Perverse Penances: Gardening Our Way Back To Eden
If the 80's became the 'Me Decade', a decade of frantic consumerism and one-upmanship, the current decade might be called the "Nesting '90s". And is it any wonder? After ten years of racing to keep up with the Joneses most of us must have been . [... more]
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania--a fact she took perverse pleasure in--on February 3, 1874, into a family as vividly unconventional as one might expect of such a free spirit. Her grandparents were German-Jewish immigrants who ... [... more]
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Maude Hutchins
Victorine is thirteen, and she can't get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than ... [... more]
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Terry Castle
Victorine is thirteen, and she can't get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than ... [... more]
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Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and ...
 Author: Michael Perelman Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 330 EAN: 9781403970879 Edition: 1st edition ISBN: 1403970874 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2005-09-20 [... more]
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Weil Conjectures, Perverse Sheaves and l'adic Fourier ...
Author: Reinhardt Kiehl Author: Rainer Weissauer Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 516.352 EAN: 9783540414575 Edition: 1 ISBN: 3540414576 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 2001-09-21 [... more]
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Selfish and Perverse
a pleasant read for a summer day: A good and humerous and easy read. I devoured this book. While I knew it was to find out how the narrator resolved himself of his predicaments, I wasn't sure some part of me simply wanted to get through it. And as I was [... more]
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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
Wannabe prophet (or, "Lacan said so, so it must be true"): Throughout this book Zizek delights in stumbling-upon various theological conundrums, as if he, the "great historical materialist," were the first person to ever consider them [... more]
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Hunger
It's human nature to want something we can't have and gardeners are no exception. Gardeners, like all other members of that perverse species called Homo sapiens, hunger for what we can't have. If we happen to garden in a cold climate, the list of ... [... more]
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Hawaii and Home
I must be perverse. Kay thinks so and this article will prove it. Here it is almost summer, when outdoor gardening is again possible, and I have an article supposedly on Hawaii. Although the accompanying Hawaiian photos were taken in February and ... [... more]
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Up my garden path
I have always disliked concrete paths. Of course I can see why they are functional - easy to clean, no weeds growing (except when they develop cracks), relatively permanent, certainly hard-wearing. Human nature may be perverse, but my first act ... [... more]
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Perverse Subsidies: How Misused Tax Dollars Harm The ...
Government Sponsored Perversity: Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent have written a comprehensive and engaging book about what turns out to be one of the biggest impediments to environmental quality and sustainablity - perverse subsidies. The book does a [... more]
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