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John Warren Nature of Crops, The (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Nature of Crops : How We Came to Eat the Plants Wedo
- Publication Name
- Nature of Crops, The
- Title
- Nature of Crops, The
- Subtitle
- How we came to eat the plants we do
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1780645082
- EAN
- 9781780645087
- ISBN
- 9781780645087
- Publisher
- CABI
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science
- Release Date
- 24/04/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 15.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops , John Warren reveals: * Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; * Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; * The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and * Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition
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Publisher
CABI
ISBN-10
1780645082
ISBN-13
9781780645087
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208701758
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nature of Crops : How We Came to Eat the Plants Wedo
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Sb175.W37 2015
Reviews
Written by a natural storyteller, this book is a 'must'....a very readable book, packed with interesting and useful information, exploring and clearly explaining the cool science behind the development of the plants that sustain us., The writing is accessible and good-humoured. At times it almost reads like an audition for QI. It would be easy to see Stephen Fry asking, 'What product, controlled by the Mafia in America in the 1920s and 1930s, would later launch Marilyn Monroe's career?' The answer is, of course, the artichoke., "Glorious in breadth and fascinating in depth, all the short stories means the The Nature of Crops can be read and reread in the room where Sterculius is king." - New Scientist, Glorious in breadth and fascinating in depth, all the short stories means that The Nature of Crops can be read and reread in the room where Sterculius is King.
Table of Content
1: Introduction: The Nature of Natural - What does domestication involve? 2: Wild Things - Recently domesticated crops and crops that have returned to the wild 3: Learning to Live with Exotic Sexual Practices - How plant breeding systems limit domestication 4: Storing up Trouble - Plants with storage organs 5: The Weird and Wonderful - Herbs, spices and crops with exotic phytochemicals 6: Accidents of History - The role of chance events in domestication 7: Classic Combinations and Reoccurring Themes - Plant families that have been repeatedly domesticated 8: Ownership and Theft - How the economic value of crops has influenced their domestication 9: Fifty Shades of Green - Nutrient rich crops and the next generation
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2014-046530
Dewey Decimal
633
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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