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Artificial Wisdom - Thomas R. Weaver - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Artificial Wisdom - Thomas R. Weaver - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

SALVATION HAS A PRICE. ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY? In 2050, investigative journalist Marcus Tully is still grieving the loss of his wife and unborn child in the deadly heatwave that struck the Persian Gulf ten years ago.Now, the world is both burning and drowning, and the decision has been taken to elect a global leader to steer humanity through the worsening climate apocalypse. The final two candidates are ex-US president Lockwood, and Solomon, an Artificial Intelligence.As election day races closer, Tully begins to unravel a conspiracy that goes to the highest level. Then Solomon’s creator is murdered, and Tully is pulled in to find the culprit.As the two investigations intertwine in ways he could never have imagined and the world hurtles ever closer to the brink, Tully must find the truth, convince the world to face it and make impossible choices to secure the future of the species.But will humanity ultimately choose salvation over freedom, whatever the cost?⭐ Readers are already gripped by Artificial Wisdom ⭐''Tom Weaver deserves a solid five-star rating ! This book brilliantly weaves together a captivating murder mystery with a thought-provoking glimpse into a future world.'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'' Wow , what a phenomenal blending of genres !'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''I have never read a book like this before!'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Each turn of the page leaves you guessing, making assumptions, only for the author to surprise you time and time again .'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

DKK 166.00
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The House Of Flowers - Charlotte Bingham - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The House Of Flowers - Charlotte Bingham - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this uplifting and moving wartime saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham. " ''The author perfectly evokes the atmosphere of a bygone era" -- WOMAN''S OWN "As comforting and nourishing as a hot milky drink on a stormy night" -- DAILY EXPRESS "A rip-roaring combination of high romance and breathless excitement" - MAIL ON SUNDAY "These are characters you will really care about" -- ***** Reader review "Very enjoyable and hard to put down" -- ***** Reader review "Incredibly well written and engrossing" -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************* EVERYONE IS DOING THEIR BIT FOR THE WAR EFFORT. BUT WHAT SIDE ARE THEY ON? 1941 : England is at its lowest ebb : under-nourished, under-informed and terrified of imminent invasion. Even at Eden Pa rk, the beautiful country estate where Poppy, Lily, Kate, Marjorie and her adopted brother Billy are working in espionage, confidence is at an all-time low, and that is before the authorities discover there is a double agent operating from its MI5 unit .As agents are gradually wiped out by the informant at Eden Park, Poppy leaves to train as a pilot. But as she closes the wooden shutters at the House of Flowers , the old folly where she and her husband Scott began their married life, she realises that they were made over a century before to keep out another invader... England survived then - will it survive again? Have you read Daughters of Eden , the first in the series?

DKK 168.00
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Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award ''You have to truly love people to write like this'' RACHEL JOYCE ''One of the greatest novels of this century '' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ''Gorgeously wrought'' GUARDIAN In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family''s life forever.Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today._________''Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written'' INDEPENDENT '' All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages'' KATHLEEN MACMAHON '' Exquisite . . . Beautiful'' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID ''Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them'' RÓNÁ N HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL

DKK 113.00
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How AI Thinks - Nigel Toon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How AI Thinks - Nigel Toon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER''Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI'' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon''s Den ''Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence... a must-read'' Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven''t been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, in the past few years.Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins?We stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.

DKK 202.00
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Thanks For Nothing - Jack Dee - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Thanks For Nothing - Jack Dee - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In this hilariously frank account of his life, Jack Dee finally reveals what turned a once optimistic young man into this grumpy middle-aged git.It''s a journey that takes him from a first gig as a ventriloquist''s dummy, to working in an artificial leg factory and delivering incontinence pads for the NHS, before he finally ends up on stage at the Comedy Store.Along the way, Jack shares his laugh-out-loud views on everything from the ''overrated moon landing'' to boutique hotels, personal trainers and ''people who hold their cutlery the wrong way''.Outrageous, absurd, and full of surprises, this is Jack Dee at his funniest.

