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Sunday, July 31, 2011

The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques

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This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time—by landscaping with edible plants.
Author Rosalind Creasy, a landscape designer and leading authority on edible landscaping, provides all the information necessary to plan, plant, and maintain ornamental edible landscapes, with specific designs for all geographic and climatic regions of the country. Drawing on years of research into the most decorative and flavorful species—from the exotic water chestnut to the ever-popular apple—Creasy shows how edibles can form the basis for a beautiful home landscape or can be integrated with traditional ornamentals. An outstanding feature is the 160-page "Encyclopedia of Edibles"—a book in itself—which alphabetically lists more than 120 edible species, with detailed horticultural information, landscaping and culinary uses, seed sources, and recipes. Other valuable features include an abundance of how-to illustrations, photographs, and landscape diagrams designed for beginners and experts alike, plus a list of mail-order nurseries, a climate zone map, and extensive appendices.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Chicago Afternoons with Leon: 99 1/2 Years Old and Looking Forward

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What a story! Chicago Afternoons with Leon will leave you refreshed and upbeat toward old age and about the future of Chicago. At 99¿, the vibrant former 5th Ward Ald. Leon Despres in chapter after chapter probes the city with care, curiosity and concern. The result is his gift to all of us of a new, forward-looking Chicago Plan, constructed in time for his and the original plan's 100th birthdays. "Throughout his career, Leon Despres has been in the forefront of just about every decent, worthwhile effort made to improve life in this city."-Mike Royko, Jan. 30, 1972"The absolute conscience of the city." -Abner J. Mikva"Leon Despres is my North Star. He is the one." -Studs Terkel

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Friday, June 24, 2011

Protect Your Parents and Their Financial Health: Talk With Them Before It's Too Late

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Creating a structure for talking to aging parents about their affairs, Richards offers guidance and preparation through the process, helping remove psychological and practical barriers; compile data; set and achieve goals; and deal with reticent parents.

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Living with the Puerto Rico Shore (Living with the Shore)

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In this, the eighteenth title in Duke University Press’s Living With the Shore series, the authors present a "user’s guide" to the coastal zone of Puerto Rico. Presenting a geological appraisal of the history, dynamics, and hazards of the island’s coastline, Living With the Puerto Rico Shore is the first in the series to examine a tropical region and the first to examine an area outside the continental United States.
The book provides detailed descriptions of the entire shoreline, noting the specific coastal hazards of each coastal reach. These hazards include coastal erosion, storm surge flooding, and potential damage from earthquakes. Where high-density development or significant roads and utilities are particularly at risk, these are also noted. The effects that sand mining, seawalls, jetties, and other attempts at coastal engineering have had on the island are examined. Finally, the authors discuss historical and legal aspects of coastal planning in Puerto Rico, presenting guidelines for selecting building sites.
Of interest to all concerned with protecting our shores and beaches and useful to the coastal planner and manager, Living With the Puerto Rico Shore contains an extensive bibliography and a list of agencies involved in coastal issues.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Teaching with Educational Technology in the 21st Century: The Case of the Asia Pacific Region

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With the emphasis on faculty experiences and efforts to enhance higher learning in less-developed regions, Teaching with Educational Technology in the 21st Century: The Case of the Asia-Pacific Region is a comprehensive study of teaching applications involving educational technology.

The book encourages collaboration across geographical borders to promote information literacy, facilitate the learning process, and to establish a greater infusion of technology throughout the region. Intended as a guide, Teaching with Educational Technology in the 21st Century: The Case of the Asia-Pacific Region looks clearly at the impact of distance education programs, articulation issues and faculty technical competency levels, and offers solutions for policy makers and educators to remain current with basic technical applications. It explains how education is no longer confined to a geographical space and reaches out as a model to all interested in promoting quality higher education across geographical and cultural borders.