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Grow Your Own in Pots: With 30 Step-By-Step Projects Using Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs
This is a very attractive book with great visual appeal, and the projects described may prove doable for new gardeners. It's a nice supplement to other container gardening books, but not an essential title.
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Queen Elizabeth in the Garden
A charming mix of gardening history and biography, related with evocative prose, this will delight those interested in gardening history, Queen Elizabeth's life, or Elizabethan history. (With black-and-white Elizabethan illustrations, but no photographs of gardens.)
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The Pope Who Quit
Readers with more than a cursory knowledge of the Middle Ages will be frustrated by the number of overgeneralizations and suppositions, although they may admire Sweeney's efforts to make sense of such a complicated time. There is no recent comparable biography of Celestine V in English, although readers may wish to consult reference materials related to Catholicism and the Catholic Church. Some fans of fiction like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code might want to consider this.
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Stalking Nabokov
As is common with such collections, there's a degree of repetitiveness, with some facts, anecdotes, and quoted passages found in more than one piece. But readers can skip around among the aspects of Nabokov that interest the most—or, for example, they can read the several chapters on Nabokov's scientific interests to broaden their own understanding. A readable collection on one of the 20th century's greatest writers, this will be enjoyed by Nabokov fans and students of 20th-century literature.
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Machiavelli
Unger succeeds in presenting Machiavelli as a true Renaissance man. Both he and Viroli ponder Machiavelli's inner life, although Unger pays greater attention to The Prince. Those who have Viroli's book may consider Unger's an optional addition. It will appeal to readers of biography, history, and political science. [See Prepub Alert, 12/20/10.]
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Why Jane Austen?
This book will delight devoted readers and students of Jane Austen and may inspire readers who have disliked Austen in the past. Cultural studies enthusiasts interested in the interplay between high culture and pop culture will also enjoy it.
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Bizarre Botanicals
Perfect for gardeners of all levels who wish to cultivate out-of-the-ordinary plants and for armchair gardeners interested in thumbing through photographs of unusual botanicals.
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Pirates of Barbary
Although the book has several drawbacks, it does shed new light on an overlooked portion of 17th-century history. Recommended for academic libraries.
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The Other Dickens
It is exciting to speculate how this work will shape future considerations of Charles Dickens and his marriage. Of interest to students and scholars across an assortment of disciplines including literary and women's studies, this is recommended for all academic libraries and all who read Charles Dickens.
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