Botany of Beer
From mass-produced lagers to craft-brewery IPAs, from beers made in Trappist monasteries according to traditional techniques to those created by innovative local brewers seeking to capture regional terroir, the world of beer boasts endless varieti...
Botany of Empire
An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its future Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on field...
Botany of Desire
A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at McDonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn and in the spring has a riotous patch of colour to admire. Two si...
Spirit of Botany
A visually entrancing and esoteric guide to connecting with plants through the senses.¿In¿The Spirit of Botany, artist and perfumer¿Jill¿McKeever¿reveals her personal rituals and creative methods of using aromatic botanical materials in incense, p...
Fathers of Botany
Many of the worlds most renowned and exciting ornamental plantsincluding magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppieshave their origins in China. In the mid-nineteenth century, professional plant hunters were dispatched ...
Botany
In this wonderful introduction to botany for children, readers will explore what characterises different plants ¿ from fungi, algae and lichens, to the lily and rose families ¿ and learn about the parts of each plant and their growth cycle. Writte...
Wonders of the Plant Kingdom
This is a selection of striking and informative images of pollen, seeds and fruit as you have never seen them before. It will appeal to anyone interested in natural botany, wildlife, art and photography. Authors include a leading artist and botani...
The Botany of Mangroves
The Botany of Mangroves
Atlas of Perfumed Botany
A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition. For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefully analyzed and understood before the sum of all...
Artists Handbook of Botany
This handbook is for everyone who wants to observe and understand plants and the differences between them, but is particularly aimed at botanical artists. It explains the most important diagnostic features that are essential when identifying a pla...
Botany of Gin, The
From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained notoriety during the London 'gin craze' in the eig...
Atlas of Poetic Botany
Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances. This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic-poetic-plant life. Guided in these botanical...
Colonial Botany
In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collecti...
Radical Botany
Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea o...
Ancient Botany
Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin have brought together their botanical and historical knowledge to produce this unique overview of ancient botany. It examines all the founding texts of botanical science, such as Theophrastus' Enquiry into Plants, ...
Botany Illustrated
Thisisadiscoverybookaboutplants. Itisforeveryone For those interested in the methods used and the interestedinplantsincludinghighschoolandcollege/ sourcesofplantmaterialsintheillustrations,anexp- university students, artists and scienti?c illustra...
Occult Botany
A classic text on esoteric traditional herbalism from one of the most influential herbalists of the Paris occult revival * Includes a dictionary of nearly 300 magical plants with descriptions of each plant's scientific name, common names, elementa...
Medical Botany
Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies. Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works....
Dark Botany
Dark Botany
Marine Botany
The most respected reference in the field--and a fascinating tourof the world's largest underwater greenhouse . . . MARINE BOTANY Second Edition Unmatched in detail and breadth, this Second Edition of MarineBotany explores the startling diversity ...
Winter Botany
Identify over 1,000 species of vines, shrubs and trees in winter—most from northern U.S. with typical southern species—(including gingko, bald cypress, poplar) by examining twigs, bark, buds, leaf scars, berries, other ...
Martius. The Book of Palms. 45th Ed.
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. The fronds were a ...
Martius. The Book of Palms
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. These were a refer...
Botany of the Kitchen Garden
Kew expert Hélèna Dove expertly combines horticulture and science in this essential reference on food crops: which part of the plant are we harvesting, how are plants adapted and how does this effect the grower? She demonstrates that by examining ...
Big, Bad Book of Botany
"A wild ride through the plant world."--The American Gardener An entertaining and enlightening compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, revealing their secrets, history, and lore What happens when you give a plant a pol...
Botany For Dummies
Harvest basic botany knowledge from this abundant book Botany For Dummies gives you a thorough overview of the fundamentals of botany, but in simple terms that anyone can understand. Great for supplementing your botany coursework or brushing up be...
Botany of Empire
An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its future Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to explore the labyrinthine history of how colonialism transformed rich and complex plant worlds into biological knowledge. Botany of Empire demonstrates how botany's foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions. We see how colonizers obliterated plant time's deep history to create a reductionist system that imposed a Latin-based naming system, drew on the imagined sex lives of European elites to explain plant sexuality, and discussed foreign plants like foreign humans. Subramanian then pivots to imagining a more inclusive and capacious field of botany untethered and decentered from its
Botany Manor (Import)
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Botany For Dummies
The easy way to score your highest in botany Employment of biological scientists is projected to grow 21% over the next decade, much faster than the average for all occupations, as biotechnological research and development continues to drive job g...
Botany for Designers
Plants are among the most important materials for effective landscape design. Yet the fundamentals of plant biology and growth; their morphology, color, and functional assets; and details such as planting, pruning techniques, and maintenance pract...
Botany Coloring Book
An exciting new approach to learning about botany. Teaches the structure and function of plants and surveys the entire plant kingdom.