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
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
Book Description
Purity and Danger
Author: Professor Mary DouglasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136489274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.
The Peaches of New York
Author: U. P. HedrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
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.
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.
History of Worcestershire Sauce (1837-2012)
Author: William ShurtleffPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914438
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Our Todays and Yesterdays
Author: Margaret Davis CatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brunswick (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Chicago Baptist Hospital ...
Author: Chicago Baptist Hospital (Chicago, Ill.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Author: Donald C. Bacon