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Product Description: This title is volume 15 of Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden.

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9780893270575 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1966, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This title is volume 15 of Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden.

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9780893272944 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, February 1, 1973, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Pp. xvi, 714, numerous text-figs, photos and maps. Cloth, DJ, 4to. Symposium of the Association for Tropical Biology, Caracas, Venezuela, February 8-13, 1979. Contains 37 chapters with an entire section devoted to "refuge theory". First edition.

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9780231048767 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $162.00 | About this edition: Pp.

Product Description: This is a critical appraisal of the existing evidence on the history of Amazonia during the past 1.8 million years. Contributions from geology, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, pedology, botany and zoology are reviewed, with special emphasis on neotropical birds, butterflies, and plants...read more
By Ghillean T. Prance (editor) and T. C. Whitmore (editor)

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9780198545460 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 3, 1987, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This is a critical appraisal of the existing evidence on the history of Amazonia during the past 1.

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9780893272531 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, September 1, 1984, cover price $28.00

By Ghillean T. Prance (editor)

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9780080307763 | Pergamon Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $62.95

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Describes basic leaf structure and functions, discusses plant ecology, and tells how to collect leaves

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9780517551523 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1987, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Describes basic leaf structure and functions, discusses plant ecology, and tells how to collect leaves

Collects more than one hundred watercolors of North American wildflowers, arranged by season, with notes on the genus, species, name, and distribution of each

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9780893274368 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1989, cover price $39.00
9780517570074 | Crown Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects more than one hundred watercolors of North American wildflowers, arranged by season, with notes on the genus, species, name, and distribution of each

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Product Description: This title is volume 8 of the Advances in Economic Botany series. These papers provide a rich and diverse sampling of research conducted by the staff and collaborators of the Institute of Economic Botany of The New York Botanical Garden...read more

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9780893273477 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, December 1, 1989, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This title is volume 8 of the Advances in Economic Botany series.

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By Calvin B. Dewitt (editor) and Ghillean T. Prance (editor)

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9780865544048 | Mercer Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: A compilation of articles by prominent experts in their respective fields on compensation for and collaboration with indigenous people in regard to their knowledge and provision of rare plants which are used for some of the most potent drugs in Western medicine. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780471950240 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: A compilation of articles by prominent experts in their respective fields on compensation for and collaboration with indigenous people in regard to their knowledge and provision of rare plants which are used for some of the most potent drugs in Western medicine.

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Product Description: An insight into the rainforests and their inhabitants who make their homes in the most beautiful and most endangered environment on earth, this text bears witness to the fragility of the rainforests as they struggle to survive in the 21st century...read more

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9781860465826 | Harvill Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: An insight into the rainforests and their inhabitants who make their homes in the most beautiful and most endangered environment on earth, this text bears witness to the fragility of the rainforests as they struggle to survive in the 21st century.

More than two hundred spectacular full-color images celebrate the rich biological diversity of the world's rainforests, capturing the importance of these habitats to the health of the planet and the survival of all species.

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9780609603642 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, September 1, 1998), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Celebrates the rich biological diversity of the world's rainforests, capturing the importance of these habitats to the health of the planet and the survival of all species.

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This title is monograph 21(1) of the Flora Neotropica series. It is the first of a two-part monograph. The authors include introductory information about the morphology, biology, and ecology of the neotropical Lecythidaceae. They present a revision of 64 species in five genera (four actinomorphic and one slightly zygomorphic).

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9780893273453 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $51.75
9780893271930 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: This title is monograph 21(1) of the Flora Neotropica series.

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9780893272937 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Book by Prance, Ghillean T.

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9780893273385 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Book by Prance, Ghillean T.

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Product Description: This title is monograph 9 in the Flora Neotropica series. The author presents a taxonomic study of neotropical taxa of this large, woody family. This treatment accounts for approximately two-thirds of the species in the family.

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9780893272920 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: This title is monograph 9 in the Flora Neotropica series.

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Presents a history of the role plants have played in society, covering regional customs, the arts, and natural landscapes.
By Mark Nesbitt (editor) and Ghillean T. Prance (editor)

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9780415927468 | Routledge, November 1, 2004, cover price $350.00 | About this edition: Presents a history of the role plants have played in society, covering regional customs, the arts, and natural landscapes.

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Product Description: Proteaceae, the 100th volume of the Flora Neotropcia series, is a taxonomic monograph that covers the American genera of this unique family, and presents a systematic treatment of 8 genera, 84 native species, and two introduced species of Grevillea...read more

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9780893274801 | New York Botanical Garden Pr Dept, June 30, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Proteaceae, the 100th volume of the Flora Neotropcia series, is a taxonomic monograph that covers the American genera of this unique family, and presents a systematic treatment of 8 genera, 84 native species, and two introduced species of Grevillea.

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Hardcover:

9781851495771 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, February 28, 2009, cover price $65.00

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