"Beautiful Ferns" by Daniel Cady Eaton is a captivating exploration of the diverse world of ferns, showcasing their intricate beauty and ecological significance. Eaton, a noted botanist, meticulously details various species, providing readers with a rich understanding of their characteristics and habitats. The book is not only a scientific treatise but also an artistic celebration, featuring stunning illustrations that bring the delicate forms of ferns to life. This work serves as both a r...

This edition features• illustrations• linked FootnotesILLUSTRATIONS.American Maiden-HairOstrich-FernAlpine Beech-FernFragrant Wood-FernGoldie’s Wood-FernWebby Lip-FernEaton’s Lip-FernMale FernTrifoliate Cliff-BrakeClayton’s Cliff-BrakeSlender Cliff-BrakeEvergreen Wood-FernWalking-LeafPinnatifid SpleenwortSensitive FernAbout the AuthorDaniel Cady Eato...

ADIANTUM PEDATUM:—Root-stock creeping, scaly, and copiously rooting; stalks scattered, a foot or more high, dark-brown and polished, forked at the top; fronds six to fifteen inches broad, membranaceous, smooth, spreading nearly horizontally, composed of several (six to fourteen) slender divisions radiating from the outer side of the recurved branches of the stalk, and bearing numerous oblong or triangular-oblong short-stalked pinnules having the lower margin entire and often slightly conca...

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship ca...

This award-winning horror anthology is the "yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured"—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions"—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied...

Diese Sammlung vereint die bedeutendsten Klassiker des Feminismus – bahnbrechende Romane, Essays und persönliche Berichte, die gängige Normen infrage stellten, unmissverständliche Stärke und Entschlossenheit offenbarten und uns einen Blick in die wundersamen wie auch gefährlichen Welten hinter den scheinbar schüchternen Augen der Frauen gewährten. Diese Werke förderten die aufkommende Revolution mit dem ungezügelten Brüllen nach Gleichheit und Veränderung: Romane: Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bron...

Londres, darrers anys del segle XIX. Un noble anglès, lord Voriak, compra a un nord-americà una noia amb poders parapsicològics. Arriben a Londres. Casualment, l'Adam, un jove lladregot, veu a la finestra de les golfes de la mansió del lord la bonica figura de la noia. Així, enamorat d'ella i fascinat pel misteri que l'envolta, comença una genial obra d'intriga i acció en què nombroses peces aniran completant un engranatge perfecte ple de misteri, sentiments desinteressats, esdeveniments v...

This book presents an overview on ten years of rich experience and innovative development of scientific research around pedagogy, didactics and educative technologies at Cadi Ayyad University. From active learning in traditional teaching to technology enhanced learning, many efforts have been done so far by both researchers and PhD students making from Science Education an essential pillar that should bring innovative solutions and improve quality in teaching and learning in classes. 13 di...