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Download or read book Flora Britannica written by Richard Mabey and published by Sinclair-Stevenson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised thematically rather than botanically, this text makes available the fruits of five years of painstaking research. The selection includes the personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain.
Book Synopsis The London Flora by : Alexander Irvine
Download or read book The London Flora written by Alexander Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Species and Sites by : Gloria Pungetti
Download or read book Sacred Species and Sites written by Gloria Pungetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores key issues in biocultural diversity, examining species and sites considered to be sacred and their implications for conservation.
Book Synopsis Trees in Anglo-Saxon England by : Della Hooke
Download or read book Trees in Anglo-Saxon England written by Della Hooke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees played a particularly important part in the rural economy of Anglo-Saxon England, both for wood and timber and as a wood-pasture resource, with hunting gaining a growing cultural role. But they are also powerful icons in many pre-Christian religions, with a degree of tree symbolism found in Christian scripture too. This wide-ranging book explores both the "real", historical and archaeological evidence of trees and woodland, and as they are depicted in Anglo-Saxon literature and legend. Place-name and charter references cast light upon the distribution of particular tree species (mapped here in detail for the first time) and also reflect upon regional character in a period that was fundamental for the evolution of the present landscape. Della Hooke is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
Book Synopsis Why Conserve Nature? by : Stephen Trudgill
Download or read book Why Conserve Nature? written by Stephen Trudgill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we view nature transforms the world around us. People rehearse stories about nature which make sense to them. If we ask the question 'why conserve nature?', and the answers are based on myths, then are these good myths to have? Scientific knowledge about the environment is fundamental to ideas about how nature works. It is essential to the conservation endeavour. However, any conservation motivation is nested within a society's meanings of nature and the way society values it. Given the therapeutic and psychological significance of nature for us and our culture, this book considers the meanings derived from the poetic and emotional attachment to a sense of place, which is arguably just as important as scientific evidence. The functional significance of species is important, but so too is the therapeutic value of nature, together with the historic and spiritual meanings entwined in a human feeling for landscape and wildlife.
Book Synopsis An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950 by : Tom Williamson
Download or read book An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950 written by Tom Williamson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation at various times and places in the more remote past. This timely volume encompasses both rural and urban environments from 1650 to the mid-twentieth century, drawing on a wide variety of social, historical and ecological sources. It examines the impact of social and economic organisation on the English landscape, biodiversity, the agricultural revolution, landed estates, the coming of large-scale industry and the growth of towns and suburbs. It also develops an original perspective on the complexity and ambiguity of man/animal relationships in this post-medieval period.
Book Synopsis Garden Heroes and Villains by : George Drower
Download or read book Garden Heroes and Villains written by George Drower and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow up to " Gardeners, Gurus and Grubs", this collection of stories looks at the heroes and villains of the gardening world. It talks about: how Heron of Alexandria surprised unwelcome visitors to his garden in the ancient times by squirting water over them from his newly invented fountain; the story of the garden gnome; and more.
Book Synopsis The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants by : James Cullen
Download or read book The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants written by James Cullen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 5 completes the series, and includes many important ornamental families, such as Labiatae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Acanthaceae, Campanulaceae, and the largest family of Dicotyledons, the Compositae.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances by : Richard Rudgley
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances written by Richard Rudgley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to Queen Victoria, humans have abused all sorts of drugs in the name of religion, tradition, and recreation, including such "controlled substances" as chocolate, lettuce, and toads. From glue-sniffing to LSD to kava, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances provides the first reliable, comprehensive exploration of this fascinating and controversial topic. With over one hundred entries, acclaimed author Richard Rudgley covers not only the chemical and botanical background of each substance, but its physiological and psychological effect on the user. Of particular value is Rudgley's emphasis on the historical and cultural role of these mind-altering substances. Impeccably researched and hugely entertaining, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances will appeal to anyone interested in one of the most misunderstood and yet also most widespread of human activities - the chemical quest for an altered state of consciousness.
Book Synopsis The Bradley Bibliography: Dendrology. 1911-12 by : Alfred Rehder
Download or read book The Bradley Bibliography: Dendrology. 1911-12 written by Alfred Rehder and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scottish Cryptogamic Flora by : Robert Kaye Greville
Download or read book Scottish Cryptogamic Flora written by Robert Kaye Greville and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tree Dispensary by : Christina Stapley
Download or read book The Tree Dispensary written by Christina Stapley and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history, folklore and medicinal uses of thirty Native European trees. In this beautifully illustrated book, which uses the author's own photographs, Christina Stapley provides a thorough and deep appreciation of trees as she has experienced them through everyday life, as a herb historian and practising herbalist. Categorised into seasons, each of the thirty tree chapters covers cultivation, cookery, foraging, crafts, history, botany, medicinal use and mythology. Original herbals are used as source material for the historical section, allowing voices from the past to speak for themselves. A 'Herbalists Reference' for each tree includes medicinal uses, dosage and constituents and reflects the author's own extensive experience of using these wonderful tree remedies. Never again will a tincture or dried herb of tree origin be simply a name on a label and a list of constituents, actions and indications. This books encourages herbalists to expand their horizons from what grows around their feet, to the bounty that grows above as well. As you read this book, you will also feel a stronger connection to the trees and wish to explore, plant and care for them yourself. Volume 2 of The Tree Dispensary covering exotic trees is out now and can be purchased here.
Book Synopsis Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi by : Robert Kaye Greville
Download or read book Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi written by Robert Kaye Greville and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi; and Intended to Serve as a Continuation of English Botany. By Robert Kaye Greville ... Vol. 1. -6 by :
Download or read book Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Cryptogamic Plants, Belonging Chiefly to the Order Fungi; and Intended to Serve as a Continuation of English Botany. By Robert Kaye Greville ... Vol. 1. -6 written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Flora by : James Edward Smith
Download or read book The English Flora written by James Edward Smith and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flora of Middlesex by : Henry Trimen
Download or read book Flora of Middlesex written by Henry Trimen and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
