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Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking 8th edition of the "bible of Western gardening." With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of them new--it's THE essential book for gardeners in the Western states. What plants to grow, how to nurture them, and where they do the very best--it's all here. You'll also find updated information on the Western climate zones, 30 Plant Selection Guides, plus a Practical Guide to Gardening with basic advice on plant care and essential gardening techniques. New plant lists reflect current trends, such as Mediterranean gardening and easy-care plants for beginners. For more than 70 years, Sunset has been the source for no-nonsense gardening advice, easy-to-follow diagrams, and encyclopedic knowledge of plant varieties. In this edition, we introduce an exciting new feature: gardening tips from well-known plant experts throughout the West. The Western Garden Book has never been better! Features:
8th Edition of this perennial bestseller
More than 8,000 plant listings, 500 new, keyed to climate zones
30 Plant Selection Guides to find the perfect plant for every situation
Special contributions from 40 eminent Western garden experts
Introduction by Sunset garden editor Kathleen N. Brenzel, with a photographic tour of gardens that are truly the `Best of the West' gardens
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In great condition!!.......2007-09-21
The book is in great condition and I received it very quickly. Thank you so much!
a must have!.......2007-09-20
Anyone, from the curious to the beginning gardener to the expert must have this volume on their shelf. It is full of well organized information.
Best garden book there is.......2007-09-16
Got a garden???? You NEED this book NOW! I'm a native Californian, and this is our garden Bible. I don't think anyone gardens without it. I'm in Massachusetts now, and I wanted this book to create my new garden. This book is well worth the investment.
It's easy to see why SUNSET WESTERN GARDEN BOOK has become the reference 'bible'.......2007-09-08
Over 8,000 plants are accompanied by tips from Western gardening pros in SUNSET WESTERN GARDEN BOOK, a classic completely updated and revised, and now in its 8th edition. From small color drawings of plants and seeds to descriptions which include hardiness zones, use, varieties and more, it's easy to see why SUNSET WESTERN GARDEN BOOK has become the reference 'bible' for any Western gardener and for any library catering to them.
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Best for the West.......2007-09-07
The Sunset Western Garden Book is the gardener's bible. For beginners to experts, it's the definitive guide to everything related to gardening. It is to gardeners what the Joy of Cooking is to cooks.
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Invaluable.......2007-08-24
As a landscape designer, this book is indispensable. It has only one major flaw, which I find extremely annoying: the binding is absolutely worthless. I've had the book for less than a year, and it's falling apart. Sections of it come out every time I take it off the shelf, and I'm about ready to rubber band it together. Otherwise, this is a must have for everyone in the horticulture industry this side of the midwest.
Western Garden Book.......2006-07-06
I use to own an older version of this book (soft cover) and lost it. I have truly missed it. I finally broke down and bought another. This is like the bible of garden books. Truly a must have!
sunset western garden book.......2006-07-05
this is an unusually complete reference book. my only complaint is is a somewhat brief treatment of deseases and pests which attack the plants listed and the treatments for them.
Very pleased.......2006-02-27
The book came in record time and was in perfect condition. only praises here.
Indispensible!.......2006-02-20
This edition corrects some of the small things that bugged me with my older edition - for example, the lists of plants for special situations (shade plants, colorful plants etc) used to only have the botanical name, so you were forced to flip through the book to see what the heck they were talking about. Now the special situations section has been greatly expanded, and is much more user-friendly with the common name and page number where details of the plant can be found. Lots of marvelous color photos, plus the line drawings of the plants are now in color too. This book remains the gold standard for all garden books.
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NEW FLEXICOVER EDITION--COMPLETELY REVISED and UPDATED--2000 New Plants - More than 1300 Photos - Full-color Plant Illustrations - More than 8,000 plant listings keyed to Sunset's Western climate zones. Updated climate zone maps for all states, plus new maps for Alazka, Hawaii, and Southwestern Canada. To help you find the right plants, more than 30 great Plant Selection Guides. Hundreds of how-to tips and techniques from Sunset's garden experts.
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Sunset Western Garden Book.......2006-11-07
Much easier to read and useful than earlier versions -- which were also good. Highly recommend this book for all we "do it ourselves" gardeners!
