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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

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