Botany of empire : plant worlds and the scientific legacies of colonialism / by Subramaniam, Banu, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Advance praise for Botany of Empire -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Epigraphs -- Contents -- Prologue: Telling History -- Introduction: Through Linnaean Labyrinths: A Botanical Colonization -- Part One: Rootings -- Chapter One: The Botanical Sublime: Affective Ecologies and Plant Life -- Chapter Two: The Coloniality of Botany: Reckonings with the History of Science -- Interludes -- Fables for the Mis-Anthropocene-Chirp, Play, Love -- Revisiting the "Women in Science" Question: Diversity, Gender, and the Coloniality of Science…”
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The girl from Botany Bay / by Erickson, Carolly, 1943-

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Urban vegetation : a review and Chicago case study / by Schmid, James A., 1945-

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Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources : Some Fundamental Aspects of the Problem / by Zon, Raphael

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Forensic ecology handbook : from crime scene to court /

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Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / by Harré, Rom

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The cigarette papers /

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Non-timber products from tropical forests : evaluation of a conservation and development strategy /

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Oeconomies in the age of Newton /

Table of Contents: “…Nature as a marketplace : the political economy of Linnaean botany /…”

Romantic outlaws, beloved prisons : the unconscious meanings of crime and punishment / by Duncan, Martha Grace, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Projecting an Excrementitious Mass: The Metaphor of Filth in the History of Botany Bay --…”
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A home for every child : the Washington Children's Home Society in the Progressive Era / by Hart, Patricia Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Taking a chance on the Pacific Northwest -- Seeking alternatives to institutional care -- Child relinquishment : the last best hope -- Sorted, boarded, and reformed : coming into the care of WCHS -- Completing God's plan and competing desires : negotiating adoptive parenthood -- Biology, botany, and belonging -- Traveling children : placement, re-placement, and return -- Conclusion: A home for every child : the elusive promise.…”
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Weed science : cannabis controversies and challenges / by Pearlson, Godfrey D., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Good science and bad science -- Chapter 3: Holi -- Chapter 4: Ethnobotany, botany, and archaeology -- Chapter 5: Neuroscience -- Chapter 6: Psychology + human behavior -- Chapter 7: Epidemiology -- Chapter 8: Toxicology -- Chapter 9: Chemistry, chemical analysis, and extraction. …”
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The sugar plantation in India and Indonesia : industrial production, 1770-2010 / by Bosma, Ulbe, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar, Science, and Technology: Java and India in the Late Nineteenth Century -- The Role of Irrigation -- New Mills and Other New Devices -- Statistics and Botany -- The Bombay Deccan: The Double Frontier -- Java: Labor and Technology -- Journalism, Business, and Botany -- Ever More Hands Are Needed -- 5. …”
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Agriculture, food, and food security : some contemporary global issues /

Table of Contents: “…Harnessing the nutritional and commercial benefits of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) in the tropics and subtropics / Noureddine Benkeblia -- Influencing factors on the iodine content of food: an introductory review of non-animal I-sources / Gerhard Flachowsky -- Simulating the future of food deserts in Ypsilanti, Michigan using Markov chains and and cellular automata / Hugh Semple -- Influencing factors on the iodine content of food: a review of animal sources of iodine / Gerhard Flachowsky, Ulrich Meyer, Ingrid Halle and Andreas Berk -- Unlocking the full potential of carambola (Averrhoa carambola) as a food source: botany, growing, physiology and postharvest technology / Noureddine Benkeblia -- Food and nutrition security through urban food gardens: the roles and potential of community gardening / Clinton Beckford and Blessing Igbokwe -- Assessing vulnerability to climate change across agroecological zones in Jamaica: insights for community-based adaptation strategies / Donovan Campbell.…”
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Women of the Iberian Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Owens -- The Role and Practices of the Female Folk Healer in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World / Timothy D. Walker -- The Botany of Colonial Medicine : Gender, Authority, and Natural History in the Empires of Spain and Portugal / Hugh Glenn Cagle -- Mother Nganga : Women Experts in the Bantu-Atlantic Spiritual Cultures of the Iberian Atlantic World / Ras Michael Brown -- Gendering the African Diaspora in the Iberian Atlantic : Religious Brotherhoods and the Cabildos de Nacion / Matt D. …”
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The Sun King's Atlantic : drugs, demons and dyestuffs in the Atlantic world, 1640-1730 / by Wimmler, Jutta

