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Product Description: Identify, collect and eat over 100 of the most nutritious plants in North America. Find 35 wild plants growing in your back yard. Discover ancient pharmaceutical uses for common herbs. An appendix catalogs and indexes many poisonous and poisonous look-a-likes...read more

Product Description: Book by Curtin, L. S. M.

A colorful introduction to the country style of home design offers an inspirational assortment of country houses, as well as guidelines for transforming a space with the decorative use of fabrics, antiques, accessories, and collectibles. Reprint.

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A guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs for primarily culinary purposes, but in a variety of ornamental designs

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Intended for universities, industrial pharmaceuticals, biochemists studying natural plant products, chemotherapists, toxicologists, botanists, and anthropologists, this book highlights the role of medicinal plants and traditional remedies in the primary health care of large parts of the world's population. The analysis opens many possibilities for the study and development of new and plant-derived drugs.

Product Description: Although medicinal plants have been used for millenia, plant remedies and traditional medicines have only recently been subject to thorough scientific study. The confirmed resolution of the World Health Organization to ensure, by the year 2000, the attainment of a level of health that will permit people everywhere to lead a socially and economically productive life has led to increasing recognition of the role of traditional medicine in reaching that goal...read more

This text provides students with a summary of the interactions between humans and plants from early history to the present. Enough general botany is provided to orient readers to parts of the plants discussed and their mechanisms of function. Unlike other texts on economic botany, this book discusses molecular methods in the study and alteration of crop plants. Drawings and explanations illustrate how molecular methods are being employed to discover relationships between agricultural crops and their wild relatives. Similarly, the steps involved in plant genetic engineering are illustrated and explained. By relating aspects of morphology and evolution to plants that are familiar to students, concepts should be easy for students to remember. This edition has been revised and updated to include more modern uses of plants. Discussion of the health benefits of many species has been integrated throughout. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Already a huge success in previous editions, this must-have field guide now features a fresh new cover, as well as nearly 400 color photos and detailed information on more than 200 species of edible plants all across North America...read more

Product Description: A VERY SOLID BOOK ABOUT MARIJUANA IN EVERY WAY

Product Description: This study provides an account of the relationship between the Amazonian people and their botanical environment. It is based on the author's 10 years of ethnological and botanical research among the Tupi-Guarani-speaking Indians (especially the Ka'apor) of eastern Amazonia, and aims to rectify much of the ignorance about the history of Amazonia and its diverse peoples, habitats and resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the care requirements, characteristics, and uses of a variety of vegetables, fruits, berries, and herbs

Clarifies questions about the human dependence on plants, proves that plants are the foundation of existence, and makes a plea to stop people from destroying the earth's plant-based life support systems, such as the rainforest. Original.