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  • Lab Girl

    A Memoir

    by Hope Jahren ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER •NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist."Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s ... Read more

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  • Arcadian Visions

    Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape

    by Allan R. Ruff ...
    This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in ... Read more

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  • The Forager's Treasury

    The essential guide to finding and using wild plants in Aotearoa

    by Johanna Knox ...
    In the urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sustainable, but the best part is the fun you will have finding it.This book is guaranteed to make you look at the plants around you in a different light. The Forager's Treasury features profiles of many edible plants commonly ... Read more

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  • 禁忌植物園:毒物、麻藥與藥草,來自黑暗深淵的危險香氣

    愈冶豔愈危險!見血封喉毒箭木、斷腸草、曼陀羅……不少毒花毒草自古以來就為人所用,並活躍在歷史舞台上。一舉介紹能滿足人類慾望,有時甚至令人墜入暗黑深淵的36種毒品、有毒植物與藥用植物。  為人類帶來鴉片、嗎啡、海洛因 【罌粟】  帶來千變萬化幻覺的仙人掌 【皮約特仙人掌】  深受藝術家們喜愛的禁忌之酒,艾碧斯 【苦艾】  吞雲吐霧令人暫忘俗事 【菸草】  犧牲了母親與妻子的全身麻醉藥實驗 【洋金花】  沉睡於正倉院謎團重重的毒草 【鉤吻】  以暗藏蓖麻毒蛋白的子彈進行暗殺 【蓖麻】  被用來處決蘇格拉底的毒物 【毒參】 ... Read more

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  • Woodland Development

    A Long-term Study of Lady Park Wood

    In 1944 Lady Park Wood (45 hectares of woodland in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, UK) was set aside indefinitely by the Forestry Commission so that ecologists could study how woodland develops naturally. Since then, in a unique long-term study, individual trees and shrubs have been recorded at intervals, accumulating a detailed record of more than 20,000 individual beech, sessile oak, ash, ... Read more

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  • Sistema Acquaponico, Piante. Volume 2

    Sistemas de acuaponía

    Series series Sistemas de acuaponía
    La collezione di libri "Aquaponics systems, plants" ha lo scopo di divulgare la scienza della produzione alimentare sinergica come l'aquaponics. Questo sistema di produzione alimentare è accessibile al grande pubblico ed elimina molti degli attuali problemi legati all'approvvigionamento alimentare. In questo secondo volume saranno menzionati tre importanti capitoli che sono il sistema vegetale in ... Read more

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  • A família Asteraceae no Brasil

    classificação e diversidade

    O livro trata de táxons da família Asteraceae, considerada uma das maiores entre as angiospermas. A elevada riqueza, as mudanças na circunscrição de gêneros, bem como na recente classificação em subfamílias e tribos, evidenciam a necessidade de uma bibliografia atualizada. Por tanto, os artigos aqui presentes constam de esforço de botânicos e vários especialistas para desmistificar o senso comum ... Read more

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  • The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

    A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to Which is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade

    by Henry Lee ...
    The Vegetable Lamb of TartaryA Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant, to Which is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton TradeThis edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSCHAPTER I.The Fable and its InterpretationCHAPTER II.The History of Cotton and its Introduction into EuropeAppendixIndex ... Read more

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  • Peony

    by Gail Harland ...
    Series Book 38 - Botanical
    People have always loved flowers, and peonies are among the most highly regarded, with petals of the finest silk and often a distinctive perfume. Their large, flamboyantly coloured blooms are attractive and photogenic, ideal for celebrations. Beyond the flowers, the colourful new shoots, described by landscape gardener Gertrude Jekyll as ‘dear rosy snouts’, add value and interest to any garden. ... Read more

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  • Cactus Growing for Beginners

    by Vera Higgins ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Seaweed Biotechnology

    Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Seaweeds and Their Applications

    Series series Innovations in Biotechnology
    Seaweeds are known for their rich bioactive compounds, which promote health in human beings and are good for the ecosystem as well. They are also natural resources that are a major source of raw material for different industries. There are still undiscovered and unexploited compounds synthesized by seaweeds that may have potential applications in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, and ... Read more

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  • Carnivorous Plants

    Carnivorous plants are those plants that depend on insects and small animals for their nitrogen supply and proteins (inorganic nutrition). They derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and digesting small animals and insects by means of specially modified plant organs or trapping mechanisms. Today, there are over 600 known species of carnivorous plants in the world and most of them are ... Read more

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  • Les arbres qui cachent la forêt

    Laisser s'exprimer la forêt de demain

    Ainsi, dans la solitude et le silence, la forêt appelle sans cesse à la réflexion. Elle est à ce moment-là l’auberge de nos pensées, le terreau fertile d’où germent nos idées. C’est seulement dans ses bras calmes que les choses nous apparaissent claires et que certaines vérités éclatent. Tous les modèles, toutes les réponses sont dans la nature. À nous de les déchiffrer et de les mettre en ... Read more

