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Creating Cities/Building Cities
Architecture and Urban Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized architecture to achieve a variety of aims, influencing the situation, perception and competitiveness of their cities.
by James Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A vital young voice in the gardening scene teaches a new generation of Southerners to love gardening and to make it a focal point of their lifestyle. James Farmer III teaches respect for the age-old rules of flower and vegetable gardening in the Deep South (e.g., May is the time for pruning), in a...
by Anne Hillerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Take a visual journey through the some of the most spectacular and luminous gardens of Santa Fe, which boasts an astonishing diversity of flora and fauna, from traditional succulents and drought-resistant plants to roses and fruit trees.
by Richard Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Artisan Farming focuses on the unique farming culture of New Mexico. Laden with rich photos, ripe with human interest stories, and bounteous with tantalizing recipes, Artisan Farming explores this state's one-of-a-kind agricultural heritage and the revival of traditional, organic, and "artisan"...
Food to Grow
A simple, no-fail guide to growing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
From Canada’s #1 garden team, a guide that makes growing your own fruits, vegetables and herbs simple, bountiful and fun
Nothing beats the taste and smell of a tomato freshly picked from your own garden. And there’s a certain pride in knowing that the salad you just served—fresh strawberries...
by Marie Iannotti
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Growing vegetables requires regionally specific information—what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Northeast tackles this need head on, with regionally specific growing information...
Get Growing
An Everyday Guide to High-impact, Low-fuss Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Have you ever looked enviously at a neighbour’s garden and wished you had a green thumb? Have you ever gone to the garden centre full of enthusiasm, only to find yourself confused and defeated? Have you ever wished that somehow gardening could just be, well, easy? If so, it’s time to Get Growing...
Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas
The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community for...
by Nick Devas
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world's poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied relationship...
Uniting a Divided City
Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm...
Dubai
Gilded Cage
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism,...
by Colebrook, Binda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Many gardeners can supply a significant amount of their own food during the plentiful summer harvest. But the key to substantial savings on your food bill is putting fresh, homegrown produce on your table every month of the year. And in the mild, forgiving climate of the maritime Pacific Northwest, it...
Gardening with Heirloom Seeds
Tried-and-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Heirloom seeds are more than the promise of next summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. They're living antiques handed down from one generation to the next, a rich inheritance of flavor and beauty from long ago and, often, far away. They are sometimes better adapted to pests and harsh...
Vintage Wisconsin Gardens
A History of Home Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
As Wisconsin’s population moved from farmsteads into villages, towns, and cities, the state saw a growing interest in gardening as a leisure activity and source of civic pride. In Vintage Wisconsin Gardens, Lee Somerville introduces readers to the region’s ornamental gardens of the nineteenth...