The wildflowers of Wilson's Promontory National Park

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The wildflowers of Wilson's Promontory National Park
J. Ros Garnet
Manufacturer: Lothian Pub. Co. in conjunction with the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0850911117

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The Wildflowers of Wilson's Promontory National Park
J. Ros. Garnet
Manufacturer: Lothian Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O7Z7ZC

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Italy¿s most desirable vacation destination is the subject of one of Cadogan¿s bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic. Along with color photographs and maps, find the most up-to-the-minute practical information and listings. Cadogan explores chic Positano and the Amalfi Coast, where Mount Vesuvius towers over the fantasy garden frescoes of Pompeii; the ravishing landscape of Capri; and vibrant Naples, with its world-famous restaurants and nightlife. As well as the bright lights of the islands and the coast, the guide covers the inland regions of Southern Italy the casual tourist rarely sees: the mountain plateaux of rugged Calabria, Puglia, with its flavors of Greece and Africa, and remote Basilicata, the province of Matera--made a World Heritage Site for its astonishing neighborhoods of cave homes.

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positively excellent.......2003-11-29

This has got to be the best travel writing team alive. They are highly cultured without the slightest pretention, able to find that wonderful quirky detail or perspective, and include such basics as where the good cheap eats are. We have used this book on several trips to the South of Italia and are always delighted to read what they have to say on this or that art work or hidden piazza. The intelligence in these books is subtle and unusually wide-ranging - you can tell that this couple loves to learn as well as travel. They are truly superlative writers.

Warmly recommended.

Wry, witty, insightful - only guide book you'll need.......2000-04-03

I'd been to the area several times, but with the Cadogan in tow, I discovered the Bay of Naples' hidden treasures. Wish I'd had it along on all my journeys.

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Great subject but so so book.......2007-04-05

I grew up being a fan of Theodore Roosevelt. His energy, unabased patriotism, and concern for the people all attracted me. As time went on and I learned more of him that admiration slowly receded. Nowadays, I can admire his energy but his patriotism I realise was over the line, border line jingoism. His 'concern' for the people caused him to ignore and reinterpert the Constitution in ways favorably to actions he wanted to take.

That said, Mr. Brands has not done a particularly interesting book. The style of writing is breezy and almost tabloid in style. Details are often lacking and opinions are injected without indentifing themselves as such. In stark contrast to Theodore Rex by Mr. Morris, this book seems to be a lightweight. Little concern is apparent in Mr. Brands writings concerneing the damage TR was doing to both the nation and Constitution with his cavaliar attitude in governing the nation. If you want to know about TR's decision making at critical junctions in history or indepth background to such, this is not the book for you. Mr. Morris' book is far better then this Hollywood style tome.

At best this book might be a TR primer, for sure it is not the best book on the subject.

The Public and Private TR.......2006-05-07

This book was HW Brands' first book-length biography. He tackled a challenging subject and succeeded marvelously. The thing about Teddy Roosevelt is that he would be a fascinating character even if he had not become President.

To fit Roosevelt's life into a single volume extended the book to 800+ pages (paperback), but well worth the read. This life deserves it. TR's maniacal energy pulses through the book. TR was a true polymath as well as a 'man of action'. He charges through the book and a towering public career with 'dee-lightful' gusto. An extreme example: he gave a speech in Milwaukee despite still bleeding from a gunshot received that same day. Roosevelt's biggest political mistake came when he announced that he would not run for second full term (He did so because he had served nearly all of McKinley's term). As a result he was out of office at the age of 50!

At the same time his private life revealed a darkness. Stunned by the early death of his father when he was a youth and then by the deaths of his first wife and mother on the same night when he was at Harvard, Roosevelt seems to have never recovered emotionally. After the latter event, he left for the Dakotas and his cowboy period leaving his infant daughter (the redoubtable Alice Roosevelt Longworth) behind. The child, whose mother died two days after her birth, was virtually ignored by Roosevelt. Near the end of his life his youngest son dies in World War One and TR is crushed.

Brands makes extensive use of Roosevelt's personal letters to tell the story of this amazing life. Highly recommended.

