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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 7, Number 6
(November 2005)

 

Richard Louv. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature–Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005.

John Madson. The Elemental Prairie: Sixty Tallgrass Plants. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005.

Peter J. May. Designing and Creating Water Gardens. Ramsbury, Marlborough, U.K.: Crowood Press (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square), 2004.

Rita Pelczar and William E. Barrick. Southeast SmartGarden Regional Guide. New York: DK Publishing, 2004.

Tim Richardson. English Gardens in the Twentieth Century. London: Aurum Press (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square), 2005.

Miriam Rothschild, Kate Garton, and Lionel de Rothschild. The Rothschild Gardens: A Family’s Tribute to Nature. New York: Abbeville Press, 2004.

Philip W. Rundel and Robert Gustafson (editors). Introduction to the Plant Life of Southern California: Coast to Foothills. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Gay Search. Delia’s kitchen garden: A beginner’s guide to growing and cooking fruit and vegetables. London: BBC Books (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square), 2004.

T.C. Smout, Alan R. MacDonald, and Fiona Watson. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press), 2005.

Tom Turner. Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC–2000 AD. London: Spon Press, 2005.

Gilbert Waldbauer. Insights from Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005.

Martha Day Zschock. Journey around Chicago from A to Z. Beverly, Mass.: Commonwealth Editions, 2005.

 

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