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In Praise of Poison Ivy

Author : Anita Sanchez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 163076132X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Poison Ivy written by Anita Sanchez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly. Powerful. Beautiful. The much-hated plant called poison ivy is all of these—and more. Poison ivy has long irritated humans, but the astounding paradox is that poison ivy is a plant of immense ecological value. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the vices and virtues of a plant with a dramatic history and a rosy future. Once planted in gardens from Versailles to Monticello, poison ivy now has a crucial role in the American landscape. The detested plant is a lens through which to observe the changes and challenges that face our planet. For centuries, poison ivy has bedeviled, inconvenienced, and downright tortured the human race. This book covers the unique history of the plant, starting with the brash and adventurous explorer Captain John Smith, who “discovered” poison ivy the hard way in 1607. Despite its irritating qualities, the magnificent scarlet-and-gold autumn foliage lured Virginia entrepreneurs to export the vine to Europe, making it one of the earliest documented New World plants to cross the Atlantic, and its meteoric rise to fame as–of all unlikely things—a garden plant. Showcased in the pleasure grounds of emperors and kings, poison ivy was displayed like a captive tiger, admired by Thomas Jefferson, Marie Antoinette, and Josephine Bonaparte. Today, poison ivy is valued by environmentalists and native plant enthusiasts who name it one of our most important plants for wildlife as well as for soil conservation. In Praise of Poison Ivy will reveal why, in its native American habitat, poison ivy is a plant of astonishing ecological value. Poison ivy leaves are an important wildlife food, and the berries are a crucial source of winter nutrition for beloved bird species like robins, bluebirds and cardinals. On a national listing of hundreds of native plants that are of value to wildlife, poison ivy ranks seventh in importance. InPraise of Poison Ivy also explores the question of why this plant is apparently on a mission to give us humans grief, from itchy ankles to life-threatening medical emergencies. The book will examine why poison ivy targets humans, but no other species, and explain the mystery of why a privileged few are immune to its itchy consequences. Since the time of John Smith and Pocahontas, the American landscape has changed in countless ways—many obvious, some subtle. This book will reveal why there is far more poison ivy on the planet now than there was in 1607, with lots more on its way. It examines the ecological reasons for poison ivy’s rosy future, note the effects of climate change on native plants, and investigate the valuable role that poison ivy could play in our changing world.

Leaflets Three, Let It Be!

Author : Anita Sanchez
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 162091445X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Leaflets Three, Let It Be! written by Anita Sanchez and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the first thing anyone hears about poison ivy? "Leaflets three, let it be!" But this engaging nonfiction book will surprise readers who fear the itch–inducing plant. Taking us through the year, the narrative introduces the rabbit who nibbles on the tender leaves after a hard winter, the salamander who shelters in the plant's cool, umbrella–shadows, the fall insects who wrap themselves in poison–ivy blankets, and the birds who feast on its berries in the starving heart of winter. Poison ivy has always seemed mysterious in its danger, but it too has a purpose and it has something to give.

Batman (2016-) #41

Author : Tom King
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Batman (2016-) #41 written by Tom King and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “EVERYONE LOVES IVY” part one! Mikel Janin returns to BATMAN for a brand-new epic! Pamela Isley’s influence can spread as far as vegetation will allow, putting the whole world at her fingertips. Can Batman and Catwoman stand their ground against an entire planet of Poison Ivys?

Poison in the Ivy

Author : W. Carson Byrd
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081358938X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Poison in the Ivy written by W. Carson Byrd and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students’ social interactions with each other might influence their racial beliefs in a positive way, since many of these graduates will eventually hold leadership positions in society. He found that students at these universities believed in the success of the ‘best and the brightest,’ leading them to situate differences in race and status around issues of merit and individual effort. Poison in the Ivy challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse United States. He shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students’ beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation. Poison in the Ivy is an eye-opening look at race on elite college campuses, and offers lessons for anyone involved in modern American higher education.

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019-) #4

Author : Jody Houser
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019-) #4 written by Jody Houser and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hits just keep on coming as Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy crawl away from the rabbit hole that is the Mad Hatter’s endless tea party and get back on the road- but when they take a rest in a seemingly abandoned dinosaur theme park, they may not be the only clever girls hanging around...

Itch!

Author : Anita Sanchez
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1328476898
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Itch! written by Anita Sanchez and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody gets itchy, and every kid will love this title that scratches the itch to know more and about the history, anatomy, botany, biology behind it. Perfect for fans of Grossology books looking for something more substantive and dynamic. You can feel it coming on—that terrible, tortuous ITCH. As irritating as an itch is, it is also your body’s way of sending you a message you can’t miss, like you’ve brushed up against poison ivy or lice have taken up residence in your hair. None of which you’d know without that telltale itch! And there are so many things that make us itch—from fungus to fleas, mosquitoes to nettles, poison ivy to tarantulas! Combining history, anatomy, laugh-out-loud illustrations, and even tips to avoid—and soothe—the itch, Anita Sanchez and Gilbert Ford take readers on an intriguing (and sometimes disgusting) look into what makes you scratch.

Identifying Trees of the East

Author : Michael D. Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811765636
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Identifying Trees of the East written by Michael D. Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-season field guide for identifying common trees of eastern NA This popular, field-tested guide for identifying trees in any season, not just when they are in full leaf, features 600 color photos and 200 line drawings showing bark, branching patterns, fruits, flowers, nuts, and overall appearance in addition to leaf color and shape. Accompanying text describes common locations and identifying characteristics. Covers every common tree in eastern North America, updated with the latest taxonomy and 130 range maps. Created for in-the-field or at-home use, this helpful guide includes an easy-to-use key to facilitate putting a name to a tree.

