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Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world--the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. Iannini argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but...

This book represents 10 plus years of research and development. The aim of this book is to give the reader a comprehensive user-friendly review of more herbs and formulas of the best-known medicinal plants of Guyana and their uses. Leaves of Life, Volume2: Single...

(This book is black and white. There is also a color version.) I have hiked to the summit of Mount Major over a thousand times. Many hikers check off different locations, but I traverse the same trail. How does my hiking experience differ from...

A comprehensive set of historical and contemporary readings in environmental ethics. Sections include: Historical Context, 20th Century Environmentalists, Philosophical Development, Eco-Philosophy, and Applied Eco-Ethics.Author: David SkrbinaISBN-10: 1737446103ISBN-13: 9781737446101Publisher: Creative Fire PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2021Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Author: Germ疣 VergaraISBN-10: 1108831273ISBN-13: 9781108831277Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2021Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): Choice 06/01/2022

Hidden in the tall grasses and shallow waters of the Florida Everglades are true tales of mysterious deaths, clandestine crime, and disasters, both natural and manmade. Desperados fled here after escaping from prison, rum runners gunned down their enemies, and killers slipped their prey...

Chincoteague and Assateague Islands: plan your first visit or relive your latest visit again and again through this photo adventure. Enjoy the sights: migratory birds; local birds such as ducks; views from the lighthouse; views of the beaches of Assateague; and of course the...

This book is a great way to manage your stress level, relax and enjoy our butterfly and floral-themed coloring designs.If you are looking for a way to cultivate creativity, mindfulness and relaxation then this coloring book is for you. Let your imagination fade away...

Medicinal herbs / medicinal plants Wonders of nature - Tips from the natural pharmacy The health helpers from natureAuthor: Helga Schilden, Tom SchildenISBN-10: 3753460885ISBN-13: 9783753460888Publisher: Books on DemandLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2021Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.13d

Flowering Your Mind: How to Engage Your Brain in Healthy, Exciting New WaysLooking for a new way to lift your spirits and boost your health? Suzanne Faith, a full-time RN living on Cape Cod, combines her 30 years of experience as a psychiatric nurse...

This Childrens book is about the ivtrant shapes in our world and ways they are portrayed. This Childrens book is for English and Spanish speakers and for those who can lrn the Spanish language and have fun reading. Learning another culture opens up more...

This insightful book exposes the hidden agenda and the political implications of the Green New Deal recently introduced in Congress. The author points out that the legislation will destroy our free-market system and lead the United States into a socialistic economy. Many facts are...

The Problem with the Dot is rooted in the idea that culture is a garden to be tended (Gen 2:15) rather than a war to be won and uses the analogy of an ecosystem to expand the details of the individual components of the...

The Problem with the Dot is rooted in the idea that culture is a garden to be tended (Gen 2:15) rather than a war to be won and uses the analogy of an ecosystem to expand the details of the individual components of the...

Jaclyn had been living her dream as a wilderness instructor while guiding backpacking expeditions in the high mountains of Wyoming, when suddenly she experienced a traumatic, emotional, and frightening illness that brought her to her knees. Who knew the bite from a tiny tick...

This book is not an ethnologic study of the aborigines, but a compilation of experiences, of brief accounts, human and realistic, which allow knowing the different facets of the life of the people living there, their dreams and beliefs, and the consequences that the...

In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last eighty years, deliberately built Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Joshua Lockyer highlights...

After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causing environmental degradation and displacing native peoples. Conflicts about the future of Pacific Northwest forests have continued since then. Only recently have academics, government...

Would you know a human being if you saw one? This is not as frivolous a question as it might seem. Recent scientific discoveries from many disciplines have painted a new picture of what it means to be human-a picture that may literally cause...

This Hiking Logbook Journal is designed for lovers of mountain climbing and hiking enthusiasts. Each spread contains prompts and information to help you document your journey, a section for notes, and plenty of room to write. Including a place to record the date, weather,...

Mountain Mania is a compilation of first-hand adventures and experiences that I've had with some of America's most endeared and lesser known mountains.Read and see for yourself the challenges, inspiration, and attraction that have lured me to these wonderful large landforms.Ever since I can...

Francis A. Schaeffer's Timeless Assessment of a Modern Ecological Crisis The earth is home to 7.8 billion people. As this number grows, so does the awareness of a seemingly endless list of environmental concerns threatening their existence--landfills, off-shore spills, toxic wastes, population explosion, and...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

To read The Gorilla Diaries is to immerse oneself in the daily antics of baby gorillas, and the woman who loved them like a mom. Unique in its perspective, the diaries grant us the privilege of being in close proximity to one of our...

Preface: "Those who delight in roaming about amongst the fields and lanes, or have spent any time in a country house, can hardly have failed to notice the custodian of the woods and covers, or to observe that he is often something of a...

Sarah Carter Edgarton, author of several publications on the subject of flowers, applied her expertise to the 19th-century popularity of fortune-telling books by pairing flowers with quotations from popular verse to create this charming fortune-telling game."The Floral Fortune-Teller" uses the colors of flowers to...

