This richly illustrated book provides an in-depth natural history of the most poisonous plants on earth, covering everything from the lethal effects of hemlock and deadly nightshade to the uses of such plants in medicine, ritual, and chemical warfare.
Featuring hundreds of color photos and diagrams throughout, Plants That Kill explains how certain plants evolved toxicity to deter herbivores and other threats and sheds light on their physiology and the biochemistry involved in the production of their toxins. It discusses the interactions of poisonous plants with other organisms--particularly humans--and explores the various ways plant toxins can target the normal functioning of bodily systems in mammals, from the effects of wolfsbane on the heart to toxins that cause a skin reaction when combined with the sun's rays. This intriguing book also looks at plants that can harm you only if your exposure to them is prolonged, the ethnobotany of poisons throughout human history, and much more.
A must for experts and armchair botanists alike, Plants That Kill is the essential illustrated compendium to these deadly and intriguing plants.
Provides an authoritative natural history of the most poisonous plants on earth
Features hundreds of color illustrations throughout
Looks at how and why plants produce toxins
Describes the effects of numerous poisonous plants, from hemlock and deadly nightshade to poppies and tobacco
Explains poisonous plants' evolution, survival strategies, physiology, and biochemistry
Discusses the uses of poisonous plants in medicine, rituals, warfare, and more
Автор: Liew Sonny Название: The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye ISBN: 1101870699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101870693 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art stylesand forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself. With "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye" Sonny Liew has drawn together a myriad of genres to create a thoroughly ingenious and engaging work, where the line between truth and construct may sometimes be blurred, but where the story told is always enthralling, bringing us on a uniquely moving, funny, and thought-provoking journey through the life of an artist and the history of a nation."
Автор: Keith Thor Carlson, John Sutton Lutz, David M. Schaepe, Naxaxalhts`i Albert " "Sonny " " McHalsie Название: Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River ISBN: 0887558178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780887558177 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4007.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Towards a New Ethnohistory engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This New Ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who have for too long foisted their own research agendas onto Indigenous communities.Community-engaged scholarship invites members of the Indigenous community themselves to identify the research questions, host the researchers while they conduct the research, and participate meaningfullyin the analysis of the researchers’ findings. The historical research topics chosen by the St?:l? community leaders and knowledge keepers for the contributors to this collection range from the intimate and personal, to the broad and collective. But what principally distinguishes the analyses is the way settler colonialism is positioned as something that unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways within St?:l? history,as opposed to the other way around.This collection presents the best work to come out of the world’s only graduate-level humanities-based ethnohistory fieldschool. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.
Автор: Longtine Sonny Название: Murder in Michigan`s Upper Peninsula ISBN: 154020961X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781540209610 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Sonny Barger, With Keith Zimmerman and Kent Zimmer Название: Hell`s Angel ISBN: 1841153362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841153360 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The autobiography - the dangerous life and wild times - of Sonny Barger, the legendary leader of the Hell`s Angels.
Автор: Stark Sonny I. Название: My Angel Is Sweet As Chocolate ISBN: 1977235107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977235107 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2382.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Angel's Shoes Are Missing Can you help Angel find them? Join Angel and Angel's playful puppy Spot on their adventure to piece together the mystery. Will they find Angel's shoes, or will Angel discover something even more important?
Автор: Jones, Thom Название: Sonny liston was a friend of mine ISBN: 0571351972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571351978 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 462.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sonny Liston gave Kid Dynamite the slightest hint of a smile and winked. In the build-up to a fight, Kid Dynamite`s head swirls - with thoughts of his estranged father, his difficult relationship with his stepfather, the time he met his hero, and the sense that his own life is reaching a moment of change.
Автор: Sonny Seals, George Hart Название: Historic Rural Churches of Georgia ISBN: 0820349356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820349350 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of Georgia. Nearly three hundred stunning colour photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries.
Автор: Daldorph Brian Название: Sonny Kenners Red Guitar ISBN: 0979584469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780979584466 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Theard M. D. Christine Название: It`s All Good, Colossal Conversations with Sonny Rollins ISBN: 173258270X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732582705 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3442.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It`s All Good, Colossal Conversations with Sonny Rollins is an invitation to quietly listen in on conversations with this jazz icon as he discusses profound personal experiences, inspirations, blessings, struggle, suffering, healing, the truth and his spiritual path.
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