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Sunita Narain |
Excreta Matters (2.Vols Set) |
$92.99 $65.09 |
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| This is India's first and most comprehensive survey presented in an attractive 2-volume set on the state of its water and its management. It is the 7th Report in our highly popular SOE Series. It would be of immense value to professionals and decision makers in the Central and State Governments besides academicians, researchers, NGOs and all major Libraries.In these two volumes you will get to know the water-waste profiles of 71 Indian cities. Within their pages lie the model for a sustainable... |
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K.C. Chunekar |
Medicinal Plants of Susruta Samhita |
$93.99 $65.79 |
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| This book is the most important work to date on the correct identification of medicinal plants in the Susruta Samhita. The importance of this work cannot be underestimated for teachers, professors, researchers, pharmacists and educational institutions, the world over. Until now the numerous controversies concerning the medicinal plants prescribed by Rishi Sushruta have never been thoroughly investigated in a modern scientific manner. Clarifying the Sanskrit synonyms and relating these to the... |
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Shakti M. Gupta |
Plants in Indian Temple Art |
$93.99 $65.79 |
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| The book is a unique treasure-one of its own kind, which is the result of a painstaking study carried out by the author. The book describes in details, the plants depicted in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples all over India-from the Indus valley civilisation to the 17th century-trees, creepers, leaves, flowers, foliage, fruits etc., sculpted on walls, pillars, and doors. It describes 74 types of plants, supported by nearly 300 plates including a number of photographs of living plants for the... |
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Kailash C. Malhotra |
Sacred Groves in India |
$93.99 $65.79 |
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| In India, as elsewhere in many parts of the world, a number of communities practise different forms of nature worship. One such significant tradition is that of providing protection to patches of forests dedicated to deities and/or ancestral spirits. These patches of forests are known as sacred groves. The tradition is very ancient and once was widespread in most parts of the world. The estimated number of sacred groves in India in about two lakhs. Groves are rich heritage of India, and play an... |
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V.P. Singh |
Vegetable Flora of Ujjain District |
$93.99 $65.79 |
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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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Manisha Tiwari |
Medicinal Plants - 2 Volumes |
$100.49 $70.34 |
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| This work in two volumes provides the readers with some extraordinary details about medicinal plants not commonly available. The herbal medicines that are well-known around the world, their geographical distrution, botanical features, chemical constituents, medicinal use, posology, pharmacology adverse reactions of such medicines etc. are given in detail.
A comparison of traditional medicine with modern western medicine makes an interesting reading. The utility of herbal medicine has now... |
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Moshrafuddin Ahmed |
Medicinal Plants |
$115.49 $80.84 |
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| The book provides detailed information about more than 500 species of medicinal plants in alphabetical list. The botanical and common names in English and all major Indian vernacular languages, the distribution, propagation, parts used, chemical constituents and their uses along with their photographs are given for each of the medicinal plant species, making this book a handy reference. Some of the medicinal plants being marked as vulnerable, endangered, endemic, rare, near threatened and those... |
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Ravindra Sharma |
Medicinal Plants of India: An Encyclopaedia |
$121.99 $85.39 |
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| The present publication "Medicinal Plants of India: An Encyclopaedia" provides comprehensive and condensed information of an extensive and large number of medicinal plants grown and found in different agro-ecological zones of India. The publication describes, along with illustrations and photographs, nearly 600 species and 380 genera belonging to 172 families of the medicinal plants.
The author has made special efforts to records vernacular (local) or trade names of these plants, which will... |
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Ajay Singh |
Plants in Ancient Indian Civilizations |
$125.49 $87.84 |
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| This book was thus never planned but gradually developed as ideas after ideas entered my mind. In this connection an Urdu couplet comes to my mind, that goes as, "Mein akela hi chala tha janbe manzil magar, log milte gai aur karvan banta gaya", I alone started the journey to my destination, but people went on joining me and the carvan was mad). Soon nevertheless, it dawned upon me that the field that I had taken plunge into was seemingly like a bottomless pit. At this late... |
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Arvind Kumar |
Pollution and Biodiversity: Biosocial Aspects |
$128.49 $89.94 |
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| Environmental regulatory agencies in certain states are authorized to ban the production, sale, use of certain chemicals disposal of certain wastes, or the use of certain production processes or waste management practices. Similarly mandatory banning or reduction of toxic substances has been proposed for implementation in some states.
