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The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Peter Hofmann • Richard Litz • Jonathan Crane • André Ernst • Carlos Balerdi • Alejandro Barrientos Priego • Mary Arpaia • Ben Faber • Rodrigo López-Gómez • Uri Lavi • Elizabeth Dann • Andre Chanderbali • Pilar Gil • Lindy Coates • Mark Hoddle • Edward Evans • Derek Donkin • Carol Lovatt • Greg Douhan • Emanuel Lahav • Victor Albert • John Bower • Jay Bost • Martín Aluja • Lauren Garner • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Gary BenderAlthough the avocado has been cultivated and consumed for more than 9000 years in its native Latin America, world production and trade have only developed over the past few decades, and now exceed 3.5 million tonnes. The avocado is now widely traded between warmer and colder countries as a result o... More
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Avocado
by Anthony W Whiley • Jonathan Crane • André Ernst • Carlos Balerdi • Alejandro Barrientos Priego • Mary Arpaia • Ben Faber • Rodrigo López-Gómez • Uri Lavi • Elizabeth Dann • Andre Chanderbali • Pilar Gil • Lindy Coates • Bruce Schaffer • Mark Hoddle • Edward Evans • Derek Donkin • Carol Lovatt • Greg Douhan • Peter Hofmann • Emanuel Lahav • Victor Albert • John Bower • Jay Bost • Richard Litz • Martín Aluja • Lauren Garner • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Gary Bender • B Nigel WolstenholmeAlthough avocado has been cultivated and consumed for more than 9000 years near its centre of origin in Latin America, world production and trade has increased dramatically over the past few decades. The avocado is now a widely traded fruit between warmer and colder countries as a result of the glob... More
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Guava: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by M. Muthukumar • Sandeep Kumar • Edward Evans • Martín Aluja • Andrea Birke • Daniel Carrillo • Fredy H Ballen • Siti H Ahmad • Anup K. Bhattacherjee • Regina M.D.G. Carneiro • José Mauro Castro • Po-An Chen • Rosemary Du Preez • Larissa Guillén • Azimah Hamidon • Hamizah Hassan • Rodrigo Lasa • Shu-Yen Lin • Leslie R. Landrum • Maneesh Mishra • Ashok K. Misra • Mohamad Munirah • Pradyot K. Pathak • Pravat K. Ray • Marcilene F.A. Santos • Vinod K. Singh • Manoj K. Soni • Margo Sulistio • Nor E Tajidin • Dileep K. Tandon • Chun-Ta WuGuava (Psidium guajava L.) is an exquisite, nutritionally and economically valuable crop of tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It outshines other tropical fruits in productivity, hardiness, adaptability, nutritional value, and ensures higher economic returns to growers. Guava is commerci... More
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The Papaya: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Amalendu Ghosh • Robert E Paull • Víctor Galán Saúco • Edward Evans • Rebecca Ford • S H Ahmad • Christian Alcocer • Fredy H Ballen • Luis Barboza-Barquero • Paul R Campbell • A Chan • Fure-Chyi Chen • Nancy Jung Chen • Ting-Chi Cheng • Shih Wen Chin • Rod Drew • Franscisco Espadas • Humberto Estrella • João Paulo Fabi • Gabriela Fuentes • Amaranta Giron • Julián Cuevas González • Eric Guevara • Marco V Gutiérrez-Soto • Eudaldo Pérez Hernández • Jian-Zhi Huang • Víctor M Jiménez • Chutchamas Kanchana-Udomkan • Matiyar Rahaman Khan • Chen-Yu Lee • Wen-Li Lee • Pauziah Muda • M Munirah • Usana Nantawan • Eder Dutra Resende • Jorge Manuel Santamaria-Fernandez • S K Sharma • N I Shukor • N E Tajidin • Carlos Talavera • Lynton L Vawdrey • Ziwei ZhouPapaya (Carica papaya) is an important and widely-cultivated tropical fruit, grown in more than 60 countries of the world. Global papaya production has grown significantly over the last few years, mainly as a result of increased production in India. Papaya has become an important agricultural export... More
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The Memoirs Of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: Recollections Of The Second French Empire
Despite not speaking a word of French, the intrepid Dr. Evans left his native Philadelphia for Paris. His professional qualifications as a dentist did not seem to indicate that his life be filled with the adventures that he gleefully threw himself into. Within a short period in Paris, he became reno... More
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The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (New Black Studies Series #1)
by Derrick P. Alridge • Keisha N. Blain • Cornelius L. Bynum • Jeffrey Lamar Coleman • Pero Gaglo Dagbovie • Stephanie Y. Evans • Aaron David Gresson • Claudrena N. Harold • Leonard Harris • Maurice J. Hobson • La TaSha Levy • Layli Maparyan • Zebulon V. Miletsky • R. Baxter Miller • Edward Onaci • Venetria K. Patton • James B. Stewart • Nikki M. TaylorConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. Thi... More
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Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle: Marshall McLuhan, Nellie McClung, René Lévesque and many more
by Edward Butts • John Wilson • Arthur Slade • Kathryn Bridge • Sharon Stewart • Roderick Stewart • Heather Kirk • Ged Martin • T. F. Rigelhof • Tom Henighan • Peggy Dymond Leavey • Nathan Tidridge • Rosemary Sadlier • Nicholas Maes • Ray Argyle • Julie H. Ferguson • Valerie Knowles • Deborah Cowley • Wayne Larsen • Michelle Labrèche-Larouche • Raymond Plante • Kate Braid • Judith Fitzgerald • Margaret Macpherson • Lian Goodall • Marguerite Paulin • Francine Legaré • Gary Evans • Tom Shardlow • Anne Cimon • André Vanasse • D. T. LaheyThis special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of these figures are truly famous, while others were quietly influential. Among the wide variety of people... More
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Ex Situ Plant Conservation: Supporting Species Survival In The Wild (Science Practice Ecological Restoration #3)
by Peter H. Raven • Kayri Havens • Center for Plant Conservation • Edward O. Guerrant • Michael MaunderFaced with widespread and devastating loss of biodiversity in wild habitats, scientists have developed innovative strategies for studying and protecting targeted plant and animal species in "off-site" facilities such as botanic gardens and zoos. Such ex situ work is an increasingly important compon... More
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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
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