Identifies and describes herbs, perennials, grasses, climbing plants, trees, and shrubs with variegated leaves

Variegated Leaves: The Encyclopedia of Patterned Foliage

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Lawson, Andrew

Conder, Susan

Gardening & Landscape Design

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The author recounts how she redid the garden at her home in the Cotswolds and discusses methods for planning a garden to complement its surroundings

Creating a Garden

Keen, Mary

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

A guide to making the best possible choice of garden plants. The author recommends plants that earn their keep all the year round, for example, offering an exceptionally long flowering season, or spring flowers followed by autumn fruit, or summer foliage followed by attractive winter bark.

Performance Plants: Creating a Garden with Year-Round Beauty

Penguin??Books

An illustrated selection of trees, shrubs, and flowers that will perform all through the year, with advice on cultivation, care, and the plant's contribution to the landscape

Plants for All Seasons: Creating a Garden with Year-Round Beauty

Crafts & Hobbies

In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias, panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk. In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Lawson traces the origins of American realism to a new structure of feeling: the desire of embattled and aspiring middle class for a more solid and durable reality.The story begins with New England authors Susan Warner and Rose Terry Cooke, whose gentry-class families became insolvent in the wake of the 1837 Panic, and moves to the western frontier, where the early careers of Rebecca Harding Davis and William Dean Howells were shaped by a constant struggle for social position and financial security. We see how the pull of downward social mobility affected even the outwardly successful, bourgeois family of Henry James in New York, while the drought-stricken wheat fields of Iowa and South Dakota produced the most militant American realist, Hamlin Garland. For these writers, realism offered to stabilize an uncertain world by capturing it with a new sharpness and accuracy. It also revealed a new cast of social actors-factory workers, slaves, farm laborers, the disabled, and the homeless, all victims of an unregulated market.Combining economic history and literary analysis to powerful effect, Downwardly Mobile shows how the fluctuating fortunes of the American middle class forced the emergence of a new kind of literature, while posing difficult political choices about how the middle class might remedy its precarious condition.

Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Critical care is a highly complex area of medicine, in which 30% of patients are expected to die. Developments in law have had a major impact on treatment expected and received in the I.C.U. . However, the law and ethics surrounding clinical practice are not always clear, and generate much concern for those working in intensive care. This book outlines how the law has changed and the impact this has had on the practice of intensive care medicine. Particular clinical scenarios are outlined to illustrate real problems that develop during normal clinical practice, with discussion of the legal and ethical framework that arises from these scenarios, and possible solutions to the problems that are identified. It also covers issues such as consent, who decides children's rights, living wills, withholding and withdrawing of life-saving care, whether there is a right to insist on treatment, definitions of 'death', I.C.U. funding, and the breaking of bad news. The emphasis is on practical information that will inform all professionals involved with patients admitted to the I.C.U., including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.

Law and Ethics in Intensive Care

Medical Books

Waldmann, Carl

Danbury, Chris

Newdick, Chris

Medicine

In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias, panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk. In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Lawson traces the origins of American realism to a new structure of feeling: the desire of embattled and aspiring middle class for a more solid and durable reality. The story begins with New England authors Susan Warner and Rose Terry Cooke, whose gentry-class families became insolvent in the wake of the 1837 Panic, and moves to the western frontier, where the early careers of Rebecca Harding Davis and William Dean Howells were shaped by a constant struggle for social position and financial security. We see how the pull of downward social mobility affected even the outwardly successful, bourgeois family of Henry James in New York, while the drought-stricken wheat fields of Iowa and South Dakota produced the most militant American realist, Hamlin Garland. For these writers, realism offered to stabilize an uncertain world by capturing it with a new sharpness and accuracy. It also revealed a new cast of social actors-factory workers, slaves, farm laborers, the disabled, and the homeless, all victims of an unregulated market. Combining economic history and literary analysis to powerful effect, Downwardly Mobile shows how the fluctuating fortunes of the American middle class forced the emergence of a new kind of literature, while posing difficult political choices about how the middle class might remedy its precarious condition.

