Herbarium

Herbarium
Author: Barbara M. Thiers
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1604699302

A treasury like no other Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today. At its heart, Herbarium is a compelling reminder of one of humanity’s better impulses: to save things—not just for ourselves, but for generations to come.

500 Pages College-Ruled Jumbo-Sized Notebook

500 Pages College-Ruled Jumbo-Sized Notebook
Author: Unique Giant Notebooks Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2019-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781703141535

This 500 page notebook/journal is an all-purpose notebook that has many pages. It is perfect as a daily notebook, life planner, gratitude journal, diary, sketchbook, and more! This high-quality, humongous notebook can serve as an all-purpose notebook that is handy for everyday Makes an excellent gift for creatives, artists, writers, and researchers!

The Nora Notebooks, Book 1: The Trouble with Ants

The Nora Notebooks, Book 1: The Trouble with Ants
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0385391633

Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora has ants all figured out—now she just has to try to understand her fellow humans! The trouble with ants is . . . . . . people think they’re boring. . . . they are not cuddly. . . . who would ever want them for a pet? Nora Alpers is using her new notebook to record the behavior of ants. Why? Because they are fascinating! Unfortunately, no one agrees with her. Her mom is not happy about them being in the house, and when Nora brings her ant farm to school for show and tell, her classmates are not very impressed. They are more interested in cat videos, basketball practice, or trying to set a Guinness World Record (although Nora wouldn’t mind that). Mostly they are distracted by the assignment their teacher Coach Joe has given them—to write a persuasive speech and change people’s minds about something. Will Nora convince her friends that ants are as interesting as she thinks they are? Or will everyone still think of ants as nothing but trouble? With real science facts, a classroom backdrop, an emphasis on friendship, and appealing black-and-white interior illustrations from artist Katie Kath, The Nora Notebooks is perfect for newly independent readers—especially budding scientists like Nora!—and adults who want to encourage awareness of STEM subjects in young readers.

Flowers: The Watercolor Art Pad

Flowers: The Watercolor Art Pad
Author: Rachel Pedder-Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 125014647X

Beautiful botanical drawings ready to paint or color.

Gilded Rosettes Journal (Diary, Notebook)

Gilded Rosettes Journal (Diary, Notebook)
Author: Inc. Peter Pauper Press
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781441324948

Record your dreams, make grand plans, and discover your true self as you journal within the pages of this elegant journal. Lightly-lined writing pages provide plenty of space for personal reflection, sketching, making lists, or jotting down quotations or poems. Acid-free archival paper takes pen beautifully. Journal cover is a reproduction of a 19th-century gold-tooled binding of a volume of poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who wrote, ''Bless love and hope, true soul; for we are here.'' Sophisticated design is embellished with delicate gold foil tracery. Raised embossing lends dimension. A gold satin ribbon bookmark marks your place. Gilded-gold page edging is a classic touch. Journal measures 6-1/4 inches wide by 8-1/4 inches high. 160 pages.

Coleridge's Notebooks

Coleridge's Notebooks
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780198712015

Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures and author of some of the most famous poems in the English language. He confided his thoughts and emotions to his notebooks, a selection of which are presented in this text.

Wartime Notebooks

Wartime Notebooks
Author: Andrzej Bobkowski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0300176716

A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.

4 A.M. Until 4 P.M.

4 A.M. Until 4 P.M.
Author: Tricia Lomax & Maura Farrar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0955990556

This book engages mind and body, with its narrative and beautiful, visual imagery of the landscape, which is located in an English, un-commercialised, seaside town. The two central character's Anna and Jo meet at dawn on a coastal cliff path, after a sonic boom has woken them both from sleep. This 'bang' ricochets and has a ripple effect, not only on these two women, but also the other main characters that witness their 'meeting' and become drawn into their worlds. The imaginative mystery, becomes a multi-layered riddle, wherein the lives of the characters are each given room to lap in and out of one another, creating windows that lead into dreams and reality as if everything is in some way connected. The repercussions of the 'bang' in these peoples lives is significant and fundamentally changes their own journey, as each individual experiences the turning tide within themselves. This is not a single story, but several or more stories each being spun concurrently.

Coleridge Notebooks V2 Text

Coleridge Notebooks V2 Text
Author: Kathleen Coburn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000736466

Volume 2 of the Text on the Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spanning from 1804 to 1808. The volume is in two parts, text and notes. During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but something of both, they contain notes on literary, theological, philosophical, scientific, social and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works and many other items of great interest. Shortly after World War II, Kathleen Coburn, formerly of Victoria College in Toronto, rediscovered this great collection of unpublished manuscripts. With the support of the Coleridge estate, she embarked on a career of editing and publishing these volumes and was awarded with many honours for her work, including: a Leverhulme Award (1948), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1953), a Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1958), the Order of Canada (1974) and an honorary doctorate from her own university. Originally projected as a five volume set (each volume consisting of a book of text and a book of notes).