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This study is based on experiments undertaken by the author into the use of pise de terre and other earth based materials. Whilst earth building has not developed significantly in the UK, the sustainable architecture movement has helped stimulate an interest in constructing new earthen buildings.

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Coleshanger people are pretty bad, " said Uncle Edward. "They won't cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherwise they think that they'll be turned into baboons and apes. They also worship the flea." Written in 1952, Coleshanger is a humorous, whimsical and charming recount of English village life in the early part of the last century, a tale waiting seventy years to be told, but still very much the story of us...

Excerpt from Men Who Found Out: Stories of Great Scientific Discoverers They lived in White cities on the sides of mountains that s10ped down to the Mediterranean Sea. It was a Very blue sea, and the mountains in the distance looked mauve. Deep valleys, full of cypress trees and myrtle thickets Where nightingales sang, ran between the mountains. The climate was warm, and people could live mostly out of doors. They had honey, and goat's milk, ...

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Excerpt from Sir William Davenant's Relation to Shakespeare Another passage in the same work contains an allusion [60 Avon in which Davenant is advised to wash himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk Clay: A Renaissance The first year's programme Of working-class housing alone calls for at least 6, ooo, ooo, ooo bricks. That is to say, unless wall materials other than brick are freely used, we Shall fall alarmingly short of What the popu lation of Great Britain needs in bare accommodation, and all building and engineering projects whatsoever other than housing must be postponed indefinitel...

Excerpt from An Anatomy of Poetry, Vol. 1 Certain portions of this book have appeared from time to time in The Spectator. The author acknowledges the courtesy of the authors and publishers in giving her permission to quote excerpts from the following books: A. D. Waley's Japanese Poetry (Milford) and More Translations from the Chinese (Allen and Unwin), Mr. Masefield's works (Heinemann), Charlotte Mew's The Farmer's Bride (Poetry Bookshop), ...

Out of Condemnation into Glorification addresses some of the different translations or versions of the Bible and compares three well known passages to reveal how certain facts can be altered and lost during the translating process. The author reveals aids to assist persons in reading and understanding the Scriptures.

Excerpt from An Anatomy of PoetryShort studies OF some modern p'oets -d. H. Lawrence - Robert: Graves - Sturge Moore - Gor don: Batomley - vvl. J. Turner - Vacheln Lindsay - The. Sitwell'sr - John. Masefieid-walter de' la Mare - Arthur Waley - Edward shanks-amy Lowell - Charlotte Mew - Edmund Blunden - J. C. Squir'e - Fl'ecke~r - Rupert Brook - Robert Nichols.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Cottage Building In Cob, Pise, Chalk & Clay - A Renaissance. PREFACE MR. STRACHEYS introduction and the authors prologue make a preface superfluous, save as a vehicle for the conveying of acknowledgments and thanks. Mr. Strachey himself is certainly the godfather of PisBbuilding so far as modem England is concerned