Product Description: A Garden of Herbs - Rohde, E., S. Originally published in the 1900s, this book has been written primarily as a guide for those wishing to create an old-fashioned herb garden, and who want to know how to use these herbs as our great-grandmothers did...read more

A fully-illustrated reference surveying the characteristics, botanical classifications, geographic distribution, and common names of all varieties of ferns and seed-bearing plants

A fully-illustrated reference surveying the characteristics, botanical classifications, geographic distribution, and common names of all varieties of ferns and seed-bearing plants

Provides drawings and descriptions of two hundred and twenty-four types of weed while providing maps of their distribution throughout the U.S

Product Description: Did you know the root of the common iris found throughout the United States was reputed by the American Indians to be a remarkable cure for gastric disturbances? or that hops — aside from being used in brewing — were noted for their sedative qualities? There are hundreds of different plants growing wild throughout the United States that over the centuries have become recognized for their medicinal qualities...read more

Product Description: Fusaria, which are found throughout the world, are among the most important causes of economic loss in crop yield and quality. Major food and fiber crops of the world are seriously affected by this group of fungi, making quick and certain identification of these organisms vital...read more

Fifty experiments show the many things you can observe at home and out-of-doors with only a hand lens

The reader is introduced to the wonders of a microscope through a series of simple experiments

Identifies more than three hundred varieties of grasses and includes drawings and descriptions of each species

Product Description: This volume, the eighth devoted to flowering plants in the Illus­trated Flora of Illinois series, is the third of several devoted to dicotyledons, which include such well-known plants as roses, peas, mustards, mints, nightshades, milkweeds, and asters...read more

Product Description: Land Locked States and the UNCLOS Regime by Sinjela

Lovely Englishwoman Amantha Carmody journeys to Oklahoma to join her husband, David, in the oil fields, but his death leaves Amantha with control of an oil empire

Product Description: An unconventional evaluation of the causes which, in the last ten years, have dramatically pushed down the rates of economic growth. The distinguished author, a member of the Club of Rome, argues that it is not simply a question of a new long term economic cycle of the types described by Schumpeter and Kondratieff, but is rather the effect of a fundamental change in the traditional, industrial modes of production...read more

During Earth's war with the hideous Gool, interstellar operative Grantham goes behind enemy lines to destroy the Gool's secret weapon--a long-range brain probe that uses telepathic mind control to subvert loyal humans

Product Description: This thorough and exhaustive botanical classic by the late Professor Oakes Ames, director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, and Donovan Stewart Correll, formerly research Associate at that museum, presents all the known orchids of Guatemala and Belize (formerly British Honduras)...read more

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Product Description: Agronomy of Grassland Systems presents a broad overview of grasslands agronomy incorporating both grassland and animal productivity within the context of farming systems. The authors, both experienced in the field of agriculture, examine the generation, vegetative growth, flowering, and seed production of grasslands, as well as mineral nutrition, pasture quality, and animal intake...read more

In the year 1572, the Spanish chronicler Sarmiento de Gamboa completed one of the earliest official versions of the history of the Inka empire. In his account, he stated that the ancestors of the Inkas originated from a cave at a place to the south of the imperial city of Cuzco called Pacariqtambo. The History of a Myth explores how and why this version of the origin myth (there were others) came to form the basis of an official history.Using a legal document from the 1560s, Urton reveals how the Pacariqtambo origin myth allowed remaining members of the Inka nobility to claim descent from the first Inkas and enjoy special status with their Spanish conquerors. This discovery offers new insight into the social and political factors that determine what becomes "the facts" of history. It also emphasizes the ambiguities inherent in history writing when the informants are the conquered subjects of the authors.

Product Description: Written specifically for use in the field, Tidal Marsh Plants is an indispensable guide to the vascular plants found in the salt marshes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guidebook is the definitive guide for researchers who wish to make quick and accurate identifications of plant species while in the field...read more

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