Who said Latin is a dead language?
How to read latin names, with useful links, and an area especially for Botanical Bloopers. Home » Plants & Animals » Perennials » Who said Latin is a dead language? Latin names are used for naming many aspects in nature, such as [... more]
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Emergency Magic!: 150 Spells for Surviving the ...
 Well ....: Nice book with some cute cartoons, but nothing that I tried in it worked for me. Not Wicca 101: The reviewer who complained that Emergency Magic reads like a manual is unfamiliar with the format. This book is more like an old-fashioned [... more]
CDN$20.95
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Cacti and Succulents: An ...
Another very good cactus reference: I found this book to be both useful and informative, but not as one's only reference. It's a little too "biological". The pictures are good - they generally show enough of the plant, including the flowers to [... more]
CDN$23.50
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A Garden in Lucca: Finding Paradise in Tuscany
The medium-well tempered garden book.....: Paul Gervais is not Mathew Spender, nor is he Peter Mayle, nor is he Frances Mayes. Spender is an artist with a flair for description who fills his book about the life of an Englishman in Italy with all sorts of [... more]
CDN$32.95
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One Earth Herbal Sourcebook
One of the best herb books ever written: I have a degree in Chinese herbs and at least 50 books on herbs. This is one of the best. The author reviews Chinese, Western and Ayurvedic herbs. He includes research and little known facts about the herbs. There [... more]
CDN$20.84
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Runaway Hearts
Sstarts off great, but loses steam.: Mary Lou Finch is not a woman to sit by and allow her future to be ruined. So when Pierce Thorndike's prize racehorse Damien's Curse mysteriously disappears before a major horse race, she takes it upon herself to [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals
Outstanding Guide: This guide book is simply one of the best regional mammal guide books in existance. As well as providing good descriptions of the mammals, it looks at them in the context of their evolutionary history. It does contain a few errors, as [... more]
CDN$60.12
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Lois Hole's perennial favorites
Confidence-building perennial book! Absolutely!: Midwest perennial gardener here! This is the easiest, most helpful gardening book I own for choosing a new perennial or figuring out what's going wrong with an older one. All the pictures are in color and [... more]
CDN$20.79
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The Stars: A New Way to See Them
A "New" Old Book: Here is a book review of an old book, written by H. A. Rey, the author of the "Curious George" books (no relation to me!). _The Stars: A New Way to See Them_ was first written in 1952. Houghton-Mifflin's 3rd edition, [... more]
CDN$29.95
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The Stars: A New Way to See Them
A "New" Old Book: Here is a book review of an old book, written by H. A. Rey, the author of the "Curious George" books (no relation to me!). _The Stars: A New Way to See Them_ was first written in 1952. Houghton-Mifflin's 3rd edition, [... more]
CDN$13.95
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The Tulip
From Amazon.com: In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 guilders, more than $3.5 million in today's money. Tulipomania had reached its height, and its story is told in just one of the [... more]
CDN$18.02
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Malay Archipelago
a nineteenth century masterpiece: "The Malay Archipelago" is Wallace's most celebrated book. It went through fifteen editions during his own life alone, and has been translated into every major language (and a number of minor ones). It is [... more]
CDN$27.95
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