These Are My Flowers
Author : Nancy Hopkins
Publisher : Heidi Hopkins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Big Sur (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780970229434
Author : Nancy Hopkins
Publisher : Heidi Hopkins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Big Sur (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780970229434
Author : Gail Saunders-Smith
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736848640
Simple text and photographs depict the parts of flowers and their pollination.
Author : Teri Dunn Chace
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 160469422X
We’ve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Using a unique process that far surpasses conventional macro photography, Robert Llewellyn shows us details that few of us have ever seen: the amazing architecture of stamens and pistils; the subtle shadings on a petal; the secret recesses of nectar tubes. Complementing Llewellyn’s stunning photographs are Teri Dunn Chace’s lyrical, illuminating essays. By highlighting the features that distinguish twenty-eight of the most common families of flowering plants, Chace gives us fascinating insights into the natural history of flowers, such as the relationship between pollinators and floral form and color. At the same time she gives us a deeper appreciation of why and how flowers have become so deeply embedded in human culture. Whether you’re a nature lover, a gardener, a photography buff, or someone who simply responds to the timeless beauty and variety of the floral world, Seeing Flowers will be a source of enduring delight.
Author : Lisa Mason Ziegler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780989268813
Presents simple techniques for an early spring garden of color profiling 30 hardy annual flowers.
Author : Martha Stewart
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0307954773
The essential resource from Martha Stewart, with expert advice and lessons on gardening and making the most of your spectacular blooms Martha Stewart's lifelong love of flowers began at a young age, as she dug in and planted alongside her father in their family garden, growing healthy, beautiful blooms, every year. The indispensable lessons she learned then--and those she has since picked up from master gardeners--form the best practices she applies to her voluminous flower gardens today. For the first time, she compiles the wisdom of a lifetime spent gardening into a practical yet inspired book. Learn how and when to plant, nurture, and at the perfect time, cut from your garden. With lush blooms in hand, discover how to build stunning arrangements. Accompanied by beautiful photographs of displays in Martha's home, bursting with ideas, and covering every step from seed to vase, Martha's Flowers is a must-have handbook for flower gardeners and enthusiasts of all skill levels.
Author : Katherine E. Standefer
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316450359
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.
Author : Malcolm Hillier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Flower arrangement
ISBN : 0671666673
A wealth of inspirational arrangements for many indoor settings and special occasions.
Author : Jennifer Wojtowicz
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781841486864
Shunned at school because he sprouts flowers every full moon, Rink Bowagon makes a special pair of shoes for a classmate who is able to appreciate his unique abilities.
Author : Stephen Buchmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1476755523
An exploration of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes reveals their origins, myriad shapes, colors, textures and scents, bizarre sex lives, and how humans-- and the natural world-- relate and depend upon them.
Author : Danielle Geller
Publisher : One World
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984820419
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.