DAVID STEVENS

Los jardines pequeños poseen un enorme potencial para convertirse en espacios perfector al aire libre, prácticos y misteriosos, cómodos y originales. Este imaginativo libro, repleto de importantes consejos y de ideas innovadoras, constituye un proyecto para diseñar y plantar con exito un jardin de pequñeas dimensiones.

Ideas para crear un espacio exterior que se convierta en escenario para ejercitar la imaginación, cumplir las necesidades y expresar las emociones. Una secuencia progresiva de organización y diseño con la que el interior, el exterior y los elementos paisajísticos se integran en un conjunto elegante y práctico. Desmitifica el diseño de jardines y ayuda a crear un jardín que transmita atractivo y una sensación de amplitud. Un jardín pequeño puede ser bonito, fácil de mantener, acogedor, íntimo y divertido. El buen diseño es intemporal y se basa en ciertos principios básicos; para simplificar la tarea de planificar un jardín nuevo o de reformar uno ya existente, esta obra le ofrece la metodología y numerosas ideas para conseguirlo: cómo analizar el espacio, planificar el jardín, sacar el máximo partido al espacio disponible, escoger los materiales adecuados y elegir las estrategias de plantación más acertadas para cada caso.Los reveladores casos prácticos ilustran todos los aspectos del texto, con lo que consiguen acercar el paisajismo al lector, y desmitificar su complejidad.

Una completa guía con más de 500 personajes mitológicos de todo el mundo. Profusamente ilustrada con esculturas, cuadros y objetos artísticos que reviven los mitos. Una obra indispensable que aborda el apasionante mundo de la mitología trazando fascinante paralelismos entre leyendas procedentes de todo el mundo. Una completa fuente de información para entender las numerosas referencias mitológicas que aparecen en el arte, la literatura, el teatro y la música.

Datos, información y consejos para crear el espacio al aire libre perfecto. Cómo optimizar una superficie exterior para liberar espacio en el interior de la casa y mejorar su estilo de vida. Soluciones para organizar espacios y definir superficies de trabajo, juego y entretenimiento. Hoy en día, un jardín no sólo sirve para plantar flores y segar el césped, sino que también ofrece un nuevo espacio para hacernos disfrutar más de nuestros hogares y así pasar más tiempo al aire libre. ¿Por qué no construir una cocina completa al aire libre? ¿Le gustaría disponer de una zona para que los niños se desfoguen mientras usted descansa en la terraza? Mediante excelentes estudios con detallados planos de jardines, verá cómo algunos propietarios de jardines han encontrado distintas soluciones para organizar sus espacios y definir superficies de trabajo, juego y entretenimiento. Las imágenes, los proyectos prácticos y el valioso asesoramiento de un reconocido experto con años de experiencia en diseño de jardines hacen de este libro una guía imprescindible para crear el espacio al aire libre que realmente desea.

Esta obra acaba con el misterio del diseño de jardines y enseña a planificar y diseñar su jardín como una extensión de su hogar, con elementos de diseño que inspiran la creatividad y con un gran número de propuestas para resolver los problemas que puedan surgir.

Los jardines en las alturas, sean terrazas azoteas o balcones, siempre han provocado una especial fascinación por su capacidad de evocar paisajes campestres en medio de la urbe. Esta obra le ayudará a crear su oasis particular en casa. Escrito de manera sencilla y amena, y profusamente ilustrado, este libro se convertira en un auxiliar indispensable para quienes quieren hacer de su hogar un lugar calido, acogedor... realmente hogareño.

