Wild Jasmine

From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love . . . Princess Yasaman has been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men—her scheming half-brother,

This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or

Using the historical principles of the Oxford English Dictionary, Lise Winer presents the first scholarly dictionary of this unique language. The dictionary comprises over 12,200 entries, including over 4500 for flora and fauna alone, with numerous cross-references. Entries include definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymologies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations of

Die deutsche Kühlschiffsflotte war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg lange Jahre eine der führenden der Welt. Die "Bananenjäger" mit ihrem yachtähnlichen Aussehen erregten in jedem Hafen besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Heute befinden sich Kühlschiffe im harten Wettbewerb mit den Containerlinien, wobei guter Service und kurze Transitzeiten den Reefern zumindest mittelfristig ein Fortbestehen garantieren.

"There is not one page of this enchanting book which does not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student. Regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country." — B. E. Todd, Spectator Volume 2 of the fullest,