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The Brother Gardeners
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.95Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in America. In 1733, colonial farmer John Bartram shipped two boxes of precious American... more...
Founding Gardeners
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 18.95From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for... more...
The Founding Gardeners
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America. Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to... more...
The Brother Gardeners
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England,... more...
Chasing Venus
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor?the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the earth... more...
Chasing Venus
Random House 2012; US$ 12.00On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how can the universe be measured? In Chasing... more...
Corporate Governance und Interne Revision
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2007; US$ 143.29Hauptbeschreibung Die weltweiten Regeln der Corporate Governance wirken sich massiv auf die interne Revision in Unternehmen aus: Reformen, höchstrichterliche Entscheidungen, neue Berufstandards oder organisatorische Innovationen - mehr denn je erfordert die Revisionsarbeit eine dauerhafte Anpassung an aktuelle Entwicklungen. Das vorliegende eBook... more...
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