Into & out of is a compilation of some of my favourite short stories.Welcome, as it says on the cover of this book. If you look carefully at the cover you will discover that you are and always will be welcome to enter, read, and I hope enjoy.INTO & OUT OF.The worlds and people you are about to meet are mostly fictional, but the possibilities must exist for such, as I have written about them, to exist. Whether good or evil, magical or just plain mysterious, it seems to me that if they live in your mind even for a second, the question you need to answer is do they really exist? There is a scientific theory that states that nothing exists unless you look for it. Therefore logic dictates that as you are looking for something it must therefore exist, so read on with my blessing.Short stories are not always short as you will see. Each tale knows exactly how long it wants to be. Each will clearly inform the writer of its desired length. The writer is therefore only the medium by which the story comes into existence. Now I am sure that you will already believe I am nuts, but ask any writer, stories have a distinctly worrying ability to force the writer to write them. They will disturb sleep or even deny sleep. They will echo through the empty halls of the writers mind, even if they have managed to locate a way to enter into sleep. They will be constantly demanding attention, demanding to be written, to be given the chance to be told. That is the way with stories. They want to be read.Each of the stories I have compiled within this book have haunted me at one time or another. Each has been demanding and finally I have acquiesced to that demand. The end result being that the stories were written. They sat alone at one time as draft ideas, placed (once complete in a dark envelope), waiting. I was almost sure, knowing that eventually their presence would demand that I do something with them, and so dear reader I have. I first re read them all again, edited where I believe it was necessary (hopefully improving the tales) and finally I decided that they should be compiled into this book.Many hours of long laborious construction and thought followed, but eventually they were knocked into a shape and order, one which then deserved a chance to be viewed by you the searching reader. So, that is what I did. I placed them where you might discover them. Now they are gathered and compiled, edited and restructured, and only waiting eagerly to be read by you.Just a final thought, some of the stories are going to disturb you, make you think and wonder, even amaze you or at least surprise you. That is their intent. Others, I hope will make you smile and feel better about the world in which you live. Most of all I dearly hope that they will please you, but at least tonight I know that I will be able to sleep undisturbed by the haunting words demanding to be set down on the page, or so I hope!Enjoy!

A brief introduction so far.This is the second book in the Vampiric Retirement trilogy. The vampire war has been instigated. Long held plans of the British Deputy Prime Minister (dpm) have been instigated. A warning code (Damocles) has been sounded, drawing those with the much needed skills and knowledge together, to face the elders war for control of the planet.Four, a renegade vampire has joined the dpm and has met the love of his life and been bonded, with all the changes that requires. He has killed an elder and gained much by doing so but not without the help of his chosen.The war goes on; the fight for humanities freedom falls upon the shoulders of a few.Days one, two and most of day three, can be found in:Vampiric Retirement: by David Stevens.

This is the tale of a retired and widowed Admiral, his chauffer and his chauffeurs sister. It is a tale of love lost and found, of heartbreak and fear and of trust developed. It is a tale of confusion, understanding and of three people living their lives in a shared environment.Transgressions is a book about a Transsexual/Heterosexual relationship and its potential development. It does not contain any direct adult material but it does deal with adult only themes.If you enjoy a good romance tale then you should enjoy getting to know and understand the thoughts, feelings and life problems, of a relationship that most people will never encounter. If you want to try to understand the nature of a relationships development, then like wise you should enjoy this unusual tale.Any preconceived expectations of such a relationship will be challenged and hopefully enjoyed.And if you just want a good read then this might well be the book for you.

Vampires exist amongst the human population. They have not existed for three hundred years as depicted in stories and legends. They have lived secretly amongst humanity, constantly feeding off them, using them as a food source for thousands of years.They are not an anomaly born of Vlad the Impaler, nor are they the progeny of Count Dracula, but an alternative creation brought into existence by nature as mankind also flourished. They filled a gap in the development of intelligent life on the planet, a divergent pathway from the evolution of mankind.They cannot change humans to vampire by their bite that is a fallacy created by the minds of writers attempting to describe a story. They progress their nation by breeding much as their food source breeds, using those rare genetically matched few that are suitable as hosts.The older they become the more powerful they are. The elders, the six original surviving creatures have roamed the world for eons untold, and as such are near perfect in their abilities, and evil beyond contemplation in their desires.Sunlight is no barrier to the older vampires; it has little effect and does not kill them. The cross of God means nothing to them as most consider themselves almost Gods in their own right. Silver does kill them turning their bodies to burnt cinder; the story tellers got that right.Why this story exists: In the seventeen hundreds, four of twenty new vampires fought against their natural tendency. As they aged and developed passing through the centuries growing stronger they learned and developed both in abilities and disgust at how their race had degenerated. They rebelled and so were born the first aid to mankind, creatures from a dark past brought into the light. The age of the vampiric protector was born.Death followed until of the four there was only one. He decreed that the race as it was should end, but that entailed the destruction of the Elders, that the progenitors of the race, the oldest of them all should be consigned to history.They decreed that he should join his rebellious comrades and so the battle for the lives and souls of all commenced. The hunts were instigated. The end of the human rule was instigated as the war between races moved forward from the shadows, into the light.

The second book of The Lifestone Chronicles, regales the tale of Christine, a young woman drawn from her safe life into the magic and drama of a battle preparing to be reignited. A battle of good versus evil, of life and death, and of a search for power and control.Christine faces the Dark Lord Nailstead, assisted by the ancient magician Vindec, who has drawn her there, along with a dwarf, a wolf, and unknown to her, the shade of a long dead king.