Policymakers could also lower concentration thresholds for allowable emissions and effluents of specific pollutants. Lowering concentration thresholds might... |
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Bentley |
Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figs. of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine & an Account of the Characters, Properties and uses of their Parts - 4 Vols. |
$156.49 $109.54 |
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| Medicinal Plants, as the name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entier circle of Medicinal Plants. The number of species figured is 306, but many more are alluded to in the text. A systematic list of plants figured and described is given at the commencement of the book, from which it is seen that they represent 89 natural families and 233 genera, thus affording examples of all the parts of the vegetable.
The text of each plant is divided into two... |
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J. F. Duthie |
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya |
$156.49 $109.54 |
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Sanjay Kumar |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Fairs and Festivals |
$160.49 $112.34 |
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| India is a land of festivals and fairs. Every day of the year there is a festival celebrated in some part of the country. Some festivals welcome the seasons of the year, the harvest, the rains, or the full moon. Others celebrate religious occasions, the birthdays of divine beings, saints and gurus (revered teachers), or the advent of the New Year. In this handy volume, primarily the attention has been paid to all Pan-Indian festivals, but efforts been also made to cover every leading regional... |
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Rudi Jansma |
Global Philosophical and Ecological Concepts (2 vols. Set) |
$189.49 $132.64 |
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| We live in a time when humanity itself has become an ecological and evolutionary problem for the earth rather than a participating friend. At the same time we live in a unique epoch where many cultures of past and present come together, intermingle and fructify each other. The concepts of cycles in nature, causality, hierarchical relationship, ecology and evolution are discussed from the angle of a select number of high cultures which determine our views and attitudes.
This work is a selected... |
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Asima Chatterjee |
Treatise on Indian Medicinal Plants - 5 Volumes |
$189.95 $132.97 |
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| Volume 1: The present volume is the first in the series on the Treatise on Indian Medicinal Plants. The series is likely to be completed in six volumes. Volume 1 covers one hundred and eleven plants which have been classified according to the latest botanical nomenclature and is profusely illustrated, both coloured and black and white, which will help in the proper identification of plant species. The write-up on each plant includes selected vernacular names, occurrence and distribution,... |
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Narayan Das Prajapati |
A Handbook of Medicinal Plants : A Complete Source Book |
$201.99 $141.39 |
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| A Handbook of Medicinal Plants (A Complete Source Book), is the first book of its kind. The book describes more than 1346 medicinal plants found in the world. The book includes vernacular names, description, distribution, part use, utilization, active principles, agronomic practices and colour plates (about 870 photographs). Separate chapters on organic farming, biofertilizers and biopesticides uses for sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants tips for medicinal plants cultivation and... |
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Ashok Kumar Gupta (Ed.) |
Reviews on Indian Medicinal Plants - 4 Volumes |
$216.99 $151.89 |
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| First of the series of Reviews on Indian Medicinal Plants comprising 60 plant genera comprising 223 species from Abelmoschus - Allemanda. The monographs cover largely the studies on Indian Medicinal Plants conducted by scientists in Indian Institutions and published in National and International Journals. At places work done by Indian scientists in collaboration with foreign laboratories or carried out exclusively in foreign laboratories has also been covered. Citations of foreign scientists... |
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Oakes Ames |
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae 1905-1922 (In 7 Volumes) |
$218.99 $153.29 |
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Berenice Ellena |
India Sutra: On the Magic Trail of Textiles |
$224.49 $157.14 |
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| India Sutra is a tribute to the skills of Indian craftsmen, and offers a discovery of textile routes in today's India. In remote villages, ancestral techniques help create countless varieties of fabrics adorned with symbolic designs, embroidery or by precious vegetable dyes. In this universe where all embellishment techniques continue to exist side by side, beauty itself lies in the heart of the workshops where day after day the canvas of the future is woven with fervour.
This book is a tool... |
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Pal .D.C. |
A Lexicon of Medicinal Plants in India |
$225.49 $157.84 |
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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.T. Steudel |
Nomenclature Botanicus - 2 Volumes |
$312.99 $219.09 |
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K. R. Kirtikar |
Indian Medicinal Plants - 8 Volumes (2nd Edition) |
$512.99 $359.09 |
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| The study of disease commenced with the dawn of intellect. The cave man surely resorted to the plant kingdom as his therapeutical agents and remedial measures. There is no record available for the medicines used by primitive man. The knowledge of medicinal plants must have been accumulated over centuries. The ancient peoples of India were acquainted with medicinal herbs to a larger extent than the natives of any other country. The Indian materia medica consists of the Raja Nighantu, the... |
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B.S.I. |
Records of the Botanical Survey of India - 2 Volumes |
$562.99 $394.09 |
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