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Adventures of an alpine guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1932
Author
Klucker, Christian
Publisher
London : John Murray
Edition
1st (English)
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Author
Klucker, Christian
Responsibility
Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
Edition
1st (English)
Publisher
London : John Murray
Published Date
1932
Physical Description
329 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guide
Klucker, Christian
Alps
Whymper, Edward
Canadian Rockies
Mont Blanc
Mountaineering
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Collection
Archives Library
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Published Date
1963
Author
Coleman, H. T. J.
Publisher
Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
Call Number
05.1 C68a
Author
Coleman, H. T. J.
Responsibility
Cover and illustrations E. Downing Baker
Publisher
Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
57 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Poetry
Literature
Abstract
A collection of childrens stories detailing a variety of animals as babies.
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05.1 C68a
Collection
Archives Library
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An introduction to crystallography

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1966
Author
Phillips, F. C.
Publisher
London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
Call Number
03 P54a
Author
Phillips, F. C.
Publisher
London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd
Published Date
1966
Physical Description
340 pages : 535 diagrams
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Crystallography
Geology
Science
Contents
1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 P54a
Collection
Archives Library
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Contemporary japan : a review of Japanese affairs, March 1934, Vol. II, No. 4

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
1934
Publisher
Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Call Number
08 F76g
Responsibility
The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Publisher
Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
Published Date
1934
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Japan
Politics
India
Soviet Russia
Sports
culture
Manchuria
China
Abstract
Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs includes various contributors writing about a variety of topics focused on Japan. This quarterly review was published by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan.
Contents
The Open Door in China and Manchuria / Sakutaro Tachi ; Anglo-Japanese Relations / M. D. Kennedy ; Japan and Soviet Russia / Katsuji Fusé ; The New Delhi Conference / Tanzan Ishibashi ; The Real Hirota / Taketora Ogata ; The Japanese Spirit / Masaatsu Yasuoka ; Seventy Years with the Chisel (illustrated) / Koun Takamura ; War Clouds in the Far East / Hatsutaro Haraguchi ; Dissolve the Political Parties / Yosuké Matsuoka ; Sen Katayama / H. vere Redman ; Whither the Japanese Peasantry? / Akira Kazami ; Outdoor Sports in Japan / G. Caiger ; Konjaku Monogatari -- Another Heian Masterpiece / Masajiro Kojima
Notes
From Catharine Robb Whyte Estate. Contains image that has been tipped-in.
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08 F76g
Collection
Archives Library
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Fenollosa and his circle

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Publisher
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Call Number
05 B79f
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Publisher
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Published Date
1962
Physical Description
321 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Japanese
Japan
Art
Slavery
Archaeology
Mexico
Mayan
Biography
Abstract
A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover
Contents
Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05 B79f
Collection
Archives Library
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1935
Publisher
Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
Call Number
08.2 G76g
Responsibility
Recorded by Angus Graham
Publisher
Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
Published Date
1935
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Exploration
Pioneer life
Travel
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Colonialism
Contents
I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
08.2 G76g
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The Group of Seven : art for a nation

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1995
Author
Hill, Charles C.
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
Call Number
06.1 H55t
Author
Hill, Charles C.
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
Published Date
1995
Physical Description
374 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Group of Seven
History-Canada
Artists
ISBN
077106716X
Accession Number
2022.27
Call Number
06.1 H55t
Collection
Archives Library
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1931
Author
Tutton, A. E. H.
Publisher
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
Edition
2nd edition
Call Number
03 T89t
Author
Tutton, A. E. H.
Edition
2nd edition
Publisher
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
Published Date
1931
Physical Description
317 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Ice
Snow
Science
Expeditions
Alps
Contents
PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
03 T89t
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1931
Author
Beach, William N.
Publisher
New York ; The Derrydale Press
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
02.3 B36i
Author
Beach, William N.
Responsibility
Foreword by John Burnhalm ; Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard ; Illustrations by Carl Rungius
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
New York ; The Derrydale Press
Published Date
1931
Physical Description
289 pages ; 63 ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Expeditions
Exploration
Alaska
McKinley, Mount
Animals
Conservation
Contents
Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.
Notes
Special Edition: 750 copies printed.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.3 B36i
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Archives Library
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Intoduction to the structure of the earth

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1969
Author
Spencer, Edgar W.
Publisher
New York : McGraw Book Company
Call Number
03 S3i
Author
Spencer, Edgar W.
Publisher
New York : McGraw Book Company
Published Date
1969
Physical Description
597 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 S3i
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Mushrooms of Western Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1991
2021
Author
Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
Call Number
04.1 Sch1m 1991
04.1 Sch1m 2021
Author
Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
Publisher
Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
Published Date
1991
2021
Physical Description
416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mushrooms
Guidebook
Identification
Western Canada
Botany
Plants
Science
Illustrations
Contents
Introduction -- Illustrated key to fruiting bodies -- Classification overview -- Keys to colour illustrations -- Colour illustrations -- Species descriptions.
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
0919433472
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 Sch1m 1991
04.1 Sch1m 2021
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The Norton book of nature writing

