Plant Life category: 1095 books

Forests—and the trees within them—have always been a central resource for the development of technology, culture, and the expansion of humans as a species. Examining and challenging our historical and modern attitudes toward wooded environments, this engaging book explores how our understanding...

Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Georgia. Characterized by longleaf pine forests, rolling hills, abundant blackwater streams, several...

Leaves are all around us—in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they are everywhere, it’s easy to overlook the humble leaf, but a close look at them provides one of the most enjoyable ways...

**香料的意義與人類永遠同在，它們的名字留下了言語的辛香， 呼應了多姿多彩豐富又重要的過往，教人驚喜不已。 從中世紀至今的香料史和廚房烹飪史！ 香料，讓你身心和味蕾都歡欣鼓舞，為你勾勒世界的版圖！ 埃及艷后為什麼以番紅花和馬奶沐浴？ 十八世紀的苦艾酒為什麼會讓人充滿幻覺？ 在遙遠印尼島嶼上收獲的丁香如何進入古敘利亞的廚房？ 每一間廚房幾乎都含有一瓶丁香或幾根肉桂棒， 每一道菜都免不了加一點孜然或辣椒， 在約翰‧歐康奈活色生香的說明中，你將津津有味地消化香料大餐。** 香料是稀世珍品，既熟悉又奇特，加在我們最愛的菜餚中安慰我們，同時又能激起我們對天涯海角異國風味、阿拉伯市集、貿易風、殖民地和大筆財富的遐想。 英國知名飲食文化作家約翰‧歐康奈在《香料共和國：從洋茴香到鬱金，打開A-Z的味覺秘語》一書裡，帶領讀者從歷史、藝術、宗教、醫學、文化、科學等各種角度來認識香料的特性、藥效、神奇的魔力，以及藏在廚房食物櫃與珍貴秘製食譜背後的迷人故事。他細訴窮畢生之力的熱愛，教人食指大動！ 《香料共和國》呈現了許多美食作家不同的聲音。作者約翰‧歐康奈在說明每一種香料之時，闡述它的植物背景、歷史的意涵，以及在烹調上的應用。他的使命是綜合所有香料的大全，說一系列發人深省的有趣故事，說明香料在開發現代世界的過程中所扮演的角色。 ※...

This book covers the different aspects of tropical natural fibre composites in areas such as properties, design and analysis, manufacturing techniques, material selection of kenaf, oil palm, sugar palm, pineapple leaf, coconut, sugarcane and banana based fibre composites. Important properties such...

Down the Flower Path teaches young children about the different types of flowers through a quaint story about a child searching for a rose. "Hello flower," I said. "Are you a rose? I am looking for a rose." "No," said the flower. "I am a daisy. My round face is surrounded by a mane of delicate,...

First published by the Big Bend Natural History Association in 1988 as Trees & Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas, this book is the only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico and northern Mexico. A. Michael Powell has...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS I. Introduction--General Character of Plants and the Identification of Flowers II. The Pollination and Fertilisation of Flowers III. Climbing Plants IV. Early Spring V. Woods and Thickets in Spring VI....

Bloomsbury Green Guides are portable handbooks to the most commonly found species in Britain and Europe. A huge variety of wild flowers grow in fields, gardens, woodlands and even on roadsides, and recognising individual species can prove challenging. The Green Guide to Wild Flowers makes identifying...

Mushrooms of the Great Lakes region : the fleshy, leathery, and woody fungi of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and the southern half of Wisconsin and of Michigan by Verne Ovid Graham. The author with help of many others, has examined hundreds of specimens over a period of years. The softer forms, not easily...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS PART I. INTRODUCTION. Section 1. Wood. Definitions. "Structure." Weights. Coefficients. Uses. Botanical and Common Nomenclatures. General Information, etc. PART II. EXOGENOUS SERIES. Section...

THE “call of the wild,” where the love of flowers is concerned, has an attraction which is not the less powerful because it is difficult to explain. The charm of the garden may be strong, but it is not so strong as that which draws us to seek for wildflowers in their native haunts, whether of...

With some 6,000 species of plants, Texas has extraordinary botanical wealth and diversity. Learning to identify plants is the first step in understanding their vital role in nature, and many field guides have been published for that purpose. But to fully appreciate how Texas's native plants have sustained...

The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the...