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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 5, Number 5
(September 2003)

 

Edward Sibley Barnard. New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison. The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002.

Lois Ehlert. Planting a Rainbow. San Diego, Calif.: Red Wagon Books (Harcourt), 2003, c.1988.

J.M.M. Engels, V. Ramanatha Rao, A.H.D. Brown, and M.T. Jackson (editors). Managing Plant Genetic Diversity. New York: CABI Publishing, 2002.

Louisa Jones. Gardens of the French Riviera. Paris: Flammarion, 2002, c.1994.

Peter King (editor). The Good Gardens Guide 2003. London: Bloomsbury (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square), 2003.

Verlyn Klinkenborg. The Rural Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.

Marta Iris Montero. Roberto Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

John A. Murray (editor). American Nature Writing 2003. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2003.

Thomas Leo Ogren. Safe Sex in the Garden: And Other Propositions for an Allergy-Free World. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2003.

M.K. Razdan. Introduction to Plant Tissue Culture. Second Edition. Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers Inc., 2003.

Marcello Spinella. The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001.

William T. Stearn. The Genus Epimedium and Other Herbaceous Berberidaceae Including the Genus Podophyllum. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2002.

Barbara Tellman (editor). Invasive Exotic Species in the Sonoran Region. Tucson: University of Arizona Press and the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, 2002.

Dominique de Vienne (editor). Molecular Markers in Plant Genetics and Biotechnology. Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers, 2003.

 

Current Books is an Internet–only journal reviewing new books about gardening, horticulture and botany. Reviews cover a wide range of new literature in print and are written primarily by the staff and volunteers of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Please send your comments and suggestions to reviews@chicagobotanic.org

Edward J. Valauskas
Editor, Current Books on Gardening & Botany
Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden