Piet Oufolf的第一本书《种植自然花园》首次出版时，作为先驱，掀起园艺设计界多年生草本植物流行浪潮。从那时起，Piet Oudolf成为我们这个时代最具标志性和突破性的设计师之一，负责世界上最重要的一些花园设计，如High Line, the Lurie Garden, the Battery, 和Pottersfield。此修订版本问世，Piet Oudolf的粉丝们将由衷高兴。书中含有大量植物信息、新摄影图片，提出数百种引人注目、进行环境情感营造的植物组合，列有植物清单、特定栖息地与完整的生长要求。

When it was first published, Planting the Natural Garden--the first book by Piet Oufolf--heralded the start of the now immensely popular New Perennial Movement. Since then, Piet Oudolf has become one of the most iconic and groundbreaking designers of our time, responsible for some of the world's most important gardens, including the High Line, the Lurie Garden, the Battery, and Pottersfield. Fans of Piet Oudolf will delight in this revised edition of Planting the Natural Garden. Packed with plant information, new photography, and an introduction from Noel Kingsbury. It includes hundreds of eye-catching plant combinations, with an emphasis on the use of themed plantings that create mood and evoke emotion. Also included are plant lists and instructions for placing specific plants in particular habitats, as well as complete growing requirements.

英国皇家园艺学会（RHS）是世界上最大的园艺慈善机构，而其功能与目标都鲜为人知。从为切尔西花展界定园艺风向标，到在威斯利试验场评选最佳的大丽花，再到以“盛放的英国”项目激发社区灵感，乃至引领学校园艺教育运动、让孩子们体验自种自食蔬菜，RHS孜孜不倦地为提高园艺而服务。摄影奖得主Jason Ingram提供了韵味丰富的档案图片和现代摄影，这本精美的书通过聆听RHS成员之声，探索此最具影响力组织的过去、现在与未来。

The RHS is the world's largest gardening charity but what it does and why is little understood and rarely celebrated. From defining new gardening trends at the Chelsea Flower Show, to ranking the best dahlias to grow at the Wisley trial grounds, to inspiring communities with Britain in Bloom, educating children to grow and eat their veg through the Campaign for School Gardening, the RHS works tirelessly to improve the gardener's lot.

With the use of evocative archive images and contemporary photos by award-winning Jason Ingram, this beautiful book explores the past, present and future of this most influential organisation by listening to the voices of those working today. From the thousands of volunteers in the society's five unique gardens (Wisley in Surrey, Rosemoor in Devon, Hyde Hall in Essex, Harlow Carr in Yorkshire and new addition Bridgewater in Salford), to the one million visitors to its inspirational flower shows (including Chelsea, Hampton Court, Tatton Park, Cardiff, Wisley and Chatsworth); the society gives meaning to more than 475,000 members, millions of television viewers and visitors from around the world. The RHS is the best of gardening, and this book presents the best of the RHS. Behind the scenes, access all areas, this book will give lasting pleasure to anyone who enjoys their garden.

这本书由多位高级风景园林实践专家和研究人员共同完成，以国际视野在研究、政策、实践领域提供景观特征方法论。

在过去的三十年中，欧洲景观实践从狭义的专注自然美景，转变为广义的人类感知与超越构成要素的广阔景观特征概念，并发展出赋予景观特征实际意义的方法、工具和技术。景观特征评估（LCA）和历史景观特征（HLC）两种方法首先应用于英国；欧洲其他国家及欧洲以外，在目标相近的情况下，也在使用不同方法。本书探讨了不同研究方法的存在缘由，并扩展到不同国家的学科/文化特点对当地土地管理和景观规划的影响，重点介绍了相互学习和知识转化的领域。 

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape.

Over the last three decades, European practice in landscape has moved from a narrow, if relatively straightforward, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape character constructed through human perception, and transcending any of its individual elements. Methods, tools and techniques have been developed to give practical meaning to this idea of landscape character.

The two main methods, Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) and Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) were applied first in the United Kingdom, but other methods are in use elsewhere in Europe, and beyond, to achieve similar ends. This book explores why different approaches exist, the extent to which disciplinary or cultural specificities in different countries affect approaches to land management and landscape planning, and highlights areas for reciprocal learning and knowledge transfer.

