Ground covers are widely thought of as utilitarian - we turn to them when we have a problem that needs a solution. How fast will it fill an area? Can we put it into the tight spaces between pavers? How much foot traffic can it withstand? Yet these plants also offer a diverse range of beautiful and intriguing options with a variety of colours, textures, and forms. They can unify a landscape, knit together plantings and hardscape, and add extra layers of beauty, dynamism, and surprise. As a replacement for lawns, they can reduce our use of water, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, carbon-based fuels, and transform a yard into a diverse landscape of habitat and food for native insects, birds, and other wildlife. In this meticulously researched reference, nurseryman Gary Lewis profiles more than 4000 ground covers that can perform these roles with aplomb. No matter what kinds of conditions you're facing - shade, dry soil, heavy clay, excess moisture - there's a ground cover that will thrive and beautify your garden. Comprehensive, practical, and copiously illustrated, this indispensable volume belongs on the shelf of every designer, landscape architect, and serious gardener.

Dark art and poetry. The second installment of the "Three Worlds" series of books written by Gary Lewis. Paradoxium intends to describe and depict the workings and perception of chaos in nature. How it interacts and works in both the microcosm and macrocosm. As opposed to the first Paradoxium book (The Place That Cannot Be) which was themed around personality types and social chaos, "Paradoxium II: Order from Chaos" is themed around the macrocosmic evolution of events and what we call things, revolving around how chaos carves and shapes order, delving deep into the pattern that governs all events...Energy brings Order into Chaos, creating an embodiment of Chaos...That Chaos brings Energy into Order, creating an embodiment of Order...then that Order brings Chaos into Energy, creating an embodiment of Energy. There is also plenty of fun and interpersonal madness strewn about within the pages of chaos, for entertainment.

Whether you're into poetry, occultism, spirituality, mystical sciences, theories regarding the law of attraction, metaphysics, art depicting the dark side of nature, unravelling reality, or just like to read poetic and original thoughts of why things are...There is something for everyone, in The Three Worlds series of poetry books, depicting my very unique view of life experience and the world itself and converting my specific views into universal truths. This started as a side project of mine and over the years, I have written many works of my extremely original and unique theories, representations, and symbolisms. As it progressed, it developed into an ever-evolving belief system, for me, personally. The 'Paradoxium' books are first, in the series 'Three Worlds', comprised of 'Paradoxium', 'Inevitum', and 'Relativium'. Read, comprehend, and formulate, in your own way. Enjoy. - Gary Lewis

Recycled Reality is a collection of rhyming poems that I have written over the years, as I pondered why things are. Many of them offer deep insight into the soul and a chance to ask oneself deep questions. I do not try to impose my own answers to life onto any of my readers, as I believe we hold the answers to everything already and we just don't know it, so we try to figure them out. Some others are writings about life and situations, in general, and still others deal with the deep workings of the mind and energies that create our perceivable reality, which shapes us into who we are, as we continue to make our own world and it makes us...recycling reality.

In this study, I observed and interviewed six novice secondary mathematics teachers who were attempting to implement the NCTM (1991) Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics. I found that, overall, attempting such teaching added only modestly to their stresses. One notable exception was that they reported that managing classroom discourse utilizing student mathematical thinking in central ways was very demanding. I also found several new types of stresses not previously reported in the teacher stress research literature, some of which related to novices attempts to enact elements of the NCTM (1991) Standards. Novices identified socially-oriented coping resources as the most effective in alleviating their teaching stresses. Relying on their own experiences and ideas was also important, particularly for those novices without formally organized social resources (such as a teacher learning community). The results suggest that novices attempting ambitious teaching do so because they have commitments that lead them to persevere in such teaching and are able to find resources to support them in those attempts.