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The late Neville Meaney’s warning not to let cultural loyalties cloud the pursuit of national interest remains of vital importance to determining Australia’s role in the world.
Matt Ehret explains what caused the rise of the perversion of science known as "eugenics" as a new scientific religion in the 19th century. Today's world is gripped between two possible futures: on the one hand, a multipolar alliance in defense.
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According to Pliny, Roman Emperor Tiberius’s doctors instructed their charge to consume a fruit of the Cucurbits family each day. To grow these melon and cucumber fruits year-round on his home island of Capri, Tiberius directed construction of specularia: “[He] had raised beds made in frames upon wheels, by means of which the Cucumis were moved and exposed to the full heat of the sun; while, in winter, they were withdrawn, and placed under the protection of frames glazed with mirror-stone.”
Thus begins
The Conservatory: Gardens Under Glass. Illustrating their text with stunning photography, the authors Alan Stein and Nancy Virts, co-founders of Maryland’s Tanglewood Conservatories, survey the evolution of the conservatory in Europe, North America, and, ultimately, the world. The conservatory, an outgrowth of global trade, imperialism, and innovation, embodies a historical leap in the conjoining of architecture and landscape architecture the extension of the growing s