
ilość książek w kategorii: 11674
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Native American Gardening: Buffalobird-Woman's Guide to Traditional Methods
ISBN: 9780486440217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Early in the 20th century, anthropology student Gilbert Wilson made the first of several trips to an Indian reservation in North Dakota to examine agricultural techniques used among the Hidatsa Indians. This intriguing book is the result of his research. More than a survey of primitive agriculture, however, the work sensitively investigates the activities of a unique culture. With the help of Buffalobird-woman, a Hidatsa native, Wilson not only created a poignant biographical study and a classic anthropological document but also presented a Native American woman's interpretation of economics,...
Early in the 20th century, anthropology student Gilbert Wilson made the first of several trips to an Indian reservation in North Dakota to examine agr...
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50,99 |
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Tiny Game Hunting: Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden
ISBN: 9780520221079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Every year Americans use a staggering five hundred million pounds of toxic pesticides in and around their homes, schools, parks, and roads--a growing health risk for people and the environment. But are these poisons really necessary? This book, appealing to the hunter in us all, shows how to triumph in combat with pests without losing the war to toxic chemicals. Tiny Game Hunting, written in a lively and entertaining style and illustrated with detailed drawings, gives more than two hundred tried-and-true ways to control or kill common household and garden pests without using toxic...
Every year Americans use a staggering five hundred million pounds of toxic pesticides in and around their homes, schools, parks, and roads--a growing ...
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111,43 |
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Mediterranean Gardening: A Waterwise Approach
ISBN: 9780520236479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gardening in harmony with a Mediterranean climate means taking advantage of winter rain and allowing the garden to rest over hot summers. In this beautifully illustrated, practical handbook, Heidi Gildemeister provides both novice and experienced gardeners with a comprehensive guide for waterwise gardening, with over one thousand drought-tolerant Mediterranean plants chosen both for their beauty and for their easygoing ways. Well indexed with common and botanical names, "Mediterranean Gardening "will be indispensable not only for gardeners in California, the Mediterranean basin, and...
Gardening in harmony with a Mediterranean climate means taking advantage of winter rain and allowing the garden to rest over hot summers. In this beau...
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135,15 |
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Sierra Nevada Natural History
ISBN: 9780520240964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The magnificent and much-loved Sierra Nevada, called the "Range of Light" by John Muir, is the dominant feature on the California landscape. First published forty years ago, this handbook has become an enduring natural history classic, used by thousands to learn more about virtually every aspect of this spectacular mountain range--from its superb flora and fauna to its rugged topography. Comprehensive yet concise and portable, the book describes hundreds of species: trees and shrubs, flowering plants and ferns, fungi and lichens, insects and fish, amphibians and reptiles, and birds and...
The magnificent and much-loved Sierra Nevada, called the "Range of Light" by John Muir, is the dominant feature on the California landscape. First pub...
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171,40 |
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City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
ISBN: 9780520243439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, school gardens, Depression-era relief gardens, victory gardens, and community gardens--each representing a consistent impulse to return to gardening during times of social and economic change. In this critical history of community gardening in America, the most comprehensive review of the greening of urban communities to date, Laura J. Lawson documents the evolution of urban garden programs in the United States. Her vibrant narrative...
Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot...
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198,96 |
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The Case for Animal Rights
ISBN: 9780520243866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered preface, Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position.
More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its autho...
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152,39 |
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The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden
ISBN: 9780520249561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewards of growing native plants at home. Judith Larner Lowry, winner of the prestigious John Burroughs award, here builds on themes from her best-selling Gardening with a Wild Heart, which introduced restoration gardening as a new way of thinking about land and people. Drawing on her experiences in her own garden, Lowry offers guidance on how to plan a garden with birds, plants, and insects in mind; how to shape it with trees and shrubs,...
Elegantly organized by season, this lyrical yet practical guide to backyard restoration gardening celebrates the beauty, the challenges, and the rewar...
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198,96 |
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Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens
ISBN: 9780520251106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communitiesbluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlandsthe book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings,...
Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native pla...
