Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: fiction, science, tor, hybrids
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 076534906X
ISBN-13: 9780765349064

Author: Eugene M. McCarthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: world, hybrids, avian, handbook
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2006-02-16
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195183231
ISBN-13: 9780195183238

With more than 5,000 works cited, Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World is the greatest compendium of information ever published on hybridization in birds. Worldwide in scope, it provides information on all reported avian crosses, not only those occurring in captivity, but also in a natural setting (approximately 4,000 crosses are covered). This book is a basic reference, intended both for the serious birder and the professional biologist. McCarthy’s work fills a need for reference material that takes into account the last half century of data. It will be of interest to workers in a wid

Author: Sherry Boschert
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: america, recharge, cars, hybrids, plug
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0865715718
ISBN-13: 9780865715714

A politically polarized America is coming together over a new kind of car—the plug-in hybrid that will save drivers money, reduce pollution, and increase US security by reducing dependence on imported oil.   Plug-in Hybrids points out that, where hydrogen fuel-cell cars won’t be ready for decades, the technology for plug-in hybrids exists today. Unlike conventional hybrid cars that can’t run without gasoline, plug-in hybrids use gasoline or cheaper, cleaner, domestic electricity—or both. Although plug-in hybrids are not yet for sale, demand for them is widespread, coming from characte

Author: Perry D. Slocum
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Keywords: new, hybrids, cultivars, species, lotuses, waterlilies
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0881926841
ISBN-13: 9780881926842

In this fully updated work, Perry Slocum describes nearly 500 species and cultivars of the crowning jewels of water gardens, the waterlilies and lotuses. Among them are more than 130 of the best new hybrids introduced since publication of the landmark Water Gardening, Water Lilies and Lotuses by Perry Slocum and Peter Robinson. All species and the major cultivars, including day- and night-blooming tropical and hardy waterlilies and lotuses, are described, with the author’s and hybridizers’ comments on the best landscape uses for each plant. Although Nymphaea and Nelumbo receive special emp

Author: Bob Sheil
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: architectural, design, hybrids, digital, analogue, protoarchitecture
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0470519479
ISBN-13: 9780470519479

The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets. Craft, assembly and installation, once the realm of trades, are qualities that are now dependent upon design information and its status as an instruction to make. The ensuing loop between the physical and tactile, the imaginary and speculative, has defined a new ex

Author: Harold Koopowitz
Publisher: Timber Pre
Keywords: species, hybrids, phragmipedium, paphiopedilum, slipper, orchids, tropical
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 088192864X
ISBN-13: 9780881928648

Distinguished by a prominent pouchlike sac which resembles a ballroom slipper and often decorated with warts, hairs, or stripes, the flowers of slipper orchids may be ugly or pretty, depending on your point of view. In either case, they are captivating to amateur and professional orchids growers alike and indeed may be the most poplar group of orchids in cultivation. The tropical slipper orchids in cultivation come from two major genera, Paphiopedilum from Southeast Asia and Phragmipedium from Central and South America, and one minor genus, Mexipedium from Mexico. Tens of thousands of hybrids

Author: Malcolm McGregor
Publisher: Timber Press
Keywords: amp, cultivars, hybrids, species, definitive, guide, saxifrages
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0881928801
ISBN-13: 9780881928808

The exquisite symmetry of the star-shaped blooms of saxifrages has captivated gardeners for centuries. Close observation of their fine markings, artful color combinations, and graceful presence makes it eminently clear why they attract such an enthusiastic following. Many saxifrages come from mountain habitats that make them well-suited to rock gardens, troughs, and containers, but the diverse genus includes a huge range of garden worthy plants that deserve to be better known and more widely grown. This book brings together accounts of garden and wild saxifrages, their botany, history, cul