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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 6, Number 2
(March 2004)

 

W.M. Adams. Future Nature: A Vision for Conservation. Revised edition. London: Earthscan Publications, 2003.

Harold Bagust. The Firefly Dictionary of Plant Names: Common and Botanical. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2003.

Rebecca Bushnell. Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Ken Druse with Adam Levine. The Passion For Gardening: Inspiration For a Lifetime. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2003.

Peter Harkness. The Rose: An Illustrated History. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2003.

Matt James. The City Gardener. London: Collins (distributed by Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, Vt.), 2003.

E. Barrie Kavasch. The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquility. New York: Bantam Books, 2002.

Arthur R. Kruckeberg. Geology and Plant Life: The Effects of Landforms and Rock Types on Plants. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Claire Matthews. Great Gardens for Kids. London: Hamlyn (distributed in U.S. by Sterling Publishing), 2002.

Narayan P. Manandhar, with the assistance of Sanjay Manandhar. Plants and People of Nepal. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2002.

Rosemary McCreary. Tabletop Gardens. North Adams, Mass.: Storey Books, 2002.

Sandra Perrin. Organic Gardening in Cold Climates. Revised edition. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press, 2002.

Duncan Poore. Changing Landscapes: The Development of the International Tropical Timber Organization and its Influence on Tropical Forest Management. London: Earthscan Publications, 2003.

Kent E. Portney. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003.

Michael L. Rosenzweig. Win–Win Ecology: How the Earth’s Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sharman Apt Russell. An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2003.

Claude-Henri Watelet (Samuel Danon, translator and editor). Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 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