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1990
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton
Call Number
05.5 F49t
Responsibility
Edited by Robert Finch and John Elder.
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton
Published Date
1990
Physical Description
921 pages ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nature
Literature
Natural history
Naturalists
Travel
Biographies
Abstract
A comprehensive collection of the many voices of nature writing which have flourished in England and America over the last two hundred years. Includes 125 selections by 94 writers.
Contents
From "The natural history and antiquities of Selborne" / Gilbert White -- From "Letters from an American farmer"; from "Sketches of eighteenth century America" / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- From "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida" / William Bartram -- From "American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States" / Alexander Wilson -- From "The journal of a naturalist" / John Leonard Knapp -- From "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" / Dorothy Wordsworth -- From "Anima Poetae" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles" / Charles Waterton. From "A tour on the prairies" / Washington Irving -- From "Ornithological biography" / John James Audubon -- From "The natural world"; from "The natural history prose writings of John Clare" / John Clare -- From "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians" / George Catlin -- From "Nature"; from "The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"; from "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"; from "The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex:"/ Charles Darwin -- From "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers"; From "Walden : or, life in the woods"; "Walking"; from "The Maine woods"; from "Journals" / Henry David Thoreau. From "Glaucus; or, the wonders of the shore" / Charles Kingsley -- From "Moby-Dick; or, the whale" / Herman Melville -- From "Modern painters" / John Ruskin -- From "Specimen days and collect" / Walt Whitman -- From "The life of the grasshopper" / Jean Henri Fabre -- From "The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise" / Alfred Russel Wallace -- From "Exploration of the Colorado River of the west and its tributaries" / John Wesley Powell -- From "Life on the Mississippi" / Samuel Clemens -- "In Mammoth Cave"; "The gospel of nature" / John Burroughs -- "A wind-storm in the forests"; "The water-ouzel" / John Muir -- "My friend the pig"; from "Idle days in Patagonia"; from "Birds and man"; from "Afoot in England"; from "A traveller in little things" / W.H. Hudson. From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" / Clarence King -- From "The American scene" / Henry James -- From "Notebooks and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Out of doors in February"; "Absence of design in nature" / Richard Jefferies -- From "The land of little rain" / Mary Austin -- From "The south country" / Edward Thomas -- From "N by E" / Rockwell Kent -- "The death of the moth" / Virginia Woolf -- From "Out of Africa" / Isak Dinesen -- "Flowery Tuscany" / D.H. Lawrence -- From "The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod" / Henry Beston -- From "A Sand County almanac" / Aldo Leopold -- "Two lives" / Gustav Eckstein -- "Love in the desert"; "The colloid and the crystal" / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From "An almanac for moderns" / Donald Culross Peattie -- "Northern lights" / Sigurd Olson -- "The lost woods"; "The Selborne Nightingale" / Edwin Way Teale. "A slight sound at evening" / E.B. White -- "The ancient people and the newly come" / Meridel LeSueur -- From "The wooing of earth" / Rene Dubos -- From "A river runs through it" / Norman Maclean -- From "The grapes of wrath"; from "The log from the Sea of Cortez" / John Steinbeck -- "Some thoughts on the common toad" / George Orwell -- From "The heart of the hunter" / Laurens Van Der Post -- "The snakes are about" / T.H. White -- From "The edge of the sea" / Rachel Carson -- "The judgment of the birds"; "The star thrower" / Loren Eiseley -- From "The windward road" / Archie Carr -- "Glen Canyon Submersus"; "Coda : wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner -- From "A land" / Jacquetta Hawkes -- "Antaeus in Manhattan"; "Death in the open"; "The world's biggest membrane"; "The Tucson Zoo" / Lewis Thomas. From "Ring of bright water" / Gavin Maxwell -- From "The run"; from "In defense of nature" / John Hay -- "Rain and rhinoceros" / Thomas Merton -- "From "Goodbye to a river" / John Graves -- From "Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" / William Warner -- From "Never cry wolf"; from "People of the deer" / Farley Mowat -- "Moments and journey" / John Haines -- From "The mysterious lands" / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- From "The Peregrine" / J.A. Baker -- From "The tree" / John Fowles -- From "The secret islands" / Franklin Russell -- From "Desert solitaire"' "The great American desert" / Edward Abbey -- From "The tree where man was born"; from "The wind birds" / Peter Matthiessen -- "Skin" / Richard Selzer -- "A very warm mountain" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- From "Biophilia" / Edward O. Wilson. From "Coming into the country"; "Under the snow" / John McPhee -- From "The hunt" / John G. Mitchell -- "Hailing the elusory mountain lion"; "Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled" / Edward Hoagland -- "Spring rain"; "Eclipse" / John Updike -- "An entrance to the woods" / Wendell Berry -- From "The way to Rainy Mountain" / N. Scott Momaday -- From "A country year" / Sue Hubbell -- "The silence" / Chet Raymo -- "The gifts" / Richard K. Nelson -- "What the stones said" / Robert Finch -- "Dreaming elands" / Peter Steinhart -- From "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"; "Total eclipse" / Annie Dillard -- From "Arctic dreams"; "The raven" / Barry Lopez -- From "The Klamath Knot" / David Rains Wallace -- From "The solace of open spaces" / Gretel Ehrlich -- From "Wintergreen : listening to the land's heart" / Robert Michael Pyle -- "Animal rights and beyond" / David Quammen. "Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From "Adam's task : calling animals by name" / Vicki Hearne -- From "The desert smells like rain : a naturalist in Papago Indian country" / Gary Paul Nabhan -- "In the country of grasses" / Terry Tempest Williams.
ISBN
0393027996
Accession Number
2020.21
Call Number
05.5 F49t
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Archives Library
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A nostalgic view of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962
Author
Buchanan, Donald W.
Publisher
Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.
Call Number
06.4 B86a
Author
Buchanan, Donald W.
Publisher
Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.
Published Date
1962
Physical Description
45 pages II. ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Alberta
Quebec and Ontario
Canada
Abstract
In this book Donald W. Buchanan recreates the flavour of the Canada of his youth, matching a nostalgic text with his own photographs of evocative scenes from the ranches of Happy Valley, Alberta, to Kamouraska County in Quebec. -- From the publisher
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
06.4 B86a
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The pathfinder [film]

