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Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas

A Field Guide. Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Michael John Haddock

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Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas

A Field Guide. Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Michael John Haddock

How do you know when you’re face to face with a fringe-leaf ruellia? Is that particular flower button gayfeather or dotted gayfeather? And what about the pod clinging to your pants? Could it have come from a bird-foot trefoil? For anyone venturing out into the wilds of Kansas and the region, identifying plants just got a whole lot easier. Michael Haddock has updated and expanded his guide to more than 400 wildflowers, grasses, sedges, and rushes. This guide documents many of the state’s most common and conspicuous species—as well as some seldom encountered or listed in field guides—and includes many that are found throughout the Great Plains. This revised and expanded edition of Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas supersedes earlier guides not only in the number of species it includes—plus its coverage of grasses—but also in its spectacular, true-to-life color photos. The first edition of Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide (2005) quickly became a highly popular resource for people interested in the flora of Kansas. In the nearly twenty years since the original publication, there have been advances in our understanding of the evolutionary relationships of vascular plants. Studies of DNA, macro- and micromorphology, cytology, phenology, ecology, and biogeography have affected the circumscriptions and names of some of the families, genera, and species recognized in the first edition. Consequently, an important component of this revision is the update to nomenclature and the circumscription of taxa along lines that are more consistent with current knowledge. Perfect for backpack or glove compartment, Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas offers a wealth of quick-access information and finding aids graced with color that leaps off the page, making plant identification a joy rather than a chore. It’s a book guaranteed to send even chronic homebodies out into the great outdoors in search of these elusive blooms.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700635955

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9780700635955

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas

Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Michael John Haddock ,Craig C. Freeman

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Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas

Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Michael John Haddock ,Craig C. Freeman

With its high plains, rolling hills, and river valleys, Kansas is home to a surprisingly diverse flora, and among these riches are the 166 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines identified, described, and pictured in this handy guide. Expanding and updating H. A. Stephens’s 1969 classic, this handbook offers full descriptions of woody plant species found in the wild in Kansas, 138 of them native. County-level distribution maps show where species have been documented, and nearly 1,000 color photographs highlight morphological features—habit, bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit. Updated scientific nomenclature reflects our current understanding of the taxonomy of woody species, as well as the most recent findings in studies of DNA, macro- and micromorphology, cytology, ecology, and phenology. With keys for identification, additional notes about nearly 100 other native and nonnative woody plants found in the state, and a comprehensive glossary defining all technical botanical terms, this user-friendly handbook should be the go-to guide for plant enthusiasts and professionals alike.

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436

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University Press of Kansas

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0700627685

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9780700627684

Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds

By: Michael John Haddock,Craig C. Freeman,Janét Bare

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Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds

By: Michael John Haddock,Craig C. Freeman,Janét Bare

In the 35 years since the publication of Janét E. Bare's popular Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas, our understanding of flowering plants has undergone dramatic changes. This transformation is reflected in the pages of Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds. A reference and a guidebook for a new generation of plant enthusiasts, this volume includes up-to-date nomenclature, keys, and descriptions, as well as habitat, distribution, and ecological information. In addition to herbaceous plants, the book profiles several woody species generally perceived to be either "showy wildflowers" or "weedy"—species such as Amorpha fruticosa (false indigo bush), Campsis radicans (trumpet vine), Ceanothus herbaceus (Jersey tea), Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush), Rhus glabra (smooth sumac), Rosa Arkansana (prairie rose), and Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy). Designed for the professional botanist and passionate amateur alike, Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds brings names and taxonomic information into line with recent revolutions in studies of DNA, macro- and micromorphology, cytology, ecology, and phenology. It expands upon Bare's earlier book's 831 entries with descriptions of 1,163 species—representing about 56 percent of the native and naturalized species currently known in Kansas—as well as 742 color photographs. For purposes of identification, conservation, study, or the simple pleasure of thumbing through, it is a resource without parallel.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700620818

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9780700620814

National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera

Myths Reconsidered

By: Michael Halliwell

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National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera

Myths Reconsidered

By: Michael Halliwell

Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire. It is only in the late 1970s and early 1980s that there is evidence of the successful systematic production of indigenous opera. The premiere of Voss by Richard Meale and David Malouf in 1986 was a watershed in the staging and reception of new opera, and there has been a diverse series of new works staged in the last thirty years, not only by the national company, but also by thriving regional institutions. The emergence of a thriving operatic tradition in contemporary Australia is inextricably enmeshed in Australian cultural consciousness and issues of national identity. In this study of eighteen representative contemporary operas, Michael Halliwell elucidates the ways in which the operas reflect and engage with the issues facing contemporary Australians. Stylistically these eighteen operas vary greatly. The musical idiom is diverse, ranging from works in a modernist idiom such as The Ghost Wife, Whitsunday, Fly Away Peter, Black River and Bride of Fortune, to Voss, Batavia, Bliss, Lindy, Midnight Son, The Riders, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Children’s Bach being works which straddle several musical styles. A number of operas draw strongly on musical theatre including The Eighth Wonder, Pecan Summer, The Rabbits and Cloudstreet, and Love in the Age of Therapy is couched in a predominantly jazz idiom. While some of them are overtly political, all, at least tangentially, deal with recent cultural politics in Australia and offer sharply differing perspectives.

