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  • A light-hearted look at the desert.

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    • [Tucson] University of Arizona Press [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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    Text JXF 71-5Offsite
  • Desert plants and people.

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    • San Antonio, Naylor Co. [1971, c1966]
    • 1971-1966
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 98-3470Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Radioecology and ecophysiology of desert plants at the Nevada test site, by A. Wallace and E. M. Romney, in collaboration with T. L. Ackerman [and others.

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    • Washington, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Information Services; available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va.] 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 75-38Offsite
  • Landscaping the Saudi Arabian desert / Kathleen Kelly, R. T. Schnadelbach.

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    • Philadelphia : Delancey Press, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MSK 77-1307Offsite
  • Desert vegetation of Israel and Sinai / Avinoam Danin.

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    • Jerusalem : Cana Pub. House, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 83-773Offsite
  • Water in desert ecosystems / edited by Daniel D. Evans, John L. Thames.

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    • Stroudsburg, Pa. : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross ; [New York] : distributed world wide by Academic Press, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 84-849Offsite
  • Trees and shrubs of the southwestern deserts / Lyman Benson and Robert A. Darrow ; line drawings by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.

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    • Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 2 Items
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    Text JSD 97-194Offsite
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    Text JFG 85-18Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Deserts / by James A. MacMahon.

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    • New York : Knopf, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFD 85-5062Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JSD 97-146Offsite
  • Gathering the desert / Gary Paul Nabhan ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha.

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    • Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 86-2806Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The tumbleweed gourmet : cooking with wild southwestern plants / Carolyn J. Niethammer ; illustrations by Jenean Thomson.

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    • Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 94-7602Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • California desert trails / by J. Smeaton Chase ; introduction to this edition by Richard Dillon ; environmental perspective and updated plant list by Robert L. Moon.

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    • Palo Alto, Calif. : Tioga Pub. Co. : Distributed by W. Kaufmann, c1987.
    • 1987-1919
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXG 89-1662Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Life strategies of succulents in deserts : with special reference to the Namib desert / Dieter J. von Willert ... [et al.].

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    • Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 92-10264Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Life in deserts [by] J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson and M. J. Chadwick.

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    • London, G. T. Foulis [1964]
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 574.909-C (Cloudsley-Thompson, J. Life in deserts)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Desert and mountain plants of the Southwest / by Dorothy VanDyke Leake, John Benjamin Leake, Marcelotte Leake Roeder ; illustrated by Dorothy VanDyke Leake.

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    • Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 95-2599 ---Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • On the trail of the desert wildflower / Hugh Crumpler.

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    • New York : HarperCollinsWest, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 96-118Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Publications.

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    • Le Caire [etc.]
    • 1952-present
    • 4 Items
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    Text PSA (Institut du Désert d'Égypte, Cairo. Publications) v. 6-8, 1955-56Offsite
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    Text PSA (Institut du Désert d'Égypte, Cairo. Publications) v. 9-12, 1956-59Offsite
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    Text PSA (Institut du Désert d'Égypte, Cairo. Publications) v. 13, 1960Offsite
  • Seed germination in desert plants / Yitzchak Gutterman.

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    • Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 96-579Offsite
  • Growing desert plants : from windowsill to garden / Theodore B. Hodoba ; [text drawings by Mimi Kamp ; photography by Charles Mann and Theordore B. Hodoba].

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    • Santa Fe, N.M. : Red Crane Books, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 96-4394Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • California desert trails, by J. Smeaton Chase, with illustrations from photographs by the author, and an appendix of plants, also hints on desert travelling.

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    • Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1919.
    • 1919
    • 1 Item

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    Text IXG (Chase, J. S. California desert trails)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Our Araby: Palm Springs and the the Garden of the sun, by J. Smeaton Chase. Illustrated from photographs by the author: with a descriptive list of desert plants, etc., and Hints to desert motorists: also a new map of the region by the U. S. Geological survey.

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    • Pasadena, Calif., Printed for J. S. Chase by Star-news publishing company, 1920.
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXH (Palm Springs) (Chase, J. S. Our Araby. 1920)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Our Araby : Palm Springs and the garden of the sun / by J. Smeaton Chase.

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    • Palm Springs, Calif. : J.S. Chase, 1923, c1924
    • 1923-1924
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXH (Palm Springs) (Chase, J. S. Our Araby. 1923)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Desert fables, by Stella Sherwood Vosburg; illustrated with pen sketches by the author.

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    • Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The John C. Winston Company [c1934]
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
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    Text NBI (Vosburg, S. S. Desert fables)Offsite
  • Desert plants and people.

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    • San Antonio, Naylor Co. [1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
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    Text AD-10 1382Offsite
  • Desert wild flowers, by Edmund C. Jaeger.

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    • Stanford University, Calif., Stanford University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press [c1940]
    • 1940
    • 1 Item
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    Text QFT (Jaeger, E. C. Desert wild flowers)Offsite
  • Distribution and movements of desert plants, by Volney M. Spalding.

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    • Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1909.
    • 1909
    • 1 Item

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    Text QFT (Spalding, V. M. Distribution and movements of desert plants)Offsite
  • The topography of the chlorophyll apparatus in desert plants / by William Austin Cannon ; and, The induction, development, and heritability of fasciations, by Alice Adelaide Knox.

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    • Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908.
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
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    Text QEL (Cannon, W. A. Topography of the chlorophyll apparatus in desert plants)Offsite
  • Flora economica della Libia.

