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Author: Alison Gopnik
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0374229708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--
Author: Nancy Lawson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1616896175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2001-05-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1466828749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.
Author: Novella Carpenter
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1101559322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "how-to" guide for a new generation of farmers from the author of Farm City and a leading urban garden educator. In this indispensable guide, Farm City author Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal share their experience as successful urban farmers and provide practical blueprints-complete with rich visual material-for novice and experienced growers looking to bring the principles of ethical food to the city streets. The Essential Urban Farmer guides readers from day one to market day, advising on how to find the perfect site, design a landscape, and cultivate crops. For anyone who has ever grown herbs on windowsills, or tomatoes on fire escapes, this is an invaluable volume with the potential to change our menus, our health, and our cities forever.
Author: Mary Reid
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781556617171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSteff and Paulie stay at a retirement golf community with Mother Quigg and her son. A phantom gardener has been secretly caring for the park's plants, and the sisters suspect Mother Quigg--until plants start disappearing. Is Mother Quigg a thief? The theme is "honor your father and your mother".
Author: Lars Klinting
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2006-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781417752140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvey wants to grow beans on his windowsill, and his friend Chip is eager to help. They soak the beans before planting them, then they water, watch, and wait--until the day they can pick fresh beans for dinner! Children will love learning to grow their own beans, helped by vocabulary throughout and Harveys gardening tips at the end of the book.
Author: Alison Gopnik
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-08-04
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0374231966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother, explains the groundbreaking new psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments as they relate to the development of very young children.
Author: Novella Carpenter
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781594202216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the adventures of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving urban farm, complete with chickens, turkey, bees, and pigs.
Author: Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780822549055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the author of many popular novels and plays for both adults and children, including the well-known "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "The Secret Garden."
Author: Judith Rich Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0684857073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.
