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Free Download The Gardens of Our Childhoods (Autumn House Rising Writer Prize) By John Belk
2022 | 74 Pages | ISBN: 163768035X | EPUB | 1 MB
Poems considering self, masculinity, and culture through the spectacle of professional wrestling. In this stunning debut, John Belk looks at the world of professional wrestling to excavate the real within the artificial and explore the projections we create, run from, and delight in. In The Gardens of Our Childhoods, the distance between spectacle and reality blurs. Belk uses the spectacle of wrestling to stare deeply into American culture and masculinity, parsing the intersecting threads of patriarchy and gender, and unpacking identity formation and performance. As Belk pries into toxic masculinities, he leaves space also for tenderness, queerness, and resistance to normative structures, opening the potential for love and admiration. Populated by classic and contemporary wrestlers like André the Giant, Hulk Hogan, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Ricky Steamboat, Bruno Sammartino, Marcus "Buff" Bagwell, and more, this book is ultimately about the constant deconstruction and reconstruction of our identities that smudge fiction and reality. Like wrestlers in their operatic and winding storylines, we learn how to project and inhabit identities while growing into and fighting against the scripts we write for ourselves and those that are imposed on us. The Gardens of Our Childhoods is the winner of Autumn House Press’s Rising Writer Prize in Poetry.

Free Download Venetian Gardens
English | February 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1785947427 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 109 Mb
Join Monty Don, Britain’s pre-eminent gardener, and acclaimed photographer Derry Moore on their historic journey through the most stunning gardens of Venice and the Veneto.

Free Download Ray Munns, "GROWTH: The Basics From Our Gardens"
English | ASIN : B08N43YFSK | 2020 | 82 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Ray Munns and Jacob Pasino are champion West Coast marijuana growers. Take their expertise home now and you will be able to achieve GROWTH!

Free Download K. Sara Myers, "Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics"
English | ISBN: 0197773206 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 144 MB
Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature-history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric poetry, elegies, and novels-and often edge their way into larger socio-economic and political discussions about Roman identity, gender, wealth, and land use. Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers examines the function and representation of garden descriptions in the work of a broad range of Roman authors, such as Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Varro, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Columella, Statius, and Pliny the Elder and Younger.

Free Download Flora’s Empire: British Gardens in India (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Eugenia W. Herbert
English | September 21, 2011 | ISBN: 0812243269 | 420 pages | EPUB | 4.62 Mb
Winner of the 2012 J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Free Download Lost Gardens of the World
by Lawrence, Sandra;Clerc, Lucille;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 071129268X | 192 pages | True EPUB | 15.59 MB

Free Download Ron Henderson, "The Gardens of Suzhou "
English | ISBN: 0812222148 | 2012 | 192 pages | EPUB | 43 MB
Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city’s masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of Suzhou, landscape architect and scholar Ron Henderson guides visitors through seventeen of these gardens. The book explores UNESCO world cultural heritage sites such as the Master of the Nets Garden, Humble Administrator’s Garden, Lingering Garden, and Garden of the Peaceful Mind, as well as other lesser-known but equally significant gardens in the Suzhou region.

Free Download Tony Maietta, "The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers, and Jacqueline Kennedy"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0999517708 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 2.3 mb
The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is Jerry Torre’s touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of Grey Gardens, the now-celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary Grey Gardens and two feature-length films. The book, co-written with film historian Tony Maietta, is a behind-the-scenes look at "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" and their bizarre and reclusive life of squalor amidst the tremendous wealth of East Hampton, the family bond that developed between Jerry and them, and the day everything was turned upside down forever with the arrival of documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles.

Free Download M. S. Swaminathan, "Major Flowering Trees of Tropical Gardens"
English | ISBN: 1108481957 | 2019 | 416 pages | PDF | 130 MB
This comprehensive text on flowering trees of tropical gardens discusses some new species of trees, including Adansonia digitata, Monodora myristica, Flacourtia montana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Bursera serrata, Commiphora wightii and Semecarpus anacardium. The text covers more than 200 of the most striking and widespread trees alongside closely related genera and species (both native and exotic) commonly encountered in the tropical climate. It includes more than 700 high resolution coloured photographs, depicting different facets including growth habit, morphological details of stem, leaves, flowers and fruits. The different tree species are organized according to Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification of seed plants. The book discusses many aspects of trees including common and botanical names together with synonyms, taxonomic families, etymology (how trees have derived their names), phenology, their native place, geographical distribution, mythological notes, religious significance and economic importance. The text is useful for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of life sciences.

Free Download David H. Benzing, "Air Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens"
English | ISBN: 0801450438 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Often growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plants. The majority use their roots only for attachment in the crowns of larger, usually woody plants―or to objects such as rocks and buildings―and derive moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere and by collecting falling debris. Only the mistletoes are true parasites. Epiphytes are not anomalies and there are approximately 28,000 species―about 10 percent of the higher or vascular plants―that grow this way. Many popular houseplants, including numerous aroids, bromeliads, ferns, and orchids, rank among the most familiar examples. In Air Plants, David H. Benzing takes a reader on a tour of the many taxonomic groups to which the epiphytes belong and explains in nontechnical language the anatomical and physiological adaptations that allow these plants to conserve water, thrive without the benefit of soil, and engage in unusual relationships with animals such as frogs and ants.