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Gathering moss : a natural and cultural history of mosses
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25517
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 W14g
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mosses
- Indigenous
- History
- Nature
- Abstract
- Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world. -- From back cover
- ISBN
- 0870714996
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 07.2 W14g
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- Archives Library
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Mythology of the North American indian and Inuit nations
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25547
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Molyneaux, Brian L.
- Publisher
- London : Southwater Publishing
- Call Number
- 07.2 m73m
- Author
- Molyneaux, Brian L.
- Publisher
- London : Southwater Publishing
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 96 pages
- Abstract
- An authoritative and accessible guide to the vivid and enthralling myths and legends of the United States and Canada -- From the publisher
- Contents
- A-to-Z Myths and Legends of North America ; Transformation ; The Living Sky ; Landscapes of Memory ; Spirits of Earth ; The Dark Side ; The Trickster ; Death & Afterlife ; The Strangers ; New Gods ; New Mythologies
- Accession Number
- 2022.17
- Call Number
- 07.2 m73m
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- Archives Library
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Trees and shrubs in winter : a guide to the identification of common trees and shrubs in Northwestern British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26226
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Pojar, Rosamund
- Publisher
- Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
- Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 P75t 2003
- 04.1 P75t 2010
- Author
- Pojar, Rosamund
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Evi Coulson
- Publisher
- Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
- Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 153 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Key to sections -- Key to coniferous trees -- Key #1 to deciduous trees (shrubby form) -- Key #2 to deciduous trees (mature) -- Key to deciduous shrubs (or small trees) with alternate buds -- Key to evergreen shrubs -- Additional trees and shrubs that occur in the northern interior and northern coastal regions of British Columbia -- Glossary.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 097335920
- 9780978319533
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 P75t 2003
- 04.1 P75t 2010
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- Archives Library
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First Peoples in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25496
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- McMillian, Alan D., Yellowhorn, Eldon
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Call Number
- 07.2 M23f
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- x, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Abstract
- Aboriginal issues feature prominently on the Canadian agenda, from land claims agreements to self-government to resource rights, and First Peoples in Canada sets the context for the evolving relationship between Canada and the Aboriginal communities whitin its borders. This comprehensive book, widely used as a basic text in universities and colleges, now incorporates a Native perspective with new research from archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and history to tell the story of Aboriginal people from ancient times to the present. Generously illustrated with many maps, drawings and photographs, these pages clearly detail the rich cultures of all First Nations in this country. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Anthropological research and Aboriginal people ; The Atlantic Provinces ; The Iroquoians of the Eastern woodlands ; The Algonquians of the Eastern woodlands and Eastern Subarctic ; The Plains ; The Plateau ; The Northwest coast ; The Western Subarctic ; The Arctic ; The Metis ; Aboriginal people and Canada: emerging relations
- ISBN
- 9781553650539
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 M23f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Proud heritage : people and progress in early Canadian geoscience
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25670
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
- Responsibility
- Edited by R. W. Macqueen
- Publisher
- St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 217 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Science
- Abstract
- Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience is a collection of articles from Geoscience Canada and its predecessor, highlighting the people and events which helped shape our geoscience history. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial content topics: Early geological contributors -- Geological pioneers, 19th century -- Geological leaders, 19th and 20th centuries -- Geological leaders, 20th century -- Early geological studies -- Short biographies
- ISBN
- 919216943
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 M26p
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- Archives Library
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Life and limb : a true story of tragedy and survival against the odds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25738
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 306 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Accidents
- Survival
- Abstract
- The weather looked perfect when Jamie Andrew and his closest friend, Jamie Fisher set off to climb the formidable North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999. But a sudden and ferocious storm hit them 10,000 feet up the mountain. They were trapped on a narrow ridge in temperatures of -30C, battered by winds so strong the rescue helicopters could not reach them. After five nightmarish nights doggedly clinging to life, Jamie Andrew was finally rescued; but his friend Jamie Fisher had died beside him on the last night. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 0749950072
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
- Collection
- Archives Library
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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25740
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 223 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Climbing
- Travel
- Sports
- Abstract
- Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, follows Vertical Pleasure (Hodder, 1995). Here the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challending objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 1898573581
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
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- Archives Library
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John Singer Sargent : figures and landscapes 1874-1882 ; complete paintings. Vol. IV
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25679
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Ormond, Richard and Kilmurray, Elaine
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 O6j
- Publisher
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 446 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Sargent, John Singer
- Art
- Abstract
- With few exceptions, this book illustrates John Singer's paintings in colour including several never published before. Each painting is documented with full provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. The volume also reproduces Sargent's preliminary and related drawings and of comparative works by other artists.