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This all-new second edition, the companion book to the much-beloved Western Garden Book, promises to be just as successful as the first. Packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, it addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challengesand solutionsfor Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and southwestern Canada. Features nThe only landscaping guide designed specifically for Western gardeners nOver 600 photographs and dozens of ready-to-use landscape plans nStep-by-step illustrations and exploded views show easy, do-it-yourself solutions nSeasonal gardening guides and checklists ensure year-round success for experienced and novice gardeners alike nEasy-to-understand plant selection and growing instructions
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Excellent.......2001-12-09
The best garden book overall. A smart book. Creative. Great pics. VERY Comprensive. Wish Id bought hardback.Complete. Very readable. Projects are suberb. Voluminous. A must for every serious gardener.
Inspiring but no help implementing.......2001-08-22
I expected more for the price. There are some nice ideas and a few plans, but the plans don't contain measurements. This is not very professional and makes implementation very difficult. Nice for dreaming, but no real help planning.
All western landscapes types, many photos & diagrams.......2001-02-15
This is a very comprehensive book describing all western regions including the low and high desert, the Pacific Northwest and southern California. The book includes many landscape ideas with diagrams and suggested plant types and many plant photos. Ideas for special needs such as privacy, patio & small spaces , desert areas, swimming pools, decks, lots for shade, low water and other requirements are covered. Types of fencing and decking are also covered. If you are starting out with a bare backyard, as I am, this is the book for you!
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Sunset Western Garden Book
Manufacturer: Lane Publishing Co.: Menlo Park, CA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GTUI3O |
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First Edition March 1954 First Printing of this gardening classic. Ring-bound.
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Spiral bound softcover - drawing and photo illustrated, approx. 8" x 10 1/2" x 3/4".
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Western Garden Annual 1997 (Annual)
Manufacturer: Sunset Pub Co
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Celebrating Sunset's 100th year, the Sunset Western Garden Annual 1999 gathers another years's worth of gardening wisdom brought to readers each month by Sunset Magazine. Monthly Garden Guides offer seasonal ideas, and four regional checklists for each month highlighting important gardening tasks. Plants lovers will learn about the newest in pest prevention and new species of flowers and plants.
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Better than the magazine........2000-04-15
I have all the garden annuals since 1994. The 2000 annual includes a computer cd and the same great collection of Sunset magazine articles. I like the annuals better than tearing apart my Sunset magazines, and no ads no travel and cooking. If you are a Sunset Magazine saver you will want this book. I use my annuals as a resource book of ideas.
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Besides reproducing the stunning, otherworldly beauty of Michael Wolf's massive Chinese propaganda poster collection so brightly it practically gives you a suntan, his book gives you a sense of how the illiterate masses used these images instead of newspapers and TV to get the news and define themselves. In the introduction, the brilliant Anchee Min explains how the 1974 poster of a pigtailed girl heroically posed amid martyrs made Min change her own look, which got her recruited by Madame Mao to star in a propaganda film. Soon Min appeared in a poster--or rather, Min transformed, muscularized, rendered in shining primary colors. As you page through the hundreds of posters, you see how nimbly the artists handle symbolism and composition, favoring right angles (Mao rising rocketlike from the horizon of the marching populace) and diagonals (citizens' rifles form an X pattern echoed in the next panel by the US jets they've downed, as Mao crows, "The atom bomb is a paper tiger the US reactionary uses to scare people! It looks terrible, but in fact, it isn't."). Dong Cunrui, who used his body as a post supporting explosives to blow up a bridge, is a common vertical image, balanced by the dramatic diagonal pose (so like Captain America) of Huang Ji-guang, who blocked US machine guns with his body in Korea. Whenever a poster shows a young guy or girl at an angle, battling waves or giving a running dog a noogie, the image quotes Ji-guang, the visual equivalent of a rap sample of an old-school riff. This book should've been arranged chronologically; instead, it's whimsically structured to correspond with the chapters of Mao's Red Book. Even so, you can't miss the amazing shift that came around 1980: unisex suits give way to flashy Western clothes, prim pigtails to windblown coifs, tanks to TV sets and snazzy fridges, socialist realism to Norman Rockwell and Seattle World's Fair futurism. --Tim Appelo
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Other Suggestions.......2005-09-30
I saw the list of other similiar items. But there's one more you should consider if you really like the genre. "Carteles de la Guerra: 1936-1939" (Posters of the (Spanish Civil) War) is a collection of mostly socialist and anarchist posters from the brutal civil war that engulfed Spain before the true outbreak of WWII.
