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Dreamscapes: Inspiration and Beauty in Gardens Near and Far

Dreamscapes is a stunning collection of over sixty of the world’s most beautiful gardens from across the globe, photographed by internationally renowned and awarded photographer Claire Takacs. Dreamscapes includes gardens designed by well-known designers such as Brandon Tyson, Paul Bangay, and Spanish designer Fernando Martos among others, with photographed locations including Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This book will astound and delight you with the diversity and creativity of the gardens featured, all portrayed at that rare moment when they are at their most stunning.

Iconic gardens included are the stunning Welsh garden Dyffryn Fernant; Australia’s Cloudehill; Martha Stewart’s private garden, Skylands; the beautiful Edwardian idyll of Bryan’s Ground in Herefordshire; the former home of Vita Sackville-West, Long Barn in Kent; the naturalistic French garden of Le Jardin Plume in Normandy; Piet Oudolf’s Hummelo in the Netherlands; Hermannshof in Germany at the forefront of planting design; and Kenrokuen one of Japan’s most beautiful public gardens.

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No Go Zones: How Sharia Law Is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

No Go Zones. That’s what they’re called. And while the politically correct try to deny their existence, the shocking reality of these No Go Zones – where Sharia law can prevail and local police stay away – can be attested to by its many victims.

Now Raheem Kassam, a courageous reporter and editor at Breitbart.com, takes us where few journalists have dared to tread – inside the No Go Zones, revealing areas that Western governments, including the United States, don’t want to admit exist within their own borders.

With compelling reporting, Kassam takes you into Islamic areas you might not even know existed – communities, neighborhoods, and whole city districts from San Bernardino, California (a No Go Zone of the mind), to Hamtramck, Michigan (essentially an Islamic colony in the Midwest); from Malmö, Sweden, to the heart of London, England – where infidels are unwelcome, Islamic law is king, and extremism grows.

In No Go Zones, Kassam reveals:

How in No Go Zones a blind eye is being turned to polygamy, female genital mutilation, sexual assault, segregation, and even honor killings Why Muslim ghettos in the West aren’t the equivalent of Little Italy or Chinatown but a serious cultural and political threat How the welfare state actually funds and supports a Muslim subculture of resentment How to identify extremist mosques A matter of numbers: how mass migration could transform Europe into a Muslim-dominated continent within our own lifetimes The alarming speed at which No Go Zones are coming to America

Compelling in its reporting, shocking in its detail, Raheem Kassam’s No Go Zones is one of the most frightening true stories you will hear this year.

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Near Home (Soul Photography)

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” (Les Brown) The book “Near Home” is a work of art. It is the second in a trilogy by photographer Tomer Peled. What you’re holding is not merely a common collection of photos, but a fantastic work of art, whose greatest power comes from the tiniest details of everyday life. As we go in life, we remain oblivious to many things as we pass them by, directing our gaze down towards the ground, not being present at the current moment. The book “Near Home” brings us breath-taking photos, which let the reader take a view at reality through the artist’s eyes. It creates a connection between miraculous natural scenes and processed photos, all conceived through the lens of Tomer Peled, sprinkled with phrases and sentences for inspiration and awe.