DKK 161.00
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The Running Hare - John Lewis Stempel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Running Hare - John Lewis Stempel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

__________________ ''BRITAIN''S FINEST LIVING NATURE WRITER'' - THE TIMES The Sunday Times Bestseller - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life.Written in exquisite prose, The Running Hare tells the story of the wild animals and plants that live in and under our ploughland, from the labouring microbes to the patrolling kestrel above the corn, from the linnet pecking at seeds to the seven-spot ladybird that eats the aphids that eat the crop. It recalls an era before open-roofed factories and silent, empty fields, recording the ongoing destruction of the unique, fragile, glorious ploughland that exists just down the village lane.But it is also the story of ploughland through the eyes of man who took on a field and husbanded it in a natural, traditional way, restoring its fertility and wildlife, bringing back the old farmland flowers and animals. John Lewis Stempel demonstrates that it is still possible to create a place where the hare can rest safe. Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society White Horse Bookshop Prize 2016. John Lewis-Stempel was winner of the Thwaites Wainwright Prize 2015 for MEADOWLAND .

DKK 127.00
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The Curious Gardener's Almanac - Niall Edworthy - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Curious Gardener's Almanac - Niall Edworthy - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Curious Gardener''s Almanac contains over 1000 entries of remarkable information about flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees, herbs, insects, birds, water, soil, tools, composts, climate, recipes, gardens and gardeners, myths, superstitions, biodynamics..In short it is a collection as profuse and variegated as gardening itself. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous quotations, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, and words of rural wisdom. The spirit and focus of the Almanac is British but the wider picture is international as so much of our gardens originated from overseas.Dry or dull information has no place in the almanac and its presentation is as appealing as the content.

DKK 155.00
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The Common Years - Jilly Cooper - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Common Years - Jilly Cooper - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans.This book is a distillation of those diaries: an affectionate and enthralling portrait - warts and all - of life on Putney Common. Never has Jilly Cooper written more lyrically about flowers, trees, birds and the natural world; more tellingly about the sorrows - as well as the joys - of caring for dogs and children; or more outrageously about the gossip, illicit romances and jealousies of life in a small community.

DKK 120.00
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One Day at a Time - Danielle Steel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

One Day at a Time - Danielle Steel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Coco Barrington is the black sheep of her unusual Hollywood family. Having dropped out of law school, she works as a dog walker in North California. Her widowed mother, mega-bestselling author Florence Flowers, has just begun a secret romance with a man twenty-four years her junior, and her sister, Jane, one of Hollywood''s top producers has lived with her partner, Liz, for 10 yearsWhen Coco reluctantly agrees to house-sit in Jane''s luxurious home, she discovers how much things can change in just a matter of days. Jane''s house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest: Leslie Baxter, a dashing but down-to-earth British actor who''s fleeing his psycho ex-girlfriend. Their attraction is immediate.Suddenly Coco is seeing things differently...

DKK 132.00
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Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Spin – an ancient artificial cluster of eighty-eight planets and twenty-one suns – is in decline. For millennia, the people of Three Quarter Circle Harbour have watched the stars from their world, hidden in a forgotten corner of the Spin. Now something in the sky has changed and it will set them on a course to war and destruction.Seldyan is one of the band of renegades that has broken out of the vast slave colony of the Hive. Hijacking one of the last of the Spin’s great legacy warships, they wake its long-dormant intelligence and set a course that promises freedom.But as the ancient ship‘s memory returns, with it comes a terrifying knowledge – a dire warning about the future that has been concealed for ten thousand years . . .

DKK 113.00
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How AI Thinks - Nigel Toon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How AI Thinks - Nigel Toon - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon's Den'Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence... a must-read' Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, MicrosoftThose who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, in the past few years. Our search engines are becoming answer engines. Artificial intelligence is already revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does an AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins?We stand at the brink of a historic change that will disrupt society and at the same time create enormous opportunities for those who understand how AI thinks. Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language. In doing so he reveals the strange and fascinating ways that humans think, too, as we learn how to live in a world shared by machine intelligences of our own creation.

