Product Description: Photographed in sun, wind and rain by long-time Philippine resident Patrick de Koenigswarter, the gardens will be of great interest not only to professional landscape architects and gardeners but to anyone interested in the beauty and diversity of plant life in the tropics.

Product Description: The 100 recipes presented in this book are based on a cuisine shaped by the influences of the many countries that have at one time or another occupied this island nation. Four hundred years of Spanish rule, more than half a century of American occupation and the continual presence of Chinese, Malay, Polynesian and Japanese influences have produced a cuisine that is varied, colorful and unique...read more

Product Description: Beautiful photographs from the Philippines and abroad introduce an extraordinary array of homes going behind some elegantly closed doors to reveal very private places where hospitality is a byword. Wonderfully exotic locales and institutions that provide the settings and backdrops to this hospitality are also presented...read more