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Olive Odyssey

Inspired by her Syrian forebears' intimate relationship with the olive, Julie Angus embarks on a voyage around the Mediterranean to unlock the secrets of the fruit that meant so much to them. Accompanied by her husband and their ten-month-old son, Angus collects samples from ancient trees to determine where the first olive tree originated; feasts on inky black tapenades and codfish drizzled with olive oil, among many other delights; witnesses the harvesting of olives in Greece; and visits perhaps the oldest olive tree in the world, on Crete.

Mnemonic: A Book of Trees

Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction AwardWarm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defining moments in the life of novelist and essayist Theresa Kishkan.

Trees and Woodland in the South Yorkshire Landscape

Trees of Central Texas

101 Amazing Facts about Trees

Did you know that you can use a tree stump as a compass? Do you know what makes Maple trees explode?

Welcher Baum ist das?

Der praktische und kompetente Naturführer für die Jackentasche - empfohlen vom NABU. Ausführlich: die 170 bekanntesten heimischen Bäume im Porträt.

Trees of Panama and Costa Rica

This is the first field guide dedicated to the diverse tree species of Panama and Costa Rica.

Famous Trees of Texas: Texas A & M Forest Service Centennial Edition

Seed Germination, Ontogeny, and Shoot Growth

Growth and Development of Trees, Volume I: Seed Germination, Ontogeny, and Shoot Growth is a part of a two-volume treatise, which characterizes important features of growth and development of trees and other woody plants during their life cycles. Organized into eight chapters, this book describes the important events in growth of the perennial woody plant.

Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch.

Trees in Towns and Cities: A History of British Urban Arboriculture

This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain's towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the Romans to the present day, including public parks, private gardens, streets, cemeteries and many other open spaces.

The Global Forest: Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us

The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties

This edition features illustrations a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSPART I.INTRODUCTION.

Sambuco, Menta e Melissa

Piante molto diffuse, conosciute da secoli per le loro numerose proprietà, sambuco, menta e melissa sono utilissime anche oggi per il nostro benessere.

Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont

This richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organizing plants, including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, by flower color or family characteristics, as is done in most guidebooks, botanist Tim Spira takes a holistic, ecological approach that enables the reader to identify and learn about plants in their natural communities.

L'Arbre d'or

Le kayak et son propriétaire, Grant Hadwin, forestier expérimenté, étaient portés disparus depuis plusieurs mois. L'homme était un fugitif recherché pour un crime étrange et sans précédent.

Venerable Trees

When the first settlers arrived in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, they found an astonishing landscape of open woodland grazed by vast herds of bison.

Fire Behavior and Fire Protection in Timber Buildings

This volume describes fire behavior and fire protection of timbers in outdoors and indoors application mainly in construction industry.

Trees of North Texas

This comprehensive and compact volume is a field guide to all the native and naturalized trees of the north Texas zone, including the Blackland Prairies, the Cross Timbers region, and both the Rolling and High Plains.

Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast

With populations of both northern and southern trees, Pennsylvania is home to a truly diverse array of species. This book describes more than 60 species of trees found in Pennsylvania and the northeastern United States in a straightforward, informative style.

Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences

A multi-faceted reference work, the Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences addresses the core knowledge, theories, and techniques employed by plant scientists, while also concentrating on applications of these in research and in industry.

Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences

A combination of broad disciplinary coverage and scientific excellence, the Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences will be an indispensable addition to the library of anyone interested in forests, forestry and forest sciences.

Palgrave's Trees of Southern Africa

This third edition of Trees of Southern Africa has been updated, revised and expanded by Meg Coates Palgrave. It features new simplified keys based on leaf characteristics, and incorporates updated names, reclassifications and new species.

A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats

In a world without wood, we might not be here at all. Without wood, we wouldn't have had the fire, heat, and shelter that allowed us to expand into the colder regions of the planet.

Responses of Fruit Trees to Global Climate Change

Global climate change is expected to produce increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, higher temperatures, aberrant precipitation patterns and a host of other climatic changes that would affect all life on this planet.

Haws; A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern United States

The taxonomy and identification of hawthorns (Crataegus) in eastern North America is one of the most notorious challenges in regional botany. This book was written to fill a long-standing void in hawthorn understanding for the southeastern U.

Plants in North-East Highlands

Timing of blaeberry growth, tree regeneration, land use, plant orientation The author noted when blaeberry buds on Scottish alpine land began growth in spring and compared this with climatic data. He mapped natural tree regeneration on Deeside and Donside.

Trees of East Texas

This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state-the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas.

1001 Questions Answered About Trees

""A book that easily doubles as reference and a source of reading pleasure. The illustrations are clear and the index is a good guide.

Trees & Shrubs of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas

FEMALE FORESTER FOREVER

This natural world I fell into off three-inch high heels is a school of infinite learning. Sharing my knowledge and experience of forestry and arboriculture is very fulfilling.

A Handbook of Scotland's Trees

This comprehensive handbook, compiled with the expertise of Reforesting Scotland's editors, covers trees commonly found in Scotland.

Four Seasonal Trees

How can trees weather the storm? This story opens with a prologue of four seasons and their own unique characteristics.

Trees and Shrubbery

The idea for this notebook originally came from a country walk with the author Giovanna Nicaso, who stopped at every step to illustrate the abundance and uniqueness of the natural flora present at La Maliosa, an organic and biodynamic farm that has made respect for nature its raison d'etre. Over the years, these lands have become a real oasis, offering a pristine biodiversity that is expressed through the abundance of plant species representative of the Maremma Tuscany.

Trees, Forested Landscapes and Grazing Animals: A European Perspective on Woodlands and Grazed Treescapes

In this comprehensive book, the critical components of the European landscape - forest, parkland, and other grazed landscapes with trees are addressed.

Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society

Cottonwood and the River of Time looks at some of the approaches scientists have used to unravel the puzzles of the natural world.

Handbook of Quantitative Forest Genetics

This handbook was designed as a reference tool for forest geneticists, tree breeders and other tree improvement personnel, as well as a textbook for university courses and short-courses at the graduate level in quantitative genetics.

Tra la terra e il cielo

La vita segreta degli alberi e il loro rapporto millenario con gli esseri umani sono al centro di questo affascinante libro, nel quale l'esperienza personale si fonde con l'analisi scientifica di una delle massime esperte nel mondo. A partire dalle radici fino alle cime vertiginose raggiunte dalle loro chiome, l'autrice ci illustra la vita biologica degli alberi, la loro importanza nell'ecosistema, ricordandoci il ruolo primario che essi hanno assunto nella nostra vita e nella nostra cultura: l'albero è fonte di alimentazione, nel corso della storia ci ha fornito il materiale per costruire le nostre case, ha favorito le scoperte mediche per la cura del nostro corpo, ha ispirato l'arte, la religione, il mito e, soprattutto, continua a essere una inesauribile sorgente di arricchimento spirituale.

Trees for Everyone

Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the YearIt was late April when I came by. As I looked up into that tree top the sunlight was shining through, and at first I thought I must be dreaming.

Journeys Through Eastern Old-Growth Forests: A Narrative Guide

Yes, there is old-growth forest in the Maritimes. The Acadian Forest, as it is known, is a complex mosaic of various species and ages.