Author: Allan M. Armitage File Type: pdf Horticulturists, students, and dedicated home gardeners will be familiar with Armitages authority on this topic from his more technical Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials. That volume was singled out as a winner of the Choice Academic Book Award, the American Horticultural Society Book Award, and the Garden Writers of America Golden Globe Award. While this new offering is a perfect pictorial companion to the Manual, it also stands alone with its personal commentary and inspiring advice on the most interesting, important, or overlooked plants. Armitage selects proven specimens from nearly 200 genera of plants and evaluates their garden-worthiness and sheer beauty. With humor, authority, and a wealth of practical experience, Armitage offers invaluable insights into those plants that truly earn their keep and a few that do not! He has illustrated the entries with more than 1300 stunning color photos, rounded out by more than two dozen helpful lists of plants suitable for particular situations or uses, including plants for cool-summer areas, plants for dry situations, edible plants, container plants, shade plants, vines, and flowers for cutting.From BooklistIn dedicating his latest book to plant breeders, Armitage conveys his enthusiasm for the breathtaking range of ornamental plants now available to avid gardeners. Many green thumbs specifically count on annuals to bring vibrant color to beds and borders during the traditional growing season, and this encyclopedic reference provides a wealth of photographs to help delineate the ever-increasing arrays of annuals that can be found at nurseries and garden centers. Armitages lively text is both informative and entertaining, and instead of emphasizing cultivation requirements, he provides savvy, up-to-date recommendations for the most desirable species and cultivars to enliven ones garden, from stunning forms of ornamental okra to fuchsias and tropicals such as ginger lily and the unusual twining vine Basella alba. A terrific resource for gardeners and an essential book for anyone who gardens in warmer regions, where many of these plants are among the choicest of year-round specimens. Alice Joyce American Library Association. ltReviewA perfect edition to round out your horticulture library..down-to-earth..the latest in garden annuals along with those long considered the best for the annual garden. Joanne S. Carpender, National Gardener, August 2004 (Joanne S. Carpender National Gardener )A comprehensive and boldly colorful resource for anyone looking for just the right annual for their garden ... beautiful photos and to-the-point text are perfectly balanced. San Diego HomeGarden Lifestyles, July 2004 (San Diego HomeGarden Lifestyles )Nobody knows annuals better than Allan Armitage.George Weigel, People Places Plants, Summer 2004 (George Weigel People Places Plants )Armitage is not only crammed with great information - the photos showing mature growth habit of many of the plants is invaluable.(Nancy Szerlag Detroit Free Press )

Author: Helen Duffy File Type: pdf ReviewDuffy, an international lawyer, analyzes the international legal response to the 911 terrorist attack on the US with a focus on human rights. She introduces the reader to the basics of international law through a presentation of the sources of the discipline. The authors overall argument is that while terrorism presents a complex challenge to established governments, international law is a reasonable and rational response to this challenge. Abandoning international law will mean an eroding of other international norms of acceptable behavior. ChoiceHelen Duffy...has authored a magnificent overview of international law as it addresses terrorism...The War on Terror and the Framework of International Law is an important contribution to an understanding of what the war on terror has become and what it could have been had international law been followed. - The Law and Politics Book Review, David Schultz Book DescriptionThis book deals with the law relevant to assessing how so called terrorist acts like 911 should be understood in legal terms, which responses to them are permissible and how those responses are carried out. It considers some of the practice that has unfolded since 911--military intervention, law enforcement initiatives, human rights restrictions and abuse--with a view to prompting questions as to the lawfulness of the war on terror. It clearly sets out aspects of international law that are of increasing interest beyond academic legal circles.

Author: R. T. Smith File Type: pdf This is no fairy tale. Its all fantastic and bizarre and true. Its my life, a raspy song, that sounds better if you sing along. The men and women who live and work near Opelika, Alabama, gather at the Hollow Log Lounge. There, under the watchful eye of the stuffed fox behind the bar, they unload their gripes and worries, tell their stories, argue, joke, commune, complain, and confess. In this collection of poems, R. T. Smith paints a vividly imagined portrait of the community in this small-town bar, capturing the chorus of the patrons voices echoing off the knotted wood-paneled walls. Smiths stand-in, Sam Buckhannon, scribbles stories heard and overheard as tongues loosened by liquor spin out monologues in which southern idiom and vernacular seem perfectly at home within the constraints of measured verse.**

Author: Jos Smith File Type: pdf In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as The New Nature Writing. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of clone town Britain.