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Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants

Author: T. K. Lim

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-08

Total Pages: 1115

ISBN-13: 9400773951

This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers plant species with edible flowers from families Acanthaceae to Facaceae in a tabular form and seventy five selected species from Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, Bignoniaceae, Brassicaceae, Cactaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Combretaceae, Convolvulaceae, Costaceae, Doryanthaceae and Fabaceae in detail. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, botanists, agriculturists, conservationists, lecturers, students and the general public. Topics covered include: taxonomy; common/English and vernacular names; origin and distribution; agroecology; edible plant parts and uses; botany; nutritive/pharmacological properties, medicinal uses, nonedible uses; and selected references.

The Embodiment of Disobedience

Author: Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780739114872

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The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety.

Nutritional Composition and Antioxidant Properties of Fruits and Vegetables

Author: Amit K. Jaiswal

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-07-30

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 0128127813

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Nutritional Composition and Antioxidant Properties of Fruits and Vegetables provides an overview of the nutritional and anti-nutritional composition, antioxidant potential, and health benefits of a wide range of commonly consumed fruits and vegetables. The book presents a comprehensive overview on a variety of topics, including inflorescence, flowers and flower buds (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage), bulb, stem and stalk (onion, celery, asparagus, celery), leaves (watercress, lettuce, spinach), fruit and seed (peppers, squash, tomato, eggplant, green beans), roots and tubers (red beet, carrots, radish), and fruits, such as citrus (orange, lemon, grapefruit), berries (blackberry, strawberry, lingonberry, bayberry, blueberry), melons (pumpkin, watermelon), and more. Each chapter, contributed by an international expert in the field, also discusses the factors influencing antioxidant content, such as genotype, environmental variation and agronomic conditions. Contains detailed information on nutritional and anti-nutritional composition for commonly consumed fruits and vegetables Presents recent epidemiological information on the health benefits of fresh produce Provides in-depth information about the antioxidant properties of a range of fruits and vegetables

A Dictionary of Plant Names

Author: H. L. Gerth van Wijk

Publisher:

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 1744

ISBN-13:

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Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

Author: Shawan M. Worsley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1135235643

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Shawan M. Worsley analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Her examination furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.

This Can't Be Love

Author: Kasey Michaels

Publisher: Kasey Michaels

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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BOOK TWO IN THE SUMMER LOVIN' SERIES. Heiress Molly Applegate is holding down the fort at her cousin Jane’s day care center. But when Broadway producer Dominic Longstreet, reluctant babysitter to his brother’s children, asks her to be temporary nanny at his country estate, Molly can't refuse. Will free-spirited Molly be able to show workaholic Dom that life should not be all work and no play?