Icelandic Herbs and Their Medicinal Uses
ISBN: 9781623170226 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This beautifully illustrated, full-color guide provides everything readers need to know about the medicinal powers of 90 native herbs of Iceland--85 of which also grow in North America. Anna Rosa Robertsdottir describes the history, uses, harvesting, drying, and storage of the plants, and includes a wealth of detailed instructions for their preparation--including infusions, decoctions, tinctures, and syrups. Generous color photographs of both the leaves and flowers facilitate plant identification, allowing both amateur and professional herbalists to use the guide to full advantage....
This beautifully illustrated, full-color guide provides everything readers need to know about the medicinal powers of 90 native herbs of Iceland--85 o...
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108,16 zł |
Bogs and Fens: A Guide to the Peatland Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada
ISBN: 9781611687934 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The word is spreading among outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers that bogs and fens (peatlands) are among the most fascinating and beautiful places to visit. This growing reputation, along with the development of boardwalks that allow a close look at the ecosystem without getting one s feet wet, has led to an upsurge in visits to these wetlands. To aid the increasing number of bog walkers, Ronald B. Davis has produced an attractive and informative guide to the trees, shrubs, and wildflowers of the peatlands of the greater American northeastern region. The book covers 155 of the species most...
The word is spreading among outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers that bogs and fens (peatlands) are among the most fascinating and beautiful places t...
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106,89 zł |
The Phytochemical Landscape: Linking Trophic Interactions and Nutrient Dynamics
ISBN: 9780691158457 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions feed back to influence spatial and temporal variation in the chemistry of plants. In this book, Mark Hunter provides a novel approach to linking the trophic interactions of organisms with the cycling of nutrients in ecosystems. Hunter introduces the concept of the "phytochemical landscape"--the shifting spatial and temporal mosaic of plant chemistry that serves as the nexus between trophic interactions... The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. A... |
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320,67 zł |
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World
ISBN: 9781498510592 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The leading metaphor of the book--"the green thread," echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase "the green fuse"--carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, "the green thread" is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an...
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is ...
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577,21 zł |
Weeds: An Environmental History of Metropolitan America
ISBN: 9780822964025 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As long as humans have existed, they've worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their diverse spaces were covered with and colored by weeds. In Weeds, Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive history of "happenstance plants" in American urban environments. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present, he examines the proliferation, perception, and treatment of weeds in metropolitan centers from Boston to Los Angeles. As long as humans have existed, they've worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their divers... |
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208,17 zł |
The Wicked Plants Coloring Book
ISBN: 9781616206833 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BEWARE Even horticulture has a dark side.
Amy Stewart and Briony Morrow-Cribbs offer up 40 menacing plants in gorgeous, vintage-style botanical illustrations to color. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, each wonderfully creepy spread offers the curious stories of these botanical evildoers, from the vine that ate the South to the weed that killed Lincoln's mother to the world's deadliest seed. For gardening die-hards, each plant's family, habitat, and common names are also listed. Based on the New York Times bestseller Wicked... BEWARE Even horticulture has a dark side.
Amy Stewart and Briony Morrow-Cribbs offer up 40 menacing plants in gorgeous, vintage-st... |
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51,32 zł |
Sunprint Notecards: The Cyanotypes of Anna Atkins (12 Notecards; 12 Designs; Matching Envelopes; Keepsake Box)
ISBN: 9781616895914 / Angielski / Other Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed as the first female photographer (and first to publish a book of photographs), Victorian botanist Anna Atkins made stunning cyanotypes blueprints of hundreds of different plants. Sunprint presents twelve of her contact photograms of algae, ferns, and irises in rich hues and stunning detail. Matching envelopes are printed on the inside with cyanotype images of the handwritten pages of Atkins's books."
Hailed as the first female photographer (and first to publish a book of photographs), Victorian botanist Anna Atkins made stunning cyanotypes blueprin...
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72,80 zł |
Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage
ISBN: 9780128043127 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage offers a better understanding of mycorrhizal mediation that will help inform earth system models and subsequently improve the accuracy of global carbon model predictions. Mycorrhizas transport tremendous quantities of plant-derived carbon below ground and are increasingly recognized for their importance in the creation, structure, and function of soils. Different global carbon models vary widely in their predictions of the dynamics of the terrestrial carbon pool, ranging from a large sink to a large source. ...Mycorrhizal Mediation of Soil: Fertility, Structure, and Carbon Storage offers a better understanding of mycorrhizal mediation that will hel... |
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482,29 zł |
BROCKHAUSEN Malbuch Bd. 3 - Phantasie: Papagei: Malbuch für Erwachsene
ISBN: 9781533381507 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,11 zł |
Pruning Made Easy - How to Prune Rose Trees, Fruit Trees and Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
ISBN: 9781446504536 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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230,82 zł |
Nature's Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens
ISBN: 9789814722223 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Established in 1859, the Singapore Botanic Gardens are arguably the most important colonial botanic gardens in the world. Not only have the Gardens been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, they have had a significant role as a scientific institution and as a testing ground for tropical plantation agriculture implemented around the world. As Timothy P. Barnard shows in Nature's Colony, underlying each of these uses is a broader story of the Botanic Gardens as an arena where power and the natural world meet and interact. Initially conceived to exploit nature for the...
Established in 1859, the Singapore Botanic Gardens are arguably the most important colonial botanic gardens in the world. Not only have the Gardens be...
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154,73 zł |
The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature
ISBN: 9781517901844 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant neurobiology, philosophical posthumanism, and ecocriticism. The Language of Plants brings together groundbreaking essays from across the disciplines to foster a dialogue between the... The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensati... |
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577,21 zł |
The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature
ISBN: 9781517901851 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant neurobiology, philosophical posthumanism, and ecocriticism. The Language of Plants brings together groundbreaking essays from across the disciplines to foster a dialogue between the... The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensati... |
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131,95 zł |
Plant Ecology: Systems and Processes
ISBN: 9781632397966 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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622,70 zł |
Plant Ecology
ISBN: 9781682863930 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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657,02 zł |
Discoveries in the Garden
ISBN: 9780226531663 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discoveries in the Garden shows how getting into the dirt, and in between the roots and leaves, with close observation, grows both enthusiasm and understanding for basic biology.
Discoveries in the Garden shows how getting into the dirt, and in between the roots and leaves, with close observation, grows both enthusiasm and unde...
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101,55 zł |
Kumeyaay Ethnobotany: Shared Heritage of the Californias: Native People and Native Plants of Baja California's Borderlands
ISBN: 9781941384305 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,63 zł |
Field Guide to Grasses of the Mid-Atlantic
ISBN: 9780271078694 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A guide, geared toward all levels of botanical knowledge, to identifying over 300 species of grasses found in four physiographic provinces within the Mid-Atlantic Region"--Provided by publisher.
"A guide, geared toward all levels of botanical knowledge, to identifying over 300 species of grasses found in four physiographic provinces within the...
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133,35 zł |
Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics
ISBN: 9789813230293 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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583,88 zł |
Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden
ISBN: 9781604698787 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden.
100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden.
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85,68 zł |