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The science of plants : inside their secret world / by Ambrose, Jamie(Author of nature books for children)(CARDINAL)429780; Bayton, Ross.(CARDINAL)426639; Candeias, Matt.(CARDINAL)851362; Douglass, Megan.(CARDINAL)484883; Fewster, Helen.(CARDINAL)806195; Gerhard, Karyn.(CARDINAL)426969; Jose, Sarah.(CARDINAL)798939; Mikolajski, Andrew.(CARDINAL)534389; Ripley, Esther.(CARDINAL)687634; Summers, David(Writer on natural history); DK Publishing, Inc.(CARDINAL)317714; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.(CARDINAL)147486; Smithsonian Institution.(CARDINAL)141176;

"Explore the intricate inner workings of the plant kingdom--where seeds become shoots, and flowers become fruits--with this spectacular introduction to botany and how plants work. Stunning photography and engaging text combine to explain the intimate secrets of both the familiar and exotic, from roses and lilies to rainforest orchids, mangroves, and cacti. Discover how plants in scorching deserts, on frozen mountain peaks, and along coastal shores adapt to the challenging conditions in which they grow. Learn how roots and leaves provide food and energy, and how plants deploy extraordinary strategies to protect their precious resources from animals and insects--from bristly stems, thorny branches, and sticky resin to chemical messages designed to attract help from other creatures. Chapters on roots, stems and branches, leaves, flowers, and seeds and fruits ensure that every part of the plant is thoroughly explored. Meet plants with leaves that eat meat, flowers that use color and scent to communicate with their pollinators, and trees that withstand hurricanes, as well as seeds and fruits designed to travel phenomenal distances to fertile ground. To complete the picture, there is a detailed catalog of more than 70 significant plant families--from onions and orchids to tree ferns, horsetails, and club mosses--together with a full list of all the families in the plant kingdom."

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Botanical illustration.; Botany; Plants; Plants;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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Smithsonian flora : inside the secret world of plants / by Fewster, Helen,editor.(CARDINAL)806195; Douglass, Megan,editor.(CARDINAL)484883; Gerhard, Karyn,editor.(CARDINAL)426969; Ambrose, Jamie(Author of nature books for children),contributor.(CARDINAL)429780; Bayton, Ross,contributor.(CARDINAL)426639; Candeias, Matt,contributor.(CARDINAL)851362; Jose, Sarah,contributor.(CARDINAL)798939; Mikolajski, Andrew,contributor.(CARDINAL)534389; Ripley, Esther,contributor.(CARDINAL)687634; Summers, David(Writer on natural history),contributor.; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,contributor.(CARDINAL)147486; Smithsonian Institution,issuing body.(CARDINAL)141176;

The plant kingdom -- Roots -- Stems and branches -- Leaves -- Flowers -- Seeds and fruits -- Plant families.From tiny mosses and delicate ferns to vibrant blooms and stately palms, Flora invites you to explore the plant kingdom from the ground up, and from root to leaf tip. DK's elegant introduction to botany is packed with sumptuous photos and crystal-clear illustrations that explain the mechanics of photosynthesis, why leaves change color, how cacti store water, and how seeds know when to grow. Filled with fascinating stories of how plant roots and leaves communicate with their neighbors and how flowers use color and scent to interact with--and manipulate--the creatures around them, Flora is a fresh and engaging introduction to the mysterious inner workings of the plant world. --

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Plants; Plants; Botany; Botanical illustration.; Flowers; Photography of plants.;

Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 14

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The writing life : writers on how they think and work : a collection from the Washington post book world / by Arana, Marie(Writer)(CARDINAL)703599;

Subjects: Biographies.; Authors, American; American literature; English literature; Authors, English; Authorship.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Collected poems : 1974--2004 / by Dove, Rita,author.(CARDINAL)334692;

