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Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape
ISBN: 9780813535395 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trees are the grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their complex root systems, trees represent shelter, stability, place, and community as few other living objects can.Enduring Roots tells the stories of historic American trees, including the oak, the apple, the cherry, and the oldest of the world's trees, the bristlecone pine. These stories speak of our attachment to the land, of our universal and eternal need to leave a legacy, and demonstrate that the landscape is a gift, to be both...
Trees are the grandest and most beautiful plant creations on earth. From their shade-giving, arching branches and strikingly diverse bark to their com...
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North American Trees
ISBN: 9780813815268 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Completely updated, this new edition continues the grand tradition of this classic reference covering trees of North America excluding Mexico and tropical Florida.
This handbook has been designed to meet the needs of the general public as well as those of students and scientists. Concise descriptions of botanical and silvical characters have been included for species of trees. Accurate and up-to-date, the new edition of this highly regarded reference incorporates recent changes in scientific and common names of trees, and offers improved distribution maps and more detailed... Completely updated, this new edition continues the grand tradition of this classic reference covering trees of North America excluding Mexico and trop...
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405,92 |
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An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating
ISBN: 9780816516803 / Angielski / Miękka / 73 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, is the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. This book--a seminal study in its field--provides a simple yet eloquent introduction to the discipline, explaining what a dendrochronologist does both in the field and in the laboratory. Authors Stokes and Smiley first explain the basic principles of tree-ring dating, then describe details of the process, step by step, from the time a sample is collected until it is incorporated into a master chronology. The book focuses on coniferous evergreens of the Southwest, particularly...
Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, is the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. This book--a seminal study in its f...
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Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Canada's West Coast
ISBN: 9780816634002 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Braun (geography, U. of Minnesota) provides a new viewpoint on the complex cultural, political, and intellectual forces involved in the forest policies of British Columbia. Employing poststructuralist theory and using the 1993 protests over logging in Clayoquot Sound as his starting point, Braun ass
Braun (geography, U. of Minnesota) provides a new viewpoint on the complex cultural, political, and intellectual forces involved in the forest policie...
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106,84 |
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Flowering Trees for Central and South Florida Gardens
ISBN: 9780820004105 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,28 |
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Trees of Southeastern United States
ISBN: 9780820322711 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly pine or red mulberry to the rare Pinckneya (fever-tree) or goat willow. The guide treats more than 300 species--every one known to occur in the region, from the Coastal Plain to the highest elevations. Included are trees native to the region as well as those introduced and now reproducing. Helpful features include easy identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, an introductory section on basic leaf, flower, and... This popular guide enables users to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern United States, from the common loblolly p... |
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Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest
ISBN: 9780820329550 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Through Maloof s engaging, conversational style, each essay offers a lesson in stewardship as it explores the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and insects whose lives depend on it--and who, in turn, work to ensure the tree s survival. Never really at home in a laboratory, Maloof took to the woods early in her career. Her enthusiasm for firsthand observation in the wild spills over into her... In this collection of natural-history essays, biologist Joan Maloof embarks on a series of lively, fact-filled expeditions into forests of the east... |
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98,50 |
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Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation
ISBN: 9780821371633 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Forests Sourcebook' provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic development. Intended to guide World Bank lending activities and projects, the 'Forests Sourcebook' offers information useful to a broad audience of practitioners, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The 'Sourcebook was developed in partnership with members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, including the Food and Agriculture Organization. The 'Sourcebook' provides background on key issues, lessons...
The 'Forests Sourcebook' provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservat...
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African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change
ISBN: 9780821417881 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In western scholarship, Africa s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural relics from a static precolonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this relic theory is inadequate for understanding current social and ecological dynamics. "African Sacred Groves "challenges dominant views of these landscape features by redefining the subject matter beyond the compelling yet uninformative term sacred. The term ethnoforests incorporates the environmental, social-political, and symbolic...
In western scholarship, Africa s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural ...
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256,54 |
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African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change
ISBN: 9780821417898 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In western scholarship, Africa s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural relics from a static precolonial past. Their continuing importance in African societies, however, shows that this relic theory is inadequate for understanding current social and ecological dynamics. "African Sacred Groves "challenges dominant views of these landscape features by redefining the subject matter beyond the compelling yet uninformative term sacred. The term ethnoforests incorporates the environmental, social-political, and symbolic...
In western scholarship, Africa s so-called sacred forests are often treated as the remains of primeval forests, ethnographic curiosities, or cultural ...
