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A light-hearted look at the desert.

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[Tucson] University of Arizona Press [1969]

1969

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Desert plants and people.

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San Antonio, Naylor Co. [1971, c1966]

1971-1966

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Radioecology and ecophysiology of desert plants at the Nevada test site, by A. Wallace and E. M. Romney, in collaboration with T. L. Ackerman [and others.

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Washington, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Information Services; available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va.] 1972.

1972

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Landscaping the Saudi Arabian desert / Kathleen Kelly, R. T. Schnadelbach.

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Philadelphia : Delancey Press, c1976.

1976

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Desert vegetation of Israel and Sinai / Avinoam Danin.

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Jerusalem : Cana Pub. House, c1983.

1983

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Water in desert ecosystems / edited by Daniel D. Evans, John L. Thames.

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Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : distributed world wide by Academic Press, c1981.

1981

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Trees and shrubs of the southwestern deserts / Lyman Benson and Robert A. Darrow ; line drawings by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.

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Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1981.

1981

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Deserts / by James A. MacMahon.

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New York : Knopf, 1985.

1985

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Gathering the desert / Gary Paul Nabhan ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha.

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Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c1985.

1985

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The tumbleweed gourmet : cooking with wild southwestern plants / Carolyn J. Niethammer ; illustrations by Jenean Thomson.

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Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1987.

1987

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California desert trails / by J. Smeaton Chase ; introduction to this edition by Richard Dillon ; environmental perspective and updated plant list by Robert L. Moon.

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Palo Alto, Calif. : Tioga Pub. Co. : Distributed by W. Kaufmann, c1987.

1987-1919

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Life strategies of succulents in deserts : with special reference to the Namib desert / Dieter J. von Willert ... [et al.].

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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

1992

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Life in deserts [by] J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson and M. J. Chadwick.

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London, G. T. Foulis [1964]

1964

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FormatTextCall numberSc 574.909-C (Cloudsley-Thompson, J. Life in deserts)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Desert and mountain plants of the Southwest / by Dorothy VanDyke Leake, John Benjamin Leake, Marcelotte Leake Roeder ; illustrated by Dorothy VanDyke Leake.

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Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1993.

1993

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On the trail of the desert wildflower / Hugh Crumpler.

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New York : HarperCollinsWest, c1994.

1994

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Publications.

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Le Caire [etc.]

1952-present

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FormatTextCall numberPSA (Institut du Désert d'Égypte, Cairo. Publications) v. 13, 1960Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberPSA (Institut du Désert d'Égypte, Cairo. Publications) v. 9-12, 1956-59Item locationOffsite
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Seed germination in desert plants / Yitzchak Gutterman.

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Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1993.

1993

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Growing desert plants : from windowsill to garden / Theodore B. Hodoba ; [text drawings by Mimi Kamp ; photography by Charles Mann and Theordore B. Hodoba].

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Santa Fe, N.M. : Red Crane Books, c1995.

1995

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California desert trails, by J. Smeaton Chase, with illustrations from photographs by the author, and an appendix of plants, also hints on desert travelling.

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Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1919.

1919

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Our Araby: Palm Springs and the the Garden of the sun, by J. Smeaton Chase. Illustrated from photographs by the author: with a descriptive list of desert plants, etc., and Hints to desert motorists: also a new map of the region by the U. S. Geological survey.

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Pasadena, Calif., Printed for J. S. Chase by Star-news publishing company, 1920.

1920

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Our Araby : Palm Springs and the garden of the sun / by J. Smeaton Chase.

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Palm Springs, Calif. : J.S. Chase, 1923, c1924

1923-1924

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Desert fables, by Stella Sherwood Vosburg; illustrated with pen sketches by the author.

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Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The John C. Winston Company [c1934]

1934

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Desert plants and people.

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San Antonio, Naylor Co. [1966]

1966

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Desert wild flowers, by Edmund C. Jaeger.

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Stanford University, Calif., Stanford University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press [c1940]

1940

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Distribution and movements of desert plants, by Volney M. Spalding.

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Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1909.

1909

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The topography of the chlorophyll apparatus in desert plants / by William Austin Cannon ; and, The induction, development, and heritability of fasciations, by Alice Adelaide Knox.

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Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908.

1908

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Flora economica della Libia.

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Roma, Tipografia dell'Unione editrice, 1915.

1915

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La vie dans les déserts / édition française par Théodore Monod ... avec le concours de W. Besnard et E. Korzeniowska.

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Paris : Payot, 1942.

1942

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Desert parade, a guide to southwestern desert plants and wildlife; photos. by Marvin H. Frost.

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New York, Viking Press, 1947.

1947

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The desert year. Decorations by Rudolf Freund.

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New York, Sloane [1952]

1952

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The voice of the desert, a naturalist's interpretation.

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New York, W. Sloane Associates [1955]

1955

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Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West : a guide to identifying, preparing, and using traditional medicinal plants found in the deserts and canyons of the West and Southwest / by Michael Moore ; illustrations by Mimi Kamp and Nora Ryerson.

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Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989.

1989

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The trees and shrubs of the southwestern deserts [by] Lyman Benson and Robert A. Darrow. Line drawings by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.

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Tucson, University of Arizona Press; Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1954.

1954-1945

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Plantas uteis do deserto / Henrique Semler.

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Rio de Janeiro : Serviço de Estatistica, 1913.

1913

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The water economy of dry-land crops.

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Washington, Gov. Prtg. Off., 1912.

1912-1911

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The vegetation of a desert mountain range as conditioned by climatic factors, by Forrest Shreve.

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Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915.

1915

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Botanical features of North American deserts, by Daniel Trembly MacDougal.

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Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908.

1908

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Encyclopedia of deserts / edited by Michael A. Mares.

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Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1999.

1999

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Deserts / by James A. MacMahon.

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New York : Knopf, [1985]

1985

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Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran Desert [by] Forrest Shreve and Ira L. Wiggins.

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Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1964.

1964

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Root systems of certain desert plants ...

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[Chicago, 1917]

1917-1917

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Desert wildflowers of North America / Ronald J. Taylor.

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Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1998.

1998

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Walt Disney's Living desert. Text by Marcel Aymé [and others] Translated by Victor Fitzmaurice.

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New York, Simon and Schuster [1956?]

1956

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FormatTextCall numberMFLK+ (Disney, Walt, Productions, ltd. Walt Disney's Living desert)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Flowers of the Southwest deserts / by Natt N. Dodge ; drawings by Jeanne R. Janish.

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Santa Fe, N.M. : Southwestern Monuments Association, c1951.

1951

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FormatTextCall numberIW (Southwestern monuments association. Popular series. no. 4)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Nutritive quality and mineral content of potential desert tortoise food plants [microform] / E. Durant McArthur, Stewart C. Sanderson, Bruce L. Webb.

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Ogden, UT (324 25th St., Ogden 84401) : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, [1994]

1994

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The daily march of transpiration in a desert perennial, by Edith Bellamy Shreve.

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Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914.

1914

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