Authors:Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: change, legacy, communities, rural
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-12-25
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0813343771
ISBN-13: 9780813343778

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling for survival by implementing innovative approaches to their problems. This core text presents a practical framework for students to understand the internal and external forces shaping rural communities today. Rural Communities focuses on various capitals in rural areas--natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built. Issues covered include racial and cultural diversity; globalization and rural communities; the central role of communities in organizing a sustainable future; and building comm

Author: The European Garden Flora Editorial Committee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: european, flora, volume, garden, europe, doors, cultivated, glass, manual, hardback, identification, plants
Number of Pages: 494
Published: 1989-07-28
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 0521361710
ISBN-13: 9780521361712

Eventually in six volumes, The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. Families, genera, and species are described, keys are provided, and guidance is given on the cultivation of each genus. It is designed to meet the highest scientific standards, yet the vocabulary is kept uncomplicated to make the book fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect, as well as the professional botanist. Although based on European flora, the series will be an extremely useful reference on cultivated plants throughout t

Authors:Dennis W. Magee, Harry E. Ahles,
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: new, flora, adjacent, york, england, vascular, northeast, manual
Number of Pages: 1214
Published: 2007-12-31
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1558495770
ISBN-13: 9781558495777

Designed as both a reference work and a year-round field manual, this volume contains more than 2,400 range maps and 995 line drawings, designed to clarify descriptions used in the keys. For botanists, naturalists, and students interested in an up-to-date treatment of the vascular flora of greater New England, it has proved to be an invaluable resource. The geographic scope of the work extends from the Canadian border south through Long Island and west to the Hudson River. The "General Keys" section contains fourteen keys that include such groups as aquatic plants, vines, and woody plants in w

Author: B. Pedersen
Publisher: Graphis Press
Keywords: flora, series
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-07
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1931241090
ISBN-13: 9781931241090

Flowers have been a favorite subject for photographers since the craft’s beginnings. With 130 color and 80 black-and-white photographs, this lavish book features the best of the most recent work in this genre. Here are powerful images by both masters and emerging talents in the fields of still life, landscape, and abstraction. Amanda Means’s projections of light onto photographic paper capture the brilliant detail and sensuous beauty of leaves and petals. John Huet’s colorful compositions radiate poise and grace. Joson’s digital expertise makes miniature flowers into gorgeous giants. L

Author: Australian Biological Resources Study
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: flora, australia, chloridoideae, series, centothecoideae, 44b, vol, poaceae
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0643069607
ISBN-13: 9780643069602

This latest volume in the acclaimed Flora of Australia series covers the subfamilies Arundinoideae, Danthonoideae, Aristidoideae, Micrairoideae and Choridoideae. It describes a mixture of tropical and temperate grasses and includes a number of economically and environmentally important groups, such as: Triodia – iconic spinifex grasses of Australia’s arid areas that are an important major habitat for a variety of species Wallaby grasses – attractive grasses with distinctive purple and green heads that are a major structural component of endangered south-eastern grasslands Aris

Author: Australian Biological Resources Study
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: flora, australia, chloridoideae, series, centothecoideae, 44b, vol, poaceae
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $96.95
ISBN-10: 0643069615
ISBN-13: 9780643069619

This latest volume in the acclaimed Flora of Australia series covers the subfamilies Arundinoideae, Danthonoideae, Aristidoideae, Micrairoideae and Choridoideae. It describes a mixture of tropical and temperate grasses and includes a number of economically and environmentally important groups, such as: Triodia – iconic spinifex grasses of Australia’s arid areas that are an important major habitat for a variety of species Wallaby grasses – attractive grasses with distinctive purple and green heads that are a major structural component of endangered south-eastern grasslands Aris

Authors:T. G. Tutin, N. A. Burges, A. O. Chater, J. R. Edmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: flora, europaea, psilotaceae, platanaceae, hardback, volume, vol
Number of Pages: 629
Published: 1993-05-28
List price: $385.00
ISBN-10: 052141007X
ISBN-13: 9780521410076

Published in five volumes, Flora Europaea is the definitive account of the flowering plants, ferns and fern-allies of Europe, covering all plants growing in the wild, including many naturalized species and all widely cultivated crop species. It provides full keys and concise descriptions of families, genera, species and subspecies, together with bibliographic details for accepted species, summaries of geographical distribution, chromosome numbers and habitat information. This new edition of Volume 1 brings the treatment of the first 79 families up to date. Keys and descriptions have been exten