The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and...
Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Staying Alive (The EMP #2) in Books
Jan 16, 2018
Tensor Calculus for Engineers and Physicists: 2016
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This textbook provides a rigorous approach to tensor manifolds in several aspects relevant for...
The Princess Bride Adventure Book Game
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Inconceivable! Climb the Cliffs of Insanity, brave the Fire Swamp, and help Buttercup, Westley,...
Management Consultancy
Joe O'Mahoney and Calvert Markham
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Management Consultancy provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the consulting...
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Alison Snape, Despo Papachristodoulou, William H. Elliott and Daphne C. Elliott
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Now in its fifth edition Biochemistry and Molecular Biology features a new author team, who have...
Renewal Theory for Perturbed Random Walks and Similar Processes: 2017
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This book offers a detailed review of perturbed random walks, perpetuities, and random processes...
There is SO MUCH information in this book. Unlike some of the other books, there's no big spreads of full-color, glossy photos (which can be useful, I'm not digging on those); The Food Forest Handbook is mostly text with a few black-and-white photos tucked in. There are spreadsheets and diagrams and lists, sidebars of useful information, how-to walkthroughs and case studies of specific plants. I'm not sure how they packed so much into a little over 200 pages, but this book is a treasure trove of permaculture strategies.
The book starts with a chapter on why permaculture is important; they explore past examples of permaculture, some present food forests, and why it could be useful to us going forward. The second chapter gets into designing a food forest to fit your needs - scoping out your site, determining what resources you have, all of the planning aspects. Then we have a short chapter on putting all that knowledge together and going "from concept sketch to detailed designs" - how to refine your research and plans into something you can work off of. Chapter 4 is about selecting the specific plants; going from "okay here I want a fruit tree and a nitrogen fixer" to "a peach and comfrey." Plant varietals are discussed here, as well as the different needs of tree guilds.
The rest of the book gets into maintenance, harvesting, and propagating the food forest, and the last chapter is on a tour of established food forests in various climates, to see what's possible.
This is definitely a book I want on my resource shelf; it can get a little dry at points, but there is so much knowledge here. One thing I really liked was the diagram of tree shapes - if one tree says it has a conical shape when full grown, and one has a pyramid shape, there's a diagram that shows what exactly the difference is.
Overall an excellent, information-packed book, if a little difficult to read straight through.You can read all my book reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.com
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2103 KP) rated Three Tales Of My Father's Dragon in Books
Mar 9, 2018
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-three-tales-of-my-fathers.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Your Pilot's License
Jerry A. Eichenberger, Joe Christy and Clay Johnson
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The new Seventh Edition talks about training, a new class of pilot certification (Sport Pilot) and a...