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Biodiesel from Flowering PlantsThis book offers an exhaustive coverage of process modifications in biodiesel production from oil drawn from 84 oleaginous plant species occurring in all parts of the world, thereby enlisting the scope and potential of many new and non-conventionally obscure plant sources. Biodiesel, now prepared...
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Horticultural Therapy Methods: Connecting People and Plants in Health Care, Human Services, and Therapeutic ProgramsHorticultural therapy has evolved from its use only by volunteer gardeners to become a recognized and respected therapeutic modality conducted by trained, registered professionals. Horticultural Therapy Methods is the first textbook to describe the processes and techniques used to provide horticultural therapy interventions and...
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Forest Mensuration 5e CAuthor: KershawPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPublished: 12/16/2016Pages: 632Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.30dISBN: 9781118902035About the AuthorJohn A. Kershaw, Jr. Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada. Mark J. Ducey, Department of Natural Resources and the...
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Photo Intro to: Asian Bulbophyllum, Coelogyne & Dendrobium Orchids (with Floristic Observations of Subtribe Coelogyninae)This is the first book to cover these 3 popular orchid genera together accompanied by investigative floristic observations of the subtribe Coelogyninae. More than 300 species are covered in depth with hundreds of qulaity colour photos and technical drawings with numerous species photos never...
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The Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of EuropeThis entirely new English edition, comprehensively revised and edited by T.L. Blockeel, has been translated from German, with some additional text, by the authors. In a single volume, this work provides users with the means of making at least a preliminary identification of any...
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Diatoms of the Channel IslandsThis atlas contains all 366 diatom species to have been recorded in the Channel Islands. Each diatom is illustrated and has information concerning where and when it was found and by whom. Basic ecological and taxonomic information is given along with with any comments...
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History of Coca: The Divine Plant of the IncasAuthor: W. Golden MortimerPublisher: University Press of the PacificPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 612Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.42dISBN: 9780898750980This title is not returnable
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Weeds in South Texas and Northern Mexico: A Guide to IdentificationOne person's weed is another's wildflower, but in this book weeds of southern Texas and northern Mexico are defined as plants that are considered a nuisance to farmers or noxious to livestock in the region.The book covers 189 broad-leaved herbaceous species, grasslike plants, and...
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The Seven Sisters of Sleep: The Celebrated Drug ClassicThis groundbreaking survey, written in 1860, is a radically open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages. Early users of tobacco in Russia would have their noses cut off and repeat offenders their heads. Pope Innocent XII excommunicated...
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Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology...the book offers a platform to raise thought-provoking questions and encourages in-depth analyses to bridge the gulf between ethnobotany and medical anthropology...Highly recommended. Choice The tantalising and rather eclectic selection of edited chapters takes the reader around the world following plants making their way...
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Plant Communities of New Jersey: A Study in Landscape DiversityFrom the ridgetops of the north to the Pinelands of the south, New Jersey's natural areas display an astonishing variety of plant life. This book--a completely revised edition of the classic Vegetation of New Jersey--enables readers to understand why the vegetation of New Jersey...
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Guide to the Vascular Plants of FloridaThe definitive guide to more than 4,000 plants found in the Sunshine State"Wunderlin brings us light-years toward an understanding of what we have and what we had in the state. He also shows us what we stand to lose to exotic species invasion, urbanization,...
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Native Flora of LouisianaPraised as one of the most accomplished botanical artists of the twentieth century, Margaret Stones served as the principal illustrator for Curtis's Botanical Magazine of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for twenty-five years. A recipient of the Silver and Gold Royal Horticultural Society Veitch...
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The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco HernándezThis volume consists of a selection of English translations from the extensive writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87). Celebrated in his own day as one of Spain's leading physicians and naturalists, he is now best remembered for his monumental work on the native plants...
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis & ClarkThis landmark volume contains the most complete listing and presentation of the plant specimens collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. All but one of the plants were collected by Meriwether Lewis, the expedition's botanist. The collection, how-ever, was nearly lost over the years...
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Native and Cultivated Conifers of Northeastern North America: A GuideThis useful manual provides a means for easy identification of the native and cultivated conifers of northeastern North America. The territory covered is roughly eastern Canada and the northeastern fourth of the United States, from Maine south to the southern border of Pennsylvania, west...
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Bryophyte BiologyThis fully updated and expanded new edition offers a complete overview of hornworts, liverworts, and mosses--diverse groups of land plants that occupy many habitats throughout the world. Revised classifications incorporate contributions from the most recent phylogenetic studies. Six new chapters have also been added,...
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Seaweed Ecology and PhysiologyIn coastal seas, from the tropics to the poles, seaweeds supply the energy required to support diverse coastal marine life and provide habitat for invertebrates and fish. Retaining the highly successful approach and structure of the first edition, this is a synthesis of the...
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Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region: Mendocino to MontereyThis is the definitive botanic guide to the wetlands, woodlands, coastlines, hills, and valleys of the beautiful and diverse San Francisco Bay Region. For this extensively revised and redesigned third edition of Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region, the identification keys have been...
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California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological InvasionsEarly Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich...
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