The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico: Assorted Texts
ISBN: 9780761835820 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents significant new readings in ethnomycology, a discipline that examines the role of fungi in human affairs. The greatest cultural and historical impact of mushrooms has resulted from psychoactive compounds found in certain species, and native interpretations of their mental effects in humans, as revealed through intensive multidisciplinary studies coordinated by the late R. Gordon Wasson, the father of ethnomycology. Wasson's research in the 1950s led to the elucidation of mushroom cultism in Mexico, a phenomenon dismissed as unfounded rumor by "experts" only a few decades...
This work presents significant new readings in ethnomycology, a discipline that examines the role of fungi in human affairs. The greatest cultural and...
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325,00 zł |
The Rainbow Beneath My Feet: A Mushroom Dyer's Field Guide
ISBN: 9780815606802 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique and useful reference guide to some of the more common and best color-producing dye mushrooms of North America. The book includes step-by-step instructions to the process from collecting the mushrooms to dyeing the wool. There is an accurate and up-to-date description for each species along with over 200 color photographs. The scope of this work goes beyond the identification of species. The authors provide information about dyeing equipment, mordants, preparing and dyeing the wool, and the dazzling array of colors that can be obtained from mushroom.
A unique and useful reference guide to some of the more common and best color-producing dye mushrooms of North America. The book includes step-by-step...
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109,24 zł |
Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States
ISBN: 9780815631125 / Angielski / Twarda / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comprehensive field guide to the mushrooms of the southeastern United States. Although it will stand on its own, it is intended to complement and serve as a companion to "Mushrooms of Northeastern North America", also published by Syracuse University Press. Together these volumes form a foundation and reference for identifying mushrooms found in eastern North America from Canada to the subtropics of Florida and Texas. Featuring more than 450 species, this volume includes detailed descriptions and rich color photographs. The photographs were selected for high-quality color...
This book is a comprehensive field guide to the mushrooms of the southeastern United States. Although it will stand on its own, it is intended to comp...
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422,22 zł |
Mushrooms Demystified
ISBN: 9780898151695 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner's checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushrooms, plus detailed chapters on terminology, classification, habitats, mushroom cookery, mushroom toxins, and the meanings of scientific mushroom names. Beginning and experienced mushroom hunters everywhere will find MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED a delightful, informative, and indispensible...
Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 spe...
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183,90 zł |
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
ISBN: 9780898158397 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their long-standing (and often religious) use by ancient peoples and their continued significance to modern-day culture. Some of the species included have just been discovered in the past year or two, and still others have never before been photographed in their natural habitats.
From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world's psilocybin-containin...
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137,14 zł |
Magic Mushrooms
ISBN: 9780914171195 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the dramatic effects people experience when consuming psychoactive mushrooms. There are over 100 "entheogenic" fungi known to stimulate ecstatic states in curious seekers. Stafford recounts the known history of magic mushrooms, also called "sacred" mushrooms, and describes the interesting aspects of this extraordinary class of mind-changers. He tells how they are psychically relaxing and focusing, anc act as a catalyst to creative breakthroughs.
Describes the dramatic effects people experience when consuming psychoactive mushrooms. There are over 100 "entheogenic" fungi known to stimulate ecst...
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69,84 zł |
Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Culture
ISBN: 9781570671432 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medicinal Mushrooms is a modern handbook for exploring and understanding the rich traditions of healing fungi in Eastern and Western cultures. Author Christopher Hobbs thoroughly documents and details the nutritional and health benefits of over 100 species of edible fungi. Here is the most complete work on the cultural, health-promoting, and medicinal uses of mushrooms ever published!
Medicinal Mushrooms is a modern handbook for exploring and understanding the rich traditions of healing fungi in Eastern and Western cultures. Author ...
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87,35 zł |
Growing Wild Mushrooms: A Complete Guide to Cultivating Edible and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
ISBN: 9781579510664 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete beginner's guide to growing mushrooms. Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs--16 in full color, introduce the novice to the full range of growing methods, from sterile culture procedures--the basis of all tissue culture cloning techniques--to indoor bottle gardens to indoor/outdoor compost gardens. Includes a section on producing small quantities of precisely-mixed compost indoors and a taxonomy of selected psilocybin-containing mushrooms.
A complete beginner's guide to growing mushrooms. Step-by-step instructions, with drawings and photographs--16 in full color, introduce the novice to ...
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82,97 zł |
Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota
ISBN: 9781842461211 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive checklist of the fungi of Great Britain and Ireland, providing publication references and brief habitat, frequency and distribution details for all 3,760 species of mushroom, toadstool, bracket fungus, puffball, earthstar, stinkhorn, club and coral, tooth and jelly, fungus as well as the rusts and smuts, recorded in the British Isles. References are also given for a further 12,500 synonyms and excluded taxa (many being old or doubtful names), with notes on the reasons for their exclusion from the current listing.
An essential companion for amateur and professional... The first comprehensive checklist of the fungi of Great Britain and Ireland, providing publication references and brief habitat, frequency and distrib...
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202,04 zł |
Mushroom Growing at Home
ISBN: 9781409727392 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book contains a thoroughly comprehensive guide to mushroom growing, providing all the information anyone interested in such an endeavour could possibly desire. Aimed at the complete beginner, this text is the perfect handbook for helping budding amateurs establish and maintain a successful mushroom-growing project. A great addition to any collection of mycological literature, this book contains timeless information that will prove invaluable to both beginners and veterans alike. Chapters contained herein include: Why Mushrooms?, Making a Start, Composting by Artificial...
This scarce antiquarian book contains a thoroughly comprehensive guide to mushroom growing, providing all the information anyone interested in such an...
