Hardcover Book, First US Edition. 8 colour plates plue b/w drawings.

A Paradise Out of a Common Field: The Pleasures and Plenty of the Victorian Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Morgan, Joan

Richards, Alison

Gardening & Landscape Design

Harper&Row

This extraordinary book contains the most wide ranging history of apples ever written and a detailed survey of over 2,000 of the world's apple varieties. Beautifully illustrated with 32 exquisite colour paintings, the last edition of this book received many accolades and was quickly recognised as a classic. Complete with a fully revised directory covering all the varieties of apples to be found in the world's largest apple collection, The New Book of Apples includes full historical, geographical and botanical details as well as tasting notes on each type of apple. Exploring the role of apples in cooking, cider making, gardening, myth and medicine, this is an indispendable reference guide.

The New Book of Apples: The Definitive Guide to Over 2,000 Varieties

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Ebury Press

Based on a highly successful BBC series, A Passion for Science features thirteen informal conversations with eminent scientists--including physicists, molecular biologists, cancer researchers and astronomers--who speak with remarkable candor and good humor about the personal side of science: why they became scientists, what they find most rewarding about their work, and what it feels like to make a major discovery. Their answers are often startling. For instance, Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam reveals that he became a scientist by chance: he wanted to be a Civil Servant in Pakistan, but when World War II forced the cancellation of the Civil Servant exam, he went to Cambridge for advanced study in mathematics (to do better on the exam) and there became involved in particle physics. Stephen Jay Gould candidly assesses his scientific talents (not a particularly good deductive thinker nor mathematically inclined, but excellent at finding hidden connections) and he explains why this talent can solve a Dorothy Sayers mystery but not one by Agatha Christie. Tony Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr Virus (the first virus shown to cause cancer), recounts his reaction to seeing the virus for the first time ("I switched the microscope off...and I went out and walked round the block two or three times before I dared come back!") At once humorous, insightful, and inspiring, the stories these scientists tell offer a vivid portrait of scientific work, the day-to-day routine, and the moments that come once in a lifetime.

A Passion for Science

Wolpert, Lewis

Science & Math

Oxford University Press

Handmade jewellery: Techniques and design

Phaidon Press

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