكس ذكائه الشديد ووجهة نظره المتفردة وقلمه السلس. وتحتوي الأجزاء الثلاثة على حِكمه الساخرة التي كان ينشرها مع كل مقالة.