Questions of what to plant where tax many gardeners - novices especially. What plants will look good with each other? How can you make a planting that will be attractive for more than a few weeks of the year? What can you plant in a 'difficult' spot? This book makes beautiful planting easy by providing recipes for a variety of garden situations. Each recipe has a shopping list of what plants you need and how many. A planting plan shows how to position them and you're given all the information you need on how to look after them.

Easy Gardening: Recipes for Succesful Planting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Nicholas, Jane

Beaufort, Miranda

Gardening & Landscape Design

Frances Lincoln

Many gardeners — especially novices — are burdened by questions of what to plant where. Which plants will look good with each other? How to ensure that plants will be attractive for more than a few weeks of the year? And what to plant in a difficult spot? Easy Gardening completely removes the pressure of making such decisions, showing readers how successful planting can be easy with the use of simple planting suggestions for a variety of garden situations. The authors recommend perfect plants for different places, from a hot, sunny, south-facing corner to a dry, dark, shady area. For each situation the planting is presented as a recipe, with a list of which plants are needed and how many of each to order. Color photographs illustrate the individual plants, and a planting plan shows the layout of the garden and the positioning of the plants.

Easy Gardening: Recipes for Successful Planting

From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gentile, Patrizia

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

University of Toronto Press

The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s (Studies in Gender and History)

With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the “Modern Girl” was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer culture. She appeared in art, film, fashion, and advertising, as well as on the streets of towns from coast to coast. In The Modern Girl, Jane Nicholas argues that this feminine image was central to the creation of what it meant to be modern and female in Canada.Using a wide range of visual and textual evidence, Nicholas illuminates both the frequent public debates about female appearance and the realities of feminine self-presentation. She argues that women played an active and thoughtful role in their embrace of modern consumer culture, even when it was at the risk of serious social, economic, and cultural penalties. The first book to fully examine the “Modern Girl”’s place in Canadian culture, The Modern Girl will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the body in the modern world.

History

Americas

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. 
 Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived because of their flexible business model, government support, and by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy. This book is the first full length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture.

Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

This is a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration for embroiderers and lovers of Japanese culture alike.\nFollow the amazing designs of world renowned embroidery artist Jane Nicholas in this stunning book. Learn how to create your own sumptuous embroidered designs based on the rich history of Japanese stitching techniques and styles.\nJane Nicholas is one of the world's leading embroiderers, specializing in Stumpwork. Her exquisite embroideries in Goldwork and Stumpwork are inspired by Japanese family crests, a subject that has fascinated her for many years. In this book, Jane has selected 12 designs and interpreted them in a variety of ways using combinations of goldwork and raised and surface stitching. Measuring just 4in (10cm) square, each is worked on an assortment of silk Japanese kimono fabrics, and is accompanied by detailed instructions, a stitch diagram, and the outline for the design.\nAt the start of the book there is a fascinating history of Japanese family crests, followed by a stitch directory and a comprehensive techniques section covering the essential methods of working Stumpwork and Goldwork. Illustrated throughout with sumptuous photography and informative diagrams 
This is a treasure trove of ideas and inspiration for embroiderers and lovers of Japanese culture alike.

Japanese Motifs in Stumpwork & Goldwork: Embroidered designs inspired by Japanese family crests

Arts & Photography

Search Press

“An unusual, almost do-it-yourself guide...Nicholas gives instructions to complete all parts of the embroidery, covering materials and equipment, more than 45 individual elements...and some nearly 20 projects...a 35-stitch glossary is included...every possible theme can be realized.” —Booklist. “A treasure for broadening needlework skills and inspiring imagination in stitches.” —The Cloth Doll.

Stumpwork Embroidery: A Collection Of Fruits, Flowers & Insects For Contemporary Raised Embroidery

Crafts & Hobbies

Sally Milner Publishing

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Easy Gardening: Recipes for Succesful Planting

Easy Gardening: Recipes for Successful Planting

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)

The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s (Studies in Gender and History)

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)

The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s (Studies in Gender and History)

Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s

Japanese Motifs in Stumpwork & Goldwork: Embroidered designs inspired by Japanese family crests

Stumpwork Embroidery: A Collection Of Fruits, Flowers & Insects For Contemporary Raised Embroidery