Bøker av John Spiers

Timid and shy, Gracie stayed mostly to herself and away from the other young chicks. Without her best friend, Bessie, she may never have survived those difficult first weeks. But from the beginning, Gracie was sure her new backyard garden home was "A Most Wondrous Place," and that was one of the first things she said to the author as they sat together in the cool of the evening.But A Most Wondrous Place is more than a garden filled with beautiful flowers and delicious vegetables. It is more than somewhere that chickens can dance ballet and talk with people who love them. Even though Gracie could share a great deal of chicken wisdom with the author, explaining what A Most Wondrous Place means is simply something she could not do because it is only understood with the heart.Journey with Gracie and the author through a single year and learn how a group of chickens became a family of friends. You will also find scattered throughout are bits of "chicken wisdom." Some are easy to spot, and others may need some scratching and pecking to find. Most importantly, you will also discover along with the author what chickens mean when they say, "This is A Most Wondrous Place."Based on the author's experiences with raising his own backyard chickens, this book will hopefully have you saying, "I now have A Most Wondrous Place."4 Sections, 12 Chapters, 24 Color Illustrations, 6 Amazing Chickens, 1 Promise

This radical new book offers economic solutions based on direct financial incentives to the individual to care for themselves better, to save and invest in future funding, for a much broader funding base including the greater use of insurance, and to ask government to re-appraise the system urgently.

This is a detective story about what happened next in the past. It prompts us to ask how we might know what we don't know we don't know. It is illustrated with 150 illustrations in colour. The work is focused on people and their inclinations, as book buyers and not only as book borrowers.

Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a 'mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?

Care pathways are being developed throughout the health service to improve the quality and effectiveness of care

This book explores the controversial dilemmas which meet at the intersection of medicine philosphy and law - questions concerning killing and not killing which are faced daily in health care

What is the case for choice? How can the quest for choice include the large numbers of NHS and social care staff on whom success depends? This book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for various NHS and social services.

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.