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Mojave Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Va (Falcon Guides Wildflowers)
by Pam Mackay  Publisher Comments Mojave Desert Wildflowers is the ultimate field guide to wildflowers, trees, and shrubs of the ecoregion that extends from California to Arizona, Nevada, and Utah and includes Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Joshua Tree National...
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Deserts (85 Edition)
by James Macmahon Publisher Comments Beautifully illustrated with full-color photos, this is a comprehensive field guide to the wildflowers, birds, reptiles, insects, and other natural wonders of North America's deserts, from Oregon to Mexico....
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Desert Tree Finder (Nature Study Guides)
by May Theilgaar Watts Synopsis These pocket-sized Nature Study Guides describe plants and animals in easy-to-understand language. They include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Each book covers a specific region....
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The Black Rock Desert (Desert Places)
by William L Fox Synopsis A meditation on the Nevada desert, a place so empty that it's both physically overpowering and psychically disorienting....
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Few & Far Between: Moments in the North American Desert
by John Marti Campbell Book News Annotation Campbell, a cross-disciplinary modern-day renaissance man and explorer (and U. of New Mexico anthropologist) pairs stunning photographs of the North American Desert--the Sonoran, Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin--with descriptive narrative text. He...
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The Organ Pipe Cactus: (Southwest Center)
by David Yetman Synopsis Distinguished by its slender vertical branches, which resemble the tubes of a pipe organ, and growing to the imposing height of 15 to more than 30 feet, it's obvious how the organ pipe cactus got its name. In the United States, these spectacular and...
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Deserts (Firefly Guide)
by Marco C Stoppato Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 253) and index....
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Dry: Life Without Water
by Ehsan Masood Publisher Comments Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet...
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Dry Borders: Great Natural Reverves of the Sonoran Desert
by Richard Felger Publisher Comments An excursion into the Sonoran Desert along the U.S.-Mexico border brings to life the beauty of a spare and seductive terrain, telling the stories of the people, plants, and politics that layer a landscape in need of understanding and protection...
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Cacti of Texas: A Field Guide, with Emphasis on the Trans-Pecos Species (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
by A. Michael Powell Publisher Comments An identification guide to the genera, species, and varieties of all Texas cacti, with maps showing the distribution of each, for general readers as well as serious students of cacti....
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Firefly Guide to Deserts (Firefly Guides)
by Andrew Warren Synopsis A well-illustrated comprehensive survey of the world's desert regions, including a definition, flora, fauna and adaptations, resource base, peoples and their society, desert locations to visit, and region by region maps charting details....
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The living earth book of deserts
by Susan Arritt Book News Annotation Why oh why didn't the publisher pay a bit more for better color separations--or for whatever would have done justice in print to the excellent photos collected for this book? The text is the predictable work of a team of writer/researchers, but they...
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One Hundred Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest
by Janice E Bowers Publisher Comments 100 of the most interesting desert wildflowers are described and depicted in full-color photographs....
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Deserts :miracle of life
by Jim Flegg Publisher Comments Deserts is a singular guide to the most spectacular -- and most formidable -- places on earth. In an informative, entertaining text and spectacular color photographs, the author journeys around the world to capture the extraordinary beauty of deserts and...
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California Deserts
by Jerry Schad Book News Annotation Features the Calif. Desert Conservation Area, E. Mojave National Scenic Area, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Joshua Tree- and Death Valley national parks. 11x8.5". No index or bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Saguaro: The Desert Giant
by Anna Humphreys Synopsis Ask a Child to draw a picture of a cactus, and the result will probably look like a saguaro. Indeed, mass media have made this denizen of the Sonoran Desert universally recognizable, and perhaps just as misunderstood. In Saguaro: The Desert Giant, Anna...
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Discovering the Desert: Legacy of the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory
by William G Mcginnies Synopsis What's a desert? Whether you've lived in it for years or are just visiting, you may not know the desert as well as you suppose. Now you can share the experiences of the first U.S. scientists who set about discovering the nature of North American deserts....
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Wild Cactus
by George H H Huey Publisher Comments In Wild Cactus,Rose Houk writes an illuminating account of these intriguing plants--exploring not only natural history secrets, but Native American folklore, ancient culinary and medicinal uses, and current conservation issues as well. The breathtaking...
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A Desert Bestiary: Folklore, Literature, and Ecological Thought from the World's Dry Places
by Gregory Mcnamee Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and index....
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Flowering Plants of the Lake Mead Region
by George Olin Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index....
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