A Canny Historian Dissects "Pure Act".......2005-11-25

Two of the finest historical biographies I have consumed in my lifetime have come from the pen of H.W. Brands. The work at hand on Theodore Roosevelt was published in 1997; the other, on Benjamin Franklin, in 2000. Both works pass muster for scholarly accuracy and content. What is intriguing is the author's ability to adapt style to his subject and the times. Franklin's life carries the gravitas of the building of the constitutional life of the United States of America. Roosevelt's, in contrast, bears the energy of a man who came to power as America was high on its own industrial hubris. Brands' Roosevelt is a product of the Gilded Age with the common sense to see its tarnish as well. The T.R. of this work may not be wise, but he was definitely smart.

Born a sickly child to a New York family of some means in 1858, young Roosevelt almost from first consciousness set himself on the road to self-improvement. Brands suggests that one motivating factor may have been Roosevelt's regard for his father, Theodore Sr. The elder Roosevelt had been successful in business and family life, but there was one glaring omission in his resume: he had purchased his way out of the 1863 Union draft. How much this $300 gesture affected his son is a mystery, of course, but there is no denying that the young Theodore [and later, the middle-aged Theodore] would never miss a bugle call.

Roosevelt's professional resume is eclectic and even eccentric. Although he was born into money, he was not so rich that he needn't work. A lawyer by profession, Roosevelt's drive and self confidence would never let him live conventionally, and he seems to have suffered from chronic "vocational crisis." For the young and the restless of his day, the two great frontiers were politics and the open West, and T.R. ventured into both.

There is some irony in this, because in truth Roosevelt was not genetically suited for either. His Dakota ranching years proved to be an expensive, uncomfortable, and at times dangerous experiment that took a large bite from the family fortunes. On the other hand, he acquired the skills that would later help him corral enemies in his gilded Republican party. Dakota in many ways was the paradigm for the political Roosevelt: a man strangely out of place in a hostile environment who proved to be doggedly likeable and yet someone not to be trifled with, either.

His rise through the Republican Party was the antithesis of, say, that of McKinley or Harding, or even his dear friend Henry Cabot Lodge. Put briefly, he was so loud and so popular that party leaders virtually had to hold their noses and swallow hard. Brands' description of Roosevelt's nomination to the vice-presidency sounds for all the world like the tale of a middle manager being booted upstairs because no one could work with him. Roosevelt in the executive branch was bearable; it was, after all, a McKinley universe.

McKinley, sadly, departed the scene sooner than anyone expected. And yet, for his seven-plus years in the White House, Roosevelt must have felt as if he was still in the McKinley orbit. He was not totally unlike his young relative Franklin Roosevelt in terms of political fortunes: electorally untouchable, professionally anathema. In the case of T.R., he captured the great electoral middle ground with rhetoric that decried the trusts and the excesses of big business, on the one hand, and radicalism on the other. He would easily have captured the 1908 election had he kept his mouth shut, but he felt compelled to honor his public remarks made years earlier that he believed his completion of McKinley's term should constitute his own first term as well.

Roosevelt's executive strength lie in national defense and foreign policy. He had long been a disciple of the Alfred Thayer Mann school of strong navies, and it is not surprising that the Panama Canal is one of his legacies. The canal's strategic importance in two subsequent world wars has dulled Americans to the memory of Roosevelt's Caribbean chicanery in making it possible. In T.R.'s defense it can be said that he was probably as knowledgeable of world politics as any president of his era and very much a realist on matters of American military capabilities.

His understanding of Emperor Wilhelm and the deteriorating European alignment probably made his retirement extremely difficult, and he seems to have been rather unsatisfied with his progress of effecting the "Square Deal" for American workers. Much of this frustration was projected onto his anointed successor, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt's treatment of Taft as described by Brands is morally repugnant, and one is hard pressed to feel much sympathy for Roosevelt's political derailing in 1912.

The complexity of Roosevelt's affections for Taft might come as a surprise to those who subscribe to Henry Adams' description of T.R. as "pure act." In truth, Roosevelt's psyche and the complexities of his personal life deserve and receive substantial attention. Consider, for example, his conjugal life. After a brief infatuation with Edith Carow, Roosevelt was smitten by her friend Alice Lee and eventually married her. In letters to his friends Roosevelt described his life with Alice as unimaginably happy. What he could not have foreseen was Alice's untimely death in childbirth. The reader must make what he will of Roosevelt's behavior in his grief, as he gave away baby Alice to relatives until he was well established in his second marriage to the runner-up Edith. It was Edith, hardly naïve to the realities of the situation, who bore the next five of Roosevelt's children.