Contributors to the book focus on examples of European countries – such as Sweden, Turkey and Portugal – that have adopted and extended UK-style landscape characterisation, but also on countries with their own distinctive approaches that have developed from different conceptual roots, as in Germany, France and the Netherlands. The collection is completed by chapters looking at landscape approaches based on non-European concepts of landscape in North America, Australia and New Zealand.

Sunday Times: “这本书侦查并解码英国历史风景，犹如掘金一般引人入胜。”

BBC Countryfile Magazine: “权威且经典的田野指南……书写范围之精彩正如乡村本身之宏伟。”

有时候开车驶过崎岖不平的田野道路时，你会想为什么这里会有起伏和颠簸；当行走于两侧都是大型行道树的时候，你会想这些树是什么时候种的……有趣的历史问题有着严格的成因，这本书将破解身边可见景观背后的故事。每章结尾处配有案例查找清单，指出重点可观细节，列出最佳范例位置信息等。 

‘This fascinating spotter’s guide to Britain’s historical landscape – what to see and how to decipher it – is rammed with intriguing nuggets.’ 

——Sunday Times

‘A definitive classic field guide... Its scope is as magnificent as our countryside itself.’

——BBC Countryfile Magazine

For the times when you’re driving past a lumpy, bumpy field and you wonder what made the lumps and bumps; for when you’re walking between two lines of grand trees, wondering when and why they were planted; for when you see a brown heritage sign pointing to a ‘tumulus’ but you don’t know what to look for… Entertaining and factually rigorous, Hidden Histories will help you decipher the story of Britain's landscape through the features you can see around you. This spotter’s guide arms the amateur explorer with the crucial information needed to ‘read’ the landscape and spot the human activities that have shaped our green and pleasant land. Photographs and diagrams point out specific details and typical examples to help the curious spotter ‘get their eye in’ and understand what they’re looking at, or looking for. Specially commissioned illustrations bring to life the processes that shaped the landscape (from medieval ploughing to Roman road building).  Stand-alone capsules explore interesting aspects of history (like the Highland Clearances or the coming of Christianity), and text boxes provide definitions of jargon or handy references as required (like a glossary of what different field names mean).  Each chapter culminates in a checklist of key details to look for, other things it might be, and gives details of where to find some of the best examples in Britain.

Robert Macfarlane：“一本强大、勇敢、重要的书。”

谁拥有英格兰？这个简单问题的背后，是英国最古老、保存最完好的秘密，是英格兰精英如何占领土地的历史，也是如何再次开放乡村的振奋宣言。

自1086年起，英格兰精英们以筑墙、掩埋调查资料以及近代离岸空壳公司的方式，掩盖了在数百万英亩土地上操作的真相。但随着数字地图技术和《信息自由法》的兴起，隐匿行为难度增大。作家Guy Shrubsole进入防卫严密的乡村庄园，穿越生态遭破坏的松鸡沼泽、进入空荡荡的梅费尔大厦，利用21世纪先进工具，挖掘出大量前所未知的土地持有者的信息，从而绘制并公布了英格兰土地所有权最全面地图。这本书融合了历史、政治和争议，生动地展示了控制土地所有权这一行为，对于解决“一切问题”的重要性：从住房危机到气候变化，甚至阻止民主制度腐化。

“谁拥有英格兰，真相是时候揭露了——最后，夺回我们绿色宜人的土地。”

‘A formidable, brave and important book’

——Robert Macfarlane

Who owns England?

Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once more.

This book has been a long time coming. Since 1086, in fact. For centuries, England’s elite have covered up how they got their hands on millions of acres of our land, by constructing walls, burying surveys and more recently, sheltering behind offshore shell companies. But with the dawn of digital mapping and the Freedom of Information Act, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for them to hide.

Trespassing through tightly-guarded country estates, ecologically ravaged grouse moors and empty Mayfair mansions, writer and activist Guy Shrubsole has used these 21st century tools to uncover a wealth of never-before-seen information about the people who own our land, to create the most comprehensive map of land ownership in England that has ever been made public.

From secret military islands to tunnels deep beneath London, Shrubsole unearths truths concealed since the Domesday Book about who is really in charge of this country – at a time when Brexit is meant to be returning sovereignty to the people. Melding history, politics and polemic, he vividly demonstrates how taking control of land ownership is key to tackling everything from the housing crisis to climate change – and even halting the erosion of our very democracy.

It’s time to expose the truth about who owns England – and finally take back our green and pleasant land.

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以简单易读的方式解释生态学，介绍自然界如何运作，帮助读者了解环境、生态系统和气候变化。这本书以创新的图形表达为主导，探索85种以上生态学核心思想、生态运动与生态行为；并以简明的时间顺序为结构，其前几章讲述从古典思想到启蒙思想对自然界的系统性尝试，后面章节追溯现代思想的演变，从Thomas Malthus、Henry Thoreau等人的观点到现代政治/科学发展，也包括环境运动和《巴黎协议》的诞生。 

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.

Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers through to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the evolution of modern thinking, from the ideas of Thomas Malthus, Henry Thoreau, and others, right the way through to the political and scientific developments of the modern era, including the birth of the environmental movement and the Paris Agreement.

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目前世界有一半以上的人口居住在城市地区，作为生活场所，城市环境健康至关重要。本书综合多种文献，讲述建筑环境中使用植被元素对人类的多功能益处，其中所涉及问题包括：与野生动植物接触对人心理和身体健康的远近期影响；植被对清除空气中有害污染物的作用；具备隔热、节能并低碳作用的绿色屋顶和绿墙；空间构筑型植被（如行道树等）具备遮荫、促进空气循环、有助地表排水阻止山洪的功能。

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use of vegetation in the built environment and its multifunctional benefits to humans. The author reviews issues such as: contact with wildlife and its immediate and long-term effects on psychological and physical wellbeing; the role of vegetation in removing health-damaging pollutants from the air; green roofs and green walls, which provide insulation, reduce energy use and decrease the carbon footprint of buildings; and structural vegetation such as street trees, providing shading and air circulation whilst also helping to stop flash-floods through surface drainage. Examples are used throughout to illustrate the practical use of vegetation to improve the urban environment and deliver ecosystem services.

Whilst the underlying theme is the value of biodiversity, the emphasis is less on existing high-value green spaces (such as nature reserves, parks and gardens), than on the sealed surfaces of urban areas (building surfaces, roads, car parks, plazas, etc.). The book shows how these, and the spaces they encapsulate, can be modified to meet current and future environmental challenges including climate change. The value of existing green space is also covered to provide a comprehensive textbook of international relevance.

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英国留存有丰富的各时代古建，如中世纪的农舍、格鲁吉亚的联排别墅、爱德华七世时代的豪宅等。许多现存古建濒临沦为危房的现实问题。有些古建被业主的“善意”或建筑商的不称职意外地破坏了；有些古建在业主长期贷款情况下，一直以治标不治本的修补方式维持着，实则长期处于衰退状况。作者以此手册，解释了古建正确的保养和维修方法，涵盖英国古建所有传统材料。由于每座老房子都有自己独特的故事，因此作者还展示了如何探索古建的历史、如何剥去现代装饰，以找回长期丢失的原始特征。无论读者想自己亲手学习修补古建，还是想了解老房子的修复方式、学习如何选择与聘请专业古建修复工匠，这本书可做必读材料。 

Britain has a wonderfully rich stock of period houses - everything from medieval cottages to Georgian townhouses and Edwardian mansions. But many of these historic properties are now at risk. Some are unwittingly damaged by well-meaning owners or incompetent builders; others suffer long-term deterioration where mortgage lenders have imposed quick-fix 'remedies'. Despite being some of the most sustainable buildings on the planet, many old houses are now being subjected to ill-advised works to upgrade thermal efficiency, resulting in the destruction of the very qualities that make them so appealing, slashing their values. Haynes have come to the rescue with this clearly written, lavishly illustrated manual explaining the correct approach to care and repair - covering the full range of traditional materials. Every old house has a story to tell, so Haynes also show how to explore your home's history and strip back modern finishes to reveal long lost original features. This comprehensive manual is essential reading whether you want to get your hands dirty or just want to understand how old houses work and how to go about employing specialist craftsmen.