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    • Roma, Tipografia dell'Unione editrice, 1915.
    • 1915
    • 1 Item
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    Text QEN (Trotter, A. Flora economica della Libia)Offsite
  • La vie dans les déserts / édition française par Théodore Monod ... avec le concours de W. Besnard et E. Korzeniowska.

    • Text
    • Paris : Payot, 1942.
    • 1942
    • 1 Item
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    Text PQF (Kashkarov, D. N. Vie dans les déserts)Offsite
  • Desert parade, a guide to southwestern desert plants and wildlife; photos. by Marvin H. Frost.

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    • New York, Viking Press, 1947.
    • 1947
    • 1 Item
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    Text PQW (Carr, W. H. Desert parade)Offsite
  • The desert year. Decorations by Rudolf Freund.

    • Text
    • New York, Sloane [1952]
    • 1952
    • 1 Item
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    Text PQW (Krutch, J. W. Desert year)Offsite
  • The voice of the desert, a naturalist's interpretation.

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    • New York, W. Sloane Associates [1955]
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
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    Text PQW (Krutch, J. W. Voice of the desert)Offsite
  • The sage of the desert, and other cacti; studies of that fantastic clan, the cactus of the desert, and other interesting and peculiar desert growths, by Frances Bonker and Dean John James Thornber, introduction by Harold Bell Wright.

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    • Boston, Mass., The Stratford company [c1930]
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
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    Text QEP (Bonker, F. Sage of the desert)Offsite
  • Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West : a guide to identifying, preparing, and using traditional medicinal plants found in the deserts and canyons of the West and Southwest / by Michael Moore ; illustrations by Mimi Kamp and Nora Ryerson.

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    • Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of New Mexico Press, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text HBC 99-6286Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The trees and shrubs of the southwestern deserts [by] Lyman Benson and Robert A. Darrow. Line drawings by Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton.

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    • Tucson, University of Arizona Press; Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1954.
    • 1954-1945
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-QFT (Benson, L. D. Trees and shrubs of the southwestern deserts)Offsite
  • Plantas uteis do deserto / Henrique Semler.

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    • Rio de Janeiro : Serviço de Estatistica, 1913.
    • 1913
  • The water economy of dry-land crops.

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    • Washington, Gov. Prtg. Off., 1912.
    • 1912-1911
  • The vegetation of a desert mountain range as conditioned by climatic factors, by Forrest Shreve.

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    • Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915.
    • 1915
    • 1 Item

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    Text PRN (Shreve, F. Vegetation of a desert mountain range)Offsite
  • Les déserts dans le monde : la formation des zones désertiques, La vie dans les déserts, physionomie actuelle des déserts, Les hommes dans le désert, L'exploitation rationnelle des déserts / Hilaire Cuny.

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    • Paris : Payot, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
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    Text PSG (Cuny, H. Deserts dans le monde)Offsite
  • Botanical features of North American deserts, by Daniel Trembly MacDougal.

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    • Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908.
    • 1908
    • 2 Items
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    Text *EA C291P no. 99Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Text PSG (MacDougal, D. T. Botanical features of North American deserts)Offsite
  • Encyclopedia of deserts / edited by Michael A. Mares.

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    • Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-RMRR GB611 .E65 1999Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference
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  • Deserts / by James A. MacMahon.

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    • New York : Knopf, [1985]
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 99-1096Offsite
  • Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran Desert [by] Forrest Shreve and Ira L. Wiggins.

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    • Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1964.
    • 1964
    • 2 Items
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    Text JSF 99-502 v. 1Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 99-502 v. 2Offsite
  • Root systems of certain desert plants ...

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    • [Chicago, 1917]
    • 1917-1917
  • A guide to the desert plant collection in the Huntington Botanical Gardens, by William Hertrich, Curator.

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    • San Marino, Calif. [c1937]
    • 1937
  • Desert wildflowers of North America / Ronald J. Taylor.

    • Text
    • Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 00-437Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Walt Disney's Living desert. Text by Marcel Aymé [and others] Translated by Victor Fitzmaurice.

    • Text
    • New York, Simon and Schuster [1956?]
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFLK+ (Disney, Walt, Productions, ltd. Walt Disney's Living desert)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Flowers of the Southwest deserts / by Natt N. Dodge ; drawings by Jeanne R. Janish.

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    • Santa Fe, N.M. : Southwestern Monuments Association, c1951.
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
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    Text IW (Southwestern monuments association. Popular series. no. 4)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Nutritive quality and mineral content of potential desert tortoise food plants [microform] / E. Durant McArthur, Stewart C. Sanderson, Bruce L. Webb.

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    • Ogden, UT (324 25th St., Ogden 84401) : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, [1994]
    • 1994
  • al-Badw wa-al-bādiyah : ṣuwar min ḥayāt al-badw fī bādiyat al-Shām / taʼlīf Jibrāʼīl Sulaymān Jabbūr ; ashrafa ʻalá taḥrīrihi Suhayl Jibrāʼīl Jabbūr.

    • Text
    • Bayrūt, Lubnān : Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OFP 91-8869Offsite
  • The daily march of transpiration in a desert perennial, by Edith Bellamy Shreve.

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    • Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914.
    • 1914
    • 1 Item
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    Text QEI p.v. 62, no. 2 *EA.C291p, no. 194Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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