Jeff Cox, Author Rodale Press $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-87857-683-8
""A disease will not attack a variety which has been specially bred to be resistant to that disease,'' Cox et al. advise early ona sentence indicative of the mediocre writing and gratuitous comments that undermine this book. The information on...
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Jeff Cox, Author ABRAMS $35 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-016818-6
Is the sequel likely to be Plant Divorces , and if so, then what will follow it? Actually, this book, despite its catchy title, is fairly standard and, unlike some marriages, dependable: Cox ( Flowers for All Seasons ) mostly tells us what plants go
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Jeff Cox, Author, Marilyn Cox, With Rodale Press $26.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-87857-911-2
The growing tendency to make use of natural elements--wood, water, stone, native plants--to consciously create a bit of wilderness in one's own backyard is addressed in this energetic volume. Packed with information on the larger considerations of...
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Jeff Cox, Author, Jerry Pavia, Photographer Abbeville Press $39.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-55859-329-9
Here Cox ( Plant Marriages ) considers ``both the sensuous and sensual aspects of plants,'' hoping to ``bring . . . unconscious sensory experiences into the bright light of full consciousness.'' Lest this sound too Freudian, what he really wants to...
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Jeff Cox, Author, Rodale Press, Author Rodale Press $25.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-87596-623-6
This companion volume to the PBS program Your Organic Garden covers the territory reliably, eschewing synthetic controls (fertilizers, pesticides) for the natural alternative. Some of the methods recommended to home gardeners include: have your soil
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Dee Jacob, Author, Suzan Bergland, Author, Jeff Cox, Author . Free Press $26 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5892-0
Cox (The Goal
) and consultants Jacob and Bergland collaborate for this unholy marriage of business strategy and fiction. Amy Ceolara is distressed when it’s announced that her company, Hi-T Components, is becoming a subsidiary of the...
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Jeff Cox, Author . Wiley $40 (546p) ISBN 978-0-471-44578-4
Cox (Cellaring Wine
), a veteran organic gardener, provides an encyclopedic guide to organic ingredients from fruits and vegetables to meats and dairy products, plus "kitchen staples" like coffee, bouillon and flour. Unlike most reference...
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Jeff Cox, Author . Wiley $14.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-470-17487-6
Cox, a former editor at Organic Gardening
magazine, has been promoting organics since long before it was fashionable. Using his 30 years of organics knowledge in this guide-cum-cookbook, he attempts to untangle, for the average consumer, the...
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Jeff Cox, Author Storey Publishing $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58017-474-9
Loaded with expert information, this volume is as accessible to novice wine collectors with a few bottles to store as it is educational for serious oenophiles seeking to house an extensive array of vintages. But unlike many wine tomes, it doesn't...
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Jeff Cox, Author Warner Books $23.5 (344p) ISBN 978-0-446-51641-9
In terse prose that conveys the tensions and pell-mell pace of its business setting, Cox's entertaining new novel (after Zapp! and The Goal ) follows the course of a tumultuous personal and professional year. As manager of a Connecticut video...
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