Authors:Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora,
Publisher: Westview Pre
Keywords: change, legacy, communities, rural
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-12-25
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0813343771
ISBN-13: 9780813343778

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling for survival by implementing innovative approaches to their problems. This core text presents a practical framework for students to understand the internal and external forces shaping rural communities today. Rural Communities focuses on various capitals in rural areas--natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built. Issues covered include racial and cultural diversity; globalization and rural communities; the central role of communities in organizing a sustainable future; and building comm

Authors:Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L Flora,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: change, legacy, communities, rural
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2012-07-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0813345057
ISBN-13: 9780813345055

�Rural Communities: Legacy and Change examines the diversity of rural America: its unique communities, histories, and social issues. It also considers how rural communities use their increasing connectedness to creatively address modern challenges in the face of increasing globalization and climate change. Focusing on various capitals in rural areas�natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and built�this book provides students with an essential framework for understanding rural society based on the concepts of social science.�As the only true core text available for rural sociol

Authors:Dennis W. Magee, Harry E. Ahle,
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Pre
Keywords: new, flora, adjacent, york, england, vascular, northeast, manual
Number of Pages: 1214
Published: 2007-12-31
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1558495770
ISBN-13: 9781558495777

Designed as both a reference work and a year-round field manual, this volume contains more than 2,400 range maps and 995 line drawings, designed to clarify descriptions used in the keys. For botanists, naturalists, and students interested in an up-to-date treatment of the vascular flora of greater New England, it has proved to be an invaluable resource. The geographic scope of the work extends from the Canadian border south through Long Island and west to the Hudson River. The "General Keys" section contains fourteen keys that include such groups as aquatic plants, vines, and woody plants in w

Author: Australian Biological Resources Study
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: flora, australia, grevillea, series, 17a, volume, proteaceae
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0643059695
ISBN-13: 9780643059696

This is the second of three volumes describing the Australian Proteaceae. Volumes 17A and 17B together complete the treatment of the subfamily Grevillioideae, with over 640 species in tribe Grevilleae (Grevillea, Hakea) and tribe Banksieae (Banksia, Dryandra, Musgravea and Austromuellera). This part describes the 447 taxa of Grevillea.Grevillea and Banksia, in particular, are conspicuous components of the Australian flora, and important in the horticultural and cut flower trades. In habit, they range from rainforest trees to prostrate shrubs. Dryandra is endemic to south-western Western Austra

Authors:Flora Belle Jan, Fleur Yano, Saralyn Daly, Judy Wu,
Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
Keywords: belle, jan, flora, letters, spirit, unbound
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-01-21
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0252033809
ISBN-13: 9780252033803

This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906�50). Born in California to immigrant parents and educated at Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Jan raised three children with her husband Charles Wang and worked as a journalist in both the United States and China. Written during the years 1918�48, these letters offer unique insight into the social and political situation of educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American women in the early twentieth century. Literate, candid, and charming, they co

Author: Australian Biological Resources Study
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: flora, australia, series, lichens, volume, 58a
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 0643067124
ISBN-13: 9780643067127

Volume 58A of the Flora of Australia series is the third volume dealing with the lichens. It includes descriptions of some of the more robust and luxuriant lichens of cool-temperate south-eastern Australia (Lobariaceae and Sphaerophoraceae), as well as ecologically important soil-inhabiting groups in semi-arid and arid regions (Peltulaceae, Endocarpon and Placidium). Also in this volume are the first Flora of Australia treatments of crustose lichens and the Trichotheliaceae, a family that is most diverse on the bark and leaves of trees and shrubs in tropical rainforest. Complete or partial acc

Author: The European Garden Flora Editorial Committee
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: europe, doors, glass, volume, cultivated, plants, garden, flora, manual, identification, european
Number of Pages: 756
Published: 2000-12-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521420970
ISBN-13: 9780521420976

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants and has been designed to meet the highest scientific standards. The vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed nurseryman, gardener, and landscape architect, as well as the professional botanist. Volume VI concludes the Flora and contains accounts of 38 families of dicotyledons, including Compositae (with over 190 genera), the largest family of flowering plants. Many other genera of horticultural importan