My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants ...
 Amazon.com Review: This anthology edited by novelist Jamaica Kincaid is a fascinatingly quirky compilation of writings about plants by the people who love them. Some are exceedingly practical--Ken Druse's essay "Desire Under the Jacks" gives [... more]
$20.00
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My Garden (Book)
Insufferable: I found this book insufferable, and didn't get to finish it. The contrived title should have tipped me off. Why isn't Amazon listing it correctly? It should be My Garden (Book): For started, i don't really care for Jamaica Kincaid's writing [... more]
$16.00
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A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed
Pleasant: This is a pleasant little book; basically a series of essays on the writer?s one hundred favourite plants that can quite easily be purchased and grown from seed. I enjoyed the personal approach to gardening and plants, and also the relaxed [... more]
$18.00
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The Corrections
Book Description: Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall [... more]
$26.00
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist ...
Amazon.com Review: British science writer Richard Hamblyn skillfully blends biography with scientific and cultural history to capture for modern readers the remarkable achievement of Luke Howard (1772-1864), the quiet Quaker whose classification of cloud [... more]
$27.00
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
Amazon.com Review: The making of a painting relies on inspiration, craft, practice, and vision. But, observes the noted science writer Philip Ball, it also hinges on science: "For as long as painters have fashioned their visions and dreams into [... more]
$35.00
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology ...
Amazon.com Review: Maybe we have a future after all: Our Posthuman Future is political historian Francis Fukuyama's reconsideration of his 1989 announcement that history had reached an end. He claims that science, particularly genome studies, offers [... more]
$25.00
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The Control of Nature
Amazon.com Review: Master how-it-works writer John McPhee has instructed his readers in the arcana of how oranges are commercially graded, how mountains form, how canoes are built and oceans crossed. In The Control of Nature he turns his attention once [... more]
$16.00
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Churchill: A Biography
Book Description: Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for [... more]
$40.00
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My Brother
Amazon.com Review: Compassion only occasionally lightens the grim tone of Jamaica Kincaid's searing account of her younger brother Devon's 1996 death from AIDS. As in novels such as Annie John, Kincaid is ruthlessly honest about her ambivalence toward [... more]
$13.00
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At the Bottom of the River
Love, sadness, and growing up in the Caribbean: Jamaica Kincaid's AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER is a study of voice and language that first brought the author recognition beyond the pages of literary journals. These ten stories, all but the last extremely [... more]
$12.00
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
Amazon.com Review: Billed as "A Biography of Water," Life's Matrix would seem to have taken on a nearly insurmountable challenge. Yet author Philip Ball, science writer and consulting editor for Nature, covers the very interesting chemistry and [... more]
$25.00
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