In A Mexican Garden: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Living Rooms

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The team behind the best-selling Mexicolor and Mexicasa has unlocked the gates to Mexico's patios, courtyards, and walled gardens. From private homes to luxurious resorts, In A Mexican Garden celebrates Mexico's hidden oases where lovers meet for margaritas at sunset and families gather for spirited fiestas. The dazzling array of featured properties includes rustic coastal hideaways, elegant Spanish Colonial mansions, rural haciendas, and Modernist architectural masterpieces. Melba Levick's stunning photographs capture page after vibrant page of bold Mexican design elements: swirling mosaic floors, elaborate frescoes, hand-carved stone fountains, and lush native plants. Gina Hyams' informative text explains the historic roots of these uniquely Mexican outdoor spaces. Garden design enthusiasts, fans of Mexico, and anyone who appreciates a siesta in the sun need only open this book to hear the quiet babble of fountains and glasses clinking to toast another beautiful sunset.

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Mexican Garden.......2007-09-27

I was very surprise whith the quality of the presentation and the beautiful pictures. Excellent!!

Beautiful Photo's.......2007-09-03

I love this book! The beautiful photographs give the reader great ideas on how to design and decorate.

great book, terrible binding!!.......2007-07-19

I love the pictures and ideas presented, but after 2 days, the binding had pulled away from the pages!! I think that is flaw that needs fixing.

Mexican Garden.......2007-07-06

I chose this book to help give me some ideas as to how to " Mexicanise " my garden.
So what with the yuccas, agaves & cacti i'm well on the way, just need to add more colour & fragrance to it.

I also bought Mexicasa and Mexicolor.

It's a nice book..........2007-06-13

Your basic coffee table book, nice photos of exactly what the book claims to be: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Rooms. A lot of the subject matter is authentic, old and sometimes dilapidated. Don't expect to see many pictures of new or well kept patios, pools or gardens. This is the real McCoy, just like you'll see when visitng Old Mexico...not that there'e anything wrong with that.

The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of Unix System V Release 4 : An Open Systems Design

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Good book to learn UNIX internals
Excellent book on UNIX internals.
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The Magic of UNIX is completely explained

The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of Unix System V Release 4 : An Open Systems Design
Berny Goodheart , and James Cox
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers
Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture
Solaris(TM) Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris (Solaris Series)
Design of the UNIX Operating System (Prentice Hall Software Series)
Understanding the Linux Kernel

ASIN: 0130981389

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Good book to learn UNIX internals.......2007-07-01

I purchased this book recently. Though a little outdated, the concepts covered in this book are invaluable for anyone who wants to understand UNIX internals. I would also recommend Maurice Bach Design of the UNIX Operating System (Prentice Hall Software Series)

Excellent book on UNIX internals........2003-01-06

Excellent book on UNIX internals. Somewhat confusing at places. But still a good read for any CS student or programmer.

Highly Precious Book.......2002-04-03

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The Magic of UNIX is completely explained.......1999-11-17

The entire UNIX OS is expalined in a cogent manner to be understood completely. For any serious kernel writers this book is a great assert to understand the mysterious kernel. Great book to keep in hand.

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Top Cat Gardener Nichols

Garden Open Tomorrow
Beverley Nichols , Bryan Connon , and William McLaren
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Garden Open Today
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ASIN: 0881925527

Book Description

No devoted reader of Beverley Nichols will want to be without Garden Open Tomorrow. The sequel to his famous Garden Open Today (with its open invitation to readers everywhere to come see his garden for themselves), this is his final garden book and the summation of a long career spent enjoying and writing about gardens. Being Beverley Nichols, however, he cannot confine himself to a narrow discussion of gardening for long and provides entertaining asides on cats — including a hilarious critique of feline "ballet" performances — psychic phenomena, and the use of plants to commit murder.

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Top Cat Gardener Nichols.......2007-01-11

Beverley Nichols writes, as always, with gentle, dry humor in Garden Open Tomorrow. He provides a refreshing look at a bygone day and reminds the reader, by example, that a garden is, indeed, a place of constant renewal, even when it makes much work for the gardener. Among his several cat companions, he is tops!

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Entertaining and informative reading.....not a "how to" book

Garden Open Today
Beverley Nichols
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Garden Open Tomorrow
Down the Garden Path
Thatched Roof (Beverley Nichols's Allways Trilogy)
Sunlight On The Lawn (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 3)
Laughter On The Stairs (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 2)

ASIN: 0881925330

Book Description

When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations of present-day gardeners. In Garden Open Today, however, Nichols attempted a departure from his previous gardening books; he sought to distill 30 years of practical gardening experience in an entertaining fashion, and perhaps to strike back at critics who whispered that he was not a "real gardener." Our new facsimile edition includes a foreword and plant-name index by Roy C. Dicks.

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Entertaining and informative reading.....not a "how to" book.......2003-06-27

Every year, the National Gardens Scheme Charitable Trust (www.ngs.org.uk) in the UK issues the "yellow book" listing details (dates, locations, composition of garden, entrance fee, etc.) about private gardens of England and Wales open to the public on special occasions when a sign will be posted saying "Garden Open Today." The 500+ page yellow book is a county by county guide to these gardens of "quality, character, and interest."

