Souvenir Press imprint: 97 books
Led By The Nose
A Garden of Smells
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden. This unconventional viewpoint is expressed through Joseph's sharp observations and the sensual awareness in her poetry, combined with the energy of her descriptive writing. Also reflected is a sense...
Bum Fodder
An Absorbing History of Toilet Paper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This is the hidden history of an invention that we use every day but seldom dare to speak of. In medieval China it was cutting-edge technology. For 19th-century Americans it was a newfangled alternative to dried corncobs and the Sears & Roebuck catalogue. Wits in Georgian London preferred pages...
A Meditator's Diary
A Western Woman's Unique Experiences in Thailand Monasteries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
It is rare for a foreign woman to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self, the expansion of her consciousness. In a personal account...
The Secret of the Spear
The Mystery of the Spear of Longinus
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The spear used by Longinus, the Roman centurion, to pierce the side of Christ as he hung on the cross has long been believed to be an object of great supernatural and occult power, with the capacity for good or evil. It has been sought by the most powerful figures in history, who have believed that...
How to Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties at College and University
A Guide for Students, Educators and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
For any adult with specific learning difficulties, going to college or university can be a challenge. From study skills to budgeting, from cooking to relationships, Amanda Kirby identifies routes to success in both education and socially. At the heart of How To Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties...
Scars of Evolution
What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this lively and controversial book Elaine Morgan presents a challenging interpretation to the question of human evolution. With brilliant logic she argues that our hominid ancestors began to evolve in response to an aquatic environment. Millions of years ago something happened that caused our ancestors...
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies--why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control our rate of breathing? The answers point to...
Lavender
Nature's Way to Relaxation and Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Lavender is one of the most versatile and beneficial plants known to herbalists. It is one of the most ancient herbal remedies known, packed with medicinal and therapeutic properties that can benefit every aspect of life.
This informative and practical book describes the plant's manifold uses--medicinal,...
All the King's Cooks
The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such a scale. Brears provides a practical guide to their running, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the cooking and eating of meals in Tudor...
by John Soper
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The gardening technique that works with nature and the cosmic forces to make your garden a flourishing paradise of fruitfulness. Bio-dynamics developed from a course of lectures on agriculture given by Rudolf Steiner in 1924 after a group of farmers were alarmed by the deterioration of food crops....
Gods of Management
The Changing Work of Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Gods of Management is one of the classic works of management. Charles Handy has identified four management styles to be found in organisations, and using the allegory of Greek gods he explains the different values of each style, and how each style can create the culture of an organisation.
To be successful...
by Arthur Hailey, John Castle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When George Spencer, a salesman trouble-shooter, managed late one night to catch the last seat on a charter plane at Winnipeg, there was nothing to distinguish the flight from hundreds of others which take place all over the world every day. The fifty-odd passengers were ordinary, intelligent people...
by John Castle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The man who broke into Auschwitz. When he was captured in France in 1940 Sergeant-Major Charles Coward launched his own private war against the Germans (although he was being held as a prisoner-of-war). For several years he was the most incredible amateur espionage and sabotage agent of World War...
by Knut Hamsun
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Ring is Closed combines a central character as iconoclastic as that of Hunger with an evocation of the limitations of small-town life to equal Mysteries. Abel is the only son of a miserly lighthouse-keeper, after falling in love he leaves his life in a village in southern Norway and travels around...