The Growing Edge is a magazine designed and published for readers with an interest in gardening, horticulture, and hydroponics. The Best of Growing Edge II: Popular Hydroponics and Gardening for Small-Commercial Growers and Hobbyists is a compilation of the best of the magazine's articles originally published between 1994 and 1999. The various articles are grouped into chapters: Introduction to Hydroponics; The Basic Elements of Hydroponics; Building Your Own System; Plants You Can Grow Hydroponically; Breeding and Propagation; Pest & Disease Control; Greenhouse Management; Organics and Hydroponics; Beyond the Basics; Small Commercial Growers; Hydroponics in Education and Public Service. The Best of Growing Edge II is an essential title for personal, professional, academic, and public library hydroponic gardening and horticultural reference collections.

The Best of Growing EDGE is a collection of the best articles, by twenty four different authors, from the first five years of Growing EDGE magazine. It covers hydroponics, greenhouses, nutrients, lighting, and other new and innovative techniques to use in high tech gardening and horticulture. Since the articles are from the first five years of Growing EDGE magazine, each chapter is a comprehensive compendium of cutting edge horticulture without going over the edge! New and innovative seems to be the keyword here. The mainstream gardening magazines and books cover the tried and true techniques of gardening; The Best of Growing EDGE covers the new and innovative. The information can be used by both hobby home gardeners and large commercial growers. The techinques are the same, it is just the scale of the operation that is different. Gardening is possible year round with the information contained in this book

This is a grand primer for those who have just begun to be interested in heraldry. It has clear black & white line drawings and concise non-stuffy text descriptions of heraldic elements, with some basic rules for assembling them and describing the results. "An Heraldic Alphabet" is aimed primarily at English modern heraldry. It does not cover every possible charge; it does not cover continental variations in style or rules. It is a great place to start, before jumping into more comprehensive (and more expensive) sources, such as Stephen Friar's "History of Heraldry", Arthur Charles Fox-Davies' "A Complete Guide to Heraldry", or "Heraldry Sources, Symbols and Meaning" by Neubecker, Brook-Little, and Tobler. Those interested in medieval heraldry, and medieval recreationists, will need guidance from other sources, such as the other books here mentioned and from their re-creation group's particular rules.

This has to be one of the rarest of things; a book on heraldry that is useful for beginners and serious students. And rarer still, the author shows occasional flashes of humor!

With hundreds of entries, this dictionary of heraldic terms is a godsend to students. J.P. Brooke-Little covers MANY terms, both familiar and obscure, and includes alternate spellings and obsolete terms that would be encountered in older blazons.

While no book of this sort could be comprehensive, "An Heralic Alphabet" is quite thourough, and a must have for any student of heraldry.

This book is deftly written, weaving discussion of modern issues with the co-evolution of scientific and religious thought. I read it for a class, and always read it before any of the other assignments. I highly recommend it!

Review from The Tablet (31 Oct 1998): "The interactionof Christianity and science is more often than not discussed in a historical vacuum. Reconstructing Nature is, therefore, an unusual and stimulating exercise which surveys the interaction over the last 500 years. It produces new insights and challenges some widely held assumptions."

101 Essential Tips: Planning a Small Yard delivers just what it promises. Tips on design, perspective, materials, structures and many photos to illustrate the concepts. I highly recommend this book to anyone faced with putting a lot of garden into a small space.

Great photos, serious design concepts explained. Highly recommended!

The writer of this book has a wonderful imagination & the illustrations are true works of art.The book takes your child on a journey through the eyes of a young chinook wind called Charlie. Charlie becomes very happy that he can bring spring like temperatures to a town in the middle of winter.He enjoys watching the children playing outside laughing & having fun,so much so,he decides to stay.Only to find out that even too much of a good thing can be bad. A must read for your child.