Beverly Nichols book GARDEN OPEN TODAY (first published in 1963) is the next best thing, a narrative tour describing his garden which before his death he opened occasionally to the public. The book is lovingly illustrated with `whimsical' drawings by William McLaren (one photograph of Nichols and his friend Reginald Gaskin collecting money for charity at the entrance to the Nichols' grounds).

Nichols was a "real gardener" who worked side-by-side with several hired gardeners described in his earlier books, including MERRY HALL, LAUGHTER ON THE STAIR, and SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN. If you haven't discovered Beverly Nichols and you love gardening and/or visiting gardens, you are in for a treat. His books are humorous and instructive, and definitely for cat lovers. (He wrote several books about cats). In GARDEN OPEN TODAY, he takes you step by step through his current garden (he moved a few times and wrote books about several gardens) pointing out some of the more interesting flowers and features.

As usual, the best bits of Nichols' book are anecdotal. His chapter on flower arrangers (apparently the bane of his existence) is hilarious. Nichols was a "loose bunch" kind of guy who detested those who "tortured" flowers in order to twist them into unnatural shapes. He often said that flowers were best left in the garden or picked for a loose and natural arrangement reflecting the perennial border. I suppose I get a big kick out his anti-arranger diatribes because I come from a family of garden club members and garden club founders and have had many encounters with the similar characters. However, almost anyone can appreciate Chapter 18. `A matter of arrangement'

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Der Landschaftsarchitekt Dieter Kienast, geb.1945, gehört zu den wichtigsten Protagonisten der gegenwärtigen Landschaftsarchitektur. Seine internationale Bedeutung bleibt auch nach seinem frühen Tod im Jahr 1998 unbestritten. Dieter Kienast hinterfragt den traditionellen Begriff von Natur kritisch. In den von ihm gestalteten Landschaften drücken sich tiefgründige Auseinandersetzungen mit dem gegenwärtigen Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur aus. Wurden im ersten Band Kienasts Privatgärten zur Anschauung gebracht, so geht es nun um den weitaus komplizierteren öffentlichen Freiraum, in dem vielfältigste Bedürfnisse und Ansprüche des Menschen integriert werden sollen. Bei den hier dokumentierten Arbeiten aus Deutschland und der Schweiz handelt es sich um Anlagen zu Wohnüberbauungen, Gewerbebauten, Museen, Krankenhäusern etc. Dazu gehören: die Anlagen für die Swisscom in Worblaufen, die Schweizer Rückversicherung in Zürich, das Bundesarbeitsgericht in Erfurt und für die psychiatrische Klinik Waldhaus in Chur.

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The Wondrous Landscapes of DIeter Kienast.......2001-11-02

This book reveals an extraordinary body of landscape architectural work that is at least notably accomplished and, at its best, reflects a comprehensive expression and thorough understanding of the forces and elements that celebrate the confluence of nature and man. It is what Konrad Osterwalder -who selected Kienast as the "founder figure" of the landscape architecture program at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology- acknowledges as the act of entering into nature while retaining an awareness of cultural perceptions.

Kienast's work is reflective of a marvelous simplicity of which Mies would be proud, and his use of materials -especially plants- manifests a managed and thoughtful approach, almost tender and certainly romantic. Grounded in horticulture and plants like so many European landscape architects, it is through Kienast's measured use of a broader palette of materials common to the landscape that his remarkable talent is most celebrated. Especially revealing are the observations of his peers, presented in short essays, that honor both the technical and aesthetic achievements manifest in Kienast's work. Captured in a variety of images, the seasonal impacts that interplay with Kienast's landscapes are an essential representation that pays just homage to the reflective brilliance of his expressive interpretations.

The text shares Kienast's view that it is only through variety that a place can acquire an identity. The spirit of such places can emerge and be recognized only through emancipation of a satisfactory (landscape) design, relevant utilization, appropriate care, and healthy ecology: these criteria surelywere essential to the works of many great American landscape architects including Olmsted, Eliot, Farrand, Church, and others. The underpinnings of the bridge between contemporary European and American landscape architecture continue to be sustained through this text.

This text places landscape architecture on a European meridian of great import to the larger discipline that carries its message well beyond European boundaries. It is an important work on a landscape architect who died too young (age 53, in 1998), with much work still to be accomplished. Perhaps others will follow a path parallel to Dieter Kienast: the landscape would surely be better for it!

The Garden is Open
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A garden blooms among the pages of this pop-up book

A garden blooms among the pages of this pop-up book

The Garden is Open

Manufacturer: Paintbox Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0966943309

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The charming story of two sisters and their magnificent Southern garden. Each year when the garden is in full bloom, the twins put up a sign announcing "The Garden is Open" and plan a party to celebrate spring. Based on a true story, the book communicates the joy a garden can bring both to those who create and those who share its beauty. The Garden is Open contains a pop-up page and a tiny packet of seeds from the sisters' garden. It is truly a book for all seasons that readers of all ages will enjoy.