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106,84 |
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Forestry Budgets and Accounts
ISBN: 9780851993287 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few people who are involved with the management of forests are comfortable with the accounting side of their role. This book is set out in an approachable and structured way, providing clear guidance for students and practitioners on how to proceed. The reader is lead through the subject, building up understanding in a series of steps, covering the methodology and rationale and accompanied by worked examples. Chapters cover the management process, the budgeting steps for profit, cash and capital, recording, accounts construction and appraisal, evaluation of alternative investments,...
Few people who are involved with the management of forests are comfortable with the accounting side of their role. This book is set out in an approach...
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Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Peculiarities
ISBN: 9780873388382 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1900 edition Educator, author, and naturalist Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921) was a prominent figure in her time. With this facsimile reprint of her first book written for a national audience, she once again is brought to the public's attention. An 1870 graduate of Oberlin College, Keeler devoted her career to service as a teacher and administrator in the Cleveland public schools. She was active in Cleveland civic life as well and was a prominent champion of women's rights. But it was as a naturalist that she did her... A facsimile reproduction of the original 1900 edition Educator, author, and naturalist Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921) was a ... |
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137,98 |
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The Pinon Pine: A Natural and Cultural History
ISBN: 9780874170665 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pinon pines are a group of small, hardy trees that inhabit the semi-arid mountains and mesas of the Western United States and Mexico. Because they produce exceptionally nutritious pine nuts and grow where few other trees can survive, they have a long relationship with man and animal in the pinon-juniper woodland.
The pinon pines are a group of small, hardy trees that inhabit the semi-arid mountains and mesas of the Western United States and Mexico. Because they...
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Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-Fir Forest
ISBN: 9780874221701 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of trees--as revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fauna in an Oregon Coast Range forest that is selectively logged and finally clear-cut.
This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of trees--as revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and fau...
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The Harvard Black Rock Forest
ISBN: 9780877458951 / Angielski / Miękka / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in the June 11, 1984, New Yorker, this long essay is a sharp-edged inquiry into the generational institutions of US national life. George Trow's story of the Harvard Black Rock Forest is ultimately a symbolic tale that bears upon some of the most significant institutions, professions, and legacies in contemporary American life.
Originally published in the June 11, 1984, New Yorker, this long essay is a sharp-edged inquiry into the generational institutions of US national life...
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Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780878424214 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the life stories of the author's grandfathers, father, uncles, and cousins, Deadfall documents the dramatic changes in the logging industry since the early 1900s. The book focuses on the influence of international timber giant Weyerhaeuser Company in the Pacific Northwest, yet it themes resonate from Alaska to the American Southwest-wherever timber is king. While spurning nostalgia for logging's glory days, Deadfall attempts to view a future for today's timber workers.
Through the life stories of the author's grandfathers, father, uncles, and cousins, Deadfall documents the dramatic changes in the logging industry si...
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63,17 |
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Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
ISBN: 9780881504200 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes.
Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched ...
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90,80 |
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Native Trees of the Southeast: An Identification Guide
ISBN: 9780881928280 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students, professionals, tree lovers, and native plant enthusiasts alike will fall in love with Native Plants of the Southeast.
The diversity of woody plants in the Southeast is unparalleled in North America. Native Trees of the Southeast is a practical, compact field guide for the identification of the more than 225 trees native to the region, from the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee south through Georgia into northern Florida and west through Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas into eastern Texas. For confident identification, nearly 600... Students, professionals, tree lovers, and native plant enthusiasts alike will fall in love with Native Plants of the Southeast. |
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Woody Plants in Winter
ISBN: 9780937058527 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A manual to identify trees and shrubs in winter when the lack of leaves, fruits, and flowers makes them least identifiable.
A manual to identify trees and shrubs in winter when the lack of leaves, fruits, and flowers makes them least identifiable.
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Fall Color and Woodland Harvests: A Guide to the More Colorful Fall Leaves and Fruits of the Eastern Forests
ISBN: 9780960868810 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether on a lunch break visit to see an especially colorful maple in a nearby park or a month-long adventure from New England to the Smokies moving south with the color, Fall Color and Woodland Harvests is a wonderful companion for those who appreciate autumn's vibrant spectacle. Rich with color photographs that capture the hues of the season, this volume offers a species-by-species guide to the leaves of 100 species of the eastern United States and the fruits and seeds (the woodland harvests) of an additional 47 species, paying particular attention to the plants' locations and...
Whether on a lunch break visit to see an especially colorful maple in a nearby park or a month-long adventure from New England to the Smokies moving s...
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98,70 |
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