Author: Christopher Vanier
Publisher: HopeRoad
ISBN: 1908446102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Charming and vividly evocative... I feel as if I have got to know these islands, and almost to have been there.' Helena Drysdale, author of Strangerland Ah, to be an embryo again. Christopher Vanier's story begins where we all do, conception. Set in 1940s and 1950s on the Caribbean island of St Kitts and beset by a troubled colonial legacy, both Christopher and his island yearn for independence. Vanier recalls the mischief of an island childhood: giving his baby brother to an ungrateful monkey, sneaking out to the cinema after school hours, hair-raising jaunts on a volcano, disastrous experiments involving a rocket... Is this boy lost in the plain sailing of childhood or can he turn his curiosity into Caribbean Chemistry? This is a story of self-discovery, told candidly in language rich enough to eat: Breadfruit, breadnut, bamboo, lignum vitae, marouba, weedee, and calabash. Funny and engaging, a story about breaking the barriers of identity and finding them again. A rare view of the emigrant's tale.
Caribbean Chemistry
Author: Christopher Vanier
Publisher: HopeRoad
ISBN: 1908446102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Charming and vividly evocative... I feel as if I have got to know these islands, and almost to have been there.' Helena Drysdale, author of Strangerland Ah, to be an embryo again. Christopher Vanier's story begins where we all do, conception. Set in 1940s and 1950s on the Caribbean island of St Kitts and beset by a troubled colonial legacy, both Christopher and his island yearn for independence. Vanier recalls the mischief of an island childhood: giving his baby brother to an ungrateful monkey, sneaking out to the cinema after school hours, hair-raising jaunts on a volcano, disastrous experiments involving a rocket... Is this boy lost in the plain sailing of childhood or can he turn his curiosity into Caribbean Chemistry? This is a story of self-discovery, told candidly in language rich enough to eat: Breadfruit, breadnut, bamboo, lignum vitae, marouba, weedee, and calabash. Funny and engaging, a story about breaking the barriers of identity and finding them again. A rare view of the emigrant's tale.
Publisher: HopeRoad
ISBN: 1908446102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Charming and vividly evocative... I feel as if I have got to know these islands, and almost to have been there.' Helena Drysdale, author of Strangerland Ah, to be an embryo again. Christopher Vanier's story begins where we all do, conception. Set in 1940s and 1950s on the Caribbean island of St Kitts and beset by a troubled colonial legacy, both Christopher and his island yearn for independence. Vanier recalls the mischief of an island childhood: giving his baby brother to an ungrateful monkey, sneaking out to the cinema after school hours, hair-raising jaunts on a volcano, disastrous experiments involving a rocket... Is this boy lost in the plain sailing of childhood or can he turn his curiosity into Caribbean Chemistry? This is a story of self-discovery, told candidly in language rich enough to eat: Breadfruit, breadnut, bamboo, lignum vitae, marouba, weedee, and calabash. Funny and engaging, a story about breaking the barriers of identity and finding them again. A rare view of the emigrant's tale.
United States Government Organization Manual
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
United States Government Manual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author:
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Chemistry, Biological and Pharmacological Properties of Medicinal Plants from the Americas
Author: Kurt Hostettmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351461087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume is a compilation of plenary lectures presented at the IOCD/CYTED Symposium held in Panama City, Panama in 1997, and covers different aspects of research into plants from North, South and Central America. The topics treated all revolve around the chemistry, pharmacology, and biology of these plants. The importance of pharmaceuticals derived from plant sources is described, together with the potential of ethnomedicine for providing new leads in the search for bioactive constituents. The biodiversity of the Americas is underlined and an idea is given of the urgency with which the flora must be studied.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351461087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume is a compilation of plenary lectures presented at the IOCD/CYTED Symposium held in Panama City, Panama in 1997, and covers different aspects of research into plants from North, South and Central America. The topics treated all revolve around the chemistry, pharmacology, and biology of these plants. The importance of pharmaceuticals derived from plant sources is described, together with the potential of ethnomedicine for providing new leads in the search for bioactive constituents. The biodiversity of the Americas is underlined and an idea is given of the urgency with which the flora must be studied.
Chemistry Revision Guide for CSEC® Examinations
Author: Compton Mahase
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521692960
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The CSEC Revision Guide for Chemistry has been written to help students achieve a sound understanding of Chemistry examined by the Caribbean Secondary Examinations Council. The text presents all information relevant to the CSEC syllabus in a clear, concise way, to form an additional aid to understanding and revision. There are hints on revision, preparing for examinations and answering examination questions, as well as clear and fully labelled illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521692960
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
The CSEC Revision Guide for Chemistry has been written to help students achieve a sound understanding of Chemistry examined by the Caribbean Secondary Examinations Council. The text presents all information relevant to the CSEC syllabus in a clear, concise way, to form an additional aid to understanding and revision. There are hints on revision, preparing for examinations and answering examination questions, as well as clear and fully labelled illustrations.
List of Official International Conferences and Meetings
Author: United States. Department of State. Office of International Conferences
Publisher:
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Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology
Author: Bridget S. Green
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 140205775X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Techniques and theory for processing otoliths from tropical marine fish have developed only recently due to an historic misconception that these organisms could not be aged. Otoliths are the most commonly used structures from which daily, seasonal or annual records of a fish’s environmental history are inferred, and are also used as indicators of migration patterns, home range, spatial distribution, stock structure and life history events. A large proportion of projects undertaken on tropical marine organisms involve removal and processing of calcified structures such as otoliths, statoliths or vertebrae to retrieve biological, biochemical or genetic information. Current techniques and principles have evolved rapidly and are under constant modification and these differ among laboratories, and more particularly among species and within life history stages. Tropical fish otoliths: Information for assessment, management and ecology is a comprehensive description of the current status of knowledge about otoliths in the tropics. This book has contributions from leading experts in the field, encompassing a tropical perspective on daily and annual ageing in fish and invertebrates, microchemistry, interpreting otolith microstructure and using it to back-calculate life history events, and includes a treatise on the significance of validating periodicity in otoliths.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 140205775X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Techniques and theory for processing otoliths from tropical marine fish have developed only recently due to an historic misconception that these organisms could not be aged. Otoliths are the most commonly used structures from which daily, seasonal or annual records of a fish’s environmental history are inferred, and are also used as indicators of migration patterns, home range, spatial distribution, stock structure and life history events. A large proportion of projects undertaken on tropical marine organisms involve removal and processing of calcified structures such as otoliths, statoliths or vertebrae to retrieve biological, biochemical or genetic information. Current techniques and principles have evolved rapidly and are under constant modification and these differ among laboratories, and more particularly among species and within life history stages. Tropical fish otoliths: Information for assessment, management and ecology is a comprehensive description of the current status of knowledge about otoliths in the tropics. This book has contributions from leading experts in the field, encompassing a tropical perspective on daily and annual ageing in fish and invertebrates, microchemistry, interpreting otolith microstructure and using it to back-calculate life history events, and includes a treatise on the significance of validating periodicity in otoliths.
Toxins as Tools in Neurochemistry
Author: Ferdinand Hucho
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110853167
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Toxins as Tools in Neurochemistry".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110853167
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Toxins as Tools in Neurochemistry".
Federal Executive Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government executives
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Covers only the management sector of the executive branch.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government executives
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Covers only the management sector of the executive branch.