Beautiful black and white plates of Early Netherlandish Paintings.

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Product Description: This is the fourth volume in The Illustrated Flora of Illinois devoted to dicotyledons, or dicot plants. Dicots are the greatest group of flowering plants, exceeding the monocotyle­dons, or monocots. Dicots produce a pair of seed leaves during germination while monocots produce only a single seed leaf...read more

Product Description: The Description for this book, Insects and Flowers: The Biology of a Partnership, will be forthcoming.

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Product Description: This book provides an introduction to Kurt Godel's theorems through a collection of puzzles interspersed with an account of symbolic logic. Godel's argument has been transferred from the formal domain of mathematical systems in an attempt to make its essential ideas more accessible to the general reader...read more

Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early twentieth century.

Product Description: Mysterious millionaire Edmond Mornay wants George Heargreaves to produce his play. And Mornay's voluptuous partner, Ilona, wants George as her lover. But George soon finds his dream play is becoming a horror show. One of his patrons wants his blood, the other wants his body, and something even worse is waiting in the wings...read more

Product Description: This outstanding collection of 54 beautifully drawn floral borders can add just the right festive or seasonal touch to your advertising flyers, club bulletins, menus, program covers, or any other printed communications on your schedule...read more

Watercolors illustrate flower poems

Product Description: In this topically organized introduction to child development, John Santrock balances the content instructors want with the and pedagogy students need. Child Development 9th edition continues Santrock’s tradition of presenting cutting edge research and offering strong, integrated coverage of culture, ethnicity and gender, and school related issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A popular, beautifully illustrated guide to 430 species of Rocky Mountain alpine and sub-alpine plants. Dagny Tande Lid's botanically accurate watercolours and A.E. Porsild's detailed scientific descriptions make this book an indispensable tool for laymen and scientists alike...read more

Product Description: The most user-friendly guides available. Easy-to-use format with capsulized text, watercolor, and photograph all on one page. No more flipping back and forth from color plate to text. These two volumes, which can be used singly or together, comprise the comprehensive guide to Colorado wildflowers, covering more than 600 species of flowering plants and trees...read more

An author offers his 50 Gruber Critical Thinking Skills as well as five complete practice tests, an extensive vocabulary builder, tips for the new SAT II writing test, and a home study program all designed to help students raise their score on this important exam. Original.

Product Description: Nature printing, or recreating images from the natural world, is a direct, inexpensive process with possibilities as varied as nature itself. Apply ink or paint to leaves, flowers, herbs, or fruit and print life-sized images onto paper, fabric, and other surfaces to create captivating works of art...read more

Book Description: An informative series that provides, in a concise format, better understanding of animals and their habitats. Fascinating in its diversity, the natural world comes to life on the pages of these spec tacularly illustrated volumes.

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