Icones muscorum,: Or, Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured

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This represents 25 years of work and close collaboration between the authors and gives a detailed taxonomic treatment of and identification guide to the mosses of the Eastern Deciduous Forest of North America. To extend the usefulness of the work some species likely to be found in peninsular Florida, The Central Prairies, and the Hudson Bay Lowlands are also included. Because of considerable topographic and vegetational diversity within the Eastern Deciduous Forest the book is also nearly complete for the entire Boreal Forest and the Rocky Mountains. With over 600 line drawings this work is an invaluable guide for any bryologist.

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The moss "bible".......2001-05-01

This is a very comprehensive set. This is a very useful key with invaluable drawings.

The Mosses of Eastern North America: In Two Volumes

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The Mosses of Eastern North America: In Two Volumes
Lewis Anderson
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUOM5M

Musci appalachiani: Tickets of specimens of mosses collected mostly in the eastern part of North America

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Musci appalachiani: Tickets of specimens of mosses collected mostly in the eastern part of North America
Coe Finch Austin
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ASIN: B000875XUM

Icones muscorum and figurea and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to Eastern North America

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Icones muscorum and figurea and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to Eastern North America
William Starling Sullivant
Manufacturer: Trubner
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008C77MO

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Reviews of every surfing beach in Australia. This is a comprehensive guide covering every inch of every coast, a fantastic, one-of-a-kind, resource for surfers and vacations. Every full-color, pocket guide covers every inch of the Australian coast and also includes * signature Surfer's Eye beach and wave maps * handy 4x5 inch size * breathtaking color & B&W photos by the world's top surf photographers

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Amazing..........2007-03-28

This book is amazing. It explains everything you have to know about the most beaches and waves of Australia. About the perfect wind, tide, swell direction and so on... quite useful!

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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica

A good (not great) read on Antarctica if you are going there.

Interesting look at the flora/fauna of Antarctica

Not About Antarctica

Good, but the author isn't big on introspection

The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
David G. Campbell
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Binding: Paperback

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In The Crystal Desert David Campbell weaves together travelogue gathered from his many visits to the wind-blasted continent of Antarctica, along with natural history, oceanography, and accounts of the tortured attempts of earlier exploratory missions "in an alien environment, beyond the edge of the habitable earth." He's a gifted writer with an especially fine hand at making his readers feel right at home in a place very few of us will ever get to see. Armchair travelers couldn't ask for a better book, no matter what the season.

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THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.

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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica.......2007-03-10

I enjoyed reading this book and it provided me with a lot of information that I found very useful. I had no idea what it was like in Antarctica and this book helped me get a feel for it.

A good (not great) read on Antarctica if you are going there........2006-11-18

There may be a growing body of literature on Antarctica, but let's face it: about 80% of it is about Amundsen, Scott, or Shackleton. That's fine, but if you're reading in preparation for a trip to Antarctica, you want more. Campbell's book is a very readable albeit superficial overview of the wildlife and physical landscape you're likely to encounter. I agree with other reviewers that Campbell comes across as stuck-up, and I do take exception to his disparaging of tourists, since my experience has been that Antarctic tourists tend to be very environmentally respectful. I recommend the book because its insights and information did enhance my enjoyment of Antarctica and the South Shetlands.

Interesting look at the flora/fauna of Antarctica.......2006-09-26

Very interesting reading for those with limited knowledge of what kinds of life exist in this hostile locale.

Not About Antarctica.......2003-10-01

This was a disappointing read, mainly because it isn't about Antarctica, but about King George Island. Like writing a book about North America from research conducted on Cuba. Yes, Cuba is part of North America, but... If you want information on Antarctica, look elsewhere. Why he named it "Crystal Desert" is beyond me because there is NOTHING on the ice cap. Secondly, Campbell, who may or may not be a competent biologist, spends far to much time grinding his environmental axe. For some reason, he thinks he and other academicians are the only people with the right to go to Antarctica, making numerous disparaging comments about tourism throughout the text. Moreover, he seems to have a major problem with males - be they human, sperm whale, or elephant seal, espousing traits such as "machismo" and other derogatory human emotions to these animals simply because they are larger than the females. And finally, he spends the entire final third of the book expounding on the horrors of the seal and whale hunts that decimated the populations of these magnificant animals. Unfortunate, definately. But the book is supposed to be about Antarctica - not a treatise on over-sealing and over-whaling by people from another period in time. It does have some good descriptions of Admiralty Bay on King George Island - mainly from a biological perspective, but overall, it was a waste of time.

Good, but the author isn't big on introspection.......2003-06-01

Since I've visited Antarctica, and enjoyed its haunting, indifferent beauty as well as the spectacular wildlife, I was interested in reading an account of someone who had lived, studied, and conducted research there.

Campbell's strength is writing about the science, the wildlife, the extremes of weather and of living in a difficult place. His weakness is his utter lack of self-analysis. He berates the tourists who come to this place (does he think he owns the Antarctic area himself?), and laments the loss of microscopic and macroscopic life that is lost when the loutish tourist dares step on the fragile landscape, yet he is blissfully unaware of the far greater damage he does to the ecosystem when he powers up the hills to work on the weatherstation, and when he pulls up marine creatures and watches them burst, dying, under his microscope.

