Tree Preservation
Over the last 15 years Australian home owners have stopped planting trees. Not only have they stopped planting trees in general, but they've almost totally stopped planting native trees in their own backyards. Don is concerned that a significant ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Lonn Taylor
Formerly a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Lonn Taylor served as historian for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project. Kathleen M. Kendrick and Jeffery L. Brodie are co-curators of a new exhibition about ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Donald Kagan
On the Origins of War And the Preservation of Peace Donald Kagan [... more]
Random House |
Norval White
Elliot Willensky was an architect, vice chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, borough historian of Brooklyn, and author of When Brooklyn Was the World: 1920-1957. He died in 1990. Norval White is an architect, educator, ... [... more]
Random House |
Wayne Curtis
Wayne Curtis is a contributing editor to Preservation magazine, and his stories on travel, architecture, and history have appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, and American Heritage. In 2002 Curtis was named ... [... more]
Random House |
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
F. González-Crussi is professor emeritus of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the author of A Short History of Medicine; Suspended Animation: Six Essays on the Preservation of Bodily Parts, a New York Times ... [... more]
Random House |
Elliot Willensky
Elliot Willensky, who now lives in the community of Brooklyn Heights, serves as the officially appointed Borough Historian of Brooklyn and as Vice-Chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the City of New York. A consulting architect ... [... more]
Random House |
David Whyte
Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America Like Dante, many of today's corporate workers find themselves lost in the day-to-day duties of their jobs. Our lives seem shaken by the events of September 11 and the seemingly... The ... [... more]
Random House |
Smokehouse
Reg visits Valla Smokehouse to find out what's involved in the art of smoking meat. Supermarkets, freezers and modern technology make many of the old methods of food preservation unnecessary. But, that doesn't deter Andrew Andrews. His method of ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Keeping Rare And Endangered Birds
In Perth there have been some major developments in the preservation of bird species through advanced captive breeding. Selected aviculturalists have been allowed to breed threatened species in captivity. Some, like the Red-eared Firetail could ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Jeffrey Brodie
Formerly a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Lonn Taylor served as historian for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project. Kathleen M. Kendrick and Jeffery L. Brodie are co-curators of a new exhibition about ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
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