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151,98 zł |
Milk Mushrooms of North America: A Field Identification Guide to the Genus Lactarius
ISBN: 9780815632290 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A field guide to the milk mushrooms of North America. Featuring over 150 species and varieties, it includes detailed descriptions and more than 250 photographs. Suitable for both amateur mushroom enthusiasts and professional mycologists, it includes sections for species related to Lactarius and hyperparasites of the genus.
A field guide to the milk mushrooms of North America. Featuring over 150 species and varieties, it includes detailed descriptions and more than 250 ph...
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680,59 zł |
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World
ISBN: 9781604692471 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mushrooms are among the most intriguing and striking inhabitants of the natural world, as highly regarded for their distinctive flavors and uses in cooking and medicine as for their sometimes strange, often beautiful shapes and forms. Some are medicinal, others poisonous or even lethal. Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World is a well-rounded look at mushrooms, including their cultivation, ethnobotanical uses, and the fascinating roles they play in nature. The authors provide expert advice on how to identify and distinguish between edible and poisonous wild mushrooms and how to...
Mushrooms are among the most intriguing and striking inhabitants of the natural world, as highly regarded for their distinctive flavors and uses in co...
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306,27 zł |
Collecting Fungi - With Chapters on Identification and Methods of Collection
ISBN: 9781446523490 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to all aspects of collecting fungi. Contents Include: When and Where to Find Mushrooms; How to Collect and Examine Mushrooms; Gathering of Mushrooms; The Selection of Edible Mushrooms; How to Collect, Study, and Prepare Mushrooms for the Herbarium; Fungi for the Herbarium; Field Study of Mushrooms and Other Fungi; Method of Identification; Hints to Collectors; Methods of Collection and Preservation of Fungi; Glossary of Terms. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern...
A guide to all aspects of collecting fungi. Contents Include: When and Where to Find Mushrooms; How to Collect and Examine Mushrooms; Gathering of Mus...
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156,88 zł |
The History of Mushroom Growing - With Chapters on Industry, Names and Folklore
ISBN: 9781446523681 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of mushroom cultivation that will prove of much interest to the modern gardener and market gardener. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Contents Include: General Introduction; History of Mushroom Growing; Mushrooms in Roman Times; History of American Mushroom Growing; History of the Mushroom Growing Industry; History; Names; In Folklore and Fact. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
A history of mushroom cultivation that will prove of much interest to the modern gardener and market gardener. Illustrated with black and white photog...
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142,16 zł |
The Mushroom Industry - With Chapters on History, Methods of Production and Marketing
ISBN: 9781446523698 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive guide to the mushroom industry comprises twenty two thorough and detailed chapters by various experts on the subject. It is extensively illustrated with black and white drawings, forming a complete how to guide. The Mushroom Industry takes a comprehensive and informative look at the subject, and is a fascinating read for any gardener or farmer. Contents Include: History of the Mushroom-growing Industry; The Mushroom Industry To-day; Economics; Commercial Prospects; Location and Construction of the Plant; Economic Importance of Fungi; Building a Mushroom Farm; Equipment and...
This comprehensive guide to the mushroom industry comprises twenty two thorough and detailed chapters by various experts on the subject. It is extensi...
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156,88 zł |
Plant Diseases Caused by Fungi - With Chapters on Structure, Reproduction and Fungicides
ISBN: 9781446523834 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contained herein is all the information necessary to enable the horticulturist, farmer, or forester to utilize to the fullest extent the discoveries of specialists relating to plant diseases. Fungal diseases can decimate crops that people rely on for their livelihoods, and as such the correct recognition, containment, and treatment of such maladies is paramount to successful growing. This is a must-have guide for anyone intent on the successful growing of fruit, and includes the chapters: The Orchard House, Grape Vines, Figs, Pine-apples, Bananas, Melons, Oranges and Lemons, Storing Fruits,...
Contained herein is all the information necessary to enable the horticulturist, farmer, or forester to utilize to the fullest extent the discoveries o...
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48,99 zł |
Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America
ISBN: 9780815632689 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A valuable guide to the Waxy Cap Mushrooms of Eastern North America for amateur and professional mycologists, naturalists, forestry personnel, teachers, biologists and wild food enthusiasts.
A valuable guide to the Waxy Cap Mushrooms of Eastern North America for amateur and professional mycologists, naturalists, forestry personnel, teacher...
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422,22 zł |
The Cultivation of Mushrooms
ISBN: 9781446519745 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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How Mushrooms Should Be Grown
ISBN: 9781446520192 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a comprehensive guide to the successful growing of mushrooms, written with the absolute beginner in mind. Complete with detailed diagrams and photographs, this handbook is a must-have for anybody looking to grow mushrooms in large numbers and constitutes a great addition to any mycological collection. Chapters contained herein include: Composts; The Preparation of the Compost using Stable Manure; The Preparation of the Compost using Betasol Concentrate; Making the Beds; Casing; Watering; Ventilation and Temperature; Picking and Care of the Beds; and Cleanliness and...
This book contains a comprehensive guide to the successful growing of mushrooms, written with the absolute beginner in mind. Complete with detailed di...
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83,32 zł |
The Cultivation of Mushrooms - An Outline of Mushroom Culture
ISBN: 9781446520208 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The art of mushroom-growing in England had been passed on from generation to generation without the development of very exact methods, and there is still considerable ignorance of some of the most important factors. This fascinating guide on mushroom-growing seeks to elucidate the most important of these factors, making it a wonderful handbook for beginners and also proving a useful reference for seasoned growers. Chapters contained within this text include: The Source of Success, Experience and Result, How the Spawn is Made, Testing the Original Spore Cultures, Selection of the Site,...
The art of mushroom-growing in England had been passed on from generation to generation without the development of very exact methods, and there is st...
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137,26 zł |