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A garden blooms among the pages of this pop-up book.......2001-06-28

This charming book is based upon the true story of two 80-ish twins living in the historic "Gimghoul" neighborhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For 50+ years, the twin sisters have tended their garden. Each Spring, when the garden is ready for guests, the sisters hang a small wooden sign which states "the garden is open" on their gate. Hundreds of visitors stroll their garden paths, ask for advice, and sometimes return home with a cutting or a handful of seeds. Author Pamela Pease has done a fine job in sharing this wonderful story in this beautifully executed pop-up. Her illustrations are childlike and bold; a pop-up of the sisters' house and garden "blooms" amidst the pages, and a packet of seeds from the garden is tucked into the back. For gardeners (and children) of all ages!

A garden blooms among the pages of this pop-up book.......2001-06-28

The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory 2006: The Guide to Visiting America's Best Private Gardens (Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory)

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The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory 2006: The Guide to Visiting America's Best Private Gardens (Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory)
Garden Conservancy
Manufacturer: Garden Conservancy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893424138

The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory: The Guide to Visiting America's Best Private Gardens (Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory)

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The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory: The Guide to Visiting America's Best Private Gardens (Garden Conservancy's Open Days Directory)
Garden Conservancy
Manufacturer: Garden Conservancy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893424081

Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

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Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Insight
Insightful observations for Perceiving the English landscape

Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
Laurie Olin
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0812235312

Customer Reviews:

Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Insight.......2000-08-17

After reading this book, I went out and bought a sketch book. Now, I'm daydreaming about spending the summer in the English countryside, or perhaps in Italy somewhere. Olin inspires the reader to draw. More importantly, he explains how drawing can help us understand places and the forces that shape landscapes. One learns a greater appreciation of ordinary places and the people who create them.

Insightful observations for Perceiving the English landscape.......2000-06-15

Laurie Olin immerses the novice and intellectual landscape observer in the experience of the British countryside. He reveals perceptions through drawings and writings, engaging the reader in historic as well as contemporary investigations. As an architect as well as a renowned landscape architect, Olin adds his unique slant in a beautifully told story. I particularly thought the pensive recanting of the English landscape experience important enough to require it as reading for my college design class who will travel to England next year.

All about ground covers: [for slopes, walkways, rock gardens, wide open spaces, and nooks & crannies] (Ortho book series)

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All about ground covers: [for slopes, walkways, rock gardens, wide open spaces, and nooks & crannies] (Ortho book series)
Don Dimond
Manufacturer: Chevron Chemical Co., Ortho Division
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 091710255X

Book Description

This widely used clinical resource and text was among the first to demonstrate the crucial significance of a family's cultural system in therapeutic work. Chapters are designed to enhance the cultural competance of clinicians working with members of over 40 different ethnic groups in the United States, including families of European, Latino, Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Native American heritage. Ethnic profiles and case studies are presented not as definitive or stereotypical descriptions, but rather as informative frameworks for equipping practitioners with a sense of the cultural issues they may encounter in practice.

Customer Reviews:

Ethnicities and Culture.......2007-03-27

This book was suggested to me by one of my professor's who happens to teach a family counseling course. She suggested that we buy this book to use in our future practices. Since I have purchased the book, I have already referred to it twice. It is highly detailed and knowledgable. I was able to use if for a presentation and for a resource on a college exit exam. I highly recommend this book to those who seek further knowledge and information on various cultures. It reviews all nationalities and cultures that exist in today's society.

Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition.......2007-01-09

This is an extremely valuable and important resource for clinicians. It provides cultural overviews that can be used in clinical work and teaching. It is a wonderful desktop resource that can facilitate the essential process of cultural consideration in clinical work with families. Monica McGoldrick's writing is clear and enjoyable.

Excellent read.......2007-01-09

OK, this book wouldn't seem especially fun to read, and I'll admit that a counselor friend had to recommend it to me, but I find it simply fascinating. As I read through the chapters about my family's heritage, I really found it compelling that many of the the behaviors and values that I take for granted are not simply from my family, but are in large measure common to my ethnicity. Then, as I read about the heritage of my fiancee's family, it really put things into perspective for me. Behaviors that I might have found rude or offensive in my cultural framework have a perfectly natural, and honorable, root in thiers. If understanding is the key to acceptance, this book really helped me understand and communicate much better, and begin to accept and live within different cultures. This book gives an excellent framework to explain how different ethnicitys come to value different things. Highly recommended.

A great way to expand cultural knowledge.......2006-11-10

This is a wonderful and easy to read book that attempts to educate the reader about the culture and divesity of various ethnic groups. The book is divided into racial categories, which are subdivided into specific countries to give the reader a flavor of the diversity within these groups. Anyone who works with ethnic minorities should read this book to get a general sense of how cultural similarities and differences within racial and cultural categories impact family dynamics, the theraputic experience, and adjustment into the American culture.

Very Relevant.......2006-08-07

This is a great book for finding out how to bring people of differing race to an understanding. For instance, I remember one example where White students, approximately between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, were, as part of a therapeutic course, required to refer to all Black people in their environment as 'sir'.This simple sign of respect was a great way to dismantle racism.

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