Table of Contents: “…French Atlantic trade before 1730 -- State interests and regional privileges -- From tobacco to cotton -- West Africa and the slave trade -- From the visible to the invisible -- The fashionable Atlantic: innovation and consumption -- The color revolution -- Gum arabic and blue-white cottons -- The world of interior design -- Leather -- Industries and fur trades -- Body matters: remedies, foodstuffs and cosmetics -- American remedies in France -- A quiet consumer revolution -- Old elites and the nouvelle cuisine -- The scent of Western Africa -- The iatrochemical advantage: methods for an expanding world -- New pathogens and the rise of botany -- Distillation and the Academie Royale des Sciences -- The authority of knowledge -- A two-sided Atlantic? …”
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Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons : the Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment. by Duncan, Martha Grace

Table of Contents: “…Part one: Cradled on the sea: positive images of prison and theories of punishment -- A thousand leagues above: prison as a refuge from the prosaic -- Cradled on the sea: prison as a mother who provides and protects -- To die and become: prison as a matrix of spiritual rebirth -- Flowers are flowers: prison as a place like any other -- Methodological issues -- Positive images of prison and theories of punishment -- Part two: A strange liking: our admiration for criminals -- Reluctant admiration: the forms of our conflict over criminals -- Rationalized admiration: overt delight in camouflaged criminals -- Repressed admiration: loathing as a vicissitude of attraction to criminals -- Part three: In slime and darkness: the metaphor of filth in criminal justice -- Eject him tainted now: the criminal as filth in Western culture -- Projecting an excrementitious mass: the metaphor of filth in the history of Botany Bay -- Stirring the odorous pile: vicissitudes of the metaphor in Britain and the United States -- Conclusion: The romanticization of criminals and the defense against despair.…”
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Evergreen : cultivate the enduring customer loyalty that keeps your business thriving / by Fleming, Noah

Table of Contents: “…2 Surveying the Landscape: The Essential Components of an Evergreen Organization -- Introducing the Three Cs -- Orchestrating the Three Cs, So They Play in Harmony -- 3 Examining the Principle of Character: The Botany of Your Company -- The Power of Telling a Good Story -- Building the Character of Your Organization -- Distinguishing Between Character and Caricature -- Articulating the "Real You" -- Creating Your Corporate Character -- 4 Examining the Principle of Community: Creating a Forest from a Single Seed -- Why Should You Build a Community? …”
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Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world /

Table of Contents: “…Alpers -- The East African middle passage : David Livingstone, the Zambesi expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858-1866 / Iain McCalman -- The Iranun and Balangingi slaving voyage : middle passages in the Sulu zone / James Warren -- The voyage out : Peter Kolb and VOC voyages to the Cape / Nigel Penn -- Bound for Botany Bay : John Martin's voyage to Australia / Cassandra Pybus -- "The slave trade is merciful compared to [this]" : slave traders, convict transportation, and the abolitionists / Emma Christopher -- Convict passages in the Indian Ocean, c. 1790-1860 / Clare Anderson -- After slavery : forced drafts of Irish and Chinese labor in the American Civil War, or the search for liquid labor / Scott Reynolds Nelson -- La trata amarilla : the "yellow trade" and the middle passage, 1847-1884 / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- "A most irregular traffic": the oceanic passages of the Melanesian labor trade / Laurence Brown -- La traite des jaunes : trafficking in women and children across the China Sea / Julia Martínez -- Afterword: "All of it is now" / Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd -- Postscript: Gun-slave cycle / Marcus Rediker.…”
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The science of abolition : how slaveholders became the enemies of progress / by Herschthal, Eric

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