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An introduction to crystallography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25663
- 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
- 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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The audubon society field guide to North American mushrooms
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26234
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Lincoff, Gary H.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 04.1 L63m
- Author
- Lincoff, Gary H.
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Carol Nehring
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 926 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Series
- Audubon Society Field Guide Series
- Subjects
- Botany
- Identification
- Science
- Illustrations
- Mushroom
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0394519922
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 L63m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The audubon society field guide to North American trees
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26235
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Little, Elbert L.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 04.1 L73t
- Author
- Little, Elbert L.
- Responsibility
- Illustrated by Susan Rayfield and Olivia Buehl
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 926 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Series
- Audubon Society Field Guide Series
- Subjects
- Botany
- Dendrology
- Identification
- Science
- Illustrations
- Trees
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0394507614
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 L73t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25485
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 390 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Traditional Knowledge
- Science
- Botany
- Abstract
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
- Contents
- Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift
- ISBN
- 978-1-57131-356-0
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian mountain assessment : walking together to enhance the understanding of mountains in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26222
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
- Edition
- 2023
- Call Number
- 04 M14c
- Responsibility
- Graham McDowell (Project Lead), Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall [and 70 others]
- Edition
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvii, 355 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), color maps ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Mountains
- Ecology
- Science
- Indigenous People
- Environment
- Abstract
- The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains in Canada, while also respecting and maintaining the integrity of different knowledge systems. The Canadian Mountain Assessment is a text-based document, but also includes a variety of visual materials as well as access to video recordings of oral knowledges shared by Indigenous individuals from mountain areas in Canada. The assessment is the result of over three years of work, during which time the initiative played an important role in connecting and cultivating relationships between mountain knowledge holders from across Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mountain environments -- 3. Mountains as homelands -- 4. Gifts of the mountains -- 5. Mountains under pressure -- 6. Desirable mountain futures.
- Notes
- Staff member Dawn Saunders Dahl contributed to this publication.
- 2022-2023 Lillian Agnes Jones Scholarship Recipient, Kate Hanly contributed to this publication.
- Publication utilized Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections materials.
- ISBN
- 9781773855097
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 M14c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The city within
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20258
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre for the Arts
- Call Number
- HX806 C57
- Responsibility
- Edited by Jeanne Randolph
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre for the Arts
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 106p. : ill., maps, ports.
- Call Number
- HX806 C57
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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The domination of nature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25698
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Leiss, William
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Call Number
- 04 L53t
- Author
- Leiss, William
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 306 pages ; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Environment
- Philosophy
- Science
- Technology
- Nature
- Abstract
- Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the delicate balance of organic life in the global ecosystem will result in devastating problems for future generations. In The Domination of Nature William Leiss argues that this global predicament must be understood in terms of deeply rooted attitudes towards nature. He traces the origins, development, and social consequences of an idea whose imprint is everywhere in modern thought: the idea of the domination of nature. In Part One Leiss traces the idea of the domination of nature from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Francis Bacon’s seminal work provides the pivotal point for this discussion, and through an original interpretation of Bacon’s thought, Leiss shows how momentous ambiguities in the idea were incorporated into modern thought. By the beginning of the twentieth century the concept had become firmly identified with scientific and technological progress. This fact defines the task of Part Two. Using important contributions by European sociologists and philosophers, Leiss critically analyzes the role of science and technology in the modern world. In the concluding chapter he puts the idea of mastery over nature into historical perspective and explores a new approach, based on the possibilities of the liberation of nature. Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. In a new preface Leiss explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligations of human citizens of the twenty-first century.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- The Cunning of Unreason -- Mythical, Religious, and Philosophical Roots -- Francis Bacon -- The Seventeenth Century and After -- Science and Domination -- Science and Nature -- Technology and Domination -- The Liberation of Nature?
- ISBN
- 9780228017257
- Accession Number
- P2023.08
- Call Number
- 04 L53t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Douglas of the fir : a biography of David Douglas botanist
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25554
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1947
- Author
- George Harvey, Athelstan
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
- Call Number
- 04.1 H26d
- Author
- George Harvey, Athelstan
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
- Published Date
- 1947
- Physical Description
- x, 290 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 23 cm
- Subjects
- Botany
- Science
- Travel
- Canada
- Upper Canada
- Columbia River
- Contents
- Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 04.1 H26d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The ecology of fossils
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25669
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
- Call Number
- 04 M19t
- Responsibility
- Edited by W.S. McKerrow
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 384 pages
- Abstract
- An illustrated textbook detailing the ecology of fossils throughout various time periods.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / W. S. McKerrow -- 2. Classification of organisms / W. S. McKerrow -- 3. Precambrian / W.S. McKerrow -- 4. Cambrian / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 4. Ordovician / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 5. Silurian / L. R. M. Cocks and W. S. McKerrow -- 6. Devonian / R. Goldring -- 7. Carboniferous / W. H. C. Ramsbottom -- 8. Permian / W. H. C. Ramsbottom -- 9. Triassic / B. W. Sellwood -- 10. Jurassic / B. W. Sellwood -- 11. Cretaceous / W. J. Kennedy -- 12. Cenozoc / J. Taylor -- 13. Present day / J. Taylor
- ISBN
- 0262630869
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 M19t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Edible and poisonous mushrooms of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26231
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Walton Groves, J.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Research Branch, Agriculture Canada
- Call Number
- 04.1 W17e
- Author
- Walton Groves, J.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Research Branch, Agriculture Canada
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 326 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Parts of a mushroom -- Collecting mushrooms -- Food value of mushrooms -- Mushroom poisioning -- Identification -- Nomenclature -- Classification -- Key to the genera of mushrooms -- Technical key to the genera of mushrooms.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 066010136
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 W17e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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