52 results for "Perennials" between € 5.00 and € 25.00

Description: This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume photographic resource on perennial plants. It describes and illustrate illustrates 136 genera, from "Acanthus" to "Zephyranthes".

Large plantings of perennial flowers can cost tens of thousands of dollars in large gardens or public parks. Organized alphabetically by flower and including charts and graphs, this book presents a system to predict the groupings of flowers that will reliably bloom at the same time.

Every gardener wants to create breathtaking designs with color, form, and texture. But perennial combinations present challenges: How do I know all plants will bloom at the same time? How do I pick plants that have interest in each season? This title takes away the guesswork by providing the author's 100 proven picks.

Features a selection of high-performing perennials that check in at over five feet. This title includes introductory chapters on the plant characteristics and combination ideas. Whether you are an urban gardener looking to create the illusion of space or looking for a new and unusual plant, it offers a plant directory of more than 600 perennials.

Description: Filled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, "The Weight of Heaven" is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control.

Description: In "The Making of the President 1968," the third volume of the groundbreaking series that revolutionized American political journalism, Theodore H. White offers a compelling account of one of the most turbulent presidential campaigns in history: the 1968 election that put Richard M. Nixon in the White House. Viewing the electoral process from an insider's perspective--capturing both the vast scope and the intimate, behind-the-scenes details--White chronicles a campaign that saw the assassinations...

Description: Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality, in conflict with friend and foe alike, in this tumultuous political drama about his last ten years of public life. "Churchill Defiant" is a gripping, fast-paced narrative of bare-knuckle politics, of life-and-death decisions, of old grudges and fresh blame. This is Churchill in close-up--a vivid, deeply poignant portrait of the great man at his most maddening and devious, but also at his most human and defiant.

Description: How does language work? How do we learn to speak? Why do languages change? Why do they have so many quirks? What does language reveal about the mind? Steven Pinker explores the mysteries of language in this original and hugely entertaining book. Pinker uses a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--to illuminate an astonishing array of topics: the history of languages, what we can learn from children's grammatical mistakes, the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings...

Description: "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2009 by HarperCollins UK"--T.p. verso.

Description: "North Point North: New and Selected Poems" showcases the work of an important contemporary American poet, winner of the prestigious Kingsley-Tufts Award for Poetry. The volume opens with twenty-one new poems, some of which have appeared in "The Ne ...

I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea.

The writings of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century -- revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. These diaries follow on from the events recorded in the 'Motorcycle Diaries' and recount the experiences that would make Che a figure known around the world.

Description: While fishing in an Irish salmon stream one rainy morning, Father Declan de Loughry ponders the recent deathbed confession of his parishioner Kevin Dennehy. It seems Dennehy and his wife, Enda, had been quietly living a lie for fifty years. Yet the gravity of their deception doesn't become clear to the good father until Enda shares the full tale of her suffering, finally confiding "the all of it." Jeannette Haien's exquisite, awardwinning first novel is a deceptively simple story that...

Description: This 50th anniversary edition of "The Sheltering Sky", one of the great novels of the 20th century, features an original review of the book by Tennessee Williams. "Stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War ...