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50 plants that changed the world / by Harris, Stephen,1966-author.(CARDINAL)469376;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The plants. Barley ; Mandrake ; Beets ; Opium poppy ; Brassicas ; Cannabis ; Bread wheat ; Broad bean ; Alliums ; Pea ; Olive ; Grape ; Papyrus ; Yew ; Rose ; Pines ; Reeds ; Oak ; Apple ; Pepper ; Carrot ; Woad ; Citrus ; Nutmeg ; White mulberry ; Tobacco ; Tulip ; Chilli ; Quinine ; Cocoa ; Potato ; Tomato ; Coffee ; Maize ; Pineapple ; Smooth meadow grass ; Lycopods ; Cotton ; Sugar cane ; Coconut ; Rice ; Tea ; Ragwort ; Banana ; Rubber ; Sunflower ; Oil palm ; Soya ; Corncockle ; Thale cress.Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle - or perhaps the soya - that produced the milk, plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Beginning with some of the earliest uses of plants, Stephen Harris takes us on an exciting journey through history, identifying fifty plants that have been key to the development of the western world, discussing trade, imperialism, politics, medicine, travel and chemistry along the way. There are plants here that have changed landscapes, fomented wars and fuelled slavery. Others have been the trigger for technological advances, expanded medical knowledge or simply made our lives more pleasant. Plants have provided paper and ink, chemicals that could kill or cure, vital sustenance and stimulants. Some, such as barley, have been staples from earliest times; others, such as oil palm, are newcomers to western industry. We remain dependent on plants for our food, our fuel and our medicines. As the wide-ranging and engaging stories in this beautifully illustrated book demonstrate, their effects on our lives continue to be profound and often unpredictable.
Subjects: Plants, Useful; Plants and civilization; Plants and history.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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In the arms of Morpheus : the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines / by Hodgson, Barbara,1955-(CARDINAL)387092;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confessions of Thomas De Quincy and insinuated itself into the lives and works of writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Lord Byron, Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, the Bronts͡, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and many others. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, advertisements, movie stills, pulp magazine and dime novel covers and paraphernalia.
Subjects: Authors; Drug addiction; Drug addiction; Hallucinogenic drugs; Hallucinogenic drugs; Morphine; Opium; Opium; Patent medicines;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Sea of poppies / by Ghosh, Amitav.(CARDINAL)428507;
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers establish family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Opium trade; Sailors; Schooners; Social classes; Voyages and travels;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The opium prince [sound recording] / by Aimaq, Jasmine,author.(CARDINAL)838206; Bradbury, Pete,narrator.(CARDINAL)786582;
Narrated by Pete Bradbury.Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul at the helm of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to eradicating the poppy fields that feed the world's opiate addiction. But on the drive out of Kabul for an anniversary trip with his wife, Daniel accidentally hits and kills a young Kochi girl named Telaya. Wracked with guilt and visions of Telaya, Daniel begins to unravel.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Opium trade;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities / by Stewart, Amy,author.(CARDINAL)274771; Morrow-Cribbs, Briony,illustrator.(CARDINAL)560024; Rosen, Jonathon,illustrator.(CARDINAL)686181;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-[236].Aconite -- Arrow poisons -- Ayahuasca vine and chacruna -- Betel nut -- Castor bean -- Ordeal poisons -- Coca -- Coyotillo -- Deadly nightshade -- Death camas -- Deadly dinner -- Ergot -- Fatal fungus -- Habanero chili -- Henbane -- The Devil's bartender -- Iboga -- Jimson weed -- Botanical crime families -- Khat -- Killer algae -- Ragweed -- Kudzu -- Lawn of death -- Mala mujer -- Here comes the sun -- Manchineel tree -- Don't look now -- Mandrake -- Marijuana -- Oleander -- Forbidden garden -- Opium poppy -- Dreadful bouquet -- Peacock flower -- Peyote cactus -- Psychedelic plants -- Poison hemlock -- Purple loosestrife -- Weeds of mass destruction -- Ratbane -- Rosary pea -- The terrible toxicodendrons -- Sago palm -- More than one way to skin a cat -- Stinging tree -- Meet the nettles -- Strychnine tree -- Suicide tree -- Carnivores -- Tobacco -- Toxic blue-green algae -- Duck and cover -- Water hemlock -- Water hyacinth -- Social misfits -- Whistling thorn acacia -- White snakeroot -- Yew -- Poison gardens.Stewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.
Subjects: Poisonous plants.; Dangerous plants.;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 31
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Sea of poppies / by Ghosh, Amitav.(CARDINAL)428507;
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Schooners; Voyages and travels; Sailors; Travelers; Social classes; Opium trade;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 16
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Death in the garden : poisonous plants & their use throughout history / by Brown, Michael(Michael J.),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-248).Mankind has always had a morbid fascination with poisonous plants; how their poisonous properties were discovered and developed will most likely be left unknown. Over the centuries poisonous plants have been used to remove garden pests, unwanted rivals and deceitful partners. They have also been used for their medicinal qualities, as rather dangerous cosmetics, even to help seduce a lover when perceived as an aphrodisiac. Some of these and other uses originate in a medieval book that has not yet been translated into English.A history of poisons -- Witchcraft and poisons -- Poisoned clothing -- The properties of poisonous plants -- The spiritual properties of poisonous plants -- The writers about poisonous plants -- Dangers of potting shed -- A conundrum -- The plants. Aquilegia ; Asarbacca ; Autumn crocus ; Basil ; Bay ; Bindweed ; Birthwort ; Bluebell ; Broom ; Caper spurge ; Castor oil plant ; Celandine greater ; Celandine lesser ; Cherry laurel ; Chinese lanterns ; Corn cockle ; Cuckoo pint ; Daffodils ; Daphne laureola ; Daphne mezeruem ; Deadly nightshade ; Dragons ; Fly agaric ; Foxglove ; Giant hogweed ; Hedge Hyssop ; Hellebore ; Hemlock ; Hemp ; Henbane ; Holly ; Horsetail ; Ivy ; Lettuce ; Lily of the valley ; Mandrake ; Mistletoe ; Monkshood ; Morning glory ; Nettles ; Opium poppy ; Pasque flower ; Pheasant's eye ; Petty spurge ; Rue ; Savin ; Soapwort ; Sea squill ; Strychnine ; Tansy ; Thorn Applev ; Tobacco ; Upas tree ; White bryony ; Woody nightshade ; Wormwood ; Yew -- Carnivorous plants. Pitcher plant ; Sundew ; Venus flytrap -- Growing poisonous plants -- What to do if affected by a poisonous plant -- Other poisonous plants -- Poison gardens to visit -- The conundrum -- A final word.
Subjects: History.; Poisonous plants.; Poisonous plants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Sea of poppies [sound recording] / by Ghosh, Amitav.(CARDINAL)428507; Gigante, Phil.(CARDINAL)551518;
Director, Jim Bond.Read by Phil Gigante.On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Schooners; Voyages and travels; Sailors; Travelers; Social classes; Opium trade;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Milk of paradise : a history of opium / by Inglis, Lucy,author.(CARDINAL)609926;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-422) and index.Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ٢Milk of Paradise٣ for millennia. The latex of Papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain-and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip, or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. Cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today's synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine, and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.
Subjects: Opium trade;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Afghanistan in pictures / by Behnke, Alison.(CARDINAL)664911; Lerner Publications Company.Geography Department.Afghanistan in pictures.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An introduction to the geography, history, government, people, and economy of this landlocked country with a long history of warfare and conquest.1210LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Illustrated works.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 9
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