8.743 resultater (0,71462 sekunder)

Vis alle filtre

Mærke

Vis alle

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Nulstil filter

Produkter
Fra
Butikker

Cane Toad Wars - Rick Shine - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Cane Toad Wars - Rick Shine - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voraciously consuming native wildlife and killing predators with its lethal skin toxin. Today, hundreds of millions of Cane Toads have spread across the northern part of Australia and continue to move westward. The humble Cane Toad has become a national villain. Cane Toad Wars chronicles the work of intrepid scientist Rick Shine, who has been documenting the toad’s ecological impact in Australia and seeking to buffer it. Despite predictions of devastation in the wake of advancing toad hordes, the author’s research reveals a more complex and nuanced story. A firsthand account of a perplexing ecological problem and an important exploration of how we measure evolutionary change and ecological resilience, this book makes an effective case for the value of long-term natural history research in informing conservation practice.

DKK 296.00
1

Cane Topper Wood Carving - Lora S. Irish - Bog - Fox Chapel Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Cane Topper Wood Carving - Lora S. Irish - Bog - Fox Chapel Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Discover how to create unique and beautiful canes that will be treasured as useful works of art! Legendary carving artist Lora S. Irish introduces you to all of the essential components and techniques of cane topper carving in this comprehensive guide. Chock full of important tips and tricks, Cane Topper Woodcarving will teach you how to take full advantage of this fun and rewarding carving genre. With step-by-step projects, ready-to-use patterns, and beautiful color photographs, Lora provides expert advice on sourcing, carving, joinery, finishing, customization, and more. Inside Cane Topper Woodcarving you''ll find:- Expert advice on carving expressive cane toppers from basswood blocks.- Guide to basic cane construction techniques.- 4 detailed step-by-step tutorials for creating expressive canes.- 6 joinery methods for strong and durable joints between cane topper and staff.- How to source and prepare staffs from found wood.- Tips for adding joint covers, hand grips, and custom features.

DKK 166.00
1

Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane - Chezia Thompson Cager - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane - Chezia Thompson Cager - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cane one of the major works of the Harlem Renaissance and Jean Toomer’s imagist masterpiece, is now a part of the canon in Afro-American literature. Teaching Jean Toomer’s 1923 Cane is a unique literary tool that explores the brilliance and far-sighted vision of Toomer, allowing Cane to be taught holistically as a discovery process, using the blues motif and the poetic essay. This book’s text and figures ground a discussion of Cane ’s enigmatic and figurative language, connecting the Harlem Renaissance to the Negritude Movement and to later Afro-centric literary movements. This book also reviews P.B.S. Pinchback’s legacy as a non-Negro, able to pass easily in white society, the influence of Ouspensky, H. L Mencken’s critical work, The Paris Brotherhood, and «Saccaharum officinarum-G.» Like the lunar arcs dividing Cane, the book works as an instructional map. The pictures from the first complete production also tell a remarkable story.

DKK 245.00
1

Cane Toads - Nigel Turvey - Bog - Sydney University Press - Plusbog.dk

Cane Toads - Nigel Turvey - Bog - Sydney University Press - Plusbog.dk

Before the birth of modern insecticides, farmers and gardeners used predatory and parasitic wasps and flies, insect-eating birds, lizards and toads as agents of biological control. In the late 19th century sugar cane scientists carried cane toads from Barbados to Puerto Rico, to Hawai''i and then Queensland to control pests. Toads were introduced to some 138 countries, and are now ranked among the world''s most invasive species. Queensland''s sugar scientists released the toad into cane fields in 1935. They were supported by cane growers, politicians, the nation''s leading scientists, the premier of Queensland and the prime minister of Australia. Only a lone voice objected. In the following 70 years they spread as far as western NSW and Western Australia. This story is about good intentions and unintended catastrophic consequences. It is about scientists so committed to solving a problem, serving their country, their leaders and the industry that employed them, that they are blinkered to adverse impacts. There are lessons to learn from the toad''s tale. And as the tale shows, we still come perilously close to repeating the mistakes of the past.

DKK 333.00
1

Killer 'Cane - Robert Mykle - Bog - Taylor Trade Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Killer 'Cane - Robert Mykle - Bog - Taylor Trade Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Killer ''Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area''s population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer ''Cane is a vivid description of America''s second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.

DKK 167.00
1

The Birth Order Book of Love - William Cane - Bog - Hachette Books - Plusbog.dk

The Birth Order Book of Love - William Cane - Bog - Hachette Books - Plusbog.dk

Studies show the most reliable scientific predictor of personality is birth order-your place among your siblings. The Birth Order Book of Love is the first guide to consider this factor when finding the perfect mate. Why do firstborns often find romance with lastborns? Who's the worst match for an only child? Cane examines the 12 personality/birth order types (older brother of brothers, younger sister of sisters, etc.), revealing why certain birth orders are more compatible and which ones can present communication challenges (and how to overcome them). Cane has analyzed the birth order of 6,000 celebrities, historical figures, and modern couples. Readers will learn what birth order says about them, which celebrity they'd be most compatible with, and who their best match is in real life.

DKK 182.00
1

Cane & Rush Seating - Charlotte Lahalle - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cane & Rush Seating - Charlotte Lahalle - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Learn traditional chair seating using six-strand caning or rush weaving with marsh grass, straw, and alternative materials. These two crafts share the same skills and can be used for creating new seats or restoring old, so it is no longer necessary to ditch that old kitchen chair with the fraying seat. Instead, simply repair the seat or give it a new one. Clearly explained with 197 color images and diagrams, this essential guide will help you create beautiful seats on stools, chairs, armchairs, and more. For caning, instructions include preparing the seat, laying the cane strands, joining two cane strands, padding, and the materials and tools needed. Rush weaving techniques include making a strand by twisting straw threads, making the seat, tightening, and padding. Once you have mastered the basics of caning or rush work, they can easily be adapted for different seat shapes. This book is perfect for furniture makers, the home fix-it-upper, and the weekend crafter.

DKK 228.00
1

The Sugar Cane Industry - J. H. Galloway - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Sugar Cane Industry - J. H. Galloway - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is a geography of the sugar cane industry from its origins to 1914. It describes its spread from India into the Mediterranean during medieval times, to the Americas and its subsequent diffusion to most parts of the tropics. It examines the changes in agricultural and manufacturing techniques over the centuries, and its impact in forming the multicultural societies of the tropical world.

DKK 348.00
1

Blazing Cane - Gillian Mcgillivray - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

Blazing Cane - Gillian Mcgillivray - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sugar was Cuba’s principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island’s population depended on sugar production for its livelihood. In Blazing Cane , Gillian McGillivray examines the development of social classes linked to sugar production, and their contribution to the formation and transformation of the state, from the first Cuban Revolution for Independence in 1868 through the Cuban Revolution of 1959. She describes how cane burning became a powerful way for farmers, workers, and revolutionaries to commit sabotage, take control of the harvest season, improve working conditions, protest political repression, attack colonialism and imperialism, nationalize sugarmills, and, ultimately, acquire greater political and economic power. Focusing on sugar communities in eastern and central Cuba, McGillivray recounts how farmers and workers pushed the Cuban government to move from exclusive to inclusive politics and back again. The revolutionary caudillo networks that formed between 1895 and 1898, the farmer alliances that coalesced in the 1920s, and the working-class groups of the 1930s affected both day-to-day local politics and larger state-building efforts. Not limiting her analysis to the island, McGillivray shows that twentieth-century Cuban history reflected broader trends in the Western Hemisphere, from modernity to popular nationalism to Cold War repression.

DKK 240.00
1