A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects. Both aspirational and inspirational, this guide to bringing the outdoors inside is quite unlike anything on the market and will inspire all readers to begin their beach foraging journey. 
A beautifully packaged, comprehensive visual guide to seaweed by design company Molesworth & Bird. Seaweed will inspire readers to look beyond the tangled piles of seaweed washed up at high tide, to discover its exceptional beauty and appreciate its many uses. The book celebrates the unique appeal of the plants and showcases the myriad ways to bring their beauty indoors, with the authors providing step-by-step activities so you can create your own prints at home. Whether pressing a deep khaki green Peacock’s Tail seaweed or creating a stunning cyanotype with Eelgrass, the possibilities are endless with this seashore bounty. 
The book is packed with glorious photography of the UK coastlines where the seaweeds can be foraged, alongside stylish interiors, and scenes of beach cook-outs and wild swimming spots. It also includes a library of pressed seaweeds presented in colour categories, with notes for identification and use. There is expert guidance on collecting seaweeds, and it will show how foraged seaweeds can be used at home for cooking, dyeing and printing fabrics, and as part of your skincare routine. It explores the fascinating history of seaweed collecting and investigates its potential as a healthy food source and sustainable material, whether foraged or farmed.

Seaweed: The sustainable guide to our oceans, with crafts, foraging, collecting and pressing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Molesworth, Melanie

Bird, Julia

Alternative Medicine

Pavilion Books

The perfect companion to the successful Garden House (40,000 copies sold), Floral House is a beautifully photographed book of ideas that are utterly modern in their simplicity and timeless in their appeal. With a fresh, clean approach to decorating with florals, this lush guide inspires the creation of elegant rooms that echo the color and beauty of nature. Floral House proves that it doesn't take a lot of time or money to transform the look of your home. Small simple accents have dramatic results--a flowery duvet rejuvenates the bedroom, a plain couch gets a facelift with a vibrant patterned slipcover, and the addition of rosy wallpaper transforms a dull kitchen. Whether it's soft shades, cool tones, sun-drenched hues, or deeper colors, here are hundreds of innovative ideas to suit any style. Arranged by color palette, Floral House offers a variety of color combinations for all rooms in the home. With page after colorful page of inspiration, Floral House is brimming with ways to create warm, inviting spaces that bloom with color.

Floral House: Simple Designs and Decorations for the Home

Arts & Photography

Newdick, Jane

Architecture

Chronicle Books+

Promoting Emotional and Social Development in Schools: A Practical Guide

This accessible resource presents guidelines for creating an emotionally and socially healthy school and offers case studies that illustrate how good practice improves behavior and promotes inclusion.

Self-Help

Blake, Simon

Gerlach, Lynne

Success

Sage Publications Ltd.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Urbanization is one of the most important drivers of economic and social development. The fact that almost 35 million Bangladeshis will become urban dwellers over the next two decades is excellent news. However, the urbanization process of Bangladesh is now at a crossroads, as it will be much harder for the country to reach upper-middle income status if its cities -- and Dhaka in particular -- do not embark on a new urban development paradigm before the compounded costs of urban congestion and infrastructure retrofitting stall the country’s economic and social development. However, Dhaka also has a unique opportunity. Towards its east, there is a vast expanse of land. Most of it is within five kilometers of the most valuable parts of the city but remains mainly rural. Here it is the experience of Shanghai that becomes highly relevant. Much of Shanghai recent success was due to China's strategic approach to the development of East Shanghai (Pudong). This study, as a joint effort by Bangladeshi experts, the University of Oxford, and the World Bank, tries to answer what would be a Pudong-like approach entail in Dhaka's case. By using state-of-the-art modeling techniques, this study simulates population, housing, economic activity, commuting times, transport and trade across the 266 unions that constitute Great Dhaka, taking into account flood vulnerability, traffic congestion and other location conditions. It does so under various scenarios for the development of East Dhaka, but always assessing the implications for the city as a whole. The simulations suggest a strategic approach to the development of East Dhaka, similar in spirit to the development of Pudong, would make Greater Dhaka a much more productive and livable city. And with East Dhaka being the hinge of Bangladesh's emerging north-south and east-west corridors, this greater prosperity is likely to spread. But the opportunity would be to a large extent missed if East Dhaka developed spontaneously, in the same messy way as West Dhaka did after the construction of the western embankment.

Toward Great Dhaka: A New Urban Development Paradigm Eastward (Directions in Development - Countries and Regions)

Business & Money

Venables, Anthony J.

Li, Yue

Rahman, Hossain Zillur

Rama, Martin

Economics

World Bank Publications

Offers advice on decorating with fabrics, and suggests projects, including curtains and pillows

Country Fabric Style: Creative Projects for the Home

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Trafalgar Square Books

Simplicity may be the essence of contemporary style but putting it into practice is difficult. In Simple Style, interior designers Julia Bird and Bridget Bodoano show how easy it is to create a calm and comfortable home that is simple but not minimalistic. Looking at the key elements of space, color, materials, furnishings, storage and detail, the book shows how they can work together to create a home that is attractive and easy to live in. Twelve case studies show how simple stylish interiors can be achieved. Simple Style is set to become an essential companion for every contemporary home decorator.

Simple Style: Creating Relaxed Interiors in the Contemporary Home

Bodoano, Bridget

Quadrille Pub.

Any real estate agent will advise you boiling lemons or oranges will provide a "welcome" scent, while masking any unpleasant ones. It works, and drawing from the highly popular tradition of aromatherapy, a top interior designer shows how to keep a home smelling fresh and sweet and pure--emphasizing the use of easy, effective, and 100-percent-natural recipes. Beyond simple solutions to handling nasty odors, from banishing cooking smells to deodorizing a dog's bed, she offers exotic ideas (scented inks, pampering bath oils) for increasing your domestic pleasures. Concoct your own fragrant insecticides, air fresheners, furniture creams, laundry soap, moth bags, and more, and in addition make the most of flowers and incense. A Selection of the Country Home Book Club.

The Naturally Scented Home: Creating Traditional Scented Products with a Modern Twist

COLLINS BROWN

Simplicity may be the essence of contemporary style but putting it into practice is difficult. "Simple Style" highlights and demonstrates the key elements of space, colour, materials, furnishings, storage and detail. It has 16 case studies which show how simple stylish interiors can be achieved.

Simplestyle: Creating Relaxed Interiors in the Contemporary Home

Quadrille Publishing

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