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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture 39 reviews
Toby Hemenway
Chelsea Green, 2001
Well documented, practical and enticing
I bought this book together with Patrick Whitefield's "Permaculture in a Nutshell" and read the latter first, which is a mere introduction compared to Toby Hemenway's "Gaia's Garden". Toby transmits his love for and knowledge of permaculture very well. I am trained as an agricultural engineer and did learn a lot while reading. He first teaches the basics and then rehearses them in the different ...
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Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia55 reviews
Michael A. Dirr
Timber Press, Incorporated, 1997
Review of Michael Dirr's book on trees
This is probably the best gardening book that I have ever seen. I use it frequently. I am on a committee in my neighborhood that encourages tree-planting by our city's residents. This book is a life saver to take with me when dealing with perspective tree purchasers. It has great pictures of the trees and gives advice as to where they should be planted, problems, et.al.
I like it so much ...
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Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before 38 reviews
Alastair Fothergill
University of California Press, 2007
spectacular view of God's creation
if you believe in God or not, i dare you to look at this book and not be in awe of nature. my husband and i enjoy looking at this book any seeing God's wonderous creation. anyone who has children should get this book. they probably won't read every word, but they will learn a lot from the pictures.
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Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People 4 reviews
Hamish Bowles
Knopf, 2007
The best decorating book of the holiday season
Flash review: The perfect gift book for this season.
This new book, timed for Xmas giving, features a selection of the best homes shown in Vogue in the past several years. It is a large-scale book, filled with wonderful color photography. Although Elle Decor and Architectural Digest have come out with similar books this season, neither can hold a candle to Vogue's tome. If you are familiar ...
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life11 reviews
Parker J. Palmer
Jossey-Bass, 2007
Transformative Ideas for All Teachers
Parker Palmer's wisdom is invaluable to all who teach. His ideas are both profound and revolutionary. The Courage to Teach leads us on an exploration of the paradoxes inherent in our living and our teaching. We are encouraged to "cultivate the capacity for connectedness on which all good teaching depends." Parker's words inspire us to live and teach authentically, and invite our students to do ...
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The New Create an Oasis With Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systms - Includes Branched ...11 reviews
Art Ludwig
Oasis Design, 2006
Comprehensive, a little overwhelming
I found this book more for someone looking to convert their existing house and plumbing to run on a grewater system, as opposed to for someone looking to build a house around/incorporating a greywater system (which is my situation).
Still, an extremely specific and informative book for those who are interested in knowing every nuance of making a greywater system out of any situation.
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Landscape Painting Inside and Out: Capture the Vitality of Outdoor Painting in Your Studio With Oils18 reviews
Kevin D. MacPherson
North Light Books, 2006
Very Good Book
Very Good Book - landscape painting inside and out is quite inspirational, as are all of her books. I particularly enjoyed the reproductions. Barbara Barrick
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The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Nature Photography (Better Photo Guide to)21 reviews
Jim Miotke
Amphoto Books, 2006
Digital Nature Photography
Excellant written. I bought this and his other book Digital Photography together. Not only did I get an excellant deal but both were well worth the investment. You can't get much more clear and easy to understand than this. Very down to earth written and everything is so well explained and simply put. It's almost like your sitting down over a cup of coffee with a good friend. I learned more from ...
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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Robert Pogue Harrison
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
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 ...
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Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn4 reviews
Metropolis Books, 2008
"lawns all mown, some poisoned, all free of weeds, all free of cover..." - Lydia Davis
Fritz Haeg himself issues a kind of disclaimer at the end of his preface to look up Rosalind Creasy's The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping if what you're looking for is a definitive how-to guide to creating an organic garden. I felt it necessary to counter the previous review with this point. I'm sure there are a few other resources for those already interested in permaculture (I can think of ...
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Landscaping with Stone (Home Landscaping)5 reviews
Pat Sagui
Creative Homeowner, 2005
You'd never know you could do this much with landscaping
What beautiful and innovative designs this book has. My husband and I wanted to landscape much of our property with stone. We actually did more than planned because we were so impressed by much of the ideas in this book. A concern of ours was the price. Much of the simpler projects you find you can do yourself (such as the small retaining wall around the garden), which saved on additional labor ...
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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture15 reviews
Francis D. K. Ching
Wiley, 1996
Easy to use and read and understand
Somewhere near the very beginning of my lecturing career, I showed a slide onscreen and was trying to point out a unique feature of a home. Gesturing toward the screen I said, "that thingie over the window..."
I was mortified. What a dreadful mistake for a "professional" lecturer to make!! Since I planned to give many more lectures, I came home and bought this book from Amazon.
When the ...
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National Audubon Society Guide to Landscape Photography19 reviews
Firefly Books, 2007
Finally! Someone Gets It Right!
Yeah, you need to get this book. This is the photography book I've been looking for. Tim Fitzharris doesn't just take stunning photographs, he disects photos and goes through the thought process so that the reader can understand what it was about the scene that caused him to frame it the way he did. He doesn't just say "follow your heart" or "discover what the scene is trying to tell you" or ...
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life49 reviews
Parker J. Palmer
Jossey-Bass, 1997
Great insights.
An excellent book on what it takes to really connect with students.
Deals with unusual topics like vulnerabilities, openness, and subject oriented teaching versus student or teacher oriented teaching. Celebrates the inherent wisdom within people, even those who are callous and cynical on the surface.
An important contribution to the field
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The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography (9th Edition)
James M. Rubenstein
Prentice Hall, 2007
Trusted for its timeliness and readability, this book introduces geography by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. Two years after Rubenstein's Update Edition was created to encompass the events of September 11, 2001, this revision also begins the careful process of putting those events into perspective. Provides new "Global Forces and Local Impacts" boxes in each chapter that explore in depth an issue related ...
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Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation (9th Edition)1 review
Tom L. McKnight, Darrel Hess
Prentice Hall, 2007
GEO Text
Perfect condition and quick delivery. It was quicker to order the book then to drive to the campus across town to get it. And cheaper too.
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Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs18 reviews
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams, 2007
400 Photographs of Ansel Adams work
This is an excellent representation of Adams work! What sold me was the quality of the photo reproductions. I have several books that display his photography and this one does the best job of showing the details that Adams wanted to show.
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Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Raja Shehadeh
Scribner, 2008
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original ...
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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands (Vol. 1): Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life And Landscape17 reviews
Brad Lancaster
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006
Wonderful, readable, and essential
This is an incredible study of a topic that most of us don't think about much, that is, how we are wasting our rainwater, and what we could be doing instead. This is required reading for anyone who cares about the environment.
Best, the book is highly readable, with excellent illustrations. I knew literally nothing about this topic before I read this book. Now I am a believer. The story of ...
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Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition
Edith Wharton
Rizzoli, 2008
Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its ...
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