- Contents
- Models, c. 1874-1880 -- Classical and religious subjects, c. 1874-1879 -- Landscape and architectural studies, c. 1875-1880 -- Brittany and the sea, c. 1874-1879 -- Naples and Capri, 1878 -- Paris, c. 1878-1882 -- Studies after the old masters, c. 1879-1880 -- Spain and El Jaleo, 1879-1882 -- Morocco, 1880 -- Venice, 1880-1882.
- Notes
- Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- ISBN
- 9780300117165
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06.1 O6j
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- Archives Library
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Canada rocks : the geologic journey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25671
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 450 pages
- Subjects
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Abstract
- A complete overview of the geological formation of Canada covering four billion years.
- Contents
- 1. A hellish beginning -- 2. Moving earth : plate tectonics -- 3. The united plates of Canada : four billion years of tectonic activity 4. Canada's heartland : the shield -- 5. Giant seas cover the shield : the interior platform -- 6. Building Eastern Canada -- 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 8. Building Western Canada -- 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 10. Rocky resouces : mining in Canada -- 11. Challenges for the future -- 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity
- ISBN
- 9781550418606
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03.1 E5c
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- Archives Library
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Deep Alberta : fossil facts and dinosaur digs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25673
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Dinosaurs
- Fossils
- Contents
- Geology of Alberta map -- Albanerpetontids, as we say -- Ammonites and ammolites -- Albertosaurus, Alberta's dinosaur -- Amber, fossilized tree sap -- Amia, the bowfin -- Atrociraptor, the new raptor -- Basilemys, a very large turtle -- Bison, as opposed to buffalo -- The Blindman River -- Belonostomus, a pointy-headed fish -- Barnum Brown, fossil hunter -- Burbank, Alberta -- Calgary and the things that lay beneath it -- Extinct camels -- The Canadian shield -- Centrosaurus, a herding horned dinosaur -- Champsosaurus, a kind of non-crocodile -- Chasmosaurus, a short-horned dinosaur -- North American cheetahs -- The Bow Valley at Cochrane -- Cretaceous lizards -- Alberta's crocodilians -- Dawn redwood trees -- Devil's Coulee and its dinosaur nests -- Didelphodon, a sort of primitive possum -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Dromaeosaurus, a snappy little raptor -- The Drumheller Badlands -- Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park -- Dunkleosteus, a very scary fish -- Edmonton, a modest sort of dinosaur graveyard -- Edmontosaurus, Edmonton's duck-billed dinosaur -- Edmontonia, Edmonton's other dinosaur -- Feathered dinosaurs -- Fossil frogs -- Gar, the fish -- Horn corals -- How do you know where to dig? -- Hypacrosaurus, less than the ultimate dinosaur -- The Kleskun Hills -- Lambeosaurus, Lambe's dinosaur -- Leptoceratops, a hornless horned dinosaur -- Alberta's lions -- Lundbreck Falls and the black beauty -- Mammoths and mastodons -- The Milk River -- Mosasaurs, the giant marine lizards -- Multituberculates, common but extinct mammals -- Myledaphus, a guitar fish -- New fossil names -- The oil sands -- Ornithomimids, the bird mimics -- Pachyrhinosaurus, the thick-nosed dinosaur -- Palaeontology in Alberta -- Pantodonts, giant Palaeocene mammals -- Parasaurolophus, a long-headed duck-bill -- Parksosaurus, Park's dinosaur -- The world's oldest pike -- Plants of the ornithomimid quarry -- Plesiadapis, a weird early primate -- Plesiosaurs, the sea serpents of the Mesozoic -- "Primitive" plants -- Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles -- Fossil salamanders -- Sandy Point -- Saurornitholestes, a raptor -- Short-faced bear -- Since the Ice Age -- Snakes of the dinosaur times -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Stegoceras -- The Sternberg family -- Sedimentology, the science of sediments -- Sturgeon, a living fossil fish -- Styracosaurus, a classic Alberta dinosaur -- Trace fossils -- Troodon, the "smart" dinosaur -- Triceratops, the three-horned face -- Tyrannosaurus or "T. rex"-- The venomous mammal.
- Notes
- Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9780888644817
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
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Canadian Rockies geology road tours
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25499
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Jasper, AB : Corax Press
- Call Number
- 03.2 G11c c. 2
- Author
- Gadd, Ben
- Publisher
- Jasper, AB : Corax Press
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 576 pages : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Notes
- Includes index. On cover: The complete roadside guide: fossils, formations, folds and faults; presented in plain English; over 250 great stops; fully illustrated; works with odometer and GPS! Includes bibliogaphical references: p. 560-561.
- ISBN
- 9780969263128
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 03.2 G11c c. 2
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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