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Champion Trees in the British Isles
The gales of October 1987 made this third volume an unfortunate necessity. A disproportionate number of champions of rare species, particularly broadleaves, were in the Kent and Sussex gardens which suffered the worst storm losses. Therefore this volume contains many updated figures.
A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe
This title illustrates every tree regularly found in Britain and Northern Europe. The text complements the illustrations, stressing the important identification features of each tree. The keys are easy-to-use, designed to help even the beginner identify any tree they see in any season.
The Trees of North America
Contains both native and introduced trees. Family-by-family, species-by-species, this book surveys some 500 species.
A Specter Haunting Europe
“Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time.” —Samuel Moyn “Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.” —The Nation For much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. A Specter Hau...
Empire's Nature
Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavor...
