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Composting with worms

THE RODALE BOOK OF COMPOSTING DEBORAH L. MARTIN & GRACE GERSHUNY, EDITORS RODALE PRESS                        1992 Chapter 1: Composting Throughout History Composting is, in broadest terms, the biological reduction of organic waste to humus. Whenever a plant or animal dies it is reduced to an earthlike substance that forms a beneficial growing environment for plant …

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Speeches that changed the world: The stories and transcripts of the moments that made history (Quercus Publishing 2005)

Introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore Many of these speeches contain eternal truths, particularly a classic such as the Gettysburg Address, or less well known orations by those such as Vaclav Havel, dissident and future Czech President, or Chaim Herzog, Israeli President. For me, the best speech is one that marks no great event but merely …

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The Five Gifts of Illness: A Reconsideration (Jill Sklay Marlowe & Company 2007)

Introduction Years ago, I never would have written this. That’s because years ago I would have been dead. Struck by what was then called intestinal tuberculosis, my Great-aunt, Catherine Kiss, suffered all the manifestations of the disease I now have and one that is known to travel genetic lines, Crohn’s disease. At the age of …

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Speeches that Changed the World is a collection of inspiring speeches that had a major impact. Elie Wiesel’s speech ‘The perils of indifference’ made a big impact on me. “On the threshold of a new millennium, what will the legacy of the vanishing century be? Surely it will be judged severely. Two world wars, countless …

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