Roosevelt's record as a husband and father was mixed. One winces at his absences and hunting trips. On the other hand, he professed and lived a fined tuned moral stance toward marital fidelity and parenting. Whether his longtime wife Edith ever felt she had received a "Square Deal"....

a Strong Biography but not Brands best.......2005-10-16

The bar is high for H.W. Brands - after a bigoraphy as nearly perfect as "The First American" we have come to expect great things. Well in "TR" we have a nearly perfect biography on Teddy Roosevelt.

To me, Brands strength is his flowing style that often reads as fiction. Unfortunately that is the lone chink in "TR" it is a little choppy and not as fluid as we have come to expect.

As far as the subjects matter: Teddy Roosevelt may have been the strongest personality America has produced ...ever. His life is one that reads of power, strength and an enormous drive to achieve great things. Brands is able to capture these elements of TR's life and paint a fascinating picture of a man that was born to be president (interestingly enough TR is one of the few men who ever ENJOYED being president).

As a whole - I will admit that I was still a little disappointed, mainly dur to my respect for Brands. While "TR" is not to the level of "The First American" it is still better than your typical biography on Teddy Roosevelt.

Great Place to Start for fans of Roosevelt.......2004-12-22

The sheer size of this book is probably going to prevent most people who aren't avid Teddy Roosevelt fans from picking it up, and that's too bad. This is a wonderful book, factually presented and egagingly written that will keep the reader going. And, though it's a biography and HAS to stop when the life of the subject does, it'll leave you wishing that life had lasted a little longer.

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T. R. : The Last Romantic Part 1 Of 2
H.W. Brands
Manufacturer: Books on Tape, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0736652310

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T. R. : The Last Romantic Part 2 Of 2
H.W. Brands
Manufacturer: Books on Tape, Inc.
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0736652329

T. R.: the Last Romantic (Unabridged Audio)

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T. R.: the Last Romantic (Unabridged Audio)
H. W. Brands
Manufacturer: Books on Tape, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: B000JL9FBU

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The unabridged Connor O'Brien reading of H.W. Brands' excellent 1997 biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Consists of 22 cassette tapes, 90 minutes each.

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T R the Last Romantic
H W Brands
Manufacturer: BASIC BOOKS * CIVITAS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UCKNIW

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T.R. The Last Romantic
Brands H.W.
Manufacturer: The Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000UIO288

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T.R. The Last Romantic
Brands H.W.
Manufacturer: BasicBooks
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UEWDFQ

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T.R.: The Last Romantic
H.W. Brands
Manufacturer: Basic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1KX1A

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Amazing "Real" Godfather.......2001-03-22

This is an amazingly realistic account of what organized crime is really like...for the members, their relatives, and their victims. John Driver is an illuminating, entertaining, brilliant writer.

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A fresh approach to Iguana care

Your Iguana's Life: Your Complete Guide to Caring for Your Pet at Every Stage of Life (Your Pet's Life)
Liz Palika
Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0761526234
Release Date: 2000-10-19

Book Description

You know your iguana is a special pet. But do you know all of the unique requirements and steps you need to take to raise a happy, healthy iguana? Your Iguana's Life was written and reviewed by reptile experts with one purpose in mind—to give you the most up-to-date information and guidance you need about the health, nutrition, and care of your iguana. You will learn everything from how and what to feed your iguana to the best ways to entertain and socialize your reptile friend.

Whether you are new to the wonderful, wild world of iguanas or a long-time owner, this is an invaluable resource for raising your reptile.

Inside—What Every Iguana Owner Wants to Know
• Is an iguana the right pet for me?
• How big will my iguana get?
• What is the best diet for my iguana?
• Do iguanas make good pets for children?
• Is it okay to have more than one iguana?
• What type of enclosure and other equipment do I need to buy?
• What health concerns are unique to iguanas?
• Can I train my iguana?

About the Authors

Liz Palika is the reptile expert for pets.com and the author of more than 30 books. She and her husband, Paul, share their home in Oceanside, California, with an assortment of reptiles and amphibians, including Conan, their six-foot iguana.

Dr. Richard C. Paull is the editor of numerous books on reptiles and the author of more than a dozen books. He and his wife, Lauraine, live in south Florida with several hundred reptiles, a few amphibians, and uncounted tropical fish.