DKK 123.00
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Creation Machine - Andrew Bannister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Creation Machine - Andrew Bannister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the vast, artificial galaxy called The Spin, a rebellion has been crushed. Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the victorious Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his daughter.But Fleare Haas has had time to plan her next move: a break for freedom that will take her across The Spin to the cluster of fallen planets known as the Catastrophe Curve – from exile to the very frontiers of a new war.Because word has reached the brutal, despotic empire of The Fortunate of a most unusual piece of plunder from its latest invasion.For hundreds of millions of years, the planets and stars of The Spin have been the only testament to the god-like engineers that created them. Now, beneath the surface of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found . . .

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An Ear to the Ground - Ken Thompson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An Ear to the Ground - Ken Thompson - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How did plants get to be the way they are? Why do they have pretty flowers? How different would things have been if the wrong kind of pollinators had got the upper hand? Why are Latin names so complicated, and why Latin anyway? Why is a weed-free lawn an ecological impossibility?This entertaining book gives the answers to these questions and many more. It shows how a little botanical knowledge can bring not just better results but peace of mind, and that losing sleep over such traditional gardening bogeys as weeds, pests and pruning is not necessarily the best course. In this new edition Ken Thompson grabs the opportunity to explain why any old plant will do for companion planting - but also that it can do as much harm as good - and why planting by the moon is complete and utter nonsense.

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The Ruins - Scott Smith - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Ruins - Scott Smith - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Superior horror literature'' New York Times ''A compelling set-up and provocative premise'' Kirkus ''There''s no let-up, not so much as a chapter-break where you can catch your breath'' Stephen King __________________ Craving an adventure to wake them from their lethargic Mexican holiday before they return home, four friends set off in search of one of their own who has travelled to the interior to investigate an archaeological dig in the Mayan ruins.After a long journey into the jungle, the group come across a partly camouflaged trail and a captivating hillside covered with red flowers. Lured by these, the group move closer until they happen across a gun-toting Mayan horseman who orders them away. In the midst of the confrontation, one of the group steps inadvertently backwards into the flowering vine. And at that moment their world changes for ever...

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Still Water - John Lewis Stempel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Still Water - John Lewis Stempel - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Times and Irish Independent: BEST NATURE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and wonder. John Lewis-Stempel succeeds in all these things triumphantly. From amorous toads to the eye-popping mating habits of water boatmen, a magical celebration of pond life by one of our finest, most evocative nature writers.'' Daily Mail Ponds: small bodies of water, both naturally formed and artificial, home to wondrous, multitudinous life-forms. Ponds define our childhood: frogspawn, goldfish, feeding the ducks, but also our village life, our farms, our landscape. And they are multi-layered - from carp circling the bottom to water boatmen, coot, and birds dragonflies overhead. In Still Water, John immerses himself in the murky depths, both literarily and figuratively, to explore the still waters of the British countryside through each month of the year.

DKK 127.00
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Wild Fell - Lee Schofield - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Wild Fell - Lee Schofield - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy'' - Isabella Tree *Highly Commended in the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation* In 2015, England''s last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District. It was a tragic day for the nation''s wildlife, but the fight to restore the landscape had already begun. Lee Schofield, ecologist and site manager for RSPB Haweswater is leading efforts to breathe life back into two hill farms and their thirty square kilometres of sprawling upland habitat. The farms sit at the edge of the region''s largest reservoir, beneath which lie the remains of a submerged village. The area''s history has been a turbulent one for both its people and its wildlife, leaving its habitats in tatters.In the search for inspiration, Lee sought out England''s rarest mountain flower and travelled from the wild fells of Norway to the pristine meadows of the Alps. Informed, too, by the local land, its history and the people who have shaped it, Lee and his team have remeandered a straightened river and are repairing damaged wetlands, meadows and woods. Each year, the landscape is becoming richer, wilder and better able to withstand the shocks of a changing climate. But in the contested landscape of the Lake District, change is not always welcomed, and success relies on finding a balance between rewilding and respecting cherished farming traditions. This is not only a story of nature in recovery, it is also the story of Lee''s personal connection to place, and the highs and lows of working for nature amid fierce opposition. Wild Fell is a call to recognise that the solutions for a richer world lie at our feet; by focusing on flowers, we can rebuild landscapes fit for eagles again. A landscape of flowers is a landscape of hope.

