Product Description: Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies...read more

Gillette is a company that is often in the news; this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the company works. Provides insights into Gillette's global outlook and strategy. Highlights Gillette's committment to innovation, creative advertising, and environmental issues. Written by a journalist, the story is told in engaging and accessible style.

Product Description: More so than other Europeans, the English have turned to their gardens or wooded "wildernesses" for contemplative consolation. To explore the meditative aspect of English garden-making, David Coffin combines selected poetry, diary extracts, letters, and more formal writing from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries with charming illustrations and his own perceptive commentary...read more

Product Description: From the late Middle Ages, when it embodied spirituality, through the end of the eighteenth century, when it offered pleasurable surroundings for banquets, poetry readings, and amorous pursuits, the garden figured prominently in everyday Roman life...read more

Product Description: Offers an introduction to physical geography. Explains the spatial dimension of Earth's natural systems-its energy, air, water, weather, climates, landforms, soils, plants, and animals. DLC: Physical geography.