Kemp: 412 books

Permaculture in Pots by Juliet Kemp. A month by month guide to what to sow and grow on a balcony or in a container garden with recipes for the kitchen too, using low impact permaculture principles. In these times of soaring food prices, growing food in cities is becoming the big urban trend. As demand...

With previously unpublished photographs, this new edition of Northern Trader is a vivid personal memoir and valuable primary account of the last days of the fur trade. Harold Kemp recounts the routines and rhythms of that long-lost way of life and paints a portrait of the north as a "vast region...

Meet Jesus before he started attracting crowds.The parables are some of the most influential and well-known stories in history, and the books of Kenny Kemp illuminate these timeless tales with an entirely new approach. In this book, with a style as simple and elegant as the parables themselves, he...

“Preternaturally hardened whale dung” is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre digestive by-product—ambergris. Despite being...

SINCE THE WAR SCOTLAND HAS been profoundly altered. Its native tradition of entrepreneurial capitalism has disappeared. Its heavy industries have rapidly declined. It has become a branch economy soliciting international investment. Its crowded old cities have spread themselves into the country dormitories....

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongoose, part teddy bear. These fantastic species are...

For three thousand years a dominant force, Ancient Egypt is arguably the most successful and longest lasting human civilization yet. In this pacy guide, world renowned Egyptologist Professor Barry Kemp seeks to explain why Ancient Egypt was able to thrive with such stability for such a long time....

First published in 1928, this is a comprehensive guide to farming written by W. M. Tod and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch. Originally intended for the general public, it offers would-be farmers instructions and hints on running a profitable farm, all written in simple, plain language for all to understand....

In the grand sweep of evolution, the origin of radically new kinds of organisms in the fossil record is the result of a relatively simple process: natural selection marching through the ages. Or is it? Does Darwinian evolution acting over a sufficiently long period of time really offer a complete...

Is your church stuck? Do you go around and around, discussing the need for change, but fail to get anything off the ground. Most church leaders distrust goal setting, with good reason. Reality Check is different because it connects people, their faith, and each congregation’s unique calling from...

Syndrome of a Wife Batterer and Resounding Tribute to the Men Who Keep Their Vows by Alice Fay Wimberly (Kemp) Pastor   When Alice Fay Wimberly (Kemp) Pastor was young, she fell for a man who soon became the most dangerous part of her life. Blinded with love, she ignored...

Emory Kemp is the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University, where he also served as a chair and professor of civil engineering and a professor of history. This collection of essays encompasses over fifty years of his...

A collection of "outside the box" or "off-the-wall" short stories by husband and wife team Rik and Janet Kemp. Subjects and stories range from the humorous to the zany, with a few serious ones thrown in for good measure.

THE UNHOLY In an old forester's cottage in rural southern England, Irene and Michael Rider decide one night to play the ouija. What they invite into their new home begins to take its toll not only on their lives, but also on the lives of those around them, and the lives of their, as yet, unborn...