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Ecosystem Dynamics in a Polar Desert.......2007-07-26

The coldest and driest desert on this planet is the setting for Ecosystem Dynamics in a Polar Desert. The volume presents an overview and synthesis within this extreme environment, including interactions between physical, chemical, and biological components. These processes are driven by the presence of liquid water, which produces a cascade of tightly coupled events that ultimately leads to the biological production and cycling of organic carbon and related elements. The papers on geomorphology, meteorology, geochemistry, stream ecology, limnology and soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica will be of interest to a broad range of scientists. The accompanying CDROM supplies color graphics, detailed geospatial data to support the text, and maps to help the reader visualize the region from an ecosystem perspective.

Contents

* Preface
* Section 1: Physical and Hydrological Environment;
o The Composite Glacial Erosional Landscape of the Northern McMurdo Dry Valleys: Implications for Antarctic Tertiary Glacial History;
o Solar Radiation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica;
o Glaciers of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica;
o Geochemical Linkages Among Glaciers, Stream, and Lakes Within the Taylor Valley, Antarctica;
* Section 2: Stream Environment;
o Hydrological Processes Influencing Streamflow Variation in Fryxell Basin, Antarctica;
o Longitudinal Patterns in Algal Abundance and Species Distribution in Meltwater Streams in Taylor Valley, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica;
o Primary Porduction Processes in Streams of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica;
o Modeling Nitrogen Transformations in Dry Valley Streams, Antarctica;
* Section 3: Lake Environment;
o Physical Limnology of the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes;
o Optical Properties of the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica;
o Cobalt Cycling and Fate in Lake Vanda;
o The Abundance of Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria in Lake Bonney, Antarctica, Determined by Immunofluorescence, PCR, and in Situ Hybridization;
o Pigment Analysis of the Distribution, Succession, and Fate of Phytoplankton in the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes of Antarctica;
o Fluorescence Quenching in Phytoplankton of the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes (Antarctica): Implications for the Structure and Function of the Photosynthetic Apparatus;
o Protozooplankton and Microzooplankton Ecology in Lakes of the Dry Valleys, Southern Victoria Land;
o Permanent Ice Covers of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Lakes, Antarctica: Liquid Water Contents;
o Permanent Ice Covers of the McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica: Bubble Formation and Metamorphism;
* Section 4: Soil Environment;
o The Soil Environment of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica;
o Soil Biodiversity and COmmunity Structure in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica;
* Section 5: Summary;
o Science and Environmental Management in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica;
o The McMurdo Dry Valley Ecosystem: Organization, Controls, and Linkages;
* Section 6: CDROM (Digital Geospatial Datasets Pertaining to the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.

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2000 Florida Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
With the aid of grant OPP-9414962
from the National Science Foundation

Improbable Eden: The Dry Valleys of Antarctica

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Fascinating Book - Unusual Subject

Improbable Eden: The Dry Valleys of Antarctica
Bill Green
Manufacturer: Craig Potton Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1877333077

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Fascinating Book - Unusual Subject.......2006-11-18

Possibly the only book published that is dedicated to this region. The text describes travel in this spectacular area and Craig Potton's photos really do it justice. There are plenty of photos in this book of 128 pages and they are crystal clear and well composed. My only criticism is that I don't personally like the way a few of the photos are presented in pairs over double pages, with each shot being a slight variation of the other - probably quite artistic but I would prefer each shot to be unique. This may not bother most people and I would have otherwise given it 5 stars.
Overall, the book is very impressive and highly recommended - try the website craigpotton.co.nz if Amazon do not sell new copies. Craig Potton Publishing deals with many good photographic books on New Zealand.

Polar and Alpine Tundra (Ecosystems of the World)

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Polar and Alpine Tundra (Ecosystems of the World)
F. E., Ed. Wielgolaski
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0444882650

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This book describes the structure and function of life and the environment in polar tundra and tundra-like terrestrial alpine ecosystems in various parts of the world. Polar and alpine tundra have many similarities, but also differences. Particularly when moving towards the equator, high mountains show strong differences from polar regions. However, the similarities justify the presentation of polar and alpine tundra in the same volume. This volume is unique in its comprehensive coverage on all aspects of polar and alpine tundra. The extensive Russian chapters contain information previously not available in the west.

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Polar deserts (International library)
Wally Herbert
Manufacturer: F. Watts
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Polar Deserts and Modern Man
T. Smiley
Manufacturer: Univ of Arizona Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

Tundra and Cold Deserts (World Habitats)

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Tundra and Cold Deserts (World Habitats)
Rose Pipes
Manufacturer: Raintree
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Binding: Library Binding

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A two book series, designed for people who either lost a cat or dog, as well as for others who want to share compassion and concern for a loved one who is grieving.

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For bear lovers and advertising buffs alike, collectors and non-collectors, this book is a must; it is destined to become "the" definitive reference work on bears that advertise products. With more than 500 previously unpublished color photographs, this first-of-its-kind book spotlights bears used to entice us to purchase products. More than three dozen collectors have shared their bear treasures of great diversity, from expensive limited editions to easily affordable bears found hibernating at flea markets and thrift shops. The bears advertise readily recognized trademarked products and appear on signage and packaging, as well as "bearly" edible foods and "other beary good stuff." This comprehensive look into the what, where, and how of advertising bears is sure to include your favorites.

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Shiitake Growers Handbook: The Art and Science of Mushroom Cultivation
Paul Przybylowicz , and John Donoghue
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Though the book is brief, you will cry........2001-01-19

The book pulls at the strings of your heart. It deals mostly with the bombing of Hiroshima, in a poetic format. The wording puts reality and humanity into the equation. It will grip your heart and squeeze it painfully.

It isn't a terribly long read, but if you think while you read it, it will touch you deeply.

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