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Stunning, intimate photographs bring orchids to life in this
showcase of the extraordinary collection of Marie Selby Botanical
Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. As a leader in the study and
conservation of orchids and other epiphytes, Selby Gardens is home
to the best scientifically documented collection of living orchids
in the world. A fascinating and accessible text by their
botany and horticulture experts explores the remarkable beauty and
diversity of one of the largest and most admired families of
flowering plants, examining their vibrant colours, elegant lines,
and sometimes other-worldly shapes. This striking volume is
published in celebration of Selby Gardens’ 50th anniversary, and
will be a delight for all those intrigued by the unique and complex
splendor of orchids.
Fuel Cells: Technologies for Fuel Processing provides an overview
of the most important aspects of fuel reforming to the generally
interested reader, researcher, technologist, teacher, student, or
engineer. The topics covered include all aspects of fuel reforming:
fundamental chemistry, different modes of reforming, catalysts,
catalyst deactivation, fuel desulfurization, reaction engineering,
novel reforming concepts, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer
issues, system design, and recent research and development. While
no attempt is made to describe the fuel cell itself, there is
sufficient description of the fuel cell to show how it affects the
fuel reformer. By focusing on the fundamentals, this book aims to
be a source of information now and in the future. By avoiding
time-sensitive information/analysis (e.g., economics) it serves as
a single source of information for scientists and engineers in fuel
processing technology. The material is presented in such a way that
this book will serve as a reference for graduate level courses,
fuel cell developers, and fuel cell researchers.
In 1785 lands of the Northwest Territory were offered for sale to
the public. By 1800 four land offices were established and sales
from the Zanesville office, which included tracts originally
reserved for the Marietta and Steubenville offices and, more
importantly, parts of the United States Military District, reserved
for veterans of the Revolutionary War, form the basis of this
volume. In addition, this volume also includes records from the
Steubenville office for the period 1820-1840, the first twenty
years of sales records having already been published.In tabular
format this volume has a complete list of 22,770 persons who bought
land in central and east central Ohio between 1800 and 1840. Data
includes the name of the purchaser (in alphabetical order), date of
purchase, place of residence at the time of purchase, and the
range, township, and section of the purchased land, thus enabling
the researcher to ascertain the exact location of the ancestor's
land see also Items 480 and 481).
"The Middle Five," first published in 1900, is an account of
Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission
school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It
is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two
cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and
puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white
men." The ambition of the Indian parents for their children, the
struggle of the teachers to acquaint their charges with a new world
of learning, and especially the problems met by both parents and
teachers in controlling and directing schoolboy exuberance
contribute to the authen-ticity of this portrait of the "Universal
Boy," to whom La Flesche dedicated his book. Regarded by
anthropologists as a classic of Native American literature, it is
one of those rare books that are valued by the specialist as
authentic sources of information about Indian culture and yet can
be recommended wholeheartedly to the general reader, especially to
young people in high school and the upper grades, as a useful
corrective to the often distorted picture of Indian life seen in
movies, comics, and television.
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