One Gourd At A Time

Author : Colin Nissan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781797214757

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It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers by Colin Nissan Pdf

A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.

Author : Marilynn Host
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0806944234

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Gourd Crafts for the First Time by Marilynn Host Pdf

Step-by-step instructions explain how to complete a variety of projects using gourds of all shapes and sizes.

Author : Charles B. Heiser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780806173214

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The Gourd Book by Charles B. Heiser Pdf

Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which has been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.

Author : Shizhen Li
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780520395176

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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI by Shizhen Li Pdf

Volume VI in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

Author : Kent V Flannery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427911

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Guila Naquitz by Kent V Flannery Pdf

This volume reports on the excavation of Guilá Naquitz cave in Oaxaca, a site that provides important evidence for the earliest plant domestication in the New World. Stratigraphic studies, examinations of artifactual and botanical remains, simulations, and an imaginative reconstruction make this a model project of processual archaeology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Gardening
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066678065

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The Indian Gardener by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tricia Sutton
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0764341464

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One Gourd at a Time by Tricia Sutton Pdf

For crafters and artists who like the idea of working with gourds but don't know where to begin, this Beginner's Guide provides basic cutting, coloring, and decorating techniques. Gourds can be made into a container, an animal, jewelry, a face or mask, or anything else you can create. Step-by-step instructions and 361 color images take you through 21 projects using both cleaned and uncleaned gourds. There's the snowman, gourd pin, shadow box, candy dish, and a beaded face mask. Chapters include cleaning and cutting the gourd, coloring and decorating, and easy-to-do projects with your gourd scraps. Though geared for beginners, this how-to book is also a great resource for seasoned crafters who want to take their gourd art to the next level. A gallery of completed projects will further inspire your own creative ideas.

Author : Ayuba Y. Mshelia
Publisher : Author House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496904324

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The Story of the Origins of the Bura/Pabir People of Northeast Nigeria by Ayuba Y. Mshelia Pdf

A Synopsis of the Bura Project The three major rationale for writing this book are primarily to: through the study of African language family groups trace the origin of the tribe to a more specific location rather than the diffused response of ?from the East?; secondly to investigate why and how the word ?Pabir/Babur? came on the scene referring to a separate ethnic group different or the same as the Bura and thirdly to document some of the vanishing Bura cultural practices and deeds. For example what their beliefs are, their marriage practices, local industries and what they do to pass time. It is my strong belief that the first objective is accomplished through our analysis and presentation of the Proto-Afro-asiatic linguistic family classification group and its subgroup the Proto-Chadic of which the Biu-Mandara forms a sub-branch. Through a systemic and vigorous study of the classification of the different languages comprising this Proto Family of languages and its sub-branches we are able to assert that the Bura people were among many other ethnic groups part of a group whose origin can be traced to the Levant region of south west Asia and the Middle-East. They belong to the group that forms ?back to Africa migration?. This is because modern genetic studies of languages indicate that they?re the only group that have traces of Y chromosome belonging to haplogroup R1b R-V88 in Africa but found mainly in Asia and Europe. After tracing the influences of the powerful Kanem (ca. 700-1376) and later Bornu-Kanem (1380-1893) empires around the Lake Chad region as well as the kingdom of Mandara (founded in about 1459, i.e. end of the 15th century), in what is today modern Cameroon on the inhabitants of the region, we conclude a chaotic period of migrations and wars, including trade in slaves. It is through this prism that we notice the emergence of the founder of the Woviri dynasty of Biu. Through his failure to win the Maiship of Bornu, he moved to Mandara and then the Plateau of Biu with some of his followers or relatives. Being a student of History Abdulahi or who later became Yamta-ra-wala attempted to replicate what the Kanembu were able to do among the local people they conquered some centuries earlier; they created an ethnicity and language called Kanuri. Yamta-ra-wala succeeded somewhat, but wasn't able to completely conquer the Bura people and turn them in his new ethnic vision. Instead the Buras went to the hills to fight him the next day. The new breed he created he called ?Pabir? or Babur as the Hausa would call them. The myth of who Yamta-ra-wala is has for the present eclipsed historians and would probably continue for some time to come. As for the Bura (Most have down the hill-tops and mountains!) and the Pabir they have never been closer than today. Today for all practical purposes they are one and the same ethnic group, they?ve intermingled more than any two previously separated groups. Their vocabulary, phonology and cultural practices have fused into one in most instances.

Author : Sudhakar Pandey,Yiqun Weng,Tusar Kanti Behera,Kailiang Bo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030886479

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The Cucumber Genome by Sudhakar Pandey,Yiqun Weng,Tusar Kanti Behera,Kailiang Bo Pdf

This edited book presents the latest research on cucumber, its genetic resources and diversity, tissue culture and genetic transformation, mapping of economic genes and QTLs, whole genome sequencing, comparative genomics, and breeding strategies. The mechanism of sex expression, interspecific hybridization, and cell biology are also described. The book discusses the genome draft of cucumber and the application of genome editing. This book is useful to the students, teachers and scientists in academia and relevant private companies interested in horticulture, genetics, breeding, and related areas.

Author : David Macfarlane
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Carving (Decorative arts)
ISBN : 9781402753688

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Gourd Art by David Macfarlane Pdf

Provides examples from twenty artists along with information on their tools, methods, and influences.

Author : Missouri. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078529922

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri by Missouri. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816515409

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At the Desert's Green Edge by Amadeo M. Rea Pdf

The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat that has occurred over the past century. The oldest living Pimas can recall a lush riparian ecosystem and still recite more than two hundred names for plants in their environment, but they are the last generation who grew up subsisting on cultivated native crops or wild-foraged plants. Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea has written the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima and has done so from the perspective of the Pimas themselves. At the Desert's Green Edge weaves the Pima view of the plants found in their environment with memories of their own history and culture, creating a monumental testament to their traditions and way of life. Rea first discusses the Piman people, environment, and language, then proceeds to share their botanical knowledge in entries for 240 plants that systematically cover information on economic botany, folk taxonomy, and linguistics. The entries are organized according to Pima life-form categories such as plants growing in water, eaten greens, and planted fruit trees. All are anecdotal, conveying the author's long personal involvement with the Pimas, whether teaching in their schools or learning from them in conversations and interviews. At the Desert's Green Edge is an archive of otherwise unavailable plant lore that will become a benchmark for botanists and anthropologists. Enhanced by more than one hundred brush paintings of plants, it is written to be equally useful to nonspecialists so that the Pimas themselves can turn to it as a resource regarding their former lifeways. More than an encyclopedia of facts, it is the Pimas' own story, a witness to a changing way of life in the Sonoran Desert.

Author : Yu Chun Hua
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
Page : 1135 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304487506

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Purple Blood King by Yu Chun Hua Pdf

In Ziyuan mainland, there is a mountain range full of death, which stretches for nearly 100,000 square kilometers. It is adjacent to the sea in the east and extends all the way to Shengnv Lake in the west. It is about 30,000 kilometers long and is called the forest of death. In the middle of this forest of death, there is a faint breath of life, like a blinking star in this forest

Author : Duane Champagne
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585201269

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Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues by Duane Champagne Pdf

Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. Topics include identity, gender, the powwow, mass media, health and environmental issues. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools for instructors in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and anthropology, and important resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Steuben County (Ind.)
ISBN : IND:39000008994258

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Historical Sketches, N.E. Fremont Twp., Ray, Cedar Lk., Clear Lk., Michigan Border, Steuben County, Indiana by Anonim Pdf