Flora of North America: Volume 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms

Flora of North America: Volume 2: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms

Author: Flora of North America Editorial Committee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0195082427

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This second volume of the magnificent compendium exhaustively describes and classifys the ferns, fern allies, and gymnosperms of North America. Covering over two dozen fern and half a dozen gymnosperm families, they survey fern species of both ecological and horticultural importance and review such gymnosperm taxa as the conifers (the dominant trees in many forests as well as important timber plants) and cycads, which display significant evolutionary features. In all, the volume assembles 509 species of ferns and fern allies and infraspecific taxa in 70 genera.


Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico

Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico

Author: Carl H. Ernst

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0801898765

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The first volume contains species accounts of the venomous lizards and elapid and viperid snakes found north of Mexico's twenty-fifth parallel. Volume two covers the twenty-one species of rattlesnakes found in the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico.


Mexico: Volume 2, The Colonial Era

Mexico: Volume 2, The Colonial Era

Author: Alan Knight

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-10-07

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780521891967

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This 2002 book, the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, covers the period 1521 to 1821.


The Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution

Author: Alan Knight

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9780803277700

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This comprehensive two-volume history of the Mexican Revolution presents a new interpretation of one of the world's most important revolutions. While it reflects the many facets of this complex and far-reaching historical subject it emphasises its fundamentally local, popular and agrarian character and locates it within a more general comparative context.-- Publisher.


Custom and its Interpretation in International Investment Law: Volume 2

Custom and its Interpretation in International Investment Law: Volume 2

Author: Panos Merkouris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1009255452

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At first glance, one may think of international investment law as a response to custom (or lack thereof), instead of a field of its application. However, in fact, the opposite is the case. The interpretation and application of customary rules and principles are the bread and butter of international investment law and arbitration. With a diverse range of expert contributors, this collection traces how customary international law is practised in international investment law. It considers how custom should be interpreted and how its rules and principles should be understood and applied by investor-state arbitral tribunals. Raising and addressing vital questions surrounding custom and international law, this collection is a necessary contribution to the scholarship of the theory and history of customary international law and international investment law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.


The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History

Author: D. W. Meinig

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780300082906

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Volume one examines how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups ultimately created a set of distinct regional societies. Volume two emphasizes the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictablilty of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex and problematic issues.