Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
by Amy Stewart
List Price:
Our Price: $3.79
You Save: $10.16 (73%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.75 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Amy StewartEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-18
ISBN: 1565126033
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9781565126039
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
- Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices
Book Reviews of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Book Review: Loved this book.
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this book after reading Wicked Plants because I wanted more of Amy Stewart! This book did not disappoint, engaging, well researched and well written. Everything I want in a non-fiction book!
Summary of Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought?for better or worse?to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in General Books
The Irresistible Growth Enterprise: Breakthrough Gains from Unstoppable Changeby Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, Tobi Kahn
Stylus Publishing; Published: 2000-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $18.98
Price in other shops:
The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In)by David Gage
Basic Books; Published: 2004-06-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
Watch It Made in the U.S.A.: A Visitor's Guide to the Companies That Make Your Favorite Products (Watch It Made in the USA)by Karen Axelrod, Bruce Brumberg
Avalon Travel Publishing; Published: 2002-08-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Educationby W. Edwards Deming
Massachusetts Inst Technology; Published: 1994-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.50
Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industryby Stacy Malkan
New Society Publishers; Published: 2007-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.25
Price in other shops:
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscapeby Brian Hayes
W. W. Norton; Published: 2005-09-26; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops:
Business Dynamics Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex Worldby John D Sterman
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; Published: 2000; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $75.00
How Small Business Trades Worldwide: Your Guide to Starting or Expanding a Small Business International Trade Company Nowby John Spiers
Seattle Teachers College Press; Published: 2001-11-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $23.94
Price in other shops:
Money Talks: How to Make a Million as a Speakerby Alan Weiss
McGraw-Hill; Published: 1997-12-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.69
Price in other shops:
Out of the Crisisby W. Edwards Deming
The MIT Press; Published: 2000-08-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.01
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Wedding Flowersby Paula Pryke
Rizzoli; Published: 2004-02-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $17.52
Price in other shops:
How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Florist and Floral Business Both Online and Off: With Companion CD - ROMby Stephanie Beener
Atlantic Publishing Company; Published: 2008-08-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $19.97
Price in other shops:
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsessionby Adam Leith Gollner
Scribner; Published: 2008-05-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.71
Price in other shops:
Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global Systemby Catherine Ziegler
Duke University Press; Published: 2007-06-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $16.09
Price in other shops:
The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, Revised and Expandedby Lynn Byczynski
Chelsea Green Publishing; Published: 2008-02-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $20.74
Price in other shops:
Gilding the Lily: Inside the Cut Flower Industryby Amy Stewart
Portobello Books Ltd; Published: 2009-04-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.13
Price in other shops:
Planthropology: The Myths, Mysteries, and Miracles of My Garden Favoritesby Ken Druse
Clarkson Potter; Published: 2008-11-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $29.79
Price in other shops:
From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Gardenby Amy Stewart
St. Martin's Griffin; Published: 2002-03-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.32
Price in other shops:
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocitiesby Amy Stewart
Algonquin Books; Published: 2009-05-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.17
Price in other shops:
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthwormsby Amy Stewart
Algonquin Books; Published: 2005-03-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops: