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The Handbook Of Nature Study in Color - Insects - Hardcover

$41.74

by Anna B. Comstock (Author)For years Anna Comstock's Handbook of Nature Study has been an essential tool for all budding naturalists but its large size made it impractical in the field. It has now been broken up into individual sections for easy portability. New full-color photos are included for those times that you're unable to see nature up close. This volume features the Insects section along with the author's lesson questions, suggested readings, and teacher's stories.Grab this book alo...

Rose coloring book for adults: An Adult Coloring Book With Stress-relif, Easy and Relaxing Coloring Pages. - Paperback

$9.43

by Nahid Book Shop (Author)Rose coloring book: This coloring book is Carefully curated designs will provide all time of fun, stress release and creativity. Stress Relieving Designs that are Great for Relaxation. This designs range in complexity and detail from beginner to expert-level. You will Love this Coloring Book.Buy Now & Relax. Number of Pages: 62 Dimensions: 0.13 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: December 27, 2020

People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening - Hardcover

$38.00

by Robin Chotzinoff (Author)Front JacketPeople with Dirty Hands Why do some people have their hands in dirt? What causes someone to become obsessed with the process of growing something, whether it be a tangle of flowers, chiles hot enough to make your eyes water, or a rambling rose plucked from a tumbledown house? Author Robin Chotzinoff took a road trip (several, actually) across America to find the answers. People with Dirty Hands is what she found. It rings with the voices of people singu...

$14.00

by Mara Grey (Author), Vasily Kafanov (Illustrator) Do you enjoy natural beauty but dont have the time to cultivate a garden Have you always longed for a beautiful yard, but find the idea of self-imposed yard work downright unpleasant For busy people who want to have a garden but dont have the timeor dont want to spend the time The Lazy Gardener tells us how to decrease the effort and increase the enjoyment of having a garden, in an amusing but practical way. Readers can get right to the hea...

Perfect Phrases in Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping: 500 + Essential Words and Phrases for Communicating with Spanish-Speakers - Paperback

$22.32

by Jean Yates (Author)Talk with your Spanish-speaking employees--no prior knowledge of Spanish needed Perfect Phrases in Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping gives you more than 500 vital words and phrases specific to the landscaping industry, with translations spelled out phonetically so you can say what you need to say immediately. For example: Cover with mulch.Cubra con mulchin. (KOO-brah kohn mool-CHEENG) Use acid fertilizer here.Use fertilizante cido aqu . (OO-seh fehr-tee-lee-SAHN-t...

Green Roof Construction and Maintenance - Hardcover

$125.28

by Kelly Luckett (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining Green RoofsWritten by an industry expert in green roof design and installation, this GreenSource book presents all of the information you need to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green roofs. You will find a wealth of practical d...

Gardening for Beginners: Grow Your Own Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables - Paperback

$32.38

by Emily Green (Author)Transform your backyard into a thriving garden with this ultimate guide!Gardening is not just a hobby but a lifestyle. It's an opportunity to connect with nature, cultivate your own produce, and improve your overall well-being. If you're looking to start your own garden or are a seasoned gardener, this book is for you.Discover the history of gardening and learn about different types of gardens. Find out how to make the most of urban spaces and the benefits of gardening ...

The Oxford Book of Garden Verse - Hardcover

$198.00

by John Dixon Hunt (Editor), Hunt (Author)Gardens have been all things to all people: paradoxical sites of pleasure and pain, safety and danger, art and nature; public spaces and private retreats, places of physical labor and metaphysical reflection. This diversity and versatility have always attracted poets, whose repertory of garden themes on paper matches what gardeners themselves have achieved on the ground. Now, in The Oxford Book of Garden Verse, the best of this tradition has been gath...

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by David E. Cooper (Author)Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. Not only is this a fascinating subject in its own right, it also provides a reminder that the subject-...

Garden History: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

$12.99

by Gordon Campbell (Author)Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquility, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this Very Short Introduction, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendo...

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition - Paperback

$18.00

by Robert Pogue Harrison (Author)Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh's garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens. With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ran...

Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution - Paperback

$79.20

by E. C. Spary (Author)The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the...

