Guide soil de gordon cook (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Second edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, tears and sunned spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Second edition, 1965. Book 8 in the "Science For Everyman" series. Contains many photos, illustrations, charts and drawings throughout. Inscription to front paste-down endpaper and school stamp to front free endpaper. Back paste-down endpaper has pocket attached, containing a glossy fold-out brochure in excellent condition, detailing other books in the series. Grey cloth boards with white lettering to cover and spine. There is staining and shelf wear to boards and fore edge, plus mild foxing to top edge, but text block is tight and pages clear except for one page which has one paragraph underlined.…

Condición: Good. 1965. Second Edition. 471 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is clear. Slight wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.…

Condición: Used: Very Good. 1965 revised edition.very good clean copy .HAS NO DUST COVER. .sent next working day or sooner from the u/k. All overseas orders by Priority Airmail 0.0.

Hardback. Condición: Good. Your Guide to the Soil (1965) by J. Gordon Cook ? Merrow Publishing Soil. It is under the lawn, beneath the flowerbeds, stuck to your boots, lodged under your fingernails and generally treated as something to be removed from the carpet as quickly as possible. J. Gordon Cook would like you to show it a little more respect. Your Guide to the Soil , published by Merrow Publishing in 1965 as part of the Science for Everyman series, takes that apparently ordinary brown stuff beneath our feet and reveals it to be a complicated mixture of minerals, organic matter, air, water, living organisms and quite a lot of chemistry quietly getting on with things while nobody is looking. The cover rather wonderfully sets the tone: a boot, a spade and some freshly disturbed earth. No glamorous gardening fantasy here. Someone is going to have to dig. Cook explains soil as a living and changing system rather than simply the substance plants are pushed into and expected to cope with. Different soils behave differently. Clay sticks together. Sand lets everything drain through. Loam is the one gardeners talk about approvingly. Peat has opinions of its own. And somewhere in the middle of all this are acidity, alkalinity, nutrients, humus, drainage and an entire underground population of worms and microorganisms performing unpaid maintenance. For the gardener, understanding soil is rather important. Plants may look as though they are concerned mainly with sunlight and flowers, but most of the serious business is happening below ground. A plant in the wrong soil can sulk magnificently. A plant in the right soil can suddenly grow with such enthusiasm that you begin to suspect it is planning something. Published in 1965, the book comes from an era when popular science books still assumed that ordinary readers might actually enjoy understanding how the natural world worked. Hence the splendid subtitle on the cover: A Science for Everyman Book . No specialist degree required. Just curiosity, a willingness to learn and preferably access to somewhere muddy. There is something particularly appealing about mid-century practical science books like this. They do not merely tell you what to do. They explain why. Why does soil become waterlogged? Why do some plants dislike lime? Why is organic matter useful? Why does one patch of garden behave perfectly while another seems capable of killing anything more ambitious than a dandelion? These are serious questions. Especially after you have spent money on shrubs. The book should appeal not only to gardeners but also to anyone interested in natural history, agriculture, environmental science or the wonderfully complicated relationship between plants and the ground beneath them. It is also a nice reminder that soil itself is not simply inert dirt. It is an ecosystem. A very untidy ecosystem, admittedly, but an ecosystem nevertheless. This copy is in Good condition , and the original illustrated dust jacket gives it plenty of pleasing 1960s character. The jacket shows some normal age and edge wear, which seems entirely appropriate for a book devoted to a subject routinely attacked with forks, spades and heavy boots. At around sixty years old, it has survived far better than most bags of compost. Ideal for vintage gardening enthusiasts, practical-science collectors, agricultural-history readers or anyone who has ever looked at a disappointing flowerbed and decided the soil must somehow be responsible. Sold by Crappy Old Books , where we respect the importance of good soil, good drainage and keeping actual mud a safe distance from the book stock. ISBN: None Condition: Good.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper lightly sunned at the spine. Leans a little. The contents complete, clean and tight; Hardback. Dust wrapper over grey boards with white titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 8¼" x 5½" (1.1 kg); In the Science for Everyman series; 2nd (revised) edition, 1st printing, first published 1960.Number 8 in the series. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #189017 ||.…