Propaganda ART.......2004-12-09
This is a great book. So many images. I was expecting mostly communist propaganda posters, and a lot of the same message in similar style over and over - but there is so much more. In fact most of the images are more art or paintings than posters. Tons of images - and notice - 14.5" - this book is HUGE! Another good source book by Taschen.
Mao's Great Big Red Book........2003-11-28
Michael Wolf collected the hundreds of posters shown in this sumptuous book and it occurred to me while looking through the pages that the originals have probably been seen by more people than any others in the world. They were stuck up in every public place (including homes) and published in magazines. Predictably many of them show Chairman Mao, the Great Leader, Teacher, Helmsman, Commander urging the masses forward with the wise fertiliser of his thoughts. To reinforce greatness artists were not allowed to paint figures above his head.
The posters are organised according to the thirty-three chapters in Mao's Little Red Book. Chapter twenty-three, Investigation and Study, has some interesting images including an 1981 painting of various jet aircraft and one from 1978 showing two open hands encasing a stylised atomic graphic. Not all Chinese posters just show peasants looking to the future.
I was surprised to see some quite creative painting styles, for instance, Chao Deren has a brush stroke style similar to the best of the European movie poster artists, Deng Xiu and Zhang Ruiheng could easily have been doing fiction illustrations in the American consumer magazines of the fifties and sixties. Perhaps the strangest poster paintings are those of babies and children, the faces are all rather plump and adult looking, as if the artists imagined this was how a baby Mao looked
This large 320 page book is beautifully designed and printed and if you are interested in political posters or colorful graphics you'll enjoy it. BTW, Taschen have been rather naughty by replacing the head of a child, in one poster, with a head icon they use as a competition promotion. It doesn't spoil the book for me but I thought it rather unnecessary.
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Chinese popular prints
Manufacturer: Aurora Art Publishers
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Art & Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints: Selections from the Muban Foundation Collection (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies)
Ellen Laing
Manufacturer: Center for Chinese Studies, The Universi
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Traditional woodblock prints preserve a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. This book explores and explains the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular prints revealed in eighty-four late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prints belonging to the London-based Muban Foundation.
Woodblock printing was the principal method of producing inexpensive and colorful single-sheet images for mass consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. Prints of this type are known today as "New Year pictures" because the demand for them peaked at New Year's time. However, the term "popular print" more accurately describes these works, whose subjects include deities and tutelary spirits, illustrations to stories and operas, and even contemporary political or revolutionary messages.
The emphasis on the artistic aspects of these prints makes this publication uniquely appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts.
Ellen J. Laing received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She was Maude I. Kerns Distinguished Professor of Oriental Art, University of Oregon and is currently Research Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. She has published numerous scholarly articles, books, and reference works on Chinese art.
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Chinese Popular Prints (Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung, China, 4. Bd. 11.)
John Lust
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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ASIN: 9004104720 |
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Chinese Popular Prints ventures into the world of Chinese blockprint illustration that had its assured niche in the rich history of Chinese popular culture from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. These prints were not considered high art in China, but were produced for the urban and rural populations. The book deals with all aspects of the Chinese popular print. In the first two chapters its invention, origins, powerful traditions and its history are described. Classical art and the Ming illustrated book were important impetuses. Three major centres of north and central China emerged. Finally the popular print took on something of the roles of the modern cinema or television. In the following four chapters the main themes are: the printmakers and printshops; society, symbolism and visual pun; categories of popular prints and their display; technical terms. A description of the workshops and their techniques, figure drawing and colouring, gives a good insight in the technical side of the print. A varied popular culture and a certain realism are strands in it, as are spirit protection of the house, recalls of the past, hopes for the future, the hold of the theatre, etc. Two elaborate appendices provide much detailed information about persons, symbols, as well as about some images in the lore of the print. A special section of 28 illustrations (8 full colour) demonstrates the potentialities of the Chinese blockprint illustration.
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Chinese Popular Prints
John Lust
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUXYEW |
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