Author: Bradley Widman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633634350
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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The Solitary Seed is an example of meditative literature, designed to enhance the artist's role inside his spiritual realm of creativity. Written by full-time painter Bradley Widman, this book delivers us into a different form of consciousness as we commune with the eternal aesthetic self. It brings us into the light of the artist's existence; and at the same time, experiencing Widman's highly allegorical overtures of aesthetic theory; paintings and poetry. The Solitary Seed is a poetic analysis of art that brings each of us into the fullness of our own creative and unique natures. It is an experience in the exploration of the allegorical. Widman infuses spirituality and art in his unique way, by which he communicates to young aspiring artists, revealing to them their own nobility through the planting of aphoristic seeds of wisdom. The result is an artist enlightened.
Author: Bryan N. Danforth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168989
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary bees which draws on new research to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of solitary bee biology, offering an unparalleled look at these remarkable insects.
Author: Paul Fleischman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062283685
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!
Author: Linnean Society of London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Author: Anchee Min
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608194248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.
Author: United States. Forest Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Author: Aljos Farjon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904743062X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1111
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Conifers are known to everyone as a conspicuous kind of evergreen trees or shrubs that feature prominently in gardens and parks as well as in many managed forests in the cool to cold temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Numerous books have been written about them and continue to appear, mostly with a bias towards these uses in Europe and North America. This new handbook of the conifers is departing from this traditional approach in that it includes all the world's 615 species of conifers, of which some 200 occur in the tropics. It gives as much information about these and the Southern Hemisphere conifers as about the better known species, drawing on research into the taxonomy, biology, ecology, distribution and uses by the author over nearly 30 years. The result is a truly encyclopedic work, a true handbook of all the world's conifers, richly illustrated by the author with his line drawings and photographs taken from the natural habitats of the species.
Author: Edred John Henry Corner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521206884
Category : Dicotyledons
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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V.1 - Seed-form; Seed-coats; Criticism of the arrangement of dicotyledonous families into orders; Seed-evolution; Descriptions of seed by families; v.2 - Material and method; Seed-form; Seed-coats; Criticism of the arrangement of dicotyledonous families into orders; Seed-evolution; Descriptions of seeds by families.
Author: James W. Byng
Publisher: Plant Gateway Ltd.
ISBN: 0992999332
Category : Gymnosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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This plant book aims to help identify all extant gymnosperm plants to genus and family level anywhere in the world. The Gymnosperm Handbook is a practical teaching and identification guide, as well as, a useful reference work to the world's gymnosperms designed for both specialists and non-specialists and from beginner to expert. The book contains: (i) descriptions of all gymnosperm families; (ii) morphological notes for all currently recognised genera; (iii) practical keys to genera for all families; and (iv) over 160 images and illustrations.
Author: James Richard Ainsworth Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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