Home gardeners with a keen interest in design, as well as professional landscape designers, will find invaluable advice in this new approach. The book focuses on the general principles behind creating successful and beautiful plant combinations in both time and space - working with perennials in the context of trees, shrubs, and the surrounding landscape. The authors suggest lo...(展开全部)

All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese cultural-ness of these notions is. Seventeen scho...(展开全部)

Plants, more than any other design element, can determine the visual characteristics of a designed site. This book helps readers balance technical site requirements with the aesthetics of a site, providing comprehensive coverage of planting design for large-and small-scale projects as well as for residential and commercial sites.

One fine day, and I know how romantic and old-fashioned that sounds, but it is what happened in my case, I packed a rucksack, took leave of my mother, and caught the train to Breda. An hour later - you know how small the Netherlands is - I was standing at the side of the road on the Belgian border sticking my thumb in the air, and I have never really stoppped since.' After maki...(展开全部)

Since making his first voyage as a sailor to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling. Now a selection of his best travel pieces are gathered together in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by author's wonderful sense of humor. From exotic places like Isfahan, the Gambia, and Mali, to seem...(展开全部)

Since making his first voyage as a sailor to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling. Now a selection of his best travel pieces are gathered together in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by author's wonderful sense of humor. From exotic places like Isfahan, the Gambia, and Mali, to seem...(展开全部)

There are some wonderfully bizarre ideas in physics, and it seems a pity to keep them locked up in small boxes, available only to an esoteric coterie of key holders. Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, nonmathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe. He deals with all the basic concepts of modern physics: elementary pa...(展开全部)

There are some wonderfully bizarre ideas in physics, and it seems a pity to keep them locked up in small boxes, available only to an esoteric coterie of key holders. Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, non-mathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe. He deals with all the basic concepts of modern physics: elementary p...(展开全部)

There are some wonderfully bizarre ideas in physics, and it seems a pity to keep them locked up in small boxes, available only to an esoteric coterie of key holders. Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, nonmathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe. He deals with all the basic concepts of modern physics: elementary pa...(展开全部)

There are some wonderfully bizarre ideas in physics, and it seems a pity to keep them locked up in small boxes, available only to an esoteric coterie of key holders. Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, non-mathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe. He deals with all the basic concepts of modern physics: elementary p...(展开全部)