1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910477116903321

Autore

Small Ernest <1940->

Titolo

North American cornucopia : top 100 indigenous food plants / / Ernest Small

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Florida : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2013]

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xlix, 743 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

581.632

Soggetti

Plants, Edible - North America

Endemic plants - North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Acerola -- American Chestnut -- American Ginseng -- American persimmon -- Anise Hyssop -- Aronia -- Azolla (Mosquito Ferns) -- Bergamot -- Bilberry -- Black Walnut -- Blackberries and Dewberries -- Blue Honeysuckle -- Blue Waxweed -- Blueberries -- Buffaloberries -- Buffalo Gourd -- Butternut -- Cabbage Palmetto -- Cactus Pear -- California Bay -- Camas -- Canada Garlic -- Cattails -- Cherries: North American Species -- Chinkapin -- Chive -- Chufa -- Cloudberry -- Coast Tarweed -- Cranberry -- (American) Cranberry Bush (Highbush Cranberry) -- Crowberry -- Devil's Claw -- Duck Potato -- Dwarf Cape Gooseberry -- Dwarf Glasswort -- Elder -- Epazote -- Evening Primrose -- Fiddlehead Fern (Ostrich Fern) -- Golden Chia -- Golden Currant -- Grapes -- Groundnut (Apios) -- Hawthorns (Including Mayhaws) -- Hazelnuts -- Hickories -- Hog Peanut -- Honewort -- Hop -- Huckleberries -- Jerusalem Artichoke -- Jojoba -- Joshua Tree -- Juniper -- Labrador Tea -- Lingonberry -- May-Apple -- Maypop -- Mesquite -- Mexican Oregano -- Mountain Mint -- Nettle (Stinging Nettle) -- Nodding Onion -- Northern Gooseberry -- Ogechee Lime -- Oregon Grape -- Paper Birch -- Paradise Tree -- Pawpaw -- Pecan -- Pinon Pine -- Plums: North American Species -- Pokeweed -- Prairie Turnip -- Raspberries -- Red Mulberry -- Reed (Common) -- Roses -- Saguaro -- Salal -- Salmonberry -- Saskatoon -- Sassafras -- Saw Palmetto -- Scotch



Lovage -- Scurvy Grass -- Sea Grape -- Spicebush -- Squash (Cucurbita pepo Squash) -- Strawberries: North American Species -- Sugar Maple -- Sunflower -- Sweet Gale -- Tepary Bean -- Wild Leek (Ramp) -- Wild Rice -- Winter Purslane -- Yampah -- Yerba Buena.

Sommario/riassunto

"Presenting detailed scholarship, a thoroughly accessible style, and numerous entertaining anecdotes, North American Cornucopia: Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants is a full-color book dedicated to the most important 100 native food plants of North America north of Mexico that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential".

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778809103321

Autore

Bould Mark

Titolo

The Routledge concise history of science fiction / / Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9780203830161 (Electronic Book)

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Routledge concise histories of literature series

Altri autori (Persone)

VintSherryl <1969->

Disciplina

809.3/8762

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Problems of definition -- Science fictions before Gernsback -- Proliferations : the 1930s -- Campbell's "revolution" in context : the 1940s -- Cold war, consumerism, cybernetics : the 1950s -- New realities, new fictions : the 1960s and 1970s -- New voices, new concerns : the 1960s and 1970s -- New politics, new technologies : the 1980s and 1990s -- Empire and expansion : the 1980s and 1990s -- Possible futures.