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AIQ - James Scott - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

AIQ - James Scott - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

____________________ What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence and how to harness its power for a better world. ''A positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with powerful machines.'' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics ____________________ Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the twenty first century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the nineteenth.AIQ is based on a simple premise: if you want to understand the modern world, then you have to know a little bit of the mathematical language spoken by intelligent machines. AIQ will teach you that language but in an unconventional way, anchored in stories rather than equations.

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Death's Head: Maximum Offence (Death's Head 2) - David Gunn - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Death's Head: Maximum Offence (Death's Head 2) - David Gunn - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Aux have been dropped on a far-flung planet called Hekati, only it''s in Uplift space and not really a planet at all. As for their mission, it''s so damn secret that General Jaxx hasn''t even told Lieutenant Sven Tveskoeg what it''s about. It appears a citizen of the United Free, an empire not only more vast than Octo V''s but far more technologically advanced, has gone missing on this artificial world and it''s up to Sven and the Aux to find the poor soul. But Hekati is a realm where nothing is quite as it seems and no one can be trusted. Smelling a rat, Sven is so not happy - and when he''s not happy is when bad things start to happen - and the body count starts to rise...The devil-may-care not-quite 100% human mercenary soldier-cum-killing machine Tveskoeg and the Death''s Head squad are back: cue more extreme violence, a mega death toll, dirty sex, fiendish plot twists and explosive, non-stop action!

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The Hive Construct - Alexander Maskill - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Hive Construct - Alexander Maskill - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Situated deep in the Sahara Desert, New Cairo is a city built on technology – from the huge, life-giving solar panels that keep it functioning in a radically changed, resource-scarce world to the artificial implants that have become the answer to all and any of mankind''s medical problems. But it is also a divided city, dominated by a handful of omnipotent corporate dynasties. And when a devastating new computer virus begins to spread through the poorest districts, shutting down the life-giving implants that enable so many to survive, the city begins to slide into the anarchy of violent class struggle. Hiding amidst the chaos is Zala Ulora. A gifted hacker and fugitive from justice, she believes she might be able to earn her life back by tracing the virus to its source and destroying it before it destroys the city. Or before the city destroys itself . . .With its vivid characters, bold ideas and explosive action, The Hive is science fiction at its most exciting, inventive and accessible.

DKK 107.00
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The Wisdom Of Crocodiles - Paul Hoffman - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Wisdom Of Crocodiles - Paul Hoffman - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When Steven Grlscz saves a young woman from throwing herself in front of a train he finds himself consumed by a love affair which transforms her from a suicidal, angry anorexic into a happy and beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace.Across the Thames on the morning George Winnicott, former head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, is to begin his new job in charge of the City of London''s most powerful anti-fraud body, he wakes from a nightmare screaming that he knows the meaning of life. Later that day, a huge bomb explodes in the centre of London.How are these events linked? What connects modern economics, a new take on the vampire concept, parachuting, pornography, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, financial fraud, terrorism, aliens, artificial intelligence, the meaning of life and the hardest crossword clue in the world?13 years in the writing, this is a novel that engages with the way the modern world works - and in admitting that contemporary life is complex, impenetrable and often terrifying, it also asserts that there are ways to see the patterns emerging from the chaos.

DKK 175.00
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Booze for Free - Andy Hamilton - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Booze for Free - Andy Hamilton - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Home brewing and wine-making is fun, easy and hugely satisfying. If you garden or forage,can follow a recipe or make jam, and you enjoy a drink, this is the book for you. Andy''s no-nonsense, easy-to-follow guide will enable the beginner and inspire the expertwith over 100 recipes including beer made from hops and but also yarrow, mugwort, elderand other foraged plants, great tasting wines from fruit, vegetables and the hedgerows,cider and perry from apples and pears, cordials from the leaves of a range of trees, and teas and fizzy drinks from herbs and wayside flowers.- Discover the secret language of home brewing and drinks making.- Make cheap, wholesome drinks, to your preferred taste and strengthin little time, with minimum fuss and no need for expensive equipment.- Turn your garden into a drinkers'' paradise.- Find where and how to forage for success.- Impress your friends with the weird, wonderful and just plain tasty.Try Carrot Whisky, Sloe and Damson Rum, Parsnip Sherry, Elderberry and Blackberry Wine,Pumpkin Beer, Broom Tonic, Meadowsweet tea as well as classics such as Elderflowerchampagne, sloe gin, prison brew... Cheers!

