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This book is a textbook, but also aimed at the
general scientific reader, and describes the physics
that underpins environmental processes. these incluce
global warming, ozone depletion, energy use and
prospects for cleaner energy, weather (including
cloud physics) and climate and the physics of soils.

Tom Peters knows how to stay current with business trends. He seems especially attunded in how energized, motivated people should take leadership over their own career development to levels of growth and success that few people seem able to achieve. This CD has so many gems in it, it is impossible to go through it all without feeling you have a million common sense things to get going on right now, but for some reason in the past your common sense did not prevail, and they are all new ideas.

This CD has wonderful testimonies and video clips. I just wish printing the material was easier. Being on a CD is great the first time, but to use every day like a planner is not practical. There are just so many things that deserve reading and listening again and again. I got more ideas the second time I went through it. If people did one out of ten things suggested in the CD, they would turbocharge their career path. I just wish they put it in a planner, and not have to run off a CD.

This book is a concise and complete review of the genus Valerian, a medicinal plant used in many countries for many years. I am pharmacologis of medicinal plants. I found an integrate book of the valerian.

All of the Taylor books seem to be written for non-western gardens. I have 4 of their books and yet whenever I want to look up a plant I've seen in a nursery I rarely find it in these books. This is not the book you want if you are hoping for a good resource for roses. This is a guide book, when you want to look up a rose you saw at a nursery to find out a little more about it. The book divides the roses by class so if you are like most people and looking to buy a hybrid tea this book has fewer than 100. There are thousands and thousands of roses on the market, the odds that you will find it in this book is nil unless you are looking for Peace or the most common. This is a small book, you could spend your money better elsewhere. I recommend Botanica's Encyclopedia of Roses.

This book is full of photos but it is also full of inaccurate information. Listing the rose "Roger Lambelin" as a disease resistant variety is a prime example. World famous rose authority Peter Beales says of Roger Lambelin in Classic Roses, "A strange rose, whose addiction to mildew and other diseases renders it no more than a novelty." Other hybrid teas known to often have problems are also listed as disease resistant. I guess Taylor's idea of disease resistant applies only if you spray your roses weekly with fungicide. The sad thing about this misinformation is that this book is probably targeted at people new to roses. That being said, I would say the photos in this book are consistently well done. But for more accurate & detailed information, even better photos, and more roses, buy Peter Beales Classic Roses instead.

The Taylor's Guide to Roses is, like its companion volumes, handy to have around as a supplement to other books on roses. In itself it is neither complete nor entirely reliable; however, its many attractive photos are useful, especially for people who are not familiar with the various classifications of roses. I particularly appreciate that it gives equal space to old roses, shrub roses, and species, as the round of hybrid teas grows tiresome to the eye and these plants deserve far more garden space than they receive.

Overall, best used as a visual aid for form--color, as in any book, is subject to the vagaries of nature and photography.