Garden News and Notes, July 23, 200
New sites, new ideas, contests, sources - and the patron saint of gardening. Another great thing that Etera has going is a reference guide to help us through potentially embarrassing experiences like having to ask for a plant with a Latin name ... [... more]
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Fandex Family Field Guides: Birds: Wild Birds of North ...
 These books are so much fun!: These books are so much fun! They are great gift items for adults or children. I try to keep one copy in my car on Trees and Birds. What a great idea! I love these Fandex Guides!: A fantastic "quick & dirty" [... more]
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Penguin Classics Penguin Book Of Victorian Verse
Victorian Verse Flops Again: Penguin has brought out this new volume to replace George MacBeth's eccentric and useless volume in the Penguin Classics series. But Karlin's production is equally dismal. These books, though theoretically aimed at a non- [... more]
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Buzz: The Intimate Bond Between Humans and Insects
WEIRD AND WONDERFUL....: "BUZZ" truly takes off!! The authors of this wonderful new book offer one a unique excursion to an insectoid universe paralleling our own...The photographs are astounding, revealing the beautiful and the bizarre in [... more]
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Ortho's All about Perennials
a very useful guide: I have found all of the Ortho series of gardening books to be very useful. In a relatively condensed fashion, the book on perennials communicates a wealth of information. I own several longer, hardbound books about perennial [... more]
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Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite ...
From Amazon.com: This addition to the Taylor bookshelf on gardening gives the gardener a most delicious opportunity to simply browse. Starting with Achillea and ending with Yucca, author Barbara Ellis, former garden editor for Rodale Press and author or [... more]
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Southeast Asian Specialties: A Culinary Journey (English)
From Amazon.com: Southeast Asian Specialties starts with a map, a proverb ("other fields, other insects; other seas, other fish"), and a photo of whole, bronzed, barbecued chickens suspended in a shop window. The image is so vivid you can taste [... more]
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Mushrooms of Northwest North America
An excellent guide with exquisite watercolour illustrations.: Helene M. E. Schalkwijk-Barendsen's guide to the mushrooms of Northwest North America is an excellent introduction to this subject. Schalkwijk-Barendsen covers all the mushrooms one is likely [... more]
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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]
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Primate Taxonomy
An authoritative treatment.: Extensive taxonomic revisions are usually published in monographic series by natural history museums, distributed to a handful of academic institutions the world over, and relegated to shelves in the bowels of libraries where [... more]
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Mediterranean Seafood
A must-have classic: Just before his untimely death, this year, Alan Davidson received the highly prestigious Erasmus Prize for European culture, for his publications on food. This book, along with his Companion and other publications, is a classic. It [... more]
CDN$33.95
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
From Amazon.com: Nothing expresses the vitality, history, and character of a language quite like its idioms. Ask any non-native English speaker to make sense of a phrase such as "beg the question" or "keep your eyes peeled"; they can' [... more]
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