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by Thomas Laessoe Publisher Comments Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Meg Quinn Publisher Comments No Plants say "desert" quite like cacti. Their prickly nature aside, cacti and the desert habitats in which they reside are especially fragile. Indeed, Saguaro National Park and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument were established primarily to protect... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John K. Small Publisher Comments 90 species of true fern allies covered in detail. 85 full-page drawings, 13 keys, etc.... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Kricher Publisher Comments This comprehensive field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forest communities of the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest. It includes 53 color plates and more than 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John R Packham Publisher Comments Functional Ecology of Woodlands is firmly based on the factors which govern the composition of woodland communities, but goes on to explore the dynamics of interactions between various ecosystem components. This is an authoritative text on the... (read more) List Price $88.00 Your price $69.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Barbara Hodgson Publisher Comments With its connotations of mystery and sinister beauty, opium holds a near mythical place in the popular imagination. From swaying poppy fields to dimly lit, smoke-laden opium dens, author Barbara Hodgson traces the path of opium's creation and consumption,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Gledhill Publisher Comments This book documents the historical problems associated with an ever-increasing number of commonly-named plants and the resolution of these problems through the introduction of International Codes for both botanical and horticultural nomenclature. The... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George B Stevenson Publisher Comments The value of this book goes well beyond its immediate audience in south Florida, for the palms Stevenson covers comprise the most common horticultural varieties planted throughout the tropics. There is no other single book that describes this group of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Fandex Publisher Comments Bringing the world of TREES to your fingertips, FANDEX presents a foolproof field guide. Four visual keys--die-cut leaf, bark pattern, flower, nut or seed, and photo of the full tree--plus descriptions of habitat and more combine to give a complete... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Miscellaneous) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John A Grant Publisher Comments Northwest gardeners have relied on the solid information found in various editions of this book for more than 50 years. This greatly enlarged 1990 edition reflects the vast increase in suitable plants for the region now available from area nurseries.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Herbert Spencer Zim Publisher Comments This Golden Guide describes and illustrates in full color more than 140 of our most common trees. Learn: <BR>-How to recognize tree shapes, flowers, buds, leaves, and fruits<BR>-Where each species grows<BR>-The parts of a tree and the... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alaska Geographic Publisher Comments Identity Alaska's multitude of berries through color photos, detailed drawings, and descriptive text; then use the helpful recipes to create delicious results.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Balee Publisher Comments "Footprints of the Forest" is the clearest and most comprehensive account to date of the relationship between and Amazonian people and their botanical environment. Based on Balee's ten years of ethnographic and botanical research among the Ka'aper... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael G Barbour Publisher Comments Unique in its comprehensive coverage, this book describes the major vegetation types from the arctic tundra of Alaska and Canada to the tropical forest of Central America. This original detailed summary provides the reader with a sense of the species... (read more) List Price $84.00 Your price $63.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Oleg Polunin Publisher Comments Flowers of Europe describes 2800 of the most common and interesting wild flowers to be found growing in Europe. For over 1900 of these species, the book provides detailed descriptions, their distribution across the continent, and their uses as poisons... (read more) List Price $84.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Pakenham Publisher Comments A landmark volume celebrating the most remarkable trees on our planet. The spirit of nineteenth-century naturalistic exploration lives in British historian Thomas Pakenham, who has spent the last decade chronicling the lives of the world's most dramatic... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert J Black Publisher Comments With colorful photographs of more than 400 plants, this comprehensive treatment of the selection and care of seaside plants will be welcomed eagerly by gardeners from Virginia to south Texas. As more and more of the nation's population moves to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kenneth Brower Publisher Comments One winter day in 1988, as he surveyed his newly purchased land in California's wine country, Sam Sebastiani made a bold decision: He would plant vines on his hillside but he would restore the hayfield below it to its natural condition - a freshwater... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $3.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by C M Cotton Publisher Comments Interest in ethnobotany has increased dramatically in recent years. The search for new medicines by the pharmaceutical industry has turned to plant natural products and to ethnobotanical studies as a first step in bioprospecting. These studies are making... (read more) List Price $84.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rosita Arvigo Publisher Comments The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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