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Dangerous Garden
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Author : David C. Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004
Dangerous Garden written by David C. Stuart and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digitalis. The gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, revealing more than soothing balms and heroic cures. Most of the truly powerful and effective medicinal plants are double-edged, with a dark side to balance the light. They can heal or kill, calm or enslave, lift depression or summon our gods and monsters. Often the difference between these polar effects is a simple change in dosage. Stuart chronicles the tale of how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes. As plant species traveled the globe, their medicinal uses evolved over miles and through centuries. Plants once believed to be cure-alls are now considered too dangerous for use. Others, once so valuable that they sowed the wealth of empires, are merely spices on the kitchen shelf. David Stuart recounts engrossing human stories too, not only of the scientists, explorers, and doctors who gathered, named, and prescribed these plants but also the shamans, magicians, and quacks who claimed to possess the ultimate herbal aphrodisiac or elixir.
A Dangerous Garden
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Author : Brent Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2001-07-18
A Dangerous Garden written by Brent Maxwell and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-18 with Fiction categories.
Daniel Mathews was strong, industrious and honest. He was a nice guy. He was also a drug dealer. He cultivated marijuana for a living. During the course of one fateful year in the mid 1980s, Daniel would have the metal of his character tested to its limits. His illegal lifestyle was rife with treacherous pitfalls. Was it possible for him to retain his integrity and continue his dangerous business? The tranquil and beautiful valleys of British Columbia are the setting for this story of intrigue and betrayal where Daniel Matthews resides. He farms and ranches there, his main crop consisting of the illegal plant marijuana. He has several partners, other local residents. This novel takes place over the course of one year in four parts, from summer to spring wherein Daniel questions his dangerous lifestyle - the growing and selling of marijuana. His son is sixteen, and at the age when he is exposed to marijuana and other drugs- a fact which greatly concerns Daniel. Daniel and his friends Tommy and Brian cultivate large plots of the crop and spend most of their time tending to them, and worrying about them. Numerous other neighbours in the rural area also grow the illegal herb. An unexpected visitor, Cheyenne, arrives at Daniel's farm. He is an old friend whom they suspect has become a narcotics agent. This complicates an already dangerous situation. Through the harrowing and dangerous summer and autumn months of growing and harvesting Daniel grows increasingly unhappy with his lifestyle. He begins to question what he does, who his friends are, and what he really wants in his life. The climax sees Daniel discovering evidence of betrayal and perhaps even murder. His life-altering decision can no longer be postponed.
A Dangerous Garden
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Author : Brent Maxwell
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2001
A Dangerous Garden written by Brent Maxwell and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
Daniel Mathews was strong, industrious and honest. He was a nice guy. He was also a drug dealer. He cultivated marijuana for a living. During the course of one fateful year in the mid 1980s, Daniel would have the metal of his character tested to its limits. His illegal lifestyle was rife with treacherous pitfalls. Was it possible for him to retain his integrity and continue his dangerous business? The tranquil and beautiful valleys of British Columbia are the setting for this story of intrigue and betrayal where Daniel Matthews resides. He farms and ranches there, his main crop consisting of the illegal plant marijuana. He has several partners, other local residents. This novel takes place over the course of one year in four parts, from summer to spring wherein Daniel questions his dangerous lifestyle - the growing and selling of marijuana. His son is sixteen, and at the age when he is exposed to marijuana and other drugs- a fact which greatly concerns Daniel. Daniel and his friends Tommy and Brian cultivate large plots of the crop and spend most of their time tending to them, and worrying about them. Numerous other neighbours in the rural area also grow the illegal herb. An unexpected visitor, Cheyenne, arrives at Daniel's farm. He is an old friend whom they suspect has become a narcotics agent. This complicates an already dangerous situation. Through the harrowing and dangerous summer and autumn months of growing and harvesting Daniel grows increasingly unhappy with his lifestyle. He begins to question what he does, who his friends are, and what he really wants in his life. The climax sees Daniel discovering evidence of betrayal and perhaps even murder. His life-altering decision can no longer be postponed.
Death In The Garden
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Author : Michael Brown
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2018-03-30
Death In The Garden written by Michael Brown and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Nature categories.
“Readers who enjoy plants and offbeat tales will find Brown’s book a happy mix” (Publishers Weekly). Mankind has always had a morbid fascination with poisonous plants. Over the centuries, poisonous plants have been used to remove garden pests—as well as unwanted rivals and deceitful partners. They have also been used for their medicinal qualities, as rather dangerous cosmetics, and even to help seduce a lover when perceived as an aphrodisiac. Some of these and other uses originate in a medieval book that has not yet been translated into English. This book delves into the history of these plants, covering such topics as: How shamans and priests used these plants for their magical attributes, as a means to foretell the future or to commune with the gods How a pot of basil helped to conceal a savage murder The truth about the mysterious mandrake A conundrum written by Jane Austen to entertain her family—the answer to which is one of the plants in this book These stories and many more will enlighten you on these treacherous and peculiar plants, their defensive and deadly traits, the facts behind them, and the folklore that has grown around them.
A Guide To Poisonous House And Garden Plants
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Author : Anthony Knight
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
A Guide To Poisonous House And Garden Plants written by Anthony Knight and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Medical categories.
This title is an excellent resource to help indentify poisonous plants in the home and garden and contains the most current information about plant toxicity in dogs and cats. This essential reference allows veterinarians to not only identify poisonous plants, but also includes the toxic properties of the plant and the clinical signs that can be exp
Dangerously Ever After
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Author : Dashka Slater
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-09-13
Dangerously Ever After written by Dashka Slater and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-13 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Not all princesses are made of sugar and spice--some are made of funnier, fiercer stuff Princess Amanita laughs in the face of danger. Brakeless bicycles, pet scorpions, spiky plants--that's her thing. So when quiet Prince Florian gives her roses, Amanita is unimpressed . . . until she sees their glorious thorns! Now she must have rose seeds of her own. But when huge, honking noses grow instead, what is a princess with a taste for danger to do? For readers seeking a princess with pluck comes an independent heroine who tackles obstacles with a bouquet of sniffling noses. At once lovely and delightfully absurd, here's a story to show how elastic ideas of beauty and princesses can be.
Garden Plots
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Author : Shelley Saguaro
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2006
Garden Plots written by Shelley Saguaro and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick.
The Dangerous Pirate Treasure
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Author : Hedley Griffin
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2011-06-03
The Dangerous Pirate Treasure written by Hedley Griffin and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A funny short children's story about Harey the hair-brained rabbit and his friends, Pillow the parrot, Chips, the dog, and Scampi, the cat, go looking for treasure after finding an old pirate treasure map in the loft, but dig up an electricity cable instead.
A Dangerous Adventure In The Garden
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Author : M. L. Serafim
language : en
Publisher:
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A Dangerous Adventure In The Garden written by M. L. Serafim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Kevin needs to save his little sister Carol, who got lost in her huge garden, a place full of mysteries... To do this, he will have the help of his little dog Rex, and they can't even imagine the incredible dangers they will face. Join Kevin, Carol and Rex on this fantastic adventure, facing spiders, bees, bats and mysterious creatures...
In The Garden Of Poisonous Flowers
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Author : Caitlín R. Kiernan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
In The Garden Of Poisonous Flowers written by Caitlín R. Kiernan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Georgia categories.