Author: YouGuide Ltd
Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837063257
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The city guide for La Ceiba (Honduras)
Author: YouGuide Ltd
Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837063257
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837063257
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Meet Me under the Ceiba
Author: Silvio Sirias
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1611922194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The novel is based on a true story, which Sirias researched while visiting Nicaragua. He is personified as a professor spending the summer near his parents birthplace, where he hears the story of the lesbian lovers, and attempts to reconstruct the days before and after Adelas demise. By means of his interviews, the reader comes to know Adelas family, her former lover (who feared for Adelas safety), Adelas former husband (who never dreamed that being a lesbian would get her killed), and Adelas magnetic and stunningly beautiful lover Ixelia, who was prostituted by her mother at age 11.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1611922194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The novel is based on a true story, which Sirias researched while visiting Nicaragua. He is personified as a professor spending the summer near his parents birthplace, where he hears the story of the lesbian lovers, and attempts to reconstruct the days before and after Adelas demise. By means of his interviews, the reader comes to know Adelas family, her former lover (who feared for Adelas safety), Adelas former husband (who never dreamed that being a lesbian would get her killed), and Adelas magnetic and stunningly beautiful lover Ixelia, who was prostituted by her mother at age 11.
Pharmacology of Bombax ceiba Linn.
Author: Vartika Jain
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364227904X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This work is the first monograph devoted solely to Bombax ceiba, popularly known as the Red Silk Cotton Tree. Consisting of seven chapters, it covers all relevant aspects of this plant, from its historical and spiritual importance, to its botanical characterization, pharmacognostical details and ethnobiological uses, to its scientific validation in various animal and human studies. Each part of the tree is of medicinal value and possesses many novel chemical constituents such as shamimicin, bombasin, bombamalone, bombamaloside etc. along with other bioactive secondary metabolites. The book presents the chemical structures of the most important constituents and highlights various pharmacological activities, predominantly antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, hypoglycemic, hypotensive, hepatoprotective and fibrinolytic, which may prove to be a source for the development of a novel phyto-pharmaceutical agent to treat diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In addition, separate chapters deal with the commercial and ecological significance of B. ceiba, as well as a case study on its conservation. Numerous color illustrations are included to identify the plant and to justify its nickname, the “Little Bird’s Cafeteria”.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364227904X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This work is the first monograph devoted solely to Bombax ceiba, popularly known as the Red Silk Cotton Tree. Consisting of seven chapters, it covers all relevant aspects of this plant, from its historical and spiritual importance, to its botanical characterization, pharmacognostical details and ethnobiological uses, to its scientific validation in various animal and human studies. Each part of the tree is of medicinal value and possesses many novel chemical constituents such as shamimicin, bombasin, bombamalone, bombamaloside etc. along with other bioactive secondary metabolites. The book presents the chemical structures of the most important constituents and highlights various pharmacological activities, predominantly antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, hypoglycemic, hypotensive, hepatoprotective and fibrinolytic, which may prove to be a source for the development of a novel phyto-pharmaceutical agent to treat diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In addition, separate chapters deal with the commercial and ecological significance of B. ceiba, as well as a case study on its conservation. Numerous color illustrations are included to identify the plant and to justify its nickname, the “Little Bird’s Cafeteria”.
Cuba
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Venezuela, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Ceiba
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Kapok Tree (Ceiba Pentandra Gaernt.).
Author: A. C. Zeven
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Restoration Will
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788894196047
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788894196047
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Pan American Union
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Report ...
Author: United States. Office of Fiber Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fibers
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fibers
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description