There is no better way to sit out a snowstorm than with any book by John Brookes on gardening or garden planning. A real treat to me is Country Gardening. Mr Brookes, alto British, has an artist's understanding of garden forms world-wide. Not pedantic, many lovely photos, ideas, plant recommendations. Some confusion over common names but he also provides the taxonomic (Latin) names. Master gardeners and enthusiatic amateurs will appreciate.

John Brooke's HEART OF THE COMMONWEALTH is an amazing book. Specifically, it is about Worchester County, Massachusetts in the years 1713- 1861. Anyone interested in early Massachusetts history simply must read this book.

But HEART is much more than that. Brooke's book is what historians call a microhistory, a study of a small place that, because it is so attentive to detail, is able to shed light on American History as a whole. HEART OF THE COMMONWEALTH does this, explaining how different political ideologies in the years after Queen Annes War developed into the ideas of Republicanism and Liberalism that are so much discussed by historians in the acadamy today.

Whether interested in Massachusetts, politics, society, or any aspect of early American life, HEART OF THE COMMONWEALTH is a book worth reading. It belongs on the self of everyone interested in the story of America.

I own an earlier version of this wonderful chart dated in the mid-1980s. It was very beautiful and I would spend quite a bit of time standing in front of it looking at the detailed genealogy and admiring the illustrations of the coat of arms. I had it hanging in my dorm room and it is now a little too ragged for proper display.
Remember, Amazon[.com] has this listed as a paperback, but it is a large wall chart, not a book.

Not only is this book filled with the classic chowder, lobster and other Yankee fish recipies one would expect from a New England Cookbook, the book is filled with ethnic flavors and modern twists. Using these recipes, Thanksgiving dinner was the best I've ever had (No-Cook Cranberry Kumquat Relish is unbelievable). I've been using the book at least once a week (Maple-Mustard Pork Medallions were a big hit as were the Mini-Crab Cakes with Lime Pepper Sauce). The anecdotes are informative and entertaining and the recipies are easy to follow. I like the fact that most of them use ingredients that are easy to find. Additionally, for cooks who read cookbooks for inspiration, this is as good as it gets. I can't say enough about it, and for the price it's an absolute steal.

Brooke Dojny has written a sensational book with personal anecdotes and insights that are both heart-warming and mouth watering. Literally, I began salivating just at the descriptions of some of the recipes. As former managing editor of The Cook's Magazine and other national food magazines, I've read a few recipes in my time. These are tempting without being daunting. Try the North End Veal Piccata and you'll never make it any other way again. If you think New England cooking is always plain or boring, think again. Brooke has discovered some exotic items with such divers origins as Portugal and Poland. And she found them all in New England. So, even if the recipe sounds unusual, it's still home cookin' at its best. This is a cook's cookbook--no fancy, flossy photos--just recipes that work without too much work from the cook. And some really nice stories to set the mood for the meal. You will love this book no matter where you're from.

Brooke Dojny's New England Cookbook: 350 Recipes from Town and Country, Land and Sea, Hearth and Home, is a stunning achievement, a magnum opus of a cookbook. Published by The Harvard Common Press, the book chronicles the cookery of New England from Maine to Connecticut, from the first Thanksgiving to the present. Dojny's approach to the region goes well beyond New England standbys like clam chowder (although she offers three tempting recipes)and spans practically all the food traditions of all the ethnic groups who ever called New England home. The eight baked bean recipes in the book include one for Cuban Black Beans and Yellow Rice and another for West Indian Peas 'n Rice. New England cookery has embraced food from all over the world -- besides Caribbean, you'll find culinary influences of Native American, English, Portuguese, Italian, Irish, German Scandinavian, Greek, French and Hungarian cooks -- and all are represented in this book. Yet, for all its broadness of scope, this is a very personal book; Dojny's voice can be heard throughout, in the headnotes, sidebars and essays that describe the people and places associated with the recipes. The book is also a wealth of New England food history and lore, as well as tips on cooking techniques and ingredients. Bravo! (Excerpted from The Culinary Connection, the newsletter of the Connecticut Women's Culinary Alliance)