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Gardening for butterflies : how you can attract and protect beautiful, beneficial insects / by Black, Scott Hoffman.; Borders, Brianna.; Fallon, Candace.; Lee-Mäder, Eric,1972-; Shepherd, Matthew.; Pyle, Robert Michael.; Xerces Society.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Why butterflies matter and why they are in trouble -- Knowing butterflies and what they need -- Designing your butterfly garden -- Butterfly garden plants of North America -- Plant selection, installation, and maintenance -- Gardening for moths -- Helping butterflies beyond the garden fence -- Observing and enjoying butterflies -- Metric conversions.LSC
Subjects: Butterfly gardening.; Butterflies.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All Saints [videorecording] / by Armour, Steve,screenwriter.; Bienstock, Marc,film producer.; Buono, Cara,actor.; Corbett, John,1961-actor.; Corbin, Barry,1940-actor.; Ellisor, Conni,composer.; Ghang, Martha,film producer.; Gomer, Steve,director,film producer.; Halsey, Richard,editor.; Mayen, Eduardo Enrique,director of photography.; Mock, John,composer.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Conni Ellisor and John Mock ; edited by Richard Halsey ; director of photography Eduardo Enrique Mayen.Cara Buono, John Corbett, Barry Corbin, David Keith, Gregory Alan Williams.Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Christian films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Spurlock, Michael; All Saints Episcopal Church (Smyrna, Rutherford County, Tenn.); Clergy; Karen (Southeast Asian people); Priests; Refugees; Refugees;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Blackwood / by Smith, Michael F.(Michael Farris),1970-author.;
"The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days. Once a peaceable town, it has devolved into a landscape of fear and ghosts--of regret and violence--transformed by the kudzu vines that have enveloped the hills around it, swallowing entire homes, cars, and rivers. Myer, the county's sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself. When confronted by a strange family of drifters, he believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good. His faith is tested--first when townsfolk respond to the disappearance of two young boys, and then by the appearance of Colburn, a damaged artist who has recently returned to Red Bluff after fleeing as a teenager. Colburn, having fallen in love with the fiery local bar owner, does his best to make amends with his past, only to suffer a greater rupture when his beloved also disappears into the kudzu. His quest to find Celia as well as the boys brings him in direct conflict with the law, and with the dark heart that beats beneath the undergrowth of the forest. Blackwood is the haunting story of a people crippled by the weight of generations--at once nourished and entrapped by the vegabond heart of the Deep South."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Cities and towns; Kudzu; Climbing plants; Forests and forestry; Missing persons; Sheriffs; Artists; Good and evil;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rodale's 21st-century herbal : a practical guide for healthy living using nature's most powerful plants / by Balick, Michael J.,1952-; Weil, Andrew.; Organic Gardening.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A global history -- The basics of herbal botany -- How herbs work -- Cooking with herbs -- Health and healing with herbs -- Herbs for beauty and bath -- Herbs for the home -- Growing herbs -- Herb garden planning and design.
Subjects: Herb gardening.; Herbals.; Herbs; Herbs; Herbs; Herbs.; Organic gardening.;
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This is your mind on plants / by Pollan, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. We don't usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So then what is a "drug?" And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? In THIS IS YOUR MIND ON PLANTS, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs -- opium, caffeine, and mescaline -- and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs, while consuming (or in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally powerful taboos with which we surround them. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and such fraught feelings? A unique blend of history, science, memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively -- as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that's one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay written more than 25 years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world"--
Subjects: Psychotropic plants.; Opium.; Mescaline.; Caffeine.;
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The proven winners garden book : simple plans, picture-perfect plants, and expert advice for creating a gorgeous garden / by Clausen, Ruth Rogers,1938-author.; Christopher, Thomas,author.; Michaels, Kerry,photographer.; Sparks, David,photographer.;
Subjects: Container gardening.; Gardening.; Landscape gardening.;
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Adrift / by Gear, W. Michael,author.;
The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled. Perched on a reef five hundred kilometers out from shore, they were about to embark on the first exploration of Donovan's seas. For the twenty-two adults and nine children, everything is new, exciting, and filled with wonder as they discover dazzling sea creatures, stunning plant life, and fascinating organisms. But Donovan is never what it seems; the changes in the children were innocuous--oddities of behavior normal to kids who'd found themselves in a new world. Even then it was too late. An alien intelligence, with its own agenda, now possesses the children, and it will use them in a most insidious way: as the perfect weapons. How can you fight back when the enemy is smarter than you are, and wears the face of your own child? Welcome to Donovan.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Human-alien encounters; Life on other planets; Ocean; Space colonies; Space ships; Survival;
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1,000 amazing weird facts / by Mills, Andrea.; Hoffman, Steven M.,(Steven Michael),1960-; Lamichhane, Priyanka.; Harris, Michelle.;
Presents a collection of facts about geography, people, places, or animals, including tornados, sinkholes, and mice eating plants.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Curiosities and wonders;
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Forks over knives [videorecording] / by Fulkerson, Lee.; Corry, John.; Aucoin, Joey.; Barnard, Neal D.,1953-; Baur, Gene.; Balcazar, Ramon.; Orfanopoulos, John.; Crance, Brian.; Fahey, Michael.; Virgil Films (Firm); Monica Beach Media (Firm);
Editors, John Orfanopoulos, Brian Crance, Michael Fahey ; composer, Ramn̤ Balcz̀ar.Includes interviews with Joey Aucoin, Neal Barnard, Gene Baur.This film examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called 'diseases of affluence' that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods and adopting a whole foods plant-based diet. This film tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Documentary films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nutritionally induced diseases.; Vegetables in human nutrition.; Fruit in human nutrition.; Vegetarianism.; Vegetarian cooking.;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Just one thing : how simple changes can transform your life / by Mosley, Michael,1957-author.;
"We all want quick and easy ways to improve our health, but when it comes to diet, fitness and wellbeing it can be hard to separate the facts from the fads. And harder still to find changes that fit easily into our daily lives. Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to find things you can introduce into your daily routine which will have a big impact on your mental and physical health. Did you know that eating chocolate can help your heart, that singing can give you a natural 'high' and that having more house plants can improve your mood and boost your productivity? Dr Michael Mosley unearths a range of Just One Things whose impacts are so surprising and intriguing you will be desperate to try them out. He chats to experts, road tests all his tips and enlists some special guests to help you find that one small thing that could really make a difference to how you feel."--
Subjects: Conduct of life.; Health.; Mental health.; Nutrition.; Physical fitness.; Self-care, Health.; Self-help techniques.; Well-being.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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