#recommended
5 entries
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The Crystal Bible — a review
Judy Hall's million-copy crystal directory is the most-thumbed reference in Western crystal practice. Read as a practice manual within a living tradition — not as a chemistry textbook — it is the right book to keep beside your altar.
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Teaming with Microbes — a review
The book that fills the rhizosphere-shaped hole in Capon's primer — Lowenfels and Lewis explain the soil food web as the living system it actually is. Strong on ecology, dated and overstated in places on products. The right entry point with a few caveats.
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Wabi-Sabi — a review
The small, quiet, immaculately made book that gave the English-speaking world a working vocabulary for wabi-sabi. Idiosyncratic and personal rather than scholarly, and the better for it — a primer that embodies its subject.
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Plantopedia — a review
Leaf Supply's hefty, beautifully photographed houseplant encyclopedia. As a browse-and-identify reference and a beautiful object it's hard to beat; as a deep care manual it's broad rather than deep. The picture-led anchor of the reference shelf.
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Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants — a review
Ken Thompson's tour of Darwin's six botanical books is the rare popular-science volume that does what it sets out to do without inflation. It makes you see climbing tendrils, orchid lips, and worm casts as Darwin saw them — and as nobody had seen them before. The book that quietly justifies the Library section's existence.