Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Niger Flora, Or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa Collected by the Late Dr. Theodore Vogel, Botanist to the Voyage of the Expedition Sent by Her Britannic Majesty to the River Niger in 1841, Under the Command of Capt. H. D. Trotter, R.N., &c
Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Niger Flora; Or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa Collected by the Late Dr. Theodore Vogel, Botanist to the Voyage of the Expedition Sent by Her Britannic Majesty to the River Niger in 1841, Under the Command of Capt. H.D. Trotter, R.N., &c. Including the Spicilegia Gorgonea by O.B. Webb, Esq.; and Flora Nigritiana by Dr. J.D. Hooker, R.A., F.R.S., and George Bentham, Esq. With a Sketch of the Life of Dr. Vogel
Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Niger Flora
Author: HookerNiger Flora
Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
Assembling the Tropics
Author: Hugh CaglePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Author: Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Author: Sir William Jackson HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Author: William Jackson HookerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Lives of Weeds
Author: John CardinaPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501759000
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about, why they are both inevitable and essential, and how their ecological success is ensured by determined efforts to eradicate them. Linking botany, history, ecology, and evolutionary biology to the social dimensions of humanity's ancient struggle with feral flora, Cardina shows how weeds have shaped—and are shaped by—the way we live in the natural world. Weeds and attempts to control them drove nomads toward settled communities, encouraged social stratification, caused environmental disruptions, and have motivated the development of GMO crops. They have snared us in social inequality and economic instability, infested social norms of suburbia, caused rage in the American heartland, and played a part in perpetuating pesticide use worldwide. Lives of Weeds reveals how the technologies directed against weeds underlie ethical questions about agriculture and the environment, and leaves readers with a deeper understanding of how the weeds around us are entangled in our daily choices.
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