Plant Life category: 1095 books

Do you look at nature and see God? Do you marvel at creation? Ruby Tobey does, and in this book, she expresses it with verses (scribbles) and drawings (sketches). Ruby writes about nature, family, flowers, and everyday happenings. Each thought is accompanied with an inspiring scripture and...

La plante est sœur de l’animal : comme lui, elle vit, se nourrit, se reproduit. Pour comprendre la première, il est souvent très utile de consulter le second ; comme aussi, pour comprendre le second, il convient de chercher des renseignements auprès de la première. Je commencerai donc, mon...

An understanding of the dynamics of populations is critically important to ecologists, evolutionary biologists, wildlife managers, foresters, and many other biologists. This edited treatise brings together the latest research on how populations fluctuate in size, the factors that drive these changes,...

Global climate change is a natural process that currently appears to be strongly influenced by human activities, which increase atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture contributes about 20% of the world’s global radiation forcing from carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous...

This book presents detailed information on the production and properties of carbon fibers derived from lignin precursors. Focusing on future directions in the carbon fiber industry, it also introduces a novel process for obtaining high-purity lignin, a key aspect in the manufacture of high-quality...

This antiquarian book contains a complete guide to the different wild foods of Great Britain, being a comprehensive guide to the recognition, gathering, and preparation of mushrooms, eggs, fruit, vegetables, berries, fish, molluscs, insects, and much more. This timeless handbook will appeal to modern...

The prime purpose of this book is to serve as a design is of considerable value in helping the classroom text for the engineering or architec­ student make the transition from the often sim­ ture student. It will, however, also be useful to plistic classroom exercises to problems of the designers...

Edible flowers can grow everywhere; in flower-beds, in pots or window-boxes, in town or country. You can create tasty flower zones in America, Europe, Africa, Asia, near the kitchen, around the BBQ, close to the chaise-lounge, hanging from the balcony, where edible flowers can be eaten throughout the...

Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier. For a long time, problems with access and the lack of tools and methods suitable for monitoring these complex bioscapes...

This handbook was designed as a reference tool for forest geneticists, tree breeders and other tree improvement personnel, as well as a textbook for university courses and short-courses at the graduate level in quantitative genetics. The chapters focus on the decision points faced by quantitative...

From a pioneering thinker in the field of religion and ecology, a collection of evocative meditations on the beauty, fragility, and resilience of trees. Included are twenty-seven original lithographs of the trees profiled in each chapter. First published in 1993, Stephanie Kaza's heartfelt...

Central Amazonian floodplain forests are an unique and endangered ecosystem. The forests grow in areas that are annually flooded by large rivers during mean periods of up to 8 months and at depths of up to 10 m. Despite this severe stress, these forests consist of over 1,000 species and are by far...

The Lichens covers the structure and development, physiology of the intact thallus, environmental response and effects, secondary metabolic products, and symbiont interactions of lichens. This book is divided into five parts encompassing 19 chapters. It also includes appendices consist of a taxonomic...

This volume describes fire behavior and fire protection of timbers in outdoors and indoors application mainly in construction industry.  The Authors’ novel approach considers the relationship between various species and age of timbers and its fire behavior at different thermal and fire loads....