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A Flora of Southern CaliforniaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Plant Nutrition and Crop ProductionThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes 2eDie sorgfältig aktualisierte und erweiterte 2. Auflage des erstmals 1979 erschienenen, sehr erfolgreichen Bandes zur Ökologie der Pflanzen! Ein neuer Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Eigenschaften von Ökosystemen. Ausführlich diskutiert werden jetzt auch Themen wie das Seltenwerden oder das Verschwinden einzelner Arten ebenso wie die...
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Proteins - Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2eAuthor: Gary WalshPublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPublished: 04/29/2014Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9780470669853About the AuthorGary Walsh, University of Limerick, Ireland.This title is not returnable
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Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last ManuscriptThe final harvest of our great nature writer's last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau's distinctly American gospel--a sacramental vision of nature in which the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page (Time). In transcribing the...
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Tyler's Herbs of Choice: The Therapeutic Use of Phytomedicinals, Third EditionDoes Echinacea fight the common cold? Does St. John's Wort (SJW) really counteract depression? What about chondroitin for joint health? Today's healthcare professionals are increasingly confronted with questions from patients who want to use herbal supplements to treat various conditions. A critical and scientific...
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Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the Luesther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical GardenAn exquisitely illustrated volume in celebration of the world's foremost library of botanical works The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More...
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Opium: Reality's Dark DreamIs opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights. Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for...
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New England Wild Flower Society's Flora Novae Angliae: A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Higher Vascular Plants of New EnglandAn indispensable, fully updated guide for everyone interested in identifying, studying, or conserving the flora of New England This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on...
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Lichens of North AmericaLichens are a unique form of plant life, the product of a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus. The beauty and importance of lichens have long been overlooked, despite their abundance and diversity in most parts of North America and elsewhere in...
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Plant PhysicsFrom Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of...
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The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine NarrativeIn the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect these medicinal treasures before...
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Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a BotanistIn this book, Peter Bernhardt takes us on a grand tour of the botanical realm, weaving engaging descriptions of the lovely shapes and intriguing habits of flowering plants with considerations of broader questions, such as why there are only six basic shapes of flowers...
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Blossoms: And the Genes That Make ThemHow do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it's their time to bloom? What signals them to begin the challenging task of making flowers, and how do they make the variety of flower shapes, colors, and scents? What kind of instructions does...
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Plant Behaviour and IntelligenceThis book provides a convincing argument for the view that whole cells and whole plants growing in competitive wild conditions show aspects of plant behaviour that can be accurately described as 'intelligent'. Trewavas argues that behaviour, like intelligence, must be assessed within the constraints...
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Reception StudiesThe texts, images and events of the ancient world have been used both as sources of authority and exploitation in politics, culture and society and as icons of resistance and contest. How classical culture is transplanted into new contexts, how texts are translated and...
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From Brouwer to Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920sFrom Brouwer To Hilbert: The Debate on the Foundations of Mathematics in the 1920s offers the first comprehensive introduction to the most exciting period in the foundation of mathematics in the twentieth century. The 1920s witnessed the seminal foundational work of Hilbert and Bernays...
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Plant Microtechnique and MicroscopyThis text provides in-depth coverage of the field of microtechnique. The traditional paraffin method is covered in explicit step-by-step protocols, with theoretical background included to give students the tools required to design their own experiments and interpret existing results. In addition, the theory and...
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Fundamentals of Weed ScienceFundamentals of Weed Science, Fifth Edition, provides the latest information on this constantly advancing area of study. Placing weed management in the largest context of weed research and science, the book presents the latest advances in the role, control and potential uses of weed...
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Soil Respiration and the EnvironmentThe global environment is constantly changing and our planet is getting warmer at an unprecedented rate. The study of the carbon cycle, and soil respiration, is a very active area of research internationally because of its relationship to climate change. It is crucial for...
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