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Subhashini Sridhar |
Neem: A User's Guide |
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| Aimed at rejuvenating local, low cost use of neem in agriculture and health care. Meant to serve as a user’s manual for farmers and sustainable agriculture alternatives. Also useful for those interested in the uses of neem in effective home remedy for anamals and humans.
Since time immemorial, we have used the Neem tree in agriculture, public health, medicine, toiletries, cosmetics, livestock protection and rituals. The tree is considered invaluable and it is found in every part ofour... |
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Radha |
Rani and Felicity |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This is the story of two hens, Rani and Felicity. Rani was raised in the backyard of a small Indian farmer. Felicity grew up in a modern factory farm in the United States of America.
The difference in their upbringing raises important issues of kindness and compassion towards animals, animal rights, health of humans and animals, as well as issues about dignity of life.
Rani and Felicitys stories also raise important questions that we as consumers have to answer. Our answers will determine the... |
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Hamsadeva - Nalini Sadhale & Y L Nene (Tr) |
Mriga.pakshi.shastra: The Science of Animals and Birds |
$76.99 $53.89 |
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| This book is a translation by Nalini Sadhale and Y L Nene of a 13th century Sanskrit manuscript by Hamsadeva, who is reported to be a poet and naturalist attached to the court of King Shaudadeva. The King was captivated by the graceful sights and movements of several animals and birds in the forest and his mind was overwhelmed with pity at the thought of their destruction and eventual extinction through hunting. He therefore ordered his minister Tarananda to commission a suitable person to... |
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Dr. V. Ganapathi |
Green Health Care For Live Stock |
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Peter Matthiessen |
The Snow Leopard |
$28.00 $19.60 |
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| When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart."
In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo,... |
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Duff Hart-Davis |
Honorary Tiger |
$19.49 $13.64 |
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| An affectionate biography of India's renowned 'tiger-man'.
Having devoted fifty years of his life to animal conservation and now popularly known as India's latter-day Jim Corbett and 'tiger-man', eighty-seven-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man.
Hart-Davies' biography traces Billy's path to conservation from his game shooting as a boy on the family estate, to his life as a farmer in North Kheri, where he witnessed first-hand the devastation of wildlife at the... |
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Veitch |
A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants - 2 Volumes |
$281.49 $197.04 |
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| It inclues:
Vol. I: Epidendreae
Vol. II: Vandeae- Cypripedieae
These volumes have been complied to give amateurs, cultivators, scientists who are interested in detailed account of the principal genera, species and varieties of orchids.
This book described in detail the description, Phenology, distribution of associated animals and birds. The work is profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs and for plant there is an illustration.
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E. Wallis Hoare |
Veterinary Materia Medica and Therapeutics |
$93.99 $65.79 |
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| While much of the text has been rewritten, the arrangement of the book remains essentially the same as that of the third edition; the short section on wound treatment, however, has been omitted, as being more properly within the province of surgery. The section on Materia Medica has been considerably sugmented and although profeteadly incomplete as a systematic treatise on the subject, it is hoped that the book may now serve as a class text to be read as a supplement to lecture note.
In the... |
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T.M. Manoharan (ed.) |
Silent Valley: Whispers of Reason |
$76.99 $53.89 |
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| This anthology of 38 articles on various aspects of Silent Valley is the culmination of the selfless endeavour of many persons who love Silent Valley and cherish the memory of the popular campaign for its conservation. It contains papers on the historical and managerial evolution of Silent Valley National Park as well as on its biodiversity. The decision to bring out such a comprehensive volume on Silent Valley was taken in a jubilant meeting on 25th November 1995, convened to celebrate the... |
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Anita Sharma |
The Bakkarwals of Jammu and Kashmir: Navigating through Nomadism |
$80.49 $56.34 |
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| Sedentary patterns of living are often termed as ‘civilized’, yet, in semi-arid regions, pastoral nomadism remains an efficient subsistence-base. While seven percent of India is nomadic, a majority have little access to development programs. Research across continents reveals that the success of such initiatives among nomads is contingent upon their sensitivity to a mobile lifestyle.
The personal Bakkarwals of Jammu and Kashmir herd goat and sheep and are a subset of the buffalo-herding... |
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Geetanjali Krishna |
Whispers from the wild |
$41.99 $29.39 |
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| They say that the current rate of extinction of species on our planet is well over the historical norm. Estimates suggest that the very survival of one in eight species of birds, one in three of amphibians and one in four of mammals is under threat today. Blame it on over-exploitation of natural resources, the degradation of forests or on the poaching of animals for their meat, skin and body parts – the fact is that soon a day may come when the Tiger may leave his jungle forever, and the Blue... |
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