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Author: Dan Koeppel
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781594630385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Reading Ladder
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781405282420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicky, Tasha, and Joe's mom leaves for work early one day and she leaves instructions for them on a cassette-player all they have to do is press play Nicky and Tasha must get themselves ready for school and get baby Joe ready for playgroup without waking Dad They have to get dressed, make porridge for breakfast, and find Joe's toy rabbit. Then they have to creep into Dad's bedroom and set the alarm clock for him. But it is very hard to get ready quietly, especially when your baby brother is crying for his toy rabbit "
Author: Lim T. K.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-02-09
Total Pages: 917
ISBN-13: 9400725345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book continues as volume 3 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants. It covers edible fruits/seeds used fresh or processed, as vegetables, spices, stimulants, edible oils and beverages. It encompasses species from the following families: Ginkgoaceae, Gnetaceae, Juglandaceae, Lauraceae, Lecythidaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malpighiaceae, Malvaceae, Marantaceae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Moringaceae, Muntigiaceae, Musaceae, Myristicaceae and Myrtaceae. This work will be of significant interest to scientists, researchers, medical practitioners, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, horticulturists, food nutritionists, agriculturists, botanists, 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 and pharmacological properties, medicinal uses and research findings; nonedible uses; and selected references.
Author: David Sutherland
Publisher:
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780778710660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRed Bananas is a new level in the Bananas reading series that bridges the gap between the simpler Blue Bananas and the more demanding Yellow Bananas. Designed to build confidence in a child's reading abilities, each entertaining story in Red Bananas helps children progress from the first stages of fluent reading to the demands of a chapter book.
Author: Rupert Everett
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0748109781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Hilariously honest. . . a kind of rake's progress' Daily Mail An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with some of the most famous women in the world: Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone and Donatella Versace. Whether sweeping the floor for the Royal Shakespeare Company or co-starring with Faye Dunaway and an orang-utan in 'Dunstan Checks In' (they both took ages to get ready), Rupert Everett always brings as much energy and talent to his life as he does to his career. A superb raconteur and a keen observer of human folly (especially his own), Rupert Everett turns his life into a captivating story of love, fame, glamour, gossip and drama. Praise for Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins 'He has an almost fanatical loyalty to the concept of enjoyment, to the detriment, it might be argued, of his art, though to the great enrichment of his being; and for Rupert, as he makes clear in this continuously brilliant memoir, the best theatrical autobiography since Noël Coward's Present Indicative, acting is being...a superb and unexpectedly inspiring achievement' Simon Callow, Guardian 'Lush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying...a heady triumph of observation and reverie' Independent 'What makes this autobiography a (novelistic) masterpiece is the way he is acutely aware of the melancholia and pain that are the other side of hedonism's coin' Daily Telegraph
Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1780236069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweet but starchy, soft but toothsome—and so easy to peel they just beg to be devoured—bananas are one of our favorite foods, found everywhere from gas station counters to Michelin star restaurants. Yet for as versatile and ubiquitous as this fruit is today, its history is a turbulent one, entangled in colonial domination, capitalist exploitation, sexual politics, and even horrific violence. Delving into the banana’s past, this book traces the complex circumstances of global modernity that perfectly aligned to grant us, often at tremendous costs, a treat we all now take for granted. Beginning with the banana’s origins in New Guinea, Lorna Piatti-Farnell follows its pathways to South East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, binding together a millennium of history into one digestible bunch. Focusing especially on the banana’s recent past, she shows how it rose from a regional staple to a global commodity, on par with coffee and sugar. She examines the ways it has been advertised, sold, and incorporated into popular culture, moving from nineteenth-century medical manuals to cookbooks, songs, slapstick comedy, and problematic figures like Miss Chiquita. Wide-ranging but pocket-sized, Banana is a culinary and cultural account of a peculiar little fruit that is at once the icon of exoticism and one of the most familiar foods we eat.
Author: Julia Donaldson
Publisher: Reading Ladder
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781405282406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweet chapter book about an adventurous fox cub by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo. Frisk the fox cub loves exploring! When he and his family move house, he finds lots of exciting things to discover in town. Then he follows Jenny to school one day, and what he learns there comes in very useful.
Author: Michelle Robinson
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2020-01-02
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0702301140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fantastically funny book about loving what makes you YOU! When Banana is thrown into the 'reject' bin with the other mis-shapen fruit and veg, he decides that enough is enough - he may be a little bit bruised but that doesn't mean he's any less brilliant! So be proud of your bumps! Because going bad can sometimes be very, very good.
Author: Mike Berners-Lee
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1782837116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'It is terrific. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating and useful and enjoyable all at the same time.' Bill Bryson How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting a World Cup) and introduces many areas that have become a regular part of modern life - Twitter, the Cloud, Bitcoin, electric bikes and cars, even space tourism. Berners-Lee runs a considered eye over each area and gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government. His findings, presented in clear and even entertaining prose, are often surprising. And they are essential if we are to address climate change.
Author: Jacqueline Farmer
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1607341662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid you hear the one about the banana? Why did the banana go out with the prune? Because it couldn't get a date. Introducing the delicious and delectable, the brilliant and beloved, the one and only . . . banana! BANANAS! is the quintessential book about bananas. Sure, you know bananas are good for you, but how good exactly? Ounce for ounce, a banana is even more nutritious than an apple. If you want to keep the doctor away, try a banana. And there is so much more to learn about bananas. From their early roots in Southeast Asia to their introduction to Americans at the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia alongside Alexander Graham Bell's new invention, the telephone, bananas have a very auspicious history. Bananas are now shipped (very carefully) all over the world. After reading BANANAS!, you won't think of bananas as just a quick, easy snack anymore.