Includes bibliographical references and index.In the old neighborhood -- The yellow house on the corner (1980) : I. This life -- The bird frau -- Robert Schumann, or : musical genius begins with affliction -- Happenstance -- Small town -- The Snow King -- Sightseeing -- Upon meeting Don L. Lee, in a dream -- "Teach us to number our days" -- Nigger song : an odyssey -- II. Five elephants -- Geometry -- Champagne -- Night watch -- The secret garden -- A suite for Augustus -- 1963 -- D.C.. -- Planning the perfect evening -- Augustus observes the sunset -- Wake -- Back -- III. Belinda's petition -- The house slave -- David Walker (1785-1830) -- The abduction -- The transport of slaves from Maryland to Mississippi -- Pamela -- Someone's blood -- Cholera -- The slave's critique of practical reason -- Kentucky, 1833 -- IV. Adolescence : I -- Adolescence : II -- Adolescence : III -- The boast -- The Kadava Kumbis devise a way to marry for love -- Spy -- First kiss -- Then came flowers -- Pearls -- Nexus -- V. Notes from a Tunisian journal -- The Sahara bus trip -- For Kazuko -- Beauty and the beast -- His shirt -- Great Uncle Beefheart -- The son -- Corduroy Road -- Ö -- Museum (1983) : I. The hill has something to say -- The fish in the stone -- The ants of Argos -- Pithos -- Nestor's bathtub -- The hill has something to say -- The copper beech -- Tou Wan speaks to her husband, Liu Sheng -- Catherine of Alexandria -- Catherine of Siena -- Receiving the stigmata -- Boccaccio : the plague years -- Fiammetta breaks her peace -- II. In the bulrush -- November for beginners -- Reading Hölderlin on the patio with the aid of a dictionary -- Shakespeare say -- Three days of forest, a river, free -- Banneker -- In the bulrush -- Delft -- Ike -- Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove -- At the German writers conference in Munich -- III. My father's telescope -- Grape sherbet -- Roses -- Sunday night at grandfather's -- Centipede -- My father's telescope -- Song. Summer -- Anti-father -- To bed -- A father out walking on the lawn -- IV. Primer for the nuclear age -- The sailor in Africa -- Early morning on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Freeway -- Why I turned vegetarian -- Eastern European eclogues -- Flirtation -- Exeunt the viols -- The left-handed cellist -- Lines muttered in sleep -- Primer for the Nuclear Age -- Parsley -- Thomas and Beulah (1986) : I. Mandolin -- The event -- Variation on pain -- Jiving -- Straw hat -- Courtship -- Refrain -- Variation on guilt -- Nothing down -- The Zeppelin Factory -- Under the viaduct, 1932 -- Lightnin' blues -- Compendium -- Definition in the face of unnamed fury -- Aircraft -- Aurora Borealis -- Variation on gaining a son -- One volume missing -- The charm -- Gospel -- Roast possum -- The stroke -- The Satisfaction Coal Company -- Thomas at the wheel -- II. Canary in bloom -- Taking in wash -- Magic -- Courtship, diligence -- Promises -- Dusting -- A hill of beans -- Weathering out -- Motherhood -- Anniversary -- The house on Bishop Street -- Daystar -- Obedience -- The great palaces of Versailles -- Pomade -- Headdress -- Sunday greens -- Recovery -- Nightmare -- Wingfoot Lake -- Company -- The Oriental ballerina -- Chronology -- Grace notes (1989) -- Summit Beach -- I. Silos -- Fifth grade autobiography -- The buckeye -- Quaker oats -- Flash cards -- Crab-boil -- Hully gully -- Fantasy and science fiction -- Sisters -- Uncle Millet -- Poem in which I refuse contemplation -- II. Mississippi -- After storm -- Watching Last Year at Marienbad at Roger Haggerty's house in Auburn, Alabama -- Dog days, Jerusalem -- Ozone -- Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home -- Particulars -- Your death -- The wake -- III. The other side of the house -- Pastoral -- Horse and tree -- The breathing, the endless news -- After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed -- Genetic expedition -- Backyard, 6 a.m. -- IV. Dedication -- Ars poetica -- Arrow -- Stitches -- In the museum -- And counting -- Dialectical romance -- Medusa -- In a neutral city -- V. Saints -- Genie's prayer under the kitchen sink -- The gorge -- Canary -- The island women of Paris -- À l'Opéra -- Obbligato -- Lint -- The royal workshops -- On the road to Damascus -- Old folk's home, Jerusalem -- Mother love (1995) -- An intact world -- I. Heroes -- II. Primer -- Party dress for a first born -- Persephone, falling -- The search -- Protection -- The narcissus flower -- Persephone abducted -- Statistic : the witness -- Grief : the Council -- Mother love -- Breakfast of champions -- Golden oldie -- III. Persephone in hell - IV. Hades' pitch -- Wiederkehr -- Wiring home -- The Bistro Styx -- V. Blue days -- Nature's itinerary -- Sonnet in primary colors -- Demeter mourning -- Exit -- Afield -- Lost brilliance -- VI. Political -- Demeter, waiting -- Lamentations -- Teotlhuacán -- History -- Used -- Rusks -- Missing -- Demeter's prayer to Hades -- VII. Her island -- On the bus with Rosa Parks (1999) : Cameos --July 1925 -- Night -- Birth -- Lake Erie skyline, 1930 -- Depression years -- Homework -- Graduation, grammar school -- Painting the town -- Easter Sunday, 1940 -- Nightwatch, the son -- Freedom : bird's eye view -- Singsong -- I cut my finger once on purpose -- Parlor -- The first book -- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967 -- Freedom : birds' eye view -- Testimonial -- Dawn revisited -- Black on a Saturday night -- My mother enters the work force -- Black on a Saturday night -- The musician talks about "process" -- Sunday -- The camel comes to us from the barbarians -- The Venus of Willendorf -- Incarnation in Phoenix -- Revenant -- Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA Approved -- Revenant -- On Veronica -- There came a soul -- The peach orchard -- Against repose -- Against self-pity -- Götterdämmerung -- Ghost walk -- Lady Freedom among us -- For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000 -- On the bus with Rosa Parks -- Sit back, relax -- "The situation is intolerable" -- Freedom Ride -- Climbing in -- Claudette Colvin goes to work -- The enactment -- Rosa -- QE2, transatlantic crossing, third day -- In the lobby of the Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C. -- The pond, porch-view : six p.m., early spring -- American smooth (2004) -- Fox trot Fridays -- All Souls' -- "I have been a stranger in a strange land" -- Fox trot Fridays -- Ta Ta Cha Cha -- Quick -- Brown -- Fox -- Heart to heart -- Cozy apología -- Soprano -- Two for the Montrose Drive-In -- Meditation at fifty yards, moving target -- American smooth -- Not welcome here -- The castle walk -- The passage -- Noble Sissle's horn -- Alfonzo prepares to go over the top -- La Chapelle, 92nd Division, Ted -- Variation on reclamation -- The return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe -- Ripont -- Twelve chairs -- Blues in half-tones, 3/4 time -- Chocolate -- Bolero -- Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove -- Samba summer -- Blues in half-tones, 3/4 time -- Describe yourself in three words or less -- The seven veils of Salomé -- From your valentine -- Rhumba -- The sisters ; swansong -- Evening primrose -- Reverie in open air -- Sic itur ad astra -- Count to ten and we'll be there -- Eliza, age 10, Harlem -- Lullaby -- Driving through -- Desert backyard -- Desk dreams -- Now -- Against flight -- Looking up from the page, I am reminded of this mortal coil.Showcases the diversity of the poet's work, including such topics as love, Greek myths, and America's kaleidoscopic cultural heritage.

Subjects: American poetry.; Poetry.; American poetry.;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11

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