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Includes Will "Cooter" Branch from Coila, Mississippi, Isaac from Hollywood, S.C., other photos from South Carolina and some photos from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Virginia, but mainly people and scenes from Mississippi.
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Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0807124753
Includes Will "Cooter" Branch from Coila, Mississippi, Isaac from Hollywood, S.C., other photos from South Carolina and some photos from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Virginia, but mainly people and scenes from Mississippi.
Author : Alan Nourse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609775171
Before the first ship from Earth made a landing on Venus, there was much speculation about what might be found beneath the cloud layers obscuring that planet's surface from the eyes of all observers. One school of thought maintained that the surface of Venus was a jungle, rank with hot-house moisture, crawling with writhing fauna and man-eating flowers. Another group contended hotly that Venus was an arid desert of wind-carved sandstone, dry and cruel, whipping dust into clouds that sunlight could never penetrate. Others prognosticated an ocean planet with little or no solid ground at all, populated by enormous serpents waiting to greet the first Earthlings with jaws agape. But nobody knew, of course. Venus was the planet of mystery. When the first Earth ship finally landed there, all they found was a great quantity of mud. There was enough mud on Venus to go all the way around twice, with some left over. It was warm, wet, soggy mud--clinging and tenacious. In some places it was gray, and in other places it was black. Elsewhere it was found to be varying shades of brown, yellow, green, blue and purple. But just the same, it was still mud. The sparse Venusian vegetation grew up out of it; the small Venusian natives lived down in it; the steam rose from it and the rain fell on it, and that, it seemed, was that. The planet of mystery was no longer mysterious. It was just messy. People didn't talk about it any more. But technologists of the Piper Pharmaceuticals, Inc., R&D squad found a certain charm in the Venusian mud. They began sending cautious and very secret reports back to the Home Office when they discovered just what, exactly was growing in that Venusian mud besides Venusian natives. The Home Office promptly bought up full exploratory and mining rights to the planet for a price that was a brazen steal, and then in high excitement began pouring millions of dollars into ships and machines bound for the muddy planet. The Board of Directors met hoots of derision with secret smiles as they rubbed their hands together softly. Special crews of psychologists were dispatched to Venus to contact the natives; they returned, exuberant, with test-results that proved the natives were friendly, intelligent, co-operative and resourceful, and the Board of Directors rubbed their hands more eagerly together, and poured more money into the Piper Venusian Installation. It took money to make money, they thought. Let the fools laugh. They wouldn't be laughing long. After all, Piper Pharmaceuticals, Inc., could recognize a gold mine when they saw one. They thought.
Author : S. A. Ambanasom
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9956558338
Son of the Native Soil is a work whose quiet maturity glows in both subject and style. Here, love heals but the force of hate is very real. The hero, Lucas Achamba, by charisma and love undertakes to unite Dudum clan which politicking and egotism have split. His quick success stirs bitter rivalry and heartless cruelty that decide his fate. Nature is jumpy and even hysterical at this, and Ambanasom exposes it with fine evocative mastery. The style is refined and honeyed by sonal devices and visual tropes that half conceal subtle slashes at human foibles.
Author : Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Publisher : University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1946135658
Gardening with Native Grasses in Cold Climates, is written for inexperienced as well as seasoned gardeners, landscape designers, garden center employees, and anyone interested in native grasses that grow well in cold climates. New information on the benefits of native grasses including their importance as host plants for native Lepidoptera is included. Combinations of specific grasses used by larvae and perennials that the adult butterflies feed on is new and timely information.
Author : Sarah Yuster
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2018-01-08
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ISBN : 9781532365003
Author : William Thomas McGeorge
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Agriculture
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A monthly journal devoted to problems in soil physics, soil chemistry and soil biology.
Author : Rebecca A. Earle
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2007-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0822388782
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas within the sense of identity—both personal and national—expressed by Spanish American elites in the first century after independence, a time of intense focus on nation-building. Starting with the anti-Spanish wars of independence in the early nineteenth century, Earle charts the changing importance elite nationalists ascribed to the pre-Columbian past through an analysis of a wide range of sources, including historical writings, poems and novels, postage stamps, constitutions, and public sculpture. This eclectic archive illuminates the nationalist vision of creole elites throughout Spanish America, who in different ways sought to construct meaningful national myths and histories. Traces of these efforts are scattered across nineteenth-century culture; Earle maps the significance of those traces. She also underlines the similarities in the development of nineteenth-century elite nationalism across Spanish America. By offering a comparative study focused on Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador, The Return of the Native illustrates both the common features of elite nation-building and some of the significant variations. The book ends with a consideration of the pro-indigenous indigenista movements that developed in various parts of Spanish America in the early twentieth century.
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Highway engineering
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Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Soil surveys
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