Sweerts's illustrations provide a guide to the flowering plants grown in European gardens in 1600 and offer a wealth of unusual copyright-free graphics

Over 340 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings selected from two classic Victorian publications: Paxton's Flower Garden and The Natural History of Plants. Includes exquisite renderings of a broad spectrum of plant forms: baobab tree, quaking grass, winged pea, and many other unusual plants. Each illustration includes the scientific name and brief description.

Using an exhibition on the naturalist Carolus Linneaus at the Chicago Botanic Garden as a springboard for a comprehensive discussion of the history and philosophy of museum education, Lisa Roberts describes museum educator's activist role in effecting fundamental changes to exhibit planning and development. Challenging a traditional, scholarly presentation of objects, educators argue that, rather than transmitting knowledge, museum displays should construct narratives that are determined as much by what is meaningful to visitors as by what curators intend.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

150 exceptionally fine royalty-free illustrations from rare French portfolio. Art Nouveau-flavored borders, backgrounds, frames, vignettes, monograms, more.