Gardening in Texas is not for the faint of heart or weak-willed. Given the remarkable
variety of soils, climate ranges, and the obstacles of stifling heat, humidity, and drought, the dedication of so many gardening enthusiasts speaks to the powerful ...
“American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . .
. fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the American classic Little House on the Prairie, from which the
award winning television show was taken. Her first book was published in 1932 but long before that Laura wrote magazine articles on small farming and ...
Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the “champion” countryside in the north, the
Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in ...
An engaging account of humanity's growing fascination with orchids from ancient times onward, together with
a biographical gallery of 50 great scientists, naturalists, and explorers who contributed to our knowledge of orchids. The nomenclature and bibliography have been updated for ...
KOBE BRYANT AND THE MAMBA MENTALITY DESCRIPTION After retiring from professional basketball, Kobe The Black
Mamba Bryant decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey into the heart of the ...
Landscape architecture can neither be studied nor practiced as an isolated, independent or pure subject;
it remains an intensely interdisciplinary engagement that continuously defines itself based on parameters of scale (regional, urban, rural, etc.), issues (ecology, culture, heritage, etc.) and ...
Well-being is now firmly established as an overarching theme of key concern to all professionals
that work, manage or design the environment. However, well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue rooted in the ways that we encounter, perceive and interpret the ...