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Discover academic journals and magazines focused on both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
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2021.
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"More than just a field guide, Cascadia Revealed is the essential trailside reference for naturalists, hikers, and campers. With engaging prose and precise science, Dan Mathews brings the mountains alive with stories of their formation and profiles of the plants, animals, and people that live there. This is the perfect overview to help you discover the wonders of the region. Covers the Coast and Cascade Ranges, the Olympic Mountains, the Ranges of...
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The Field looks at the eco-system of an arable field, complete with photographs from crops, trees, hedgerows and wildflowers, to the wide variety of animals, farmland birds, insects, butterflies and moths that they support; and how they depend on each other; and are all vital for the wonderful environment we need to thrive and enjoy. The book focuses on the relationship between these key species, how they work together and interact with their environment...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the flora and fauna of Southeast Alaska is contained in the third edition of this lively field guide to the natural world, from bears to banana slugs, mountains to murrelets. Highlighting the most fascinating and unusual aspects of Southeast Alaska natural history, the book is also a guide to the most frequently seen plants and animals.
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Cities pose formidable obstacles to nonhuman life. Vast expanses of asphalt and concrete are inhospitable to plants and animals; traffic noise and artificial light disturb natural rhythms; sewage and pollutants imperil existence. Yet cities teem with life: In rowhouse neighborhoods, tiny flowers bloom from cracks in the sidewalk. White clover covers lawns, its seeds dispersed by shoes and birds. Moths flutter and spiders weave their webs near electric...
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How two worlds became one.
In this audiobook, you will understand how Christopher Columbus proposed something new: reaching the riches of the East Indies by sailing west from Europe. The rulers of Spain agreed to support his risky venture, and he sailed off in 1492. He unexpectedly ran into two continents nobody in Europe knew about. He didn't discover the continents; that had been done centuries before.
Discover how the Old World of Eurasia and Africa...
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Learn how to navigate through any landscape-forests, deserts, even your own backyard-through observation of the world around you!
Put away your map, look up from your phone, and let nature be your guide.
Rediscover nature's hidden signs as you delve into the amazing science of natural navigation. Meet two young adventurers, as they discover the joy of finding their way using nature's clues. From worms, honeybees, and spiders to trees, flowers,...
10) Amazing Ants
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Ants live in a colony. They have different jobs to do. Some ants get food for the colony. Some keep the colony safe. Find out about the role of ants. Paired to the fiction title Ants Everywhere.
11) Animal Teeth
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Animals do not brush their teeth, but they still have ways to keep their teeth clean. Read to find out how. Paired to the fiction title Going to the Zoo.
13) Bees Buzz
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Bees buzz. They buzz when they fly to a flower to find food. They buzz when they fly to their hive to sleep. Find out about the life of bees. Paired to the fiction title What Do You See.
14) Illinois
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Illinois."--Provided by publisher.
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and...
16) Alabama
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Learn about the state of Alabama.
17) Texas
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Texas."--Provided by publisher.
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish--that is, what is good for us. Observing that we can sensibly talk about what is good for plants and animals no less than what is good for people, Kraut advocates a general principle that applies to the entire world of living things:...
20) Deserts
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Discusses desert people, climate, landscape, plants, animals, and present and future threats to them.
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