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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

This exhaustively researched project brings together for the first time a complete listing of Alberta's rare vascular plants with detailed plant descriptions, habitat information and notes of special interest. Accompanied by numerous colour photographs, B&W illustrations and frequency maps, this text is essential for naturalists, botanists, students, and others interested in the flora of Alberta. (view table of contents)

Lillian Moller Galbraith's life story as mother to twelve, wife to an experimental engineer husband, adviser on women's issues to five U.S. presidents, and winner of the Hoover Medal for engineers is told in this account of a working mother who was one of the nation's most successful women.

Product Description: An outstanding history of this most important historical and influential library. The Providence Athenaeum, 250 years old in 2003, not only played a signifigant role in defining the cultural, intellectual, and social life of Rhode Island in its early yeaars, but played a major part in shaping America itself...read more