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A Manual of California Vegetation
John Sawyer, Todd Keeler-Wolf and Julie Evens
California is famous for its plant communities and forests and this guide focuses on conserving both the individual species and the surrounding habitat. The vegetation classification system introduced in the first edition has since become widely accepted as the state standard.
This completely updated second edition has been expanded to include over 485 descriptions and 352 vegetation maps complete with information on regional variations and fire and flooding history.
Pub. Date: March 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
094346049
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Abiotic Disorders of Landscape Plants
Author: Laurance R. Costello
This manual contains a wealth of information to help you diagnose abiotic disorders in landscape plants – disorders caused by environmental, physiological or other nonbiological factors.
You’ll learn how to diagnose injury symptoms from over 20 different abiotic agents including water deficit, nutrient deficiencies, salinity, pH, sunburn, air pollution, herbicide and other chemical phytotoxicities, mechanical injuries, lightning, wind, and hail. You’ll also learn how to develop a step-by-step diagnostic strategy.
Included are strategies, techniques, and tools you can use in diagnosing plant problems, common injury symptoms and their abiotic causes, and plant traits that can resemble abiotic disorders.
Illustrated with 319 color photographs and 38 tables, this book is a "must-have" for the library of every landscape professional.
Publication Number: 3420
Inventory Type: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1-879906-58-7
Copyright Date: 2003
Length: 242 pp.
187990658
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Advances in Food Biochemistry
Editor(s) - Fatih Yildiz
Reflecting the rapid pace of discovery that has taken place over the last decade, Applied Food Biochemistry presents a unique, up-to-date, and unified introduction to food chemistry from a biochemical standpoint. Featuring color illustrations to elucidate molecular concepts throughout the text, this book addresses the relationship between nutrition and genetics, food-environment interactions, and the regulation of contaminants, additives, herbs and dietary supplements. Coverage of recent developments includes water isotopes, bioactive lipids and carbohydrates, phytochemicals, essential oils, aroma compounds, phenolic acids, DNA traceability, nutrigenomics, and toxigenomics.
Pub. Date: January 20, 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Format: Hardcover, 521pp
084937499
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Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari
by Mark W. Moffett
"Mark Moffett has been described as 'the Jane Goodall of ants.' Certainly Adventures among Ants, with its detailed account of his fieldwork, makes an invaluable contribution to our scientific knowledge of these creatures. But it does more. It is so well written and captures his excitement so wonderfully that it will bring this wealth of information to a far wider audience. I was fascinated by ants when I was a child—how I wish this book had been available to me then!"—Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace
"Mark Moffett is in the front rank of present-day explorer naturalists. He has been in many of the most remote parts of the world, and has thorough scientific knowledge of his subject. His photographs are superb, the best ever taken."—Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Future of Life and The Ants
"Mark Moffett's Adventures among Ants is a complete celebration of the fascinations of ants that is accessible to the general reader. Happily the book has much to offer professional biologists too. Here academics can acquire novel perspectives on issues associated with ant social biology, ranging from the foraging tactics of army ants to the evolution of the extraordinary invasive ant species now conquering the Northern Hemisphere to the utility of the term 'superorganism.' Admire the photographs but do not neglect the text."—John Alcock, author of Animal Behavior
Pub. Date: May 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
052026199
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by Richard Manning
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.
The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: February 2005
ISBN-13: 9780865477131
240pp
086547713
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Agritourism and Nature Tourism in California (2nd Edition)
Agritourism has emerged as a viable financial option for many farms and ranches. Since the publication of the first edition of Agritourism and Nature Tourism, the landscape has changed as counties and local governments incorporate agritourism into their local plans. This new edition builds on the concepts of the first, and adds updated information on regulations, risk management, and new marketing trends.
What’s new in the 2nd edition?
• Coverage of recent changes to the county, state and federal policies that impact agritourism
• An expanded marketing chapter including information on social media marketing
• An extensive listing of California agricultural marketing organizations
• An expanded chapter on risk management
• New agritourism contacts and links
As with the first edition you’ll find easy-to-use worksheets and activities that will walk you through the steps needed to determine if agritourism is for you. You’ll create business and marketing plans that can make your operation a success.
Chapters include:
Consider the Possibilities
Evaluating Your Resources: Is Tourism for You?
Creating Your Business Plan
Understanding and Navigating Regulations
Developing Your Risk Management Plan
Designing Your Marketing Strategy
Resources for Success
From farm stays and bed and breakfasts to U-pick orchards and farm stands, cooking classes to wine and olive oil tastings, the ever popular corn maze to school trips—agritourism is maturing and growing. The possibilities are still as endless as your imagination.
Workshop attendees raved about the first edition as a resource for tourist business planning. One participant from a workshop in Paso Robles said, "Chapter Two on 'Assessing Your Potential' really helped my husband and me refine our vision and get started. It made us aware of ALL the components that must be addressed." Another participant from a workshop in Reedley says, "I used the information in the manual to prepare my expansion and my plan to meet with county staff, before I submit an application."
Publication Number: 3484
Author: HOLLY GEORGE, ELLIE RILLA
Inventory Type: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1-60107-742-4
Copyright Date: 2011
Length: 151 pp
160107742
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Agronomy and Economy of Black Pepper and Cardamom
by K.P. Prabhakaran Nair
Known as the "King" of spices, black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) and the "Queen" of spices, cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum M.), both perennial crops of the tropics, are the most important and most widely sought after spice crops of the world. They both have many uses, for example, both are used as flavourings and as a medicine.
This book provides a comprehensive review of these two very important spice crops, covering origin, history, geographical distribution, production, economy and their uses.
Discusses the two major spices of great economic value to the developing world
The author is an eminent scientist who has won numerous awards for his work in this area
Pub. Date: July 2011
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Format: Hardcover , 380pp
012391865
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