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  • Green Frontiers

    The Botanists Who Walked the World into the Future

    by Selma Aarvik ...
    Across the globe, our lives are stitched together by leaves, seeds and roots we rarely notice. Behind every familiar spice jar, pill bottle and conservation law stand people who walked, pressed, labelled and defended plants long before they appeared on our shelves. This book steps into their world and asks what it really means to explore nature in an age of extinction and climate stress.Through ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Vegetarianism

    Essays and Dialogues

    by Salt ...
    The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues is a thought-provoking collection of essays and dialogues by Henry S. Salt, first published in 1899. This seminal work explores the ethical, philosophical, and practical arguments for adopting a vegetarian lifestyle. Through a series of engaging essays and Socratic-style dialogues, Salt examines the moral considerations surrounding the consumption ... Read more

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  • Medicinal Plants of Montana

    A Materia Medica

    32 Medicinal Plants of Montana: A Materia Medica contains pertinent information on the practical use of plants that grow in Montana and how to use them. Each plant listed gives the Latin name, common names the plant goes by, actions and constituents of the plant, medicinal uses, contraindications, folklore, history, and up-to-date peer-reviewed scientific studies, along with photos for ... Read more

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  • Marine Plants of the Texas Coast

    by Roy L. Lehman ...
    Series series Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    Written for biology students, teachers, nature lovers, amateur naturalists, conservation workers, and parks and wildlife personnel, this up-to-date, easy-to-use guide describes the marine plants of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The author’s photographs accompany the updated identification keys, which are also visually oriented and simple to use.Veteran botanist and educator Roy L. Lehman describes the ... Read more

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  • Rowan

    Series Book 30 - Botanical
    Whether crag-bound on a lonely moor or busy with birdlife on a city street, the rowan is a tree that captivates the senses and stimulates the imagination. Its delicate, feathery leaves, creamy spring blossom and scarlet clusters of autumn fruit have delighted artists, poets and plant enthusiasts through the ages.Rooted in ecology, Rowan is the first in-depth social history of this much-loved plant ... Read more

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  • Koivu

    Koivu on olennainen osa suomalaisuutta. Se on ollut ikiaikainen lämmön lähde ja erilaisten kotitalousesineiden materiaali, mutta myös ehtymätön innoituksen lähde taidemaalareille, säveltäjille, kirjailijoille ja valokuvaajille. Suomen kansallispuuksi valittu rauduskoivu symboloi meille kotia ja isänmaata.Seija A. Niemi on kirjoittanut kattavan tietoteoksen koivusta, kartoittaen kaikki ne aspektit, ... Read more

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  • Native Plants of British Columbia’s Coastal Dry Belt

    A Photographic Guide

    An innovative guide to the native plants of the coastal dry belt, or “rain shadow” of the Pacific Northwest, including southeast Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and some parts of the mainland coast, such as Port Angeles and Bellingham, WA.This guide takes readers on a botanical journey through the unique ecosystems of British Columbia and northern Washington’s Coastal Dry Belt. Organized by ... Read more

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  • The Curious World of Seaweed

    by Josie Iselin ...
    "A remarkable mixture of photos and writing. … An important work well done." —Fabien CousteauMarine algae are the supreme eco-engineers of life: they oxygenate the waters, create habitat for countless other organisms, and form the base of a food chain that keeps our planet unique in the universe as we know it. In this beautiful volume Josie Iselin explores both the artistic and the biological ... Read more

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  • Aquaponics System, Plants. Volume 2

    Sistemas de acuaponía

    Series series Sistemas de acuaponía
    The book collection "Aquaponics systems, plants" is intended to disseminate the sciences of synergistic food production such as aquaponics. This system of food production is accessible to the general public and eliminates many of the current problems related to food supply. In this second volume three important chapters will be mentioned which are the plant system in aquaponics, the control of the ... Read more

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  • American Ginseng & Companions

    by Madison Woods ...
    A photographic celebration of American ginseng, one of the most elusive plants in the forest. This book also features the ginseng companion plants, so-called because they inhabit the same spaces and are often used to gauge habitat suitability for growing, finding, or restoring American ginseng habitats.70+ photos of American ginseng and ginseng companions plants.A virtual herb walk that tracks ... Read more

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  • Òran Uisge - Wildflower Meadow

    by Sue Wood ...
    Òran Uisge – Wildflower Meadow is a collection of mindful nature poems, inspired by time spent on the meadow through the seasons. Each poem is enhanced with a colourful image of a painting or photograph.The poems are written in an evocative way to allow the reader to experience the effects nature has on our senses and mood. The warm breeze touching our skin, the scents from orchids ascending ... Read more

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