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A fresh approach to Iguana care.......2001-10-19

In the 2 years I've had my adopted Iguana Igloo, I have skimmed or read a number of books and websites about Iguana care. This book was easy to read and share information from it with children in the family. I also appreciated the author's fresh approaches to training an iguana and some realistic things to think about before getting one as a pet. So many people do not realize what they're really asking for when they purchase or adopt an iguana; I know I sure didn't. But if you truly care about the animal you have, you will do everything you can to care for it properly. I think this book is a great, comprehensive guide in easy to read format with lots of great ideas for beginning, and experienced, iguana caretakers!

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Beautiful Book

Cross Stitch Antique Style Samplers
Jane Greenoff
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Elizabethan Cross Stitch

The Cross Stitcher's Bible

The Best of Jane Greenoff's Cross Stitch

2001 Cross Stitch Designs: The Essential Reference Book ("Better Homes & Gardens")

ASIN: 0715318306

Book Description

-From the bestselling author of The Cross Stitcher's Bible

-Each project chapter focuses on a historic sampler style

-Provides ideas for personalizing the sampler designs With this unique guide, crafters will discover how to draw upon historically authentic samplers to create embroidered heirlooms of their own. Each of the more than thirty unique designs is based on the author's own historical sampler collection and is inspired by a popular sampler style from darning, alphabet, and map samplers, to Victorian sayings, band, and spot motif samplers.

Many of the classic designs are complemented by additional counted thread stitches, including drawn and pulled thread techniques, to encourage readers to extend their stitching repertoires. Motifs in each project can also be used for a range of small, quick-to-stitch project for added creative inspiration.

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Beautiful Book.......2007-06-18

I am a cross stich freak and I absolutely love this book. Very well done with lots of ideas.

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My favorite source of information about perennials!.......2006-01-26

Anyone who loves perennial plants should own at least one perennial plant encyclopedia. I highly recommend this 'Encyclopedia of Perennials' by Christopher Woods. This book does not concentrate on pictures, although there are enough photographs to give you an idea of what at least one plant species in each genus looks like.

The listing for each plant genus includes information about cultivation, landscape use, and propagation. After each genus listing, the book offers a wealth of information about the many plant species within each genus of plants. Information for each species includes the common name, the plant's origin, height and spread, description, and zone hardiness. Many cultivars (cultivated varieties of a species of plant) are also listed and described.

As an example, after the general information about Penstemon, seven species are listed and described. One of the species entries reads:
"P. digitalis. Eastern United States. Height 3 ft; spread 2 ft (90 x 60 cm). An erect, clump-forming plant native to open meadows, with elliptic to broadly lance-shaped basal leaves becoming narrower and smaller up on the flower stem. Spikes of bell-shaped, white flowers sometimes flushed pink are produced in early summer. This is a variable species. 'Husker Red' has purple-red leaves, red stems, and white-flushed purple flowers and is a highly desirable cultivar. In general, this species and its cultivar are far easier to grow in hot and humid climates than their western relatives. Zones 3 - 9."

I enjoy the author's style. Christopher Woods provides no-nonsense descriptions, such as his warning about the Houttuynia: "An effective but sometimes ugly groundcover for wet sites, where it can become almost impossible to eradicate. Be warned!"

I have found 'Encyclopedia of Perennials' to be an excellent source of information. More than once, it has prevented me from purchasing a plant with which I would not be happy, and it has also encouraged me to seek out plants that otherwise, I would have passed by!

This book has information on seemingly every perennial.......1999-10-23

Each time I need information about a perennial, I find this book has a listing for that plant. I can't say that about any other perennial reference book that I have used.

A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers: An Organic Guide to Choosing and Growing over 150 Beautiful

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Disappointing
Mr. Burell oragnizes and expalins beautifully
Excellent context and detail
Excellent source for those interested in wild flowers

A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers: An Organic Guide to Choosing and Growing over 150 Beautiful
C. Colston Burrell
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 087596723X

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Disappointing.......2002-12-29

Fine layout and photographs, but I found this book oddly uninteresting to read.

There are better books out there covering the same ground. One book I like, less exhaustive but more interesting to read, is "100 Easy to Grow Native Plants." If you want something more exhaustive, Cullina's two books on Wildflowers and Shrubs are IMO the best native plant guides on the market.