DKK 161.00
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My Life on a Hillside Allotment - Terry Walton - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

My Life on a Hillside Allotment - Terry Walton - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Every time he appears on the programme we feel that life is worth living. He has that power to lift your spirits.'' - Jeremy Vine Terry Walton has kept an allotment in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales for over fifty years. He started when he was four, helping on his father''s plot on the side of the mountain, cutting bracken and collecting sheep manure to feed the vegetables. He was farming his own plot at eleven and he went on to build an allotment empire, selling his vegetables and flowers to local customers. The proceeds paid for his first car, a canary yellow Ford Popular, when he was just seventeen. Then, in 2006, after half a decade of happy gardening, Terry''s allotment was adopted by the Jeremy Vine Show and he became an unlikely media star.In this absorbing and entertaining memoir, Terry documents how the valley has changed over the years, his own conversion to organic gardening, and the colourful characters he meets; interspersing his anecdotes with topical tips, family recipes and quirky line drawings. My Life on a Hillside Allotment is the perfect read for gardeners, allotmenteers and anyone who loves the great outdoors.

DKK 161.00
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The Fragrant Pharmacy - Valerie Ann Worwood - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Fragrant Pharmacy - Valerie Ann Worwood - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Fragrant Pharmacy opens the way to a whole world of fresh possibilities. It is a new approach to nature through one of its most powerful forms - those fragrant ''essential oils'' drawn from flowers and grasses, trees and roots, leaves and fruit, that remain the great untapped resources of our planet. The Fragrant Pharmacy shows how each essential oil can offer many diverse benefits. One of the most holistic of all systems of medicine, the oils can alleviate symptoms, prevent many illnesses and disorders and help in their healing process. But more than that, they can provide all of us - our families, our homes, even our pets - with the protections and pleasures we need...without the chemical pollution of our bodies or our envirnment. This illuminating and imaginative book of aromatherapy is the household manual of the future. It is a treasury of information about precious life- and health-enhancing liquids that work in complex harmony with people and planet alike. Here is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of ''medicines out of the earth'', those miracles of creation which revitalise and rejuvenate, enhance our emotions and help our work and play. It charts out for all of us a fragrant way to family health and home delights.

DKK 120.00
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Stone Clock - Andrew Bannister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Stone Clock - Andrew Bannister - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

It is a hundred millennia after Iron Gods . The Spin is nearing the end of its life. Its inhabitants are divided between those who live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of Virtual Realities – vrealities – and those who scrape a living in what remains of the real world.The massive servers needed to maintain the vrealities are draining the resources of the Spin. And an escalating, desperate and seemingly futile war has begun between those who tend the servers and those who believe they should be shut down, killing millions. But one amongst these unwitting combatants will discover the real nature of the vrealities – and his role in their fate.From a remote star system, a being has been observing the Spin for several lifetimes. He is Skarbo the Horologist and he is about to die for the very last time. He has come to accept that he will never visit the object of his studies but is coerced into making one last journey. His final destination lies across a war-torn galaxy. And there he will learn of the Spin’s past – and its astonishing future . . .Returning to the extraordinarily envisioned artificial planetary cluster called the Spin, Stone Clock is the dazzling new space opera from the acclaimed author of Creation Machine and Iron Gods.

DKK 120.00
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Future Stories - David Christian - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Future Stories - David Christian - Bog - Transworld Publishers Ltd - Plusbog.dk

'' David Christian''s approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future '' - Bill Gates A user''s guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole... Every second of our lives - whether we''re looking both ways before crossing the street, celebrating the birth of a baby, or moving to a new city - we must cope with an unknowable future by telling stories about what will happen next. Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us?David Christian, historian and bestselling author of Origin Story , is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories , he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the predictive mechanisms of single-celled organisms and tomato plants to the merging of colossal galaxies billions of years from now.Drawing together science, history and philosophy from a huge range of places and times, Christian explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in the next hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.

DKK 190.00
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