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Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences eBook Series

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  • Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico

    Edited by Alejandro Casas, José Juan Blancas Vázquez ...
    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of ... Read more

    $494.99 USD

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  • Dinosaur Footprints & Trackways of La Rioja

    by Félix Pérez-Lorente ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A guide to this fossil-rich area of Spain: "Likely to become a landmark reference in dinosaur ichnology." —James O. FarlowDuring the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even ... Read more

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  • Crop Ecology, Cultivation and Uses of Cactus Pear

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    If people are to survive in these ever harsher conditions, their crops need to withstand drought, high temperatures and poor soils.Cactus crops are gaining increasing interest across the globe, in particular cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica), because of its unique characteristics which provide resilience to the above mentioned harsh conditions. Cactus pear is able to grow on land where no other ... Read more

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  • Bamboo furniture. Phyllostachys aurea

    by Virginia Carmiol Umaña ...
    Phyllostachys aurea is a manual the pretends to bring out the many possibilities that bamboo offers. The work describes the different varieties and species of this plant, and in plain language and with illustrations, describes techniques for the manufacture of craft products, as well as a synthesis on design and ergonomic factors specific to furniture. ... Read more

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  • Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests

    Edited by Diana Perez-Staples, Francisco Diaz-Fleischer, Pablo Montoya, Maria Vera ...
    Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication*. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests* comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse ... Read more

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  • Capybara

    Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species

    Edited by José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species) is found from the Panama Canal to the north of Argentina on the east of the Andes. Chile is the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Agave Spirits

    The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals

    by Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., David Suro Piñera ...
    **Winner of the 2024 James Beard Foundation's Award for Beverage Writing without Recipes“A manifesto…[and] a positive spin on the future of mezcal.” —Florence Fabricant, New York TimesThe agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila.**All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave ... Read more

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  • Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric

    An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding

    by Penny Dransart ...
    Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Cerrados of Brazil

    Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Savanna

    Edited by Paulo Oliveira, Robert Marquis ...
    While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil—known as the cerrados—which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the ... Read more

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  • Pot-Honey

    A legacy of stingless bees

    Edited by Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The stingless bees are one of the most diverse, attractive, fascinating, conspicuous and useful of all the insect groups of the tropical world. This is a formidable and contentious claim but I believe it can be backed up. They are fifty times more species rich than the honey bees, the other tribe of highly eusocial bees. They are ubiquitous in the tropics and thrive in tropical cities. In rural ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Soils of Mexico

    by Pavel Krasilnikov, Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Robert J. Ahrens, Carlos Omar Cruz-Gaistardo, Sergey Sedov, Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Mexico is an extensive country with an extremely complex mosaic of landscapes. The soils of Mexico have still not been completely studied, and there are few publications available on this subject. This book provides a state-of-the-art view on Mexican soils, their geographical distribution, their use and degradation. This is a first attempt to give a systematized characteristic of the soil ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

    New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

    Edited by Tom D. Dillehay ...
    Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor ... Read more

    $47.59 USD