Mr. Burell oragnizes and expalins beautifully.......2002-09-05

Mr. Burrell has been providing useful information on gardening with native plants for
a while now - through his books and columns in magazines like "Fine Gardening."
I am never disappointed when I read his material, and this books fits with the rest.
It's a wonderfully helpful starter's guide to native plants, particularly for east coast
and midwest gardeners.

Excellent context and detail.......2000-02-26

C Colston Burrell seems to be a genuinely professional gardening writer, having written a general perennials book for Rodale too. I'm thoroughly impressed with this book, which does a very good job of placing species in both natural and garden contexts. It also gives adequate treatment to the basics of native garden care in some introductory chapters.

A Gardener's Ency of Wildflowers is not a comprehensive reference; I haven't seen anything I'd call a definitive reference out there on native gardening. Intelligently, Burrell chooses to provide very complete descriptions of a representative sampling of 150-some native plants. In side bars, he sends up other species in slightly less detail, contrasting them with the full description he started from. The format works well. Native gardening is still at the point where you need to do a fair amount of poking around yourself to know what's appropriate to your area and your garden, and this book is a perfect starting point for that process.

The other positive here for me personally was that Burrell is a Minneapolis author. I happen to also be in zone four, and really appreciated the fact that the book had a very healthy complement of species that are happy in northern gardens.

The one absence I noticed was any detailed description of propagating each species. Good nursery catalogs -- Prairie Moon's being one -- include information on when to plant each type of seed, how long to cold stratify it, and so on. Here you get more of a basic description of how fall planting works, in an introductory chapter mostly. After a couple of years with my own garden, I can tell you that isn't quite enough to go by.

Excellent source for those interested in wild flowers.......1998-09-24

Burrell, with his Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers, has filled an invaluable gap in the literature. Books on wild flowers are widely available, but few offer definitive details on the growing and cultivation of these precious, often endangered, plants. In addition to its stunning illustrations and workable garden designs Gardener's Encyclopedia adds sources for seeds and plants throughout the coountry. It also includes a reading list and an excellent glossary. Altogether an important addition to the gardener's library.

Encyclopedia of Perennials, a Gardener's Guide/ Large Soft Cover

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Encyclopedia of Perennials, a Gardener's Guide/ Large Soft Cover

Manufacturer: Facts on File
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0816039836

The Gardener's Practical Guide to Annuals, Bulbs and Perennials: An illustrated encyclopedia of flowering plants containing over 1500 beautiful colour ... catalogues (Gardeners Practical Guide to)

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The Gardener's Practical Guide to Annuals, Bulbs, and Perennials.

The Gardener's Practical Guide to Annuals, Bulbs and Perennials: An illustrated encyclopedia of flowering plants containing over 1500 beautiful colour ... catalogues (Gardeners Practical Guide to)
Richard Bird
Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0754816036

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A comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia to hundreds of the best annuals, bulbs and perennials and a guide to growing them successfully.

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The Gardener's Practical Guide to Annuals, Bulbs, and Perennials........2006-07-06

This book is not only eye appealing, but well organized, and very explanatory.

Hardy Herbaceous Perennials (Gardener's Guide)

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Disappointed with the delivery
A Truly Exceptional Work
There are better books out there

Hardy Herbaceous Perennials (Gardener's Guide)
Leo Jelitto , Wilhelm Schacht , and Alfred Fessler
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0881921599

Book Description

Here is the English translation of the world's greatest encyclopedia of perennial plants. Included are 809 genera; 4286 species, subspecies, varieties, and hybrids; and 3617 cultivars. It is a peerless resource for perennial one-upmanship because of its inclusiveness, and this translation offers material on new introductions.

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Disappointed with the delivery.......2005-06-29

This book was supposed to have two volumes. I only received one. I'm still awaiting Amazon's response to this, but for one volume this is way overpriced.

A Truly Exceptional Work.......2001-07-13

I have a modest horticultural library, including the AHS A-Z mentioned in another review, and I was thrilled to be able to add "Hardy Herbaceous Perennials" to my bookshelf. The authors are well known experts in the field of herbaceous perennials and they've compiled a truly remarkable book on the subject.

