Author: Louis Hermann PammelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weeds
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Weeds of the Farm and Garden
Author: Louis Hermann PammelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weeds
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Diego County
Author: Jon Paul RebmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780918969057
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Peaches of New York
Author: U. P. HedrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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History of Central Soya Co., Inc. and of the McMillen Family's Work with Soybeans and Soy Ingredients (1934-2020)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko AoyagiPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436248
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 91 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
The Glaciers of Iceland
Author: Helgi BjörnssonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9462392072
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajökull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful photographs and graphs of recent statistics and scientific data, but is also a collection of historical writings and drawings from annals, sagas, folk tales, diaries, reports, stories and poems, as it presents a unique approach to the study of glaciers on an island in the North Atlantic. Balancing and comparing the world of man with the world of nature, the perceptions of art and culture with the systematic and pragmatic analyses of science, The Glaciers of Iceland present a wide spectrum of readers with a new and stimulating view of the origins, development and possible future of these massive natural phenomena, as well as the study and role of glaciology, within specific time lines and geographical locations. Icelandic glaciers the author argues could prove essential for understanding the current unsettling progress of global warming. The glaciers of Iceland, therefore, aims at presenting to a wide readership an original, historical, cultural and scientific overview of these geophysical features in Iceland while also suggesting increasingly important lessons and models for man's future interaction with the world's glaciers as a whole.
Human Accomplishment
Author: Charles MurrayPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061745677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.
The Triumph of the Fungi
Author: Nicholas P. MoneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019518971X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Everyone is aware of the nineteenth-century Irish potato famine, but fungal diseases of many other crops have had similarly apocalyptic consequences. Today, coffee, cacao, and rubber are threatened by fungi throughout the tropics. Indeed, fungi have carved their way through the ages, attacking every plant that we cultivate, constantly exploiting new hosts. In The Triumph of the Fungi, Nicholas Money offers an intimate picture of these pernicious microbes, the scientists who have sought to control them, and the people directly impacted by the loss of forest trees and cash crops. Even with the development of fungicides and other scientific breakthroughs, fungi continue to be unstoppable - this is the story of their triumph."--BOOK JACKET.
Refugium Botanicum; Or, Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens of Little Known Or New Plants of Botanical Interest
Author: Heinrich Gustav ReichenbachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Our Todays and Yesterdays
Author: Margaret Davis CatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brunswick (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
BASIN-PLATEAU ABORIGINAL SOCIOPOLITICAL GROUPS
Author: JULIAN H. STEWARDPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033169025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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