Trees in Literatures and the Arts

Author : Carmen Concilio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793622809
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Trees in Literatures and the Arts written by Carmen Concilio and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing the intersectional methodological outlook of the environmental humanities, the contributors to this edited collection explore the entanglements of cultures, ecologies, and socio-ethical issues in the roles of trees and their relationships with humans through narratives in literature and art.

Karl, Get Out of the Garden!

Author : Anita Sanchez
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580896065
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Karl, Get Out of the Garden! written by Anita Sanchez and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what a Solanum caule inermi herbaceo, foliis pinnatis incises, racemis simplicibus is?* Carolus (Karl) Linnaeus started off as a curious child who loved exploring the garden. Despite his intelligence—and his mother's scoldings—he was a poor student, preferring to be outdoors with his beloved plants and bugs. As he grew up, Karl's love of nature led him to take on a seemingly impossible task: to give a scientific name to every living thing on earth. The result was the Linnaean system—the basis for the classification system used by biologists around the world today. Backyard sciences are brought to life in beautiful color. Back matter includes more information about Linnaeus and scientific classification, a classification chart, a time line, source notes, resources for young readers, and a bibliography. *it's a tomato! A handsome introductory book on Linnaeus and his work — Booklist, starred review A good introduction to a man in a class by himself — Kirkus Reviews Lends significant humanity to the naturalist — Publisher's Weekly The biographical approach to a knotty scientific subject makes this a valuable addition to STEM and biography collections — School Library Journal

Gardening in Eden

Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416554578
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Gardening in Eden written by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is. In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one's hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days, the magic of an old-fashioned snow day, the heady, healing qualities of wandering through a greenhouse on a frozen February afternoon, the restlessness of a gardener waiting for spring. With a sense of wonder and humor on each page, Arthur Vanderbilt takes us along with him to discover that for those who wait, watch, and labor in the garden, it's all happening right outside our windows.

The Poisonwood Bible

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061804819
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

The Poisons of Caux: The Hollow Bettle (Book I)

Author : Susannah Appelbaum
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375853545
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Poisons of Caux: The Hollow Bettle (Book I) written by Susannah Appelbaum and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a witty and macabre new fantasy trilogy. There's little joy left in the kingdom of Caux: the evil King Nightshade rules with terrible tyranny and the law of the land is poison or be poisoned. Worse, eleven-year-old Ivy’s uncle, a famous healer, has disappeared, and Ivy sets out to find him, joined by a young taster named Rowan. But these are corrupt times, and the children—enemies of the realm—are not alone. What exactly do Ivy and Rowan’s pursuers want? Is it Ivy’s prized red bettle, which, unlike any other gemstone in Caux, appears—impossibly—to be hollow? Is it the elixir she concocted—the one with the mysterious healing powers? Or could it be Ivy herself? Told with wry humor, The Hollow Bettle is the first installment in the Poisons of Caux trilogy, an astonishing tale of herbs and magic, tasters and poisoners.

The Book of Ivy

Author : Amy Engel
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
ISBN 13 : 1622664663
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Ivy written by Amy Engel and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the New York Times bestseller that SLJ called “A fantastic plot that makes readers think about the blurred lines between right and wrong.” After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the sons of the winning group in a yearly ritual. This year, it is my turn. My name is Ivy Westfall, and my mission is simple: to kill the president’s son—my soon-to-be husband—and return the Westfall family to power. But Bishop Lattimer is either a very skilled actor or he’s not the cruel, heartless boy my family warned me to expect. He might even be the one person in this world who truly understands me. But there is no escape from my fate. I am the only one who can restore the Westfall legacy. Because Bishop must die. And I must be the one to kill him... The Book of Ivy series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 The Book of Ivy Book #2 The Revolution of Ivy

The Infamous Ratsos

Author : Kara LaReau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076368726X
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Infamous Ratsos written by Kara LaReau and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2017 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book! Louie and Ralphie Ratso are no softies. Readers are sure to chuckle as the determined Ratso brothers’ plans to act tough go hilariously awry. Louie and Ralphie Ratso’s dad, Big Lou, always says that there are two kinds of people: those who are tough and those who are soft. Louie and Ralphie are tough, tough, tough, just like Big Lou, and they’re going to prove it. But every time they try to show just how tough they are, the Ratso brothers end up accidentally doing good deeds instead. What’ll Big Lou do when he finds out they’ve been acting like softies all over the Big City? Perfect for emerging and reluctant readers, this clever and surprisingly warmhearted chapter book shows that being tough all the time can be really tough.

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019-) #5

Author : Jody Houser
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019-) #5 written by Jody Houser and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy have had it up to here with the Floronic ManÕs attacks, and now theyÕre ready to bring the fight to him. The only problem is...they donÕt know where to find him! So they seek out the help of Batwoman-whoÕs hesitant to believe in the good intentions of former villains. Will Harley and Ivy convince Batwoman that they can be trusted in time to save their own skins from the Floronic Man?

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019-) #6

Author : Jody Houser
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy (2019-) #6 written by Jody Houser and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the end of the road for our Gotham City sirens…and the revelation of Poison Ivy’s shocking secret will rock you to your core! Will Harley Quinn be able to make the ultimate sacrifice to become the hero she so desperately wants to be? Or will old habits die hard and end Harley and Ivy’s friendship forever?

Heroes in Crisis (2018-2019) #7

Author : Tom King
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Heroes in Crisis (2018-2019) #7 written by Tom King and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trinity may have uncovered the true killer responsible for the deaths at Sanctuary, but the artificial intelligence that ran the institution is the one thing standing between them and the culprit. Now Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman must face off with their own creation-and face the consequences for what they created. Also, as the truth is uncovered, Booster and Harley go from being enemies to allies.