Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked

‘Raw, intense and absorbing.’ MATT HAIG\n‘As tender and funny as it is painful.’ TLS 
‘I didn’t give my hands much thought before they turned against me. … They have been chipping away at my life, slowly, slowly, in a way I could never have predicted.’ 
Lauren Brown is anxious. And when she feels worried, she picks at her skin. Secretly, quietly, but increasingly compulsively, her skin-picking begins to affect her day-to-day life until she realizes she must unravel the reasons behind it. 
This sparkling memoir follows the thread of Lauren’s anxiety – tangled and frayed – back to its source. Written with rare wit and insight, it is an attempt to redirect the anxiety that’s pooled in her fingertips for as long as she can remember, released in odd bursts in caravan parks, on European holidays, at GP surgeries and on the wind-stung north-east coast. It is a moving and joyful exploration of obsession, forgiveness, stigma and healing, and a true love-song to the north. 
Thoughtful, unsparing and at times darkly comic, Hands is the masterful debut of a luminous new talent.

Hands: The ‘tender and funny’ debut memoir

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Brown, Lauren

Mental Health

HarperNorth

A portable, practical and expertly illustrated field guide to over one hundred grasses, sedges, and rushes--winner of 2020 Library Journal Best Reference Pick of the Year in the Science & Technology category &nbsp; "No one will be able to claim that the identification of grasses, sedges, and rushes . . . are simply 'too difficult' after they have learned to use this excellent guide."--Peter Raven, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden &nbsp; This elegant and easy&#8209;to&#8209;use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown's seminal Grasses: An Identification Guide, which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the original edition--a portable, straightforward, and user&#8209;friendly guide for naturalists and plant enthusiasts--the new edition features more than one hundred grasses, sedges, and rushes that are presented with line drawings and color photographs, concise descriptions, and details on the uses of various plants throughout history. &nbsp; &nbsp; In addition, the authors are careful to highlight the subtle differences in similar species to avoid confusion, as well as offering relevant notes on plant survival strategies, invasiveness, and how different plants fit within the broader ecological landscape. Devoid of technical jargon, this volume is an indispensable tool for those curious about the often&#8209;overlooked grasses, sedges, and rushes that surround us.

Grasses, Sedges, Rushes: An Identification Guide

Science & Math

Elliman, Ted

Biological Sciences

Yale University Press

Weeds in Winter

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A thorough description of weeds that have grown in summer then have gone to seed in the winter.

This charming guide identifies over 135 of the common species of wildflowers and weeds found in the northeastern United States. Each plant is superbly illustrated with a full-page drawing accompanied by an elegant description of the plant's key characteristics. In addition, a step-by-step key to plant identifications and an illustrated glossary of common plant parts and botanical terms has been included to make this a splendid and valuable resource in identifying the dormant but various vestiges of spring and summer.

Wildflowers and Winter Weeds

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the trees, wildflowers, grasses, insects, birds, and other natural wonders of North America's prairies, fields, and meadows.

Grasslands (Audubon Society Nature Guides)

Nature & Ecology

KNOPF

Weeds in winter

Houghton/Mifflin

Points out the colors, heights, flowering times, habitats, cultivation, and uses of one hundred thirty-five common species of grasses found in the northeastern United States, which are keyed with matching letters in the numerous pen-and-ink drawings and the text

Grasses: An Identification Guide (Peterson Nature Series), 1st Edition

Houghton, Mifflin Company

How to identify 135 of the most common species of North American grasses, sedges, and rushes, with their economic and ecological importance.

Grasses: An Identification Guide (Sponsored by the Roger Tory Peterson Institute)

Sports & Outdoors

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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