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1) Corn
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An introduction to the corn we eat, starting at the farm with its planting and harvesting, until it is sold in markets. Also discusses the manufacture of other products made from corn.
2) Calabazas
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Presents a history of pumpkins and explains how they are grown. Also includes their nutritional value, facts, and pumpkin recipes.
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Whether you live in Brooklyn, Dublin, Abu Dhabi, or the deserts of Arizona, there are some places where straw bales can be hard to find. No worries. If you have access to organic matter-practically any organic matter-you can form and compress it into planting bales. In my visits to Cambodia and the Philippines, I have seen the locals adopt ingenious techniques for making bales from rice straw. In Costa Rica, they use spent sugar-cane stalks. Basically,...
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"From prescription medicines and alcohol to cocaine and cannabis, the use of drugs has reached an unprecedented high. We have always sought to alter our moods and relieve pain, so why today are some drugs prescribed or licensed while others remain prohibited? Cannabis is already partially legalized in more than 50 countries. Should magic mushrooms, MDMA and LSD be next in line? This illuminating investigation into the effects of drug use on individual...
12) Cannabis
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"In Cannabis Chris Duvall explores the cultural history and geography of humanity's most widely distributed crop, which supplies both hemp and marijuana."--Publisher's description.
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"Throughout history flowers have been an integral part of human survival and culture - as food, for medicine, to express feelings, as symbols, to commemorate and celebrate, and to decorate. Their shapes, colors, scents and textures have always attracted us, as they do animals and insects. Flowers are used as luxury spices (saffron), and as coloring and flavoring agents - marigolds fed to chickens make eggs more yellow and lavender was Elizabeth I's...
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Miedo y asco. El mundo es tan corrupto como Las Vegas. Un paraíso capitalista donde la vida se consume al límite. En la jungla fluorescente de los casinos, las esculturas de neón y los hoteles de lujo. Al límite de las fuerzas y la energía. Al límite del yo. El agotamiento es la verdad del juego. La ruina fatal, sin dinero ni tiempo para malgastarlo. La alucinación ácida, como nueva forma de lucidez, usurpando el lugar de la utopía imposible....
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"The global water crisis is upon us. 1 in 3 people do not have access to safe drinking water; nearly 1 million people die each year as a result. Even in places with adequate freshwater, pollution and poor infrastructure have left residents without basic water security. Luckily, there is a solution to this crisis where we least expect it. Icebergs -- frozen mountains of freshwater -- are more than a symbol of climate change. In his spellbinding Chasing...
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Learn to reconnect with plants and nature for collective healing in a world beset by environmental crisis with this herbalism and eco-activist handbook.
"Breathtakingly beautiful . . . a gentle and welcoming hand offering to guide those of us seeking mindful connection and mutually nurturing paths through life in the Anthropocene."--Whitney Leigh Morris, author of Small Space Style
Alyson Morgan, a second-generation Haitian American, grew up feeling...
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Building with Straw Bales explains in straightforward terms the principles of straw bale building. It covers design principles; the different types of foundations; how to raise and stabilise walls and protect them from the weather, including a detailed analysis of how straw performs with humidity; and how strawbale buildings can easily meet Building Regulations requirements. Straw bale building is now entering the mainstream - used by firms who see...
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