Download or read book The Guinness Book of Plant Facts and Feats written by William G. Duncalf and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Plant Facts and Feats Line Illustrations by Christine Darter written by William Gordon Duncalf and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Guinness Book of Motorcycling Facts and Feats written by L. J. K. Setright and published by Guinness Records. This book was released on 1979 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Music Facts and Feats written by Robert Dearling and published by Enfield [Eng.] : Guinness Superlatives. This book was released on 1976 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for those interested in the most entertaining aspects of the ever fascinating subject of music. The more unusual features of this enormous field are spiced up by the less well-known facts of music and the people who make it. This is thus both a book for the general reader as well as the specialist, for some subjects are discussed here for the first time outside of the sober covers of musicological publications. The contents of this book will provide entertaining matter for the concert-goer and the record collector, facts for the seeker after musical curiosities, and much material for musical quizzes.
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Soccer Facts and Feats written by Jack Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Speed Facts Feats written by Bill Gunston and published by Guinness Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information about speeds associated with living things, sports, vehicles, technology, and science.
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Answers written by Norris McWhirter and published by Guinness Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Plant Lore written by D.C. Watts and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the ages.Conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants. Wild and cultivated plants alike are identified by the botanical name. Further detail provides a brief account of the meaning of the name and detailed commentary on common usage. * Includes color images * Inclusive of all Latin terms with vernacular derivatives * The most comprehensive guide for plant scientists, linguists, botanists, and historians
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Most and Least written by Shirley Greenway and published by Pan. This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Book of Common Fallacies written by Philip Ward and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.
Download or read book The Guinness Book of Structures written by John Hall Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walford s Guide to Reference Material Science and technology written by Marilyn Mullay and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1989 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** The Brit counterpart to Sheehy (in which it is recommended). The new edition places the author, title, subject indices in each volume. Many entries cite reviews from other sources. Rather tiresome recitation of selected chapter contents. 6,000 entries with references in the annotations to one or two thousand further books. Covers sci- tech and paleontology, anthro, patents, medicine, trades and crafts. Arranged by UDC classification. Provides no prices. Available in the US from American Library Assn. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Elsevier s Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origin written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-07-19 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictionary contains about 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants (plus a few American), both wild and cultivated, with their botanical name and a brief account of the names' meaning if known. It was conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore, and ethnobotanical studies. Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. Why for example is, or was, the common red poppy known as "Blind Man"? An old superstition has it that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Such names were probably the result of some taboo against picking the plant. Similarly, other names were likely to have been applied as a result of a country mother's warning to her children against eating poisonous berries. For the warning carries more weight when the name given to the berry reinforces the warning. Many such plants or fruits may be ascribed to the devil, Devil's Berries for Deadly Nightshade is an example. Names may also be purely descriptive, and can also serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. Beauty-Berry is an example: it is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa, which is made up of two Greek words that mean beauty and berry. Literary, or "book" names, have also been included in this dictionary, as being a very important part of the whole. Many of them provide links in the transmission of words through the ages. Thor's Beard, for example, is a book name for "houseleek", and has never been used in the dialect. But it highlights the legend that houseleek is a lightning plant, and by reverse logic is a preserver from fire.
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Download or read book Walford s Guide to Reference Material Science and technology written by Albert John Walford and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette bibliographie commentee touche tous les domaines du savoir humain, soit de l'Art a la Zoologie;elle signale les ouvrages les plus importants soit des bibliographies, des index, des encyclopedies, des dictionnaires, des guides, des revues etc dont le support ed'information est soit du papier, soit un cd-rom, soit une base de donnees en ligne directe, soit un microforme ect. L'objectif du guide Walford est de devenir La source d'information sur tout type de reference, nonobstant le support technique.