The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening - Paperback

$27.00

by Henry Clay Mitchell (Author)"The most soul-satisfying gardening book in years." --New York Times (March 1982, reviewing the 1981 cloth edition from IU Press)."Genuinely a classic . . ." --Los Angeles Times (on the occasion of Houghton Mifflin's paperback edition, which came out in 1994)."Is there anyone alive with the slightest interest in gardening who doesn't know that Henry Mitchell is one of the funniest and most truthful garden columnists we've got?" --Allen Lacy"Mitchell is a joy to ...

Wildlife in the Garden, Expanded Edition: How to Live in Harmony with Deer, Raccoons, Rabbits, Crows, and Other Pesky Creatures - Paperback

$27.00

by Gene Logsdon (Author)Gene Logsdon has found an imaginative way to introduce gardeners to a more total enjoyment of nature--fauna as well as flora. From suburb to countryside, every gardener knows that there are many pests who delight in one's precious creations--rabbits devour petunias, raccoons eat the almost ripe sweet corn, deer browse the morning glories, crows pull up young corn sprouts. How can gardeners and wildlife live together in harmony. Gene knows.Author BiographyGene Logsdon i...

How to Grow and Make Tea in the United States, 2nd Edition - Paperback

$47.18

by Steve Lorch (Author)The first modern book of its kind, How to Grow and Make Tea In the United States changed an industry and paved the way for a new generation of American tea growers. This second edition is sure to become the 'Gold Standard' by significantly expanding on every topic to give you an incredibly comprehensive yet easy-to-follow "How To" manual for growing and making tea. Steve Lorch is recognized as a leading tea industry pioneer and speaker. A Certified Tea Specialist and Fo...

The Largest Indoor and Outdoor Marijuana Farms in the World - Paperback

$21.58

by Mickey Dee (Author)As the marijuana market sets up to push small growers out the door while favoring larger growers, we take a look at some of the largest indoor and outdoor farms in the world. As you will see they are massive and located in some of the most friendly marijuana countries like South Africa, Paraguay, India, Italy, Canada and many others.The year of 2018 will always be remembered as the year Canada approved recreational marijuana but it will also be remembered as the year the...

Introduction to Indigenous Urban Gardening - Paperback

$14.40

by Daku Akawu (Author)American descendants of slavery (ADOS) are relearning how to grow their own food and medicine as their indigenous ancestors did before European colonization. Even 100 years after slavery was abolished, many ADOS took pride in being food and medicine self sufficient. This book provides foundational knowledge necessary to begin growing food and medicine in small urban and suburban spaces. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 28, 2022

Greenhouse: An Introduction to greenhouses, How to Design it and Growing Fruit and Vegetables All Seasons. - Paperback

$17.53

by Rayan Noah (Author)The idea of the book is An Introduction to greenhouses. It helps you to Build your own greenhouse for any climate.it will make you get fresh home-grown Fruit and Vegetables All Seasons. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.07 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 27, 2020

Poinsettia.Chistmas Flower: Complete guide for its choice, location and care - Paperback

$18.88

by Baltasar Rodríguez Oteros (Author)In this complete guide you will find all the care, tricks and tips that, as a result of experience and rigor, experts and nurserymen advise so that your Poinsettia, Christmas flower, Christmas Eve, Federal Star, or Poinsettia (euphorbia pulcherrima) look in unmatched beauty during the holidays, and so that after Christmas, you can keep it in your home with the same splendor.Come autumn, their bracts appear and, as a reward for their care and attention, the...

Aquaponic Plans and Instructions - Paperback

$36.99

by David H. Dudley (Author)This 350+ page user-friendly book, with hundreds of photos, tables, and illustrations, and easy to follow instructions shows you 'step-by-step' how to produce an abundance of fresh organic produce and healthy delicious fish through a media-bed (flood-and-drain) aquaponic system. This VALUABLE resource addresses everything from beginner basics to enlarging an existing system to fish breeding to growing your own fish feed; and so much more. Feed your family healthy or...

The American Gardener: A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying Out of Gardens - Hardcover

$47.45

by William Cobbett (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public do...

