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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

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