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How Plants Get Their Names
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How Plants Get Their NamesHow Plants Get Their Names

Reveals the confusion that results from misleading popular names of plants and points out the advantages of a sound, scientific approach. These few chapters cover virtually every aspect of the subject of how plants get their names and what those names signify. 11 illustrations.
 
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Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple
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Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously SimpleAcid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple

Univ. of Miami, FL. Concise handbook on solving problems concerning complex fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base complications. For medical students, interns, residents, nurses and nurse practitioners, and first-year nephrology fellows.
 
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A Scientist at the Seashore
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A Scientist at the SeashoreA Scientist at the Seashore

A noted physicist and popular science writer heads for the beach to answer common and uncommon questions about the ocean: why the sea is salty, how bubbles form on the water's surface, where waves come from, and other curiosities of the marine world. 90 figures. 20 halftones. 1987 edition.
 
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Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach
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Writing Systems: A Linguistic ApproachWriting Systems: A Linguistic Approach

Accessibly written, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important theoretical issues. The book examines systems as diverse as Chinese, Greek, and Maya and each writing system is presented in the light of four major aspects of writing: history and development; internal structure; the relationship of writing and language; and sociolinguistic factors.
 
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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture
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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary CultureDante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

An autobiographical, self-reflexive meditation that traces the critic's remarkable routes of growth into a world-class scholar
 
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