The Bug Out Gardening Guide: Growing Survival Garden Food When It Absolutely Matters - Paperback

$39.56

by Ron Foster (Author)What exactly is Bug Out Gardening? Having your own garden in your own back yard is great but what if you must evacuate and have to go to a remote location or start up a garden on a bunch of bad soil? Most Preppers have already realized that besides having dried foods stored foods for a disaster, one can also have fresh grown foods with a little effort supplementing their diets. This book will teach you how simple it can be to take along the materials with you to create a...

A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed - Paperback

$16.00

by James Fenton (Author)An engaging mix of the serious and the playful, and Fenton writes with a lightness of touch perfectly suited to the subject. --Alexander Urquhart, The Times Literary Supplement Forget structure. Forget trees, shrubs, and perennials. As James Fenton writes, This is not a book about huge projects. It is about thinking your way toward the essential flower garden, by the most traditional of routes: planting some seeds and seeing how they grow. In this light hearted, instru...

$25.90

by Joe Eck (Author)This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say 'written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise--in this case, gardening--there really is no such thing as separately. With these words, the renowned garden designers Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd begin their entertaining, fascinating, and unexpectedly moving book about the life and garden they share. Th...

Farther Afield: A Gardener's Excursions - Paperback

$23.00

by Allen Lacy (Author)In this splendid collection of short essays, gardener, writer, and professor Allen Lacy takes readers on a series of garden excursions, beginning at home. Lacy writes of his experiences with a variety of plants--evening primrose, prairie gentian, sumac, coreopsis, fuchsias, gloriosa lilies--in his own garden in New Jersey. Then he charts his travels to other gardens, in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands. Final essays in Farther Afield include a discu...

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses: Updated and Expanded Edition - Paperback

$19.00

by Daniel Chamovitz (Author) Thoroughly updated from root to leaf, this revised edition of the groundbreaking What a Plant Knows includes new revelations for lovers of all that is vegetal and verdant. Plants can hear--and taste things, too The renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz builds on the original edition to present an intriguing look at how plants themselves experience the world--from the colors they see to the schedules they keep, and now, what they do in fact hear and how they are abl...

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden - Paperback

$24.00

by Eleanor Perenyi (Author), Allen Lacy (Introduction by), Michael Pollan (Editor)"Unlike any other gardening book I know, with its Old World charm, its down-to-earth practicality, its whimsy and sophistication."--Brooke Astor, The New York Times Book Review A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from "Annuals" and "Artichokes" to "Weeds" and "Wildflower...

$15.00

by Charles Dudley Warner (Author), Michael Pollan (Editor), Allan Gurganus (Introduction by)Oft quoted but seldom credited, Charles Dudley Warner's My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal early work in the then fledgling genre of American nature writing. Warner--prominent in his day as a writer and newspaper editor--was a dedicated amateur gardener who shared with Mark Twain, his close friend and neighbor, a sense of humor that remains deliciously fresh...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Paperback

$19.00

by Michael Pollan (Author)"Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world." --The New York Times "A wry, informed pastoral." --The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore's Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and poll...

Lectures in Pattern Theory: Volume 2: Pattern Analysis - Paperback

$178.18

by U. Grenander (Author)Many persons have helped the author with comments and corrections, and I would like to mention D. E. McClure, I. Frolow, J. Silverstein, D. Town, and especially W. Freiberger for his helpful suggestions and encouragement. The work in Chapters 6 and 7 has been influenced and stimulated by discussions with other members of the Center for Neural Sciences, especially with L. Cooper and H. Kucera. I would like to thank F. John, J. P. LaSalle, L. Sirovich, and G. Whitham for...

Elementary Topics in Differential Geometry - Hardcover

$145.78

by J. a. Thorpe (Author)In the past decade there has been a significant change in the freshman/ sophomore mathematics curriculum as taught at many, if not most, of our colleges. This has been brought about by the introduction of linear algebra into the curriculum at the sophomore level. The advantages of using linear algebra both in the teaching of differential equations and in the teaching of multivariate calculus are by now widely recognized. Several textbooks adopting this point of view ar...

The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) - Paperback

$64.78

by Serge Lang (Editor)The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians, and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge Lang's reaction to a questionnaire, "The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate", distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion - in part acrimonious and personal - soon involved a larg...