Palaiseau, Polytechnique Publishing,. First edition:1999. 102 p. La brochure «L’explosion des mathématiques», conçue par la Société mathématique de France (SMF) et la Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles (SMAI), a été réalisée avec le soutien financier du Ministère de la Recherche et du CNFM (Comité national français des mathématiciens). Les éditeurs remercient...
CRC Press, 2023. — 229 p. — (Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants). — ISBN: 978-0-367-77586-5. This unique volume draws on the rich culture, folklore, and environment of medicinal plants in Ecuador, which includes the important rainforest region. This country has rich plant resources and a large diversity of plants. In particular, the Biotechnological Research Center of...
Article. Analecta. 2007. R. 16. Z. 1-2. S. 191-245. The author describes the history of Polish ethnobotany and provides a brief bibliography of works on this topic.
Springer, 2021. — 2106 p. — (Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions). — ISBN: 978-3-030-57407-9. Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that "traditional" knowledge is always in flux...
CRC Press, 2021. — 426 p. The book provides valuable information on wild plants and their ethnopharmacological properties, a discussion on ethnobotany, phytotherapy, diversity, and chemical and pharmacological properties including antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and antiprotozoal properties. The chapters include a wide range of case studies, giving updated evidence on the...
CRC Press, 2023. — 265 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-05986-0. In this book, we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stems from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. We have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs....
CRC Press, 2019. — 289 p. — ISBN: 9781138320666. Ethnobotany includes the traditional use of plants in different fields like medicine and agriculture. This book incorporates important studies based on ethnobotany of different geographic zones. The book covers medicinal and aromatic plants, ethnopharmacology, bioactive molecules, plants used in cancer, hypertension, disorders of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 384 p. This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture). Ethnobotany: A...
Soloturn: Entheobotanica, 2001. — 158 p. A unique comprehensive review of insufflated plant preparations used as shamanic inebriants. The history, ethnobotany, and chemistry of the 3 major classes of snuffs-Anadenanthera species, Virola species, and Nicotiana species-are thoroughly detailed. 57 monographs of lesser-known ethnomedicinal snuffs, including many ill-studied African...
Apple Academic Press, 2017. — 2242 p. This new 5-volume set, Ethnobotany of India , provides an informative overview of human-plant interrelationships in India, focusing on the regional plants and their medicinal properties and uses. Each volume focuses on a different significant region of India, including. Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan. Volume 2: Western Ghats and West...
Springer, 2023. — 410 p. Provides documentation for Baobab's global cultural significance. Elucidates the popular interest in Baobab identified as the "tree of life". Fully describes Baobab for its food potential suitable for dry environments. Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the...
Delve Publishing, 2021. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-1-77407-802-0. This book provides ethnobotanical data about the traditional uses of medicinal plants across the world. This book aims to analyze and evaluate the use of medicinal crops among different groups of people. The book mentions that medicinal plants can be used to treat various diseases, especially respiratory diseases and...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023. — 1198 p. — eISBN: 978-2-503-60613-2. Bears have, throughout human history, been admired and feared by humans in equal measure, with an interrelationship between the two species identifiable from pre-modern times through a wealth of material items, as well as from cult sites, sacral remains, images, and written sources. This unique...
Routledge, 2002. — 240 p. Modern society is beginning to re-examine its whole relationship with animals and the natural world. Until recently issues such as animal welfare and environmental protection were considered the domain of small, idealistic minorities. Now, these issues attract vast numbers of articulate supporters who collectively exercise considerable political...
The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. — 365 p. — ISBN: 0807817767, 9780807817766. In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies — the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with...
University of North Carolina Press, 1988. — 365 p. In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies — the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for...
Denton: University of North Texas, 2013. — 310 p. The Society of Ethnobiology is pleased to announce the publication of Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea, edited by Marsha Quinlan and Dana Lepofsky. This collection of papers, compiled in honor of ethnobiologist Amadeo Rea, is the first in our new online and print-on-demand series, Contributions in...
2nd edition. — CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, 2024. — 458 p. — (Texts in Statistical Science). — ISBN: 978-1-032-39781-8. Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology with R, like its First Edition, explores the interface between environmental epidemiology and spatio-temporal modeling. It links recent developments in spatio-temporal theory with epidemiological...
Guide ADEME, janvier 2023. Référence ADEME: 7566. 129 p. Ce guide propose aux professionnels du secteur des granulats, ainsi qu'aux personnes concernées par cette activité, de présenter les dispositifs développés spécifiquement par le secteur pour mieux connaître et maîtriser ses impacts environnementaux. Il vise à promouvoir les efforts d'amélioration entrepris depuis...
2nd Edition. — De Gruyter, 2023. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-3-11-101254-4. Some books target the theory of the finite element, while others focus on the programming side of things. Introduction to Finite Element Analysis Using MatLAB and Abaqus accomplishes both. This book teaches the first principles of the finite element method. It presents the theory of the finite element method...
CRC Press, 2023. — 405 p. — (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics). — ISBN: 9781032290072. Modern ecological and environmental sciences are dominated by observational data. As a result, traditional statistical training often leaves scientists ill-prepared for the data analysis tasks they encounter in their work. Bayesian methods provide a more robust and flexible...
The University of Chicago Press. 2021. 291 p. ISBN: 9780226764016. Guitars inspire cult-like devotion: an aficionado can tell you precisely when and where their favorite instrument was made, the wood it is made from, and that wood’s unique effect on the instrument’s sound. In The Guitar, Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren follow that fascination around the globe as they trace...
6th Edition, Cengage Learning Publishers, 2009 – 828 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-495-55671-8, ISBN10: 0-495-55671-8. For Engineering/Science Students. Learning Skills. HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY: AN OVERVIEW. Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability. SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, AND SUSTAINABILITY. Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems. Ecosystems: What Are They and How...
Wiley-Scrivener Publishing, 2021. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-76164-8. The Cyber Ecosystem can be a replica of our natural ecosystem where different living and non-living things interact with each other to perform specific tasks. Similarly, the different entities of the cyber ecosystem collaborate digitally with each other to revolutionize our lifestyle by creating smart,...
IGI Global, 2021. — 436 p. — (Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE)). — ISBN: 9781799839705. As environmental issues remain at the forefront of energy research, renewable energy is now an all-important field of study. And as smart technology continues to grow and be refined, its applications broaden and increase in their potential to revolutionize...
Springer, 2021. — 634 p. This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada. While green roofs were intended to sustain local or regional vegetation, this volume describes how green roofs in their modern form are typically planted with a low-diversity mix of sedums from Europe or Asia. The authors demonstrate how in the...