Marla frazee biography of alberta
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The Bossier Baby
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Plants of Kananaskis Country in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta (Paperback)
A comprehensive field-guide to the abundant plant life of Alberta's Kananaskis Country, including detailed descriptions of more than 430 native and introduced species. Features an extensive overview of the Kananaskis area, nearly 1,000 illustrations, botanical keys, maps, and an illustrated glossary.
Beryl Hallworth is a botanist, teacher, curator and naturalist associated with the Herbarium of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary since 1967. She is the author and co-author of several papers and book chapters on plants and natural history. C.C. Chinnappa is Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Calgary. His main research interests are the evolutionary strategies of polyploid plant species. He has published more than one hundred papers on biosystemics, cytogenetics, palynology and phenotypic plasticity of plants.
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Funny…I honestly expected to have few, if any, books for my next Shelf Landings post. And where did they come from anyway? It’s a familiar feeling – the one where I think I can’t possibly be gobsmacked by one more book. Surely the well of creativity and invention has been sucked dry. Nope. That well is infinite. (Too bad my pockets aren’t as deep.) Nevertheless, it was and IS my intention to make Shelf Landings brief and frequent, a quick post whenever a new book wanders into my life, but as the kids say, #epicfail. Ah well, I tried. Here are the books that have smacked me in the gob this last month.
Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature (Candlewick Press, 2014) arrived a week ago, and it looks…delicious. Written by fellow bloggers Julie Danielson, Betsy Bird, and the late Peter Sieruta, the book “offers untold (and often very amusing) stories behind many beloved children’s books and their creators and is a bracing antidote to the sentimentality that often surrounds the genre.” Oh wow! I couldn’t be more excited. As a former bookseller and life-long collector of children’s books, I am frustrated by the “fluffy bunny” dreck served to children on a daily basis, but like thes