Pruning is the number one anxiety of aspiring gardeners who want to train and stimulate their plants but fear they might kill them. Pruning now joins the hugely successful Collins Practical Gardener series to give you the best tips and techniques for pruning your entire garden, from roses and fruit trees to hedges and topiary plants. Pruning retains a plant's shape, improves flowering and fruiting, and keeps foliage and stems healthy. This books guides you through the vast range of tools and equipment that can be used for different pruning tasks and gives you the full understanding of plants necessary for proper pruning. General techniques are followed by a comprehensive A-Z directory of ornamental plants, plus hardy fruit trees, exotic and tender fruits and nuts, and soft fruits. Since the pruning methods required by different plants vary, the specific guidelines are invaluable. A pruner's glossary enables quick reference and, since pruning is more than a once-or-twice-a-year job, the pruner's calendar is an essential reminder of your year-round schedule for keeping your plants at their best. Packed with information, advice and practical tips this informative guide to pruning is the most attractive and down-to-earth reference of its kind. Contents include: / Assessing your garden / Reasons for pruning / Tools and equipment / Understanding plants / Pruning techniques / Pruning roses / Hedges and topiary / Ornamental plant A-Z directory / Pruning hardy fruit trees / Pruning exotic and tender fruits and nuts / Pruning soft fruits / A pruner's glossary / The pruner's year

Pruning (Collins Practical Gardener)

Clarke, Graham

Collins

Adding a pond to your garden creates a haven of tranquillity and serenity at any time of the year. "Gem Garden Ponds" is the comprehensive beginner's guide to mastering the practicalities of pond styles, materials and wildlife. A pond with a creative use of plants can transform your garden into an oasis teeming with wildlife. "Gem Garden Ponds" is the indispensable guide to creating the perfect pond, giving the reader clear guidance on the practical process. This practical, pocket-sized beginner's guide gives unrivalled advice on every step of pond construction. Contents include: planning your pond and necessary material; selecting and installing plants, fish and wildlife; help on planting combinations and a maintenance guide; plant directory provides essential information on over 50 pond plants; and care tip boxes offering invaluable advice on tending to individual plants. An enthusiastic beginner will gain the confidence to create, build and maintain an exciting garden pond with the help of this information-packed, portable guide.

Garden Ponds (Collins GEM)

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<li>Striking color photography</li>
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<li>Clear, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for key tasks</li>
<li>Indispensable charts detailing flowering and growth patterns, color, and essential notes</li>
<li>Comprehensive information on aquatic plants, types of garden ponds, and planting combinations</li>
<li>Useful hints and tips from the experts</li>
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Collins Practical Gardener: Water Gardening: What to Grow and How to Grow It (HarperCollins Practical Gardener)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

William Morrow Paperbacks

The Photograph (Oxford History of Art)

How do we read a photograph? In this rich and fascinating work, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most engaging thinkers on the subject, such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. From the first misty "heliograph" taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz and the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Clarke provides a groundbreaking examination of photography's main subject areas--landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and reportage--as well as a detailed analysis of exemplary images in terms of their cultural and ideological contexts. With over 130 illustrations, The Photograph offers a series of discussions of major themes and genres providing an up-to-date introduction to the history of photography and creating a record of the most dazzling, penetrating, and pervasive images of our time.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Oxford University Press

How do we read a photograph? In this rich and fascinating work, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most engaging thinkers on the subject, such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. From the first misty "heliograph" taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz and the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Clarke provides a groundbreaking examination of photography's main subject areas--landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and reportage--as well as a detailed analysis of exemplary images in terms of their cultural and ideological contexts. With over 130 illustrations, The Photograph offers a series of discussions of major themes and genres providing an up-to-date introduction to the history of photography and creating a record of the most dazzling, penetrating, and pervasive images of our time.

Written by scholars at the forefront of new thinking, many of whom are rising stars in their fields, the Oxford History of Art series offers substantial and innovative texts that clarify, illuminate, and debate the critical issues at the heart of art history today. Providing a fresh new look at art that moves away from traditional elitist approaches, the series makes use of new research and methodologies, a well as newly accessible and non-canonical works to offer comprehensive coverage of the art world. Lavishly illustrated and superbly designed, the Oxford History of Art brings new substance and verve to the exciting and ubiquitous world of art. This new set contains five volumes that touch on many artistic views throughout history and the different ways in which extraordinary mediums and subjects have captured the interest and imaginations of artists and art-lovers alike. Includes, Beauty & Art, Fashion, Eroticism & Art, Portraiture and The Photograph.

Oxford History of Art: Artistic Views (5 Volume Set)

Breward, Christopher

West, Shearer

Mahon, Alyce

Prettejohn, Elizabeth

Oxford University Press, USA

Retail Location Planning in an Era of Multi-Channel Growth

The way in which products and services are delivered to consumers, through branches and retail outlets, or more generally through a network of distribution channels, remains fundamentally important for maintaining a competitive advantage for a very wide range of businesses. This is true within domestic markets, but especially so for increasingly global corporations, as shareholder pressure for continued growth drives businesses into ever more widespread geographical markets. Arguing that more complex markets demand more sophisticated spatial analysis, this book discusses the application of location planning techniques to generate competitive advantage in a variety of business sectors in a changing retail environment. The series of techniques are analysed, from relatively straightforward branch scorecards to sophisticated applications of geographical information systems (GIS), spatial modelling and mathematical optimisation. Also explored are the changing dynamics of the impact of more restrictive planning environments in many countries on how retailers find new locations for growth and respond to changing consumer needs and wants. The book is essential reading for students and scholars alike working in geography, economics, business management, planning, finance and industry studies.

Science & Math

Clarke, Martin

Birkin, Mark

Earth Sciences

Routledge

Spatial modelling and GIS are closely linked both in their uses by industry and as academic disciplines. Intelligent GIS sets out the principles and applications of spatial modelling and GIS and demonstrates its use in location decisions and strategic planning. The book shows how Intelligent GIS can be used to analyse the huge amount of data available to industry to help it make informed decisions. Intelligent GIS will be invaluable reading for:  GIS professionals students of Geography, Business Studies, and Marketing business decision-makers  Intelligent GIS:  demonstrates the importance of geographical thinking in business considers the type of data available and how it can be used shows how performance indicators can provide management information shows how the geographical modelling processes can aid policy-making illustrates the use of these methods in four service sectors: retailing, financial services, health care, and education provides examples drawn from academic research, and real-life case studies from throughout the world  The authors have international reputations in applied spatial analysis and GIS. They are well-known in the business community for the profitable use of intelligent GIS.

Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning

Reference

Wilson, Alan G.

Clarke, Martin P.

Atlases & Maps

wiley

This innovative book exemplifies the importance of sophisticated and intelligent spatial analysis techniques in dealing with the range of location, distribution and channel management issues which face today's retail and service businesses. 
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<li>Explores some of the trends taking place within the broad consumer-retailing sector, drawing on research undertaken in grocery, supermarket retailing, financial services, travel and leisure in Europe, North America and Australasia</li> <li>Numerous global case studies are used to show keys issues</li> <li>Details how retailers can begin to develop information and analytical frameworks to better understand what is happening in the retail environment</li> <li>Describes how retailers can plan their cross channel network strategy for the future</li> </ul>

Retail Geography & Intelligence and Network Planning

Business & Money

Industries

Retail Intelligence and Network Planning

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