San Antonio College Library

The story of Scotland's favorite heroine, who guided Bonnie Prince Charlie to safety after the Battle of Culloden, and who later emigrated to North Carolina and, with her husband, rallied the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.

When a big wind blows her annoying little brother away, Flora decides to save him despite the many tempting offers she gets for him from, among others, a cloud, an eagle, the man in the moon, and the wind itself.

1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Jan Massy's "Flora," completed in 1559 and housed in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg.

"In this volume, Debra N. Mancoff, an expert on Pre-Raphaelite art and the floral lexicon, presents numerous breathtaking examples, which illuminate the meaning of flowers in all aspects of Victorian culture. She offers brief commentaries on individual paintings as well as biographies of the period's leading artists and their models. An introduction to an artistic movement, this exquisitely produced book is also a romantic keepsake of an artistic...

Sex in animals has been known for at least 10,000 years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the late 17th century, long after the domestication of crop plants. Even after its discovery, the 'sexual theory' continued to be hotly debated and lampooned for another 150 years, pitting the 'sexualists' against the 'asexualists'. Why was the...