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Garden Insects of North America is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species associated with shade trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits--1,420...
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First Published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen,...
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Gardeners who want to understand what is going on-or going wrong-in their gardens will find this book invaluable. It will also be a vital reference tool for all professionals, garden centres, nursery stock plant growers, landscape and amenity managers, and naturalists. The book employs a unique diagnostic approach to identifying and solving problems.
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While the vast majority of insects pose no threat to humans, there are a few that compete with us for food, destroy our construction materials, and threaten both our natural and cultivated environments. Learn about the best and latest tools we can employ to control those insects, and why developing an understanding of the insect lifecycle is almost always a better investment than pesticides.
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Howard Garrett has converted gardeners throughout Texas and beyond to gardening the natural way without chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. In this revised and updated edition of The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening, he uses a question-and-answer format to present a wealth of new information on organic gardening, landscaping, pest control, and natural living. The book also incorporates valuable feedback and suggestions
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This concise Storey BASICS® guide teaches novice gardeners how to successfully keep indoor plants beautiful and healthy. Learn how to choose the best plants for your home and what each species needs in terms of location, water, sunlight, and fertilizer. Covering the basics of repotting, pruning, and dealing with pests, Ellen Zachos shows you how to keep your houseplants looking vibrant for years to come. Soon, you'll be watching over a collection...
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Behind the unassuming grace and majesty of America's whitetail deer is the laundry list of human health, social, and ecological problems they cause. They destroy farm crops and vegetable gardens, devour suburban landscaping, ravage entire ecosystems, endanger motorists, and spread Lyme disease across the United States. The author ventures afield with botanists, ecologists, frustrated farmers and foresters, overworked body-shop owners, camo-clad hunters,...
10) Pest Control
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Poor Valeri! With no job or girlfriend, the new year starts badly. Her flat's a mess and she's broke. She dismisses a job advert for a pest controller as the worst idea ever. Valeri is scared of spiders and bugs and isn't great with rodents, either. When she sees a creepy crawlie, she's forced to ask for help from the grumpy girl next door, Pippa. Pest controller? Nope. Until Valeri notices an image of the uniform ... gold catsuit and matching bracelets....
11) Ficción y peste
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Este libro contiene una serie de notas publicadas entre julio de 2020 y abril de 2021 en el diario Nuevo Día de Coronel Suárez, bajo el título de mi columna quincenal Nota al pie.
En lo posible he buscado que la lectura de cada una de mis notas al pie sea fluida, ágil y enriquecedora, ofreciendo una mirada personal sobre ciertas cuestiones culturales y literarias que abordé en un contexto de aislamiento social, preventivo y obligatorio, decretado...
12) La peste rouge
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Après Tunnel vers le passé, puis Ils sont fous ces Gallo-Romains, Naïs et Totoche, transportés au temps des Gallo-Romains, vivent le troisième épisode de ce séjour en l'an 250.
Pour éviter la pendaison, Naïs et Totochix doivent arrêter l'épidémie de peste rouge. Sans véritables connaissances sur cette maladie et éloignés l'un de l'autre, pourront -ils arrêter la propagation du fléau tueur d'êtres humains ?
Une solution serait de...
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Miss Pippa Kipling and her automaton companion, the Porter, exterminate pests of the supernatural variety. What should be a typical job in your average haunted cavern soon derails in an inconveniently undead fashion. Even with the aid of her gadget collection and the Porter's prowess, this task may prove fatal for Miss Kipling-or worse, rip her petticoat.
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Es liegt wohl an der Grausigkeit des Stoffes, dass das Die Pest zu London (Journal of the Grand Plague of London.—London 1723), von Defoe lange nicht übersetzt wurde und erst 1925 in der deutschen Fassung erschien. Wer es mit seinen, bis in die kleinsten und unbedeutendsten Einzelheiten gehenden Schilderungen durchgelesen hat, dürfte einigermaßen erstaunt sein, zu hören, dass es von einem 61jährigen Manne geschrieben wurde, der zurzeit der...
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Una novela turbadora que confirma a Paz Soldán como uno de los narradores más destacados de la actualidad.
La Casona es mucho más que una cárcel: es un microcosmos donde cada uno de los individuos que lo componen, desde el gobernador de la prisión hasta su mujer, pasando por los presos y los guardias, aceptan su suerte con resignación. La religión como salvación, el culto prohibido que todos profesan a una diosa vengativa que pretende destruir...
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Bohemia a principios del siglo XV: la epidemia de peste ha terminado y los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo regresan de las cuevas donde se escondieron de la peste y sobrevivieron. Pero están en la más completa miseria, ya que nadie ha sembrado ni cosechado, y el invierno está a la vuelta de la esquina.
Su noble señor en el castillo cercano también sufre de carencias. Afortunadamente, todavía tiene el tesoro que robó con otros barones ladrones...
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Science of Gardening volume 18
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There is no lack of chemicals to get rid of the pests in your garden - whether that pest is a plant, insect, or other organism. But for long-term health, integrated pest management provides a better, systematic, science-based approach with a minimum of chemical inputs.
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Wendy's little sister is good at everything-especially being annoying Katie is always good at whatever she tries and everyone adores her. Everyone except Wendy, that is. Just once, ten-year-old Wendy wishes she could outshine her little sister. When she gets a chance to take horseback riding lessons, she plans to prove to her family that she is the best at something. But it's not long before Katie decides to steal Wendy's thunder by taking riding...
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Firebite volume 1
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When vampires kidnap an Aboriginal man, renegade vampire hunters Tyson and Shanika fight back.
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