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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
Catalogue
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Pliny on plants : his place in the history of botany / A.G. Morton.
Morton, A. G. (Alan G.)Date: 1986- Books
Useful plants in renal therapy according to Pliny the Elder / Giovanni Aliotta, Antonio Pollio.
Aliotta, Giovanni.Date: 1994- Books
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Shaksperean bouquet : the flowers and plants of Shakspere, with their scientific names and quotations from his works, wherein allusion is made to them ... / [collected] by William Elder.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.Date: 1872- Books
Naturkunde : Lateinisch-deutsch. Bücher XXI/XXII, Medizin und Pharmakologie, Heilmittel aus dem Pflanzenreich / herausgegeben und übersetzt von Roderich König und Gerhard Winkler in Zusammenarbeit mit Karl Bayer / C. Plinius Secundus d. Ä.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: 1999- Books
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Specification of Charles Napoleon Wilcox : manufacture and application of extracts from the elder tree.
Wilcox, Charles Napoleon.Date: 1853