Author : Dan Koeppel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594630385
"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1623176050
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us, Indigenous science has long been ignored, otherized, or perceived as "soft"--the product of a systematic, centuries-long campaign of racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, and delegitimization. Here, Jessica Hernandez--Maya Ch'orti' and Zapotec environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Piña Soul--introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vision of land stewardship that heals rather than displaces, that generates rather than destroys. She breaks down the failures of western-defined conservatism and shares alternatives, citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle; her family's fight against ecoterrorism in Latin America; and holistic land management approaches of Indigenous groups across the continent. Through case studies, historical overviews, and stories that center the voices and lived experiences of Indigenous Latin American women and land protectors, Hernandez makes the case that if we're to recover the health of our planet--for everyone--we need to stop the eco-colonialism ravaging Indigenous lands and restore our relationship with Earth to one of harmony and respect.
Author : Kirsten Chang
Publisher : Watch It Grow
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641282659
In Watch a Strawberry Grow, early fluent readers learn how strawberries grow. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this delicious berry is grown and harvested.
Author : Alessandra Veronesi
Publisher : Holy Shiver
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN :
Magical things happen just by changing how we see ourselves and approach surrounding contexts. Big or small, the impact of the moment is directly linked to the state we are in when it happens. If we are not pleased with a certain area in our lives, learning to shift the interpretation, and ourselves, is the key to unlocking inner peace and great relief. Takeaways include: · A new, easier and freeing perspective on life · Transform debilitating stress into moments of deep gratitude and insight · Learn self-love and mental stillness · Gain clarity on who you are and what you want · Break and heal unhealthy patterns · Understand how to express needs clearly · Experience inner peace and joy · Feel good in your authentic power · Learn the basics of energy · Navigate dating from a place of awareness · Be fully conscious and in purpose while in a loving romantic partnership First we learn who we are in our truth. As we grow stronger in our knowing, we attract better and better things. We navigate the ups and downs and make them work for us. Then naturally we bring people into our peace. Following our heart to discern what is the path most in favor for us. In every phase of awakening, with miles to go before we ‘know’ whatever it was we needed to know, the wisdom of the Self comes through. The guidance and support of something greater. Patient, knowing and brave. It only asks that we learn to decode it. A New Banana contains practical and Universal advice one can turn to at multiple times in their lives. Relationships covered are with the self, others (friendships, strangers, and work relationships), the Universe, money and romantic.
Author : Skinner, Sherman and Esselen, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Bananas
ISBN :
Author : Mita Bordoloi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category : Banana growers
ISBN : 9789390834259
Children's story based on a cluster of villages in central Assam's Nagaon district where farmers found a way of keeping crop-raiding elephants off their crops, by setting aside land to create a meal zone for them
Author : Angela Kay Kepler
Publisher : Pali-O-Waipio Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780983726609
Winner of the 2012 Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence in Natural Science The World of Bananas in Hawai'i: Then and Now--unique, comprehensive, colorful, authoritative, readable and with over 1,900 color illustrations--culminates nine years of exhaustive library research coupled with painstaking field and agricultural investigations in Hawai'i and other Pacific islands. It is the first book about bananas in Hawai'i and a major contribution to Hawaiian culture. It is also the first attempt to trace banana/plantain evolution within the Pacific. Truly a "banana bible," it is written in highly accessible prose embracing a broad array of topics. Lavishly illustrated, it covers virtually every edible and inedible banana in Hawai'i, Polynesian introduced and international, including the spectacular ornamentals and fe'i. The World of Bananas reflects a deep respect for Hawaiian oral history and esteemed post-contact literature, reviving long-forgotten traditional foods, chants, crafts, and everyday clothing woven from bananas. As a result of Angela Kepler's 30-year Pacific-wide ecological research, readers will encounter original ideas (e.g., how migrant seabirds likely guided Marquesan seafarers to colonize Hawai'i) and delight in the multihued tapestry of true-to-life banana tales from the nebulous dawn of Hawaiian history to the present (e.g., the rediscovery of legendary banana groves). The authors shed fascinating new light on Hawai'i's little-known "pregnant" banana, mai'a hāpai, and resurrect a long-forgotten minor goddess, Hina-'ea, whose curative mai'a lele banana once healed vitamin A deficiencies in children. Interweaving extensive original research with judicious gleanings from a tiny worldwide network of banana specialists, this book provides new, dependable, and pictorial descriptions for 140 living varieties and 22 kinship groups, illustrated keys separating similar cultivars, hundreds of name synonyms, and information on pesticide-free care and maintenance, nutritional deficiencies, and troubleshooting pests/diseases. The mouth-watering recipe chapter includes savory dishes such as banana mayonnaise and meat-plantain casseroles.
Author : Kenn Nesbitt
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2018-10-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781525285417
Children's Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt is back with more of the raucous rhymes and zany zingers that kids love to read. The Biggest Burp Ever includes seventy new poems about wacky animals, comical characters, funny families, silly situations, and much, much more.
Author : Matt Candeias
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 1642504548
The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.
Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 031626069X
The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out. That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season, and we breed and clone the hardiest, best-tasting varieties of the crops we rely on most. As a result, a smaller proportion of people on earth go hungry today than at any other moment in the last thousand years, and the streamlining of our food supply guarantees that the food we buy, from bananas to coffee to wheat, tastes the same every single time. Our corporate food system has nearly perfected the process of turning sunlight, water and nutrients into food. But our crops themselves remain susceptible to the nature's fury. And nature always wins. Authoritative, urgent, and filled with fascinating heroes and villains from around the world, Never Out of Season is the story of the crops we depend on most and the scientists racing to preserve the diversity of life, in order to save our food supply, and us.
