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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 8, Number 4
(July 2006)

 

Jane Amidon. Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners. Boston: Birkhäuser, 2005.

C. Paul Christianson. The Riverside Gardens of Thomas More’s London. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005.

Michael R. Hardwick. Changes in Landscape: The Beginning of Horticulture in the California Mission. Orange, Calif.: Paragon Agency, 2005.

Marina Harrison and Lucy D. Rosenfeld. Gardenwalks in the Mid-Atlantic States: Beautiful Gardens from New York to Washington, D.C. Guildford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2005.

Sheila Harvey and Ken Fieldhouse (editors). The Cultured Landscape: Designing the Environment in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Robbin C. Moran. A Natural History of Ferns. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2004.

Nancy and Michael Phillips. The Herbalist’s Way: The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines. Revised edition. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2005.

Roger Phillips. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2005.

Jeffrey A. Sayer and Stewart Maginnis (editors). Forest in Landscapes: Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2005.

John Vaillant. Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. New York: Norton, 2005.

David L. Wagner. Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Scott Weidensaul. Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent’s Natural Soul. New York: North Point Press, 2005.

Stuart M. Whitten and Jeff Bennett. Managing Wetlands for Private and Social Good: Theory, Policy and Cases from Australia. Northhampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 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