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Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
[1932?]
Publisher
Associated Screen News Limited
Call Number
08.3 W69 NF
Responsibility
B.E. Norrish [producer]
Photographer: Alfred Jacquemin
described by B.K. Sandwell
narrated by Corey Thomson
Publisher
Associated Screen News Limited
Published Date
[1932?]
Physical Description
1 16mm film reel
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Wilson, Tom
Abstract
Biography about Tom Wilson. Storyline includes reenactments of unidentified Indigenous men who showed him where the locations of Lake Louise and Emerald Lake were. Also includes the real Tom Wilson, Pat Brewster, ca. 1932.
Notes
16mm film copied to digital file May 27, 2021: mp4; .mov and .mxf. Former 08.3 W69 V DVD copy was from a VHS copy.
Call Number
08.3 W69 NF
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Principles of stratigraphy

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1966
Author
Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
Publisher
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Call Number
03 D91p
Author
Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
Publisher
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published Date
1966
Physical Description
356 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
stratigraphy
Geology
Abstract
Carl O. Dunbar and John Rodgers authored this textbook in response to the growing interest in the study of stratigraphy in academia.
Contents
Part I : Environments of deposition -- Part 2 : Basic stratigraphic relations -- Part 3 : Interpretation of specific lithotopes -- Part 4 : Synthesis
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 D91p
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The rise of American civilization : Volume One

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1930
Author
Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
Publisher
New York : The MacMillan Company
Call Number
08 B38t
Author
Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
Responsibility
Decorations by Wilfred Jones
Publisher
New York : The MacMillan Company
Published Date
1930
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
American
American Civil War
History
Colonialism
War
Politics
Contents
I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
08 B38t
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Rocky Mountain nature guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1999
Author
Bezener, Andy and Kershaw, Linda
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine Publisher
Call Number
04 B45r
Author
Bezener, Andy and Kershaw, Linda
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine Publisher
Published Date
1999
Physical Description
191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebook
Nature
Zoology
Botany
Animals
Canadian Rockies
Abstract
Includes 371 animals and plants from New Mexico to British Columbia.
Contents
Mammals -- Birds -- Amphibians & reptiles -- Fish -- Invertebrates -- Trees -- Shrubs -- Herbs.
ISBN
1551051788
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04 B45r
Collection
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The romance of mountaineering

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1935
Author
Irving, R. L. G.
Publisher
London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
01 Ir8t
Author
Irving, R. L. G.
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
Published Date
1935
Physical Description
320 pages ; 40 ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Masculinity
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Contents
PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01 Ir8t
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Science in the history of modern culture

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1963
Author
Watanabe, Masao
Publisher
Tokyo : Miraisha
Call Number
03 W29s
Author
Watanabe, Masao
Publisher
Tokyo : Miraisha
Published Date
1963
Physical Description
353 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Science
Japanese
culture
Education
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
03 W29s
Collection
Archives Library
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