Download or read book Dune Country written by Janice Emily Bowers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to public perception, sand dunes are not barren piles of sand. They are alive with plant life. The dunes themselves even move, sometimes several inches a year. In Dune Country Janice Emily Bowers takes readers from New Mexico's White Sands to Utah's Coral Pink Dunes to the Death Valley dunes of California and beyond. Beautifully written and illustrated, Dune Country is a perfect introduction to the fragile ecosystems of sand dunes.

Download or read book Dune written by Frank Herbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING MARCH 1st, 2024 Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

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Download or read book Rare Plants of Texas written by Jackie M. Poole and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1987, more than 225 species have been identified and described as endangered, imperiled, or declining. Complete with photographs, line drawings, and county maps, this book describes the officially listed, candidate, and species-of-concern plants in Texas. Individual accounts include information on distribution, habitat, physical description, flowering time, federal and state status, similar species, and published references.

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Download or read book Star Lord written by Doug Moench and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvel Preview #14-15 and Marvel Super Special #10. Star-Lord soars back into action in his second collection of scintillating seventies sci-fi! When Star-Lord is shot down and crashes on a desert planet [Author]; “Ship” must take human form to save his life — but can the two rescue an alien god from space pirates? An unimaginably powerful alien race has destroyed an innocent [Author]; inhabited world — and Star-Lord must find a way to stop them from targeting a second! When Star-Lord is sucked through a wormhole onto a gigantic [Author]; centuries-old space ark [Author]; can he learn the inhabitants’ true agenda before Earth is overrun?

Download or read book Star Lord written by Steve Englehart and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Marvel Preview #4, 11, 14-15, 18 (Star-Lord stories); Marvel Super Special #10 (Star-Lord story); Marvel Spotlight (1979) #6-7; Marvel Premiere #61; Star-Lord (1996) #1-3. Star-Lord's sensational seventies sci-fi sagas are collected in one volume! After aliens killed Peter Quill's mother, he became an astronaut, hoping to find the killers and take revenge...until a fateful encounter with the Master of the Sun unlocked Quill's true destiny! Now, as the intergalactic policeman Star-Lord, Quill faces alien slavers, space pirates, world-destroying ships, ancient space arks, vengeful beast-men, winged cloud-riders, symbiotic planetoids and more! ÿ

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Download or read book Dunedevil written by Jacob Bannon and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1976, Jacob Bannon is an artist, musician, and writer living in Massachusetts. He is the vocalist, lyricist, and founder of the influential band Converge, and others. He is also the co-founder of Deathwish Inc, an independent record label responsible for many acclaimed music releases.Bannon is a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University were he received the excellence in design accolade. He is known for his iconic artwork and design on album covers in the underground music scene.For one week he resided in the C-Scape Dune Shack (formerly known as the Cohen Shack) within the Peaked Hill Bars National Register Historical District in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This primitive environment inspired an outpouring of abstract mixed media work, photography, and music. ?Dunedevil? is a collection of that visual material.

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