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 J. F. J. McQuire and M.L.A. Robinson This handy guidebook highlights the most important morphological features relevant to the recognition and identification of virtually every currently cultivated species of rhododendron. ... [visit website]
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Mark Flanagan and Tony Kirkham
Edwardian botanist Ernest Wilson was the foremost plant collector of his generation, singlehandedly responsible for introducing more than one thousand plant species to Western gardens, ... [visit website]
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Tom Cope
The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens details all plants that have ever been recorded growing in a wild state within Kew Gardens or its periphery, and all natives cultivated ... [visit website]
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John Grimshaw and Ross Bayton This comprehensive volume, commissioned by the International Dendrology Society, covers more than eight hundred tree species that have been introduced to cultivation in the United ... [visit website]
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Marianne North, a Victorian adventuress, set out in 1871 on an ambitious expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the ... [visit website]
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Heather Angel Wildlife photographer Heather Angel spent an entire year photographing Kew Gardens, focusing not on the familiar flowers and trees but on the remarkable array of animals that make ... [visit website]
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Helen Pickering and Annette Patzelt This compact volume is a handy, thorough guide to the wild plants found in the small Middle Eastern nation of Oman. A short introduction provides ... [visit website]
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Phillip Cribb and Johan Hermans As is the case with many other rare and sought-after species of plant and animal, Madagascar is one of the world’s prime locations for orchids, ... [visit website]
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Alison Heath and Roger Heath Northern Botswana and the surrounding regions are home to a rich diversity of plants, and this ambitious field guide offers detailed accounts of more than ... [visit website]
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Aileen O'Riordan and Pat Triggs This compact biographical look at Charles Darwin recounts key episodes in the master scientist’s life in a way designed to interest and appeal to primary ... [visit website]
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W. John Kress and Shirley Sherwood
This beautiful mix of art and science offers a breathtaking look at the way that contemporary scientific discoveries are changing our understanding of plants ... [visit website]
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Edited by Xander van der Burgt An edited volume based on the proceedings of the eighteenth Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa Congress held in ... [visit website]
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The British Library The chilling screams of the Red Fox, the rutting calls of the Fallow Deer and the rumbling growls of the Badger are just a few of the ... [visit website]
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Anore Jones
Plants That We Eat is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people ... [visit website]
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Deirdre Jackson
Although the lion is not the largest, fastest or most lethal animal, its position as king of beasts has rarely been challenged. Since Palaeolithic times, lions have fascinated ... [visit website]
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Robert Irwin
A distinct symbol of the desert and the Middle East, the camel was once unkindly described as “half snake, half folding bedstead.” But in the eyes of many ... [visit website]
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Edited by Ebbing Lautenbach, Keith F. Woeltje, and Preeti N. Malani In recent years, issues of infection control, patient safety, and quality of care have become increasingly prominent in healthcare ... [visit website]
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Edited by Robert Allen
Fabrics that are not only stain resistant but actually clean themselves. Airplane wings that change shape in midair to take advantage of shifts in wind currents. ... [visit website]
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By itechnolog.com news on July 28,2010
M. G. Harasewych and Fabio Moretzsohn
Who among us hasn’t marveled at the diversity and beauty of shells? Or picked one up, held it to our ear, and then gazed ... [visit website]
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Sally Gregory Kohlstedt In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This ... [visit website]
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