Whereas "A-Z" has as many pages as this work, it includes every type of plant - woodies, vines, conifers, annuals, perennials, water plants - you name it. Obviously you're getting a lot more entries on the narrowed down topic of herbaceous perennials in Jelitto & Schachts' book. You'll find more obscure perennials included in this work than in A-Z.

The entries are also more interesting than A-Z's. Each entry is from the author's first hand knowledge of the plant, more along the line of what you might find in Dirr's and Armitage's writings. However, they do also stick to the facts as in A-Z, so you do get the information you need, as in in origin, zone, plant requirements. A-Z is more clinical.

Since the book was written many years ago (this edition was updated in 1990 when it was translated from the German), some of the photos are black and white, though many are color. And, since the translation was done in 1990, taxonomic changes that occurred after that date are missing. Neither of these points is a drawback to buying this book. All the photography is excellent and, well, names change all the time, so even A-Z needs updating.

One last point to be made is that we in the United States tend to feel perhaps a little too self important. This is why A-Z is considered the 'best' by many US readers. While I wouldn't give up my copy of A-Z, I don't restrict my library to US publications. There is a huge amount of information originating in Europe and on other continents that never makes its way here. This does not reduce its value, just makes it less available unless we reach beyond the US. I have a friend who bought a shrub here in a US nursery and could find no info on it. It wasn't in A-Z or Dirr. The first 3 books I pulled off my shelf had it; two from the UK and one from Australia.

In conclusion, "Hardy Herbaceous Perennials" is one of the best additions I've made to my library in a long time. The price is a bit steep, but worth it.

There are better books out there.......2000-05-29

I purchased this book as a recomendation of my teacher in Hort Science, at The Ohio State University. When i recieved it, their was only 1 of 2 copies, which was outrageous for the price. The pictures were of poor quality, the information was in small amounts, and there was no detail. I showed this book to my teacher since he had never see it himself, and he laughed. He showed me a book he and I thought was going to be, infact The American Horticultural Society A To Z Encyclopedia Of Garden Plants is one of the best in his collection of over 2000 books on Horticulture. This book shows 6000 color photos, full descriptions on each plant, trees, details, and everything else I thought the Hardy perennial book was going to be. If you want to know the truth, their are many other books out there better than this one. For instance check out TimberPress.com, the maker of this book. It shows many other titles related to this title.

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Disappointed

great book!

doesn't live up to the hype

Nothing new

Everyday Cheapskate's Greatest Tips

Everyday Cheapskate's Greatest Tips: 500 Simple Strategies For Smart Living (Debt-Proof Living)
Mary Hunt
Manufacturer: Running Press Book Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Greatest Secrets of the Coupon Mom

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ASIN: 0762423358
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Book Description

Mary Hunt is the founder, editor, and publisher of the popular national subscription newsletter "Cheapskate Monthly," which premiered in 1992, author of 13 books, and an expert on "Debt-Proof Living." Here is a collection of tips on saving money and time in the areas of home, auto, travel, clothing, cooking, shopping, finance, kitchen, gifts, special occasions, kids, yard and garden, laundry, health, organizing and more. It contains sound advice for getting out of debt, managing money, curbing spending, finding creative solutions, and "bringing dignity to the art of living below your means."

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Disappointed.......2007-01-04

This book has lots of tips, however, it is a disappointment. I have been practicing many of these tips for a long time, so there's not much that is new. Some tips are repeated, some are common sense and others are not practical. I bought this book used and feel I still spent too much, definitely not worth $12.95.

great book!.......2006-12-17

I love all of Mary Hunt's stuff. This book is nice to have as a reference around the house for a bunch of things you have to deal with on an everday basis. Get it, you'll like it. I also recommend any of her other books. I'm glad she brings God into her everyday life and her financial advice, also.

doesn't live up to the hype.......2006-11-13

I was hoping for so much more. There are a few good tips in here, but not enough. I was disappointed.

Nothing new.......2005-10-16

There really aren't any earth shattering ideas. Most are common sense or you can find them elsewhere. Also, tips seem to be repeated and right next to each other. There will be two ways to clean glass and they're only slightly different. It'd be nice to have it consolidated and an index

Everyday Cheapskate's Greatest Tips.......2005-08-24

I love how pratical this book is. It's a fast read with a lot of useful tips that I can use right now. (Lord knows I need help).

