Herbal Handbook: 50 Profiles in Words and Art from the Rare Book Collections of The New York Botanical Garden

THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

A charming, information-packed guide to 50 herbs and their uses illustrated with rare botanical art from the renowned archives of the New York Botanical Garden.Did you know woodruff was used as a room freshener in the Middle Ages; that crushed bergamot leaves can soothe bee stings; and that dried fenugr...

The Climate Book

Greta Thunberg

It seems like an impossible task - secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces -not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of time. B...