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161,04 |
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Trees of the California Landscape: A Photographic Manual of Native and Ornamental Trees
ISBN: 9780520251243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the iconic lone cypress on the Monterey coastline to the palm trees of Beverly Hills and the magnificent coastal redwoods, trees are a defining element of California's spectacular and exceptionally diverse landscape. This abundantly illustrated, beautifully produced, easy-to-use volume is a one-stop guide to California's trees. An essential resource for gardeners, homeowners, landscape design professionals, and anyone interested in the state's abundant flora, it provides a comprehensive photographic compendium of 107 native and 311 ornamental species. Trees of the California Landscape...
From the iconic lone cypress on the Monterey coastline to the palm trees of Beverly Hills and the magnificent coastal redwoods, trees are a defining e...
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286,44 |
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The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture
ISBN: 9780521033923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the middle ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and Ferrara to Florence. The authors are a distinguished group of Italian, American, English and German scholars, with different backgrounds in art history, literature, architecture, planning, and cultural history. The explorations of the subject from these different perspectives illuminate not only their own...
Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection approaches Italian gardens of all periods, fro...
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159,32 |
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The Production of New Potato Varieties: Technological Advances
ISBN: 9780521324588 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The potato is one of the world's most important food crops. It produces more nutritious food from less land in a shorter time than any other major crop. Therefore advances in the production of new potato varieties will greatly contribute to the world's food supply. The book outlines strategies used in the breeding and testing of potato varieties. It considers prospects for varietal improvement using both traditional and new techniques, including genetic manipulation, tissue culture and protoplast fusion. Opportunities for breeding varieties suitable for propagation from true seed, of...
The potato is one of the world's most important food crops. It produces more nutritious food from less land in a shorter time than any other major cro...
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568,76 |
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Agricultural Plants
ISBN: 9780521405638 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book describes in detail the plants that feature prominently in agriculture together with the products which are obtained from them. The opening chapter on world population and food supply is followed by a general introduction to plant structure. The major part of the book considers economically important field crops and pasture plants of temperate and subtropical regions on a family-by-family basis. The book concludes with a discussion of physiological principles of crop growth and yield. This is an introductory text, suitable for the teaching of agricultural botany to undergraduate...
This book describes in detail the plants that feature prominently in agriculture together with the products which are obtained from them. The opening ...
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357,84 |
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The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity
ISBN: 9780553380897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers, herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-step guide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--from vibrantly colorful outdoor circle designs to miniature dish, windowsill, or home altar adaptations. Inside you'll find: - Planting guides for medicine wheel gardens in every zone, from desert Southwest to northern woodlands - A beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of...
The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lif...
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98,44 |
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Dirt: The Lowdown on Growing a Garden with Style
ISBN: 9780595004911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,36 |
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Creating Eden: The Garden as a Healing Space
ISBN: 9780595136629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,11 |
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The Old Rose Informant
ISBN: 9780595158027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 684 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,61 |
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplants: The Foolproof Guide to Lush, Healthy Plants
ISBN: 9780595192762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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47,05 |
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The Old Rose Index
ISBN: 9780595202270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,49 |
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How to Grow Organic Vegetables in Containers ( Anywhere!)
ISBN: 9780595217724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work, with its child appropriate uncomplicated text and motivating illustrations, was written for a child's hand. By inviting the child to complete individual tasks, to solve puzzles, to answer questions and to complete drawings, the book achieves the feel of a workbook. The little cartoon character Foily accompanies the reader throughout the book, as he offers tips and invites the child to practice independently. The contents correspond to the most basic level of fencing training. It is intended as a teaching tool for fencing instructors and trainers, to help promote understanding of...
This work, with its child appropriate uncomplicated text and motivating illustrations, was written for a child's hand. By inviting the child to comple...
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47,05 |
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Cheap and Easy Gardening
ISBN: 9780595364787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. You say you have a yard that could be improved by a liberal application of Agent Orange? You say you've got tumbleweed where there should be lawn, vines that could be hiding a third world nation, trees that block out the sun? You say your house is beautiful but the yard makes it look as though it should be condemned? You say you are mowing, trimming, weeding, and pruning when you'd rather be swimming, golfing, fishing, or eating? Is that what's bothering you, Bucky?Well, cheer up! Cheap and Easy Gardening is the answer for you. Authors Bernice Boughner and Mary Young have spent decades...
You say you have a yard that could be improved by a liberal application of Agent Orange? You say you've got tumbleweed where there should be lawn, vin...
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cena:
62,80 |