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9781474242448 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 7, 2017, cover price $112.00
Paperback:
9781474242431 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 7, 2017), cover price $29.95
Product Description: Chemical warfare between plants and their herbivores and pathogens was first brought to our attention by the publication 25 years ago of the paper by Fraenkel in Science. There, he pointed out that most plants have similar nutritional characteristics so that the selection of plants by insect herbivores must depend on the relative toxicity of secondary compounds...read more
Hardcover:
9780306420061 | Plenum Pub Corp, July 1, 1985, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: Chemical warfare between plants and their herbivores and pathogens was first brought to our attention by the publication 25 years ago of the paper by Fraenkel in Science.
Paperback:
9781475796605 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, April 26, 2013), cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Chemical warfare between plants and their herbivores and pathogens was first brought to our attention by the publication 25 years ago of the paper by Fraenkel in Science.
Product Description: The study of plant natural products can be considered to have started in 1806 when Serturner isolated the first of these compounds, morphine, from the opium poppy. Over the next 150 years, numerous elegant and powerful techniques were developed for the isolation and structural identifi cation of a variety of classes of these substances...read more
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9781475700992 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, December 12, 2012), cover price $119.00 | About this edition: The study of plant natural products can be considered to have started in 1806 when Serturner isolated the first of these compounds, morphine, from the opium poppy.
Product Description: This volume of Recent Advances in Phytochemistry is the Proceedings of the 1979 Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America held August 12-15 at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. It contains a series of exciting chapters which start with the potential use of plant products as fuels and medicinals, their possible effects in carcinogenesis and use in steroidal hormone synthesis...read more
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9781468483116 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 26, 2012), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This volume of Recent Advances in Phytochemistry is the Proceedings of the 1979 Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America held August 12-15 at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
Product Description: More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania. The Religions of Oceania is the first book to bring together up-to-date information on the great and changing variety of traditional religions in the Pacific zone...read more
Hardcover:
9780415060189 | Routledge, June 1, 1995, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania.
Paperback:
9780415060196 | Routledge, January 1, 1995, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: More than a quarter of the world's religions are to be found in the regions of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, together called Oceania.
Miscellaneous:
9780203977620 | Routledge, January 5, 1995, cover price $41.95
Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples--Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans. This controversial and provocative book is the first detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australian Aboriginal worldviews. The author separates out a common core of religious belief that 1111 precontact spirituality of Australian Aborigines more concerned with place than with any philosophy of time or origins. A Place for Strangers investigates Aboriginal myth, ritual, cosmology and philosophy, and also examines social organization, subsistence patterns and cultural change. It will be of great interest to readers in anthropology, religious studies, comparative philosophy, Aboriginal studies and Australian history. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780521430050 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples--Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans.
Paperback:
9780521446914 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $49.99
Product Description: Tony Swain has prepared a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all substantial publications on Aboriginal religions appearing between 1798 and early 1990. The volume opens with a three-chapter narrative section which provides the historic and analytic contexts for the cataloguing that follows...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780313260445 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 1, 1991, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Tony Swain has prepared a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all substantial publications on Aboriginal religions appearing between 1798 and early 1990.
Paperback:
9780908083121 | Australian Assn of the, June 1, 1985, cover price $13.95
Product Description: Phenolic compounds have attracted the attention of those interested in plant constituents for over 200 years. First as dyestuffs, meaicinals and tannins and, much later, because of their potential use in examining the systematic and evolutionary relationships of plants, and their impli cation in defence against both herbivores and phytopatho gens...read more
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9780306400285 | Gardners Books, March 1, 1979, cover price $111.15 | About this edition: Phenolic compounds have attracted the attention of those interested in plant constituents for over 200 years.
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9781468433746 | Springer Verlag, November 25, 2012, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Phenolic compounds have attracted the attention of those interested in plant constituents for over 200 years.
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