Against the background of Laura Ashley's life, Martin Wood tells the story of the iconic brand she and her husband, Bernard, created.

John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. This is a comprehensive guide to the style of the decorator who created 'shabby chic'. It is suitable for interior decorators and those aiming to achieve a style that is at once elegant and relaxed.

Gertrude Jekyll designed around four hundred gardens. Covering themes that include garden planning, wild and woodland gardening, climbing plants, water gardening and garden ornament, together the selected articles, this is a selection of two hundred of the best articles and other writings by Gertrude Jekyll.

Nancy Lancaster has long been a shadowy eminence whose reputation as a gardener has been hinted at more than studied. The author puts forward the case that she created the English country house style and has been the most influential gardener since Gertrude Jekyll.

Environmental considerations are playing an increasingly important role in determining management strategies for soil and land. The issues of acid rain, global warming and the manipulation of the farming processes included in this guide examine the impact of human activity on the soil.

Focusing on soil ecology and environmental issues, this book provides an introduction to soils, its inhabitants, and their activities. It covers the influence of man on the natural cycles of soil. It also considers topics such as acid rain and nitrogen fertilizers alongside pesticides and genetically modified organisms.

Explores punishments given to criminals in Shrewsbury over the centuries including the stocks, guillotine and the whipping post.

This title looks at the implications of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act. It provides guidance to help construction practitioners get to grips with the implications of the act. It also focuses on standard forms, and how the act affects payment and compliance.

Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this collection contains tales of ghostly goings-on. It helps you discover the headless apparition at the castle gates, ghostly monks from the abbey church and spirits in Milk Street.

All the common and serious infection encountered in European general practice are covered in this book. The approach taken is to emphasize the role of teamwork and prevention in contemporary primary care, through patient education and immunization.