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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

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