Arpeggio of Redwings-Chesapeake Seasons: A Guide to Joycollects Maryland writer Audrey Scharmen's prize-winning nature essays. Chronicling the year's unfolding seasons, Audrey reflects from backyard to beach to Chesapeake Bay. Reading her wry and lyrical observations, you reconnect with nature's daily miracles. Arpeggio of Redwings-Chesapeake...

Have you ever wished that you could garden and farm, but found that you didn't have the space to do so? Did you ever feel like you wanted to be able to grow your own food, but felt like the climate that you lived...

A collection of poems for every season . To take us away from the stresses of life and to help us reconnect with nature .Melanie talks of finding happiness and peace in the company of birds, foxes and badgers .Of finding a place of...

Sloth and Manatee began as a chronicle of thoughts and a little peaceful space at the outset of the Covid lockdown in California in mid-March, 2020. As the pandemic wore on and our world struggled with getting bigger and smaller at the same time,...

Lil' Drop is about to embark on her first adventure. She resides in a Nimbus cloud with an older and wiser raindrop named Big Drop who teaches her about the different types of clouds. Together, 'Lil' Drop and the young reader learn fun facts...

After spending much of her life as a psychologist, Dr. Mary Baures adopted baby elephants and took up wildlife photography. Sitting around nighttime campfires in Zambia, Botswana, and Kenya she felt intimately connected to the eerie whoop of hyenas mixed with the deep reverberating...

This is a heartwarming story of grit and determination. Fueled by love, passion and reason, follow one ordinary man's journey from a hospital emergency room to the tallest free-standing mountain in the world, in less than a year! At 19,341 ft (5,895m) just three...

This book is a collection of stories written by one of America's most traveled and experienced turkey hunters; a man who has taken multiple toms from 49 states. Such a feat didn't come easily, so you might expect these pages to fairly drip with...

This book will act as a thought provoker, by making you think about the Natural connection we all lost.This book will remind you, that you still can have it back.This book will act as a bridge between the immense gap, we all have created...

Patricia Clark's poems immerse the reader in the living world through the quality of her attention and appreciation. There's hard-won intelligence here. We see it in people sharing a meal and being especially kind to each other after a suicide: lots of please and...

Join the author on a journey of simple daily haikus inspired by nature. Each poem has been written as an observation of the simple, daily beauty of plants, insects and birds from the author's own garden.Author: Timothy HuffISBN-10: 1940300207ISBN-13: 9781940300207Publisher: St Petersburg PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Unwind and boost your mood with this beautiful coloring book with 30 beautiful animal drawings.Decorative Animals Coloring Book for Adults contains 30 coloring pages of beautifully drawn animals. All images are in exactly the same style as the cover. Use your favorite colors and...

Paul Strauss is a legendary modern-era settler, a NYC kid who came to Meigs County, Ohio in 1970 and fell in love with its mix of breathtaking woodland beauty and mine-scarred hillsides. Paul bought land and worked it in the old-time fashion, learning tricks...

This issue of Antennae, and the next, are informed by the exhibition Making Nature: How We See Animals the exhibition curated by Honor Beddard at Wellcome Collection in London between the 1st of December 2016 and the 21st of May 2017. This first installment,...

This book is not an evangelical diatribe which seeks to convert anyone to Christianity and it does not advocate any religion. Instead, it's universal appeal is to all denominations and faiths, non-believers and believers, as well as agnostics. It simply asks you to take...

Author: David Biek, Susan McDougallISBN-10: 0977628515ISBN-13: 9780977628513Publisher: Sound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2007Pages: 476Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.96d

The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of food and raw material, so...

Sea serpents! So you thought they were mythical beasts, figments of the imagination of medieval cartographers to fill in the corners of their maps! Think again. Sea serpents have been reliably reported all over the world right up to the present day. And some...

Who with the eye of reverence may discern How crystals form within the soul of the Earth, Watch in the quickening seed the clear flame burn, In life see death, and in decay new birth ... He who has found his kin in man...

This field guide introduces the complex history and ecology of Illinois' largest natural landscape state park. On its west side, the 8000-acre landscape is bounded by the Illinois River near its confluence with the Mississippi. Protecting one of the state's few unglaciated regions, the...

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)--the unofficial first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew--was a peerless scientific adventurer and pioneer. Not only did he reveal the floral wonders of the South Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia to European eyes, but he set Kew Gardens on...

Manna seeks to peel away the veil between the visible and invisible worlds to highlight the current events that fulfill prophecy.It is hard sometimes to grasp things of a spiritual nature because of our sinful condition.However, once God has poured out His Spirit on...

Cactus gifts for teens manFit For Women Adults Sister 120 Pages.Boy or girl should also like it because it's funny looking.Cheap cactus gift for men mom wife friend or family member.This journal is Lined Notebook journaling, writing, taking notes.It will help you improve your...

This is the first volume in the Stoked on Waterfalls book series about waterfalls in Alberta. Volume 1 aims to cover every waterfall in Alberta located within 500 meters (with a few longer exceptions) of any public road. There are 208 waterfalls described in...