Two Renaissance Book Collectors is an illustrated study of the lives and works of the Renaissance book collectors Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Often described as the "Prince of Bibliophiles," the French sixteenth-century book collector Jean Grolier is the most famous of all patrons of bookbinding. This volume contains the first full account of his life since 1866, making a significant contribution to cultural history. Grolier is here contrasted with a younger contemporary, the Span...
Widely considered one of Australia's three or four greatest writers, Christina Stead's reputation, within Australia and overseas, has grown steadily in the ten years since her death. It is largely built on one work, her memorable novel of family life, The Man Who Loved Children. This major new study sets that novel within the continuities and developments of Stead's writing over five decades. Jennifer Gribble sees Stead's lifelong fascination with story-telling as the key to a sophisticated and...
Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde, 1873 und 1874: Jahrgang XXVII und XXVIII (Classic Reprint)
by C L Kirschbaum
Biology of Weeds of the Solanum Nigrum Complex (Solanum Section Solanum) In North America (Classic Reprint)
by Brant S Rogers
Compositae Newsletter, Vol. 46: 30 June 2008 (Classic Reprint)
by Bertil Nordenstam
Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes 2 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)
by Richard Spruce
Having previously embarked on a collecting expedition to the Pyrenees, backed by Sir William Hooker and George Bentham, the botanist Richard Spruce (1817-93) travelled in 1849 to South America, where he carried out unprecedented exploration among the diverse flora across the northern part of the continent. After his death, Spruce's writings on fifteen fruitful years of discovery were edited as a labour of love by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), whom Spruce had met in Santare...
Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, Vol. 4
by Federated Malay States
The Grasses of Iowa: The Descriptive and Geographical Study of the Grasses of Iowa (Classic Reprint)
by Louis Hermann Pammel
The Source of Human Good (AAR Texts & Translations S.)
by Henry N Wieman
This is a facsimile edition of a 1946 work of the American pragmatic theologian Henry Nelson Wieman (1884-1975). For Wieman, science and technology represent great power for good and evil, and they must be directed toward the service of that force which creates, sustains, and fulfills human life. But as long as this force is portrayed in supernaturalist terms, as the God who is wholly transcendent of the world, its actual operation in human life is beyond the reach of inquiry. For science to ser...
The Plant Disease Reporter Supplements, 1946: Index to Supplements 161-165 (Classic Reprint)
by United States Bureau of Plant Industry
Handbook of Florists' Crops Diseases (Handbook of Plant Disease Management)
Chapters outline up-to-date strategies regarding breeding, chemical and biological control, cultural and environmental manipulation, diagnosis, nutrition, and sanitation and how these approaches directly influence ornamental plant health. This book is a presentation of the latest techniques for disease management by a global team of experts. The book addresses the major diseases of economically important ornamentals with the goal of capturing the latest disease management strategies along with d...