Review\nAbsolutely fantastic... absolutely gorgeous color for every season... lays out for you when to plant the different flowers and [gives] you an idea of the coloration that you can use as well as texture that you can use in the garden. -- Mark Goven ― Florida Gardening Radio Show Published On: 2019-05-26\nFor color-holics like me, the reissue of "The Gardener's Book of Color" is all the encouragement we need... It combines a mini-class on color theory, observations on the emotional aspects of color, and page after page of inspiring photos that show how color functions and how gardeners can use it...Readers may find themselves saying "Aha! " more than once as they learn about how and why certain hues behave as they do -- and they may never look at a garden the same way. -- Diana Lockwood ― Columbus Dispatch Published On: 2019-08-11\nProfusely illustrated, as you might expect from an author who is an award winning garden photographer, the book begins with a chapter on color. Understanding Colour (Lawson is British) explores the artistic aspects from the color wheel, saturation, light and dark tones, influence of light, and more. Be advised, if you think, "Meh" and skip over this section of the book you'll short change no one but yourself. Unless you have the foundation, how will you build your garden? The majority of the book is devoted to Gardening with Colour, first exploring single colors and then moving on to harmonies, contrasts, and mixed colors. Illustrations vary from full page garden vignettes, half page mixed plantings, smaller plant portraits, with explanations of the plants -- both flowers and foliage -- the season, and more... Very useful. ― Belle Woods Garden Blog Published On: 2019-08-27\nColourful photos of blooms are on every spread in this book, which covers the philosophy of colour, then how to handle plants of single colours, harmonies of colour, contrasting colours, and mixed colours. Drawings identify each plant in the book's scenes of multiple plantings, if you want to recreate a particular bed. This is an interesting book of combinations and groupings to try. ― Niagara Escarpment Views Published On: 2020-03-01\nA comprehensive guide to using color in the garden to best advantage. 
"Color is the most potent weapon in a gardener's armory," Andrew Lawson writes. "Nothing in a garden makes more impact." 
This guide takes color way beyond the existing guides for gardeners. It adds new dimensions to the art of gardening, and shows the gardener how to put plants together to make personal and effective combinations. It explores not only single-color plantings, but also the wide range of color associations available to the gardener for "painting" pictures with plants. 
The Gardener's Book of Color caters to every taste and every mood. It explores soothing gardens based on varying hues of greens and restrained color palettes, and describes how harmonies and contrasts create a combination of stimulating, pleasing color. Lawson describes the importance of foliage forms, how the shapes of plants and plantings contribute to an effective garden design, and how plant choices extend to the color of their foliage, stems, bark and berries. 
The color chapters feature plant directories in which Lawson recommends a variety of seasonal plants for gardening with color. His detailed notes include a brief description of the plant, its cultivation requirements, and botanical and common names. 
The book finishes with 24 keyline drawings of the garden plans displayed in the book. The plans list the plants used and refer the reader to the page on which there is a photograph of that garden.

The Gardener's Book of Color

Firefly Books

The cottage garden of today derives from two strands: the subsistence culture of the original cottagers, who grew the vegetables and herbs they needed, and the romantic notions of the gentry who, from around the seventeenth century, started to build larger cottage-style houses. The English Cottage Garden is loosely arranged as a stroll around an idyllic garden. With Jane Taylor as our guide, we enter through the wicket gate and up the garden path, discussing the medicinal and culinary herbs in the adjacent borders, take a quick lesson on the quirky art of topiary, relax on a garden seat beneath a shady bower, breathing in the fragrance of lavender and lily of the valley, admire the climbing roses and fruit growing up the cottage wall, and then inspect the greenhouse and outbuildings. Finally, we are shown a medley of flowers: some traditional, some transplanted from woodland and meadow, and some of the more sophisticated and exotic flowers now integrated into many a cottage garden.

The English Cottage Garden (Country series,No. 34)

Taylor, Jane.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Today's cottage garden derives from two strands: the subsistence culture of the original cottagers, who grew the vegetables and herbs they needed; and the romantic ideas of the gentry who, from about the 17th century, began to build large cottage-style houses. This is a tour of the cottage garden.

The English Cottage Garden

Home Improvement & Design

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

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Books by Lawson, Andrew

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Variegated Leaves: The Encyclopedia of Patterned Foliage

Creating a Garden

Performance Plants: Creating a Garden with Year-Round Beauty

Plants for All Seasons: Creating a Garden with Year-Round Beauty

Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

Law and Ethics in Intensive Care

Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

The Gardener's Book of Color

The English Cottage Garden (Country series,No. 34)

The English Cottage Garden