| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: clearing a path -- Dandelion -- Florida beggarweed -- Velvetleaf -- Nutsedge -- Marestail -- Pigweed -- Ragweed -- Foxtail -- Epilogue: what's 'round the bend |
| Summary |
"The natural histories of eight ordinary plant species transformed into noxious weeds through mostly well-intended human efforts to get rid of them show how lives of people and weeds are entangled in ways that reflect human beliefs and attitudes toward the natural world" -- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Weeds.
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Weeds. |
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Plants and civilization.
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Plants and civilization. |
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Weeds -- History.
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History. |
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NATURE / Essays. |
| Indexed Term |
Where weeds come from, How human behavior affects plant behavior, origins of weeds, what is a weed, GMO impacts on rural communities, velvetleaf, ragweed. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cardina, John, 1953- The lives of weeds Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501758980 (DLC) 2020052565 (OCoLC)1224583362 |
| ISBN |
9781501759000 electronic book |
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1501758993 electronic book |
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9781501758997 electronic book |
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1501759000 electronic book |
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9781501758980 paperback |
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1501758985 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501758997 |
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