Jim Wilson, Author, James W. Wilson, III, Author Taylor Trade Publishing $17.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-87833-190-1
Citing lifestyle trends like ""smaller yards, longer commutes, less time for gardening, and a keener appreciation of plants as an artistic medium,"" Wilson (former host of The Victory Garden on PBS) offers a thoughtfully balanced workbook with a...
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Jim Wilson, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07576-7
In Nov.-Dec. 1950, the 1st Marine Division and part of the 7th Army Division were surrounded and vastly outnumbered at the Chosin Reservoir in northeast Korea by Chinese Communist forces, but managed to fight their way to Hungnam where an armada of...
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Jim Wilson, Author Crown Publishers $22 (198p) ISBN 978-0-517-57737-0
This finely crafted Vietnam vignette begins in April 1968, when the National Guard unit of Bardstown, Ky., was called into federal service. The 117 men of Battery C, 138th Artillery, were largely skilled workers and established farmers. But suddenly
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Jim Wilson, Author, James W. Wilson, III, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (244p) ISBN 978-0-395-56520-9
With his usual breezy, informal style, Wilson ( Landscaping with Container Plants ) tries to tame wildflowers just enough to convince doubters that they can convert part of their yards to meadow, prairie or woodland. Previous books have explored in...
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Jim Wilson, Author, James W. Wilson, III, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (230p) ISBN 978-0-395-62237-7
How satisfying to come upon a book that serves up dessert before the nutritious, but sometimes dull, main course. Here Wilson ( Landscaping with Container Plants ), host of TV's The Victory Garden , devotes chapter after chapter to designing with...
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