Dry limestone based soils such as the Edwards Plateau area of Texas and other places in the southwest, provide a major challenge to gardening which is addessed in this book. In such areas many plants simply will not grow well. Trying to get them to do so is an exercise in frustration and general garden books can lead you far astray. This book is not about how to try to change your soil, high pH soils cannot be effectively acidified. The book is about plants, trees, shrubs and varieties that do well in dry calcarious soil conditions. It will save you a lot of time, money and frustration if you face these conditions. A great book, a gold mine of information.

This is the most practical, useful, and enjoyable book on gardening that someone in the Texas Hill Country could ever want! It's not as big or comprehensive as the Wasowskis' "Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region", but that's because it focuses on the challenges of gardening in these "difficult" (nice word!) soils that we live with. Ogden's observations and advice about dealing with our limestone and caliche, and his reality-based recommendations of plants to use and the ones to avoid, gave me hope, encouragement, and new ideas for making this corner of the world a more beautiful place! It's got some great color photos, too.

This is a good book for people with a limited geology background. This was one of the sources that I used to write a 20 page paper, and found it very useful. It starts out talking about the formation of karst terrian and walks you right through the process of building structures in karst areas. Including site investigation and preperation. Is well worth the price if you are doing research.

If you have the book in spanish, I want to buy it, I am from Bolivia, and I'll be waiting for your answer in my e-mail:mindaj@comteco.entelnet.bo, I need the price in Bolivia, pleace.

This book offers the reader a very comprehensive set of procedures to examine carbonate rocks and apply his understanding towards determination of depositional environment using microfcacies, texture, and other critical carbonate rock components. It also has the most detailed list of refernces for every part and chapter. I bought it several years ago, and I still use it whenever I look at carbonate rocks. This book is worth its weight in gold!

This guide book gives you all you need to get to an area to climb and leaves just enough out that the fun in finding the area is still part of the climbing trip. Great route discriptions, this should be a must for your guide book collection for when you are off on that wild road trip you can stop and get some climbing in before or after you have crossed that great void known as Kansas.

Anyone who has any interest whatsoever in Autun should read this book. One of the most cherished ideas of recent art history is that the magnificent sculptural program of the Cathedral is the work of an identifiable individual artist, Gislebertus, who presumably carved his name on the tympanum at the entrance to the church. It's hard to visit Autun without buying the book by Grivot and Zarnecki who champion this theory. Politely Linda Seidel challenges their conclusions as a "romantic conjecture...based on anachronistic assumptions about artistic personalities." She then develops a context for thinking about the building and its sculpture through examination of its place in local historical and rhetorical terms. Her discussion of medieval methods of remembering and recasting the past to provide authority to the present is compelling. Most useful is that her approach provides a sophisticated logic to the Roman references in the architectural detail and an intelligence to the sculptural program that have occasionally been dismissed as naive borrowing and unrelated sequences. Her attention to the aesthetics of the monument is short but informed with her recognition of the atypical orientation of the building and the resulting movement of light in the interior particularly sensitive. Her discussion of the emblematic Flight into Egypt capital is admirably comprehensive but tantalizingly brief. She has read widely and deeply and is able to bring a broad range of ideas and evidence to her argument that in themselves make a fascinating part of her presentation. Her writing is careful, clear and wonderfully accessible to readers of all levels of interest. The footnotes are extensive, appropriate, and, thanks to the layout, easily accessed. The black and white illustrations are valuable and placed in thoughtful conjunction with the text, which lies cleanly on the page bordered by elegant white space. This is a small-format, scholarly text. Yet Autun is finally a visual experience. As good as this book is, one is left longing for the funding of a parallel photographic inquiry of contemporary technical standards as well-informed as Prof. Seidel's text. "Left wanting more," however, is eventually a compliment that means, regardless, go buy this book.

In this book, Joe listed any stream with a hint of limestone. He gave honest descrtipions, if there were no fish he said so. I just wish he had time to fish some of them more. An all around good book. I have tried some of the out of the way streams he mentioned.

While this guidebook is still the only printed source for central Texas limestone, it is extremely outdated. Do not get me wrong, for those wishing to merely sample the limestone of central Texas, this well established guide will lead you in the right direction. However, with the innumerable number of sport routes and bouldering areas that have developed over the past five years, this guide is in need of a serious overhaul. As well, it is DEFINATELY not worth more than 15 bucks! Better to look at Blodyflapper.com or Texasclimbers.com for up to date information.

GREAT BOOK WITH DESCRIPTIVE DETAIL ON CLIMBS. IT'S REALLY A SIN TO PUBLISH ALL THIS BETA. TEXAS CLIMBING WITH AN ATTITUDE. I LIKE IT. AND YES, E-ROCK IS STILL CLOSED TO ALL CLIMBING... THANKS, RPM

For finding limestone routes around central texas, nothing compares, except I guess having someone take you there. The exposition is clever & irreverant. The directions to the crags are clear and the topos are pretty good for picking out which route is which (though not the best I've seen).

The biggest drawback is that the current addition is going on 5 years since the last edition. Many new routes have been added & changes have been made to the protection on many routes. Hopefull the authors will create a new edition soon. Until then, there is nothing better (at least that I've seen..)