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The University of Iowa boasts an outstanding ensemble of buildings whose stylistic diversity reflects the breadth of Iowa's contributions to research, education, and creative activities. This guide to the university's architecture reveals the artistic integrity, intellectual inspiration, and cutting-edge function of the campus buildings.

This much needed addition to Iowa's popular series of laminated guides - the twenty-eighth in the series - describes twenty-nine fish species, including some of the most sought after game fish like bluegill and largemouth bass, as well as less common species like logperch and the snakelike American eel.

A guide to 65 species of butterflies common to the American Midwest. Using digital photographs instead of drawings, the guide shows sexual differences between males and females, seasonal forms, and both the upper- and undersides of wings when these are critical for proper identification.

Introduces woodland wildflowers to a new generation of outdoor enthusiasts in the Upper Midwest. This book offers information on the many ways in which Native Americans and early pioneers used these plants for everything from pain relief to insecticides to tonics. It is suitable for professionals interested to learn about the wonders of woodlands.

Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State's inhabitants. This work includes information about the state's name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of vanished counties and towns.

Part of the Iowa's series of laminated guides, this title aids to identifying the many challenging raptors of the Great Plains, from northern Minnesota to northern Texas. It creates fourteen panels, showing twenty-six species perched and in flight with plumage variations - dark phases, light phases, and juvenile and adult male and female forms.

Wetlands in Your Pocket celebrates the plants and animals that call the wetlands of the Midwest home. This laminated pocket guide illustrates a hundred of the most common plants and animals to be found in wetlands six inches to six feet deep.

A guide to America's last remaining prairies, the book includes information about size, management, phone numbers and outstanding characteristics for each together with recommended readings, web sites and maps.

The chipped stone projectile points that Native Americans fastened to the ends of their spears, darts and arrow shafts are the most common relics of the 12,000-year occupancy of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. This guide offers a detailed key to identifying the various styles of points.

Back in print at last in a third edition, the classic Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa now has a wealth of full-colour photographs and updated, reorganized information that will please both new and returning readers. A complete guide to Iowa's trees, both native and introduced, this will be immensely useful to arborists, foresters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and gardeners.

Originally published in 1989, this title introduces many naturalists to the beauty and diversity of the native plants of the huge grasslands that once stretched from Manitoba to Texas. It can inspire both amateurs and professionals with the desire to learn more about the wonders of the prairie landscape.

Along with color photographs of all thirty-two species, this work, part of ""Iowa's"" series of laminated guides, includes common and scientific names, habitat (prairie, woodland, wetland) and distribution, height, approximate time of blooming, status, and potential for hybridization.