Everyday Cheapskate's Greatest Tips 500 Simple Strategies for Smart Living(hardback)

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Everyday Cheapskate's Greatest Tips: 500 Simple Strategies For Smart Living

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Everyday Cheapskate's Greatest Tips: 500 Simple Strategies For Smart Living
Mary Hunt
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"Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied the recesses of the human body and dissected cadavers, I try to dissect souls." said Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Norway's greatest artist and tortured genius. In this groundbreaking new study, Munch's own soul is laid bare through the first English translation and analysis of diaries, literary sketches, and letters, presented together with his most artistic works.

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Munch more than a scream..........2007-05-05

*Munch In His Own Words* is worth five stars just for the generous reproductions of the paintings, drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts that illustrate the text, as well as the selection of photographs taken by/and of Munch himself. These reproductions give one an idea of the stunning range and variety of Munch's complete life work, which goes well beyond his reputation primarily as the guy who painted `The Scream.' Nevertheless, in spite of this variety, one can still trace the red thread that runs through virtually everything he ever produced in his long career: a violently passionate and often antagonistic engagement with life and the world around him.

So it is that the actual text of *Munch In His Own Words* can only be a bonus--and in this book we get extracts from Munch's personal journals and letters that offer first-hand insights into his complex psyche from which his extraordinary art emerged. Some of these texts are brilliant evocations of the artist's role as rebel and savior, others repetitive and obsessive, still others read like the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic. Not having access to the complete texts, one wonders if they might have been edited and selected with an eye to a little more variety and little less repetition, but it's hard to complain. Munch is almost as explosive and idiosyncratic a writer as he is a painter and, on the whole, the texts provide a rewarding counterpoint and context to the art.

Another bonus is the introduction and chapter openings by the book's editor Poul Erik Tojner. Sometimes elliptical to the point of incomprehensibility, studded with fancifully pretentious interpretations, Tojner does manage to provide some genuinely enlightening and provocative observations, perhaps none moreso than his suggestion that one can find striking parallels between the work of Munch and--of all people--Andy Warhol! Outrageous at first--and yet Tojner makes a wholly compelling and convincing argument for this unlikeliest of pairings.

A rich and compulsively readable--not to mention eye-catching--volume, *Munch In His Own Words* is a great overall look at an artist who painted, in his own words, the only way he knew how: with his heart's blood.

Munch, the monastic.......2006-06-01

Edvard Munch painted "The Scream." (BTW, his name is said like "monk", not like "bunch.") That was just one work from a long and dedicated life in art, and arguably not his defining work. Look at his "Sick Child" (p.15), and at the mother. Does she really have anything more in her than the Screamer, except just that little more strength a woman has than a man does? Only quietly enough for others to bear?

I never thought much of Munch until I saw a display of his graphic work, largely woodcuts and some lithos. Then, I realized just how literal his painting style is. "As long as cameras can not be used in Hell or in Heaven, painters have no fear of competition." His paintings, and even more his prints, are about heaven and hell. Together, in the same picture, as his fevered mind saw them.

Many of his painted and graphic works center on two monopoles: light and dark. Become aware of this frequent pattern, and you'll have almost the visual experience of seeing a magnetic field. His visual field contains a North and South pole, a source and a sink, a plus and a minus. In those, composition consists of defining the two, filling the space between the two, and emptying the space around the two. I recommend his work most highly to any student, at any level, who wants to learn composition by being kicked in the gut with it. Much of Munch's work is about stark, polar power.

He also eliminates the placement of figure and ground, and creates the dichotomy of figure and ground. Half or more of his paintings show it: that aura emanating from the human being that sets it off from the material world around it. The background has no chance to interact with that force of person that emanates from each figure, so there must be a buffer zone between them. That, I think, explains the brushwork halo around so many of his human renderings: an attempt to define their visual limit, at the expense of any relationship to the world around them.

Munch is good, if emotional truth means more to you than optical literality. He's also hard to take, and becomes harder to take as you learn more. I really think he put it all out there for us to see, whether or not we can take it all in.

//wiredweird

If you want to know Munch.......2004-01-15

I could not put this book down and when I finished, I felt as though I finally had some insight into Munch as a person as well as an artist. If you would like to have a better understanding of both the man and his paintings this book is for you.

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Munch in His Own Words
Poul Erik Tojner
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SAMURAI WILLIAM THE ADVENTURER WHO UNLOCKED JAPAN
G. MILTON
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