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Routledge

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1317090810

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9781317090816

Orca

How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator

By: Jason Michael Colby

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Orca

How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator

By: Jason Michael Colby

Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and the author's own family history, this is the definitive story of how the feared and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca", and what that has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures

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Oxford University Press

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0190673095

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9780190673093

You Gotta Eat Here!

Canada's Favourite Hometown Restaurants and Hidden Gems

By: John Catucci,Michael Vlessides

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You Gotta Eat Here!

Canada's Favourite Hometown Restaurants and Hidden Gems

By: John Catucci,Michael Vlessides

The national bestseller You Gotta Eat Here! showcases the great joints and legendary local restaurants that many of us have never heard of. You’ll discover the most delicious, mouth-watering food in Canada and meet the colourful characters who have turned these places into neighbourhood institutions. And you’ll visit some of the country’s best eateries—from Charlene’s in Cape Breton to Schwartz’s in Montreal to Floyd’s Diner in Victoria—so get ready for a coast-to-coast road trip with outrageously good food.

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Harper Collins

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1443416177

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9781443416177

Mensa Big Book of Acrostics 2

By: Michael Ashley

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Mensa Big Book of Acrostics 2

By: Michael Ashley

Suitable for acrostics fans, this title features 110 devious acrostics for puzzle-doers. It mixes crosswords with a bit of code-breaking.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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140275258X

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9781402752582

Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

By: Michael E. Woods

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Arguing until Doomsday

Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy

By: Michael E. Woods

As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture more apparent than in the raging debates between Illinois's Stephen Douglas and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. As leaders of the Democrats' northern and southern factions before the Civil War, their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln. But here, weaving together biography and political history, Michael E. Woods restores Davis and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the center of the Civil War era. Operating on personal, partisan, and national levels, Woods traces the deep roots of Democrats' internal strife, with fault lines drawn around fundamental questions of property rights and majority rule. Neither belief in white supremacy nor expansionist zeal could reconcile Douglas and Davis's factions as their constituents formed their own lines in the proverbial soil of westward expansion. The first major reinterpretation of the Democratic Party's internal schism in more than a generation, Arguing until Doomsday shows how two leading antebellum politicians ultimately shattered their party and hastened the coming of the Civil War.

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UNC Press Books

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146965640X

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Bioethanol and Natural Resources

Substrates, Chemistry and Engineered Systems

By: Ruben Michael Ceballos

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Bioethanol and Natural Resources

Substrates, Chemistry and Engineered Systems

By: Ruben Michael Ceballos

Bioethanol and Natural Resources: Substrates, Chemistry and Engineered Systems provides a comprehensive review of feedstocks, physiochemical and biological pretreatments, molecular substrates, cellulolytic and ligninolytic enzymes, and advanced technologies for producing bioethanol. Although this book provides a review of first-generation bioethanol feedstocks, chemistry, and processes, there is an emphasis on second-generation "cellulosic" ethanol production. With rapid advances in biofuels technologies and the continued global dependency on unsustainable extraction of fossil fuels, this text is timely. Although it is intended to be used as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate or graduate level courses, the book is accessible to a non-academic audience. This book provides a unique opportunity to understand bioethanol production from the basic concepts and processes to the most cutting-edge technologies under development.

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CRC Press

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1351650335

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Neonatal Cardiology

By: Michael Artman,Lynn Mahoney,David F. Teitel

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Neonatal Cardiology

By: Michael Artman,Lynn Mahoney,David F. Teitel

* Provides a sound background in the basic mechanisms of congenital heart disease * Includes guidelines for evaluating newborns with suspected heart disease * Offers advice on treatment and drug therapy guidelines

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0070070989

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9780070070981

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Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas

Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas

Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds

Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds

National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera

National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera

Orca

Orca

You Gotta Eat Here!

You Gotta Eat Here!

Mensa Big Book of Acrostics 2

Mensa Big Book of Acrostics 2

Arguing until Doomsday

Arguing until Doomsday

Bioethanol and Natural Resources

Bioethanol and Natural Resources

Neonatal Cardiology

Neonatal Cardiology

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