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The cry of nature : art and the making of animal rights
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ISBN: 9781780231952 1780231954 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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Animal rights is one the pre-eminent liberation struggles of our time. Yet the rise of a more sympathetic attitude towards animals began in Western Europe in the eighteenth century, when a number of progressive thinkers and writers recognized that animals felt pain and experienced pleasure and might therefore deserve to be granted inalienable rights. Thus was born the diverse movement that now stands on the brink of transforming our relationship to the natural world. "The cry of nature" reveals for the first time the significant role played by artists in the development of animal rights from the eighteenth century to today. Artists from Hogarth and Géricault to Picasso and Bacon have represented the suffering, chastisement and resistence of animals. Their works illustrate the lessons of Montaigne, Rousseau, Darwin, Freud and others - that humans and animals should be included within the domain of moral rights. Stephen Eisenman also traces the roots of speciesim - the presumption of human superiority - back to the classical world and at the same time describes the cultures, communities and individuals that were free from prejudice against animals. Both a survey and a closely argued examination of a crucial but misunderstood epoch in the long history of human-animal relationships, "The cry of nature" is a book for everyone interested in animal rights, art history and the history of ideas.


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Medicinal plants of central Asia : Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
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ISBN: 1461439116 9786613935120 1461439124 128362267X Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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 Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan is the first English-language book detailing medicinal plant diversity in the region. More than two hundred of the most important medicinal plants of Central Asia are listed and it includes many whose medicinal uses and activities are being compiled for the first time.  Information on the taxonomy, morphology, ecology, ethnobotany, chemistry, and pharmacology of plants from this region are presented with hundreds of beautiful color photographs. The book is co-authored by scientists from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and the U.S. and draws upon a rich source of local knowledge. The extensive English-Russian linguistic glossary to ecological, botanical, chemical, and medical terms is the first of its kind for this type of book.  Dr. Sasha Eisenman received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture at Temple University. His research focuses on chemical and genetic variation in medicinal plants, conservation genetics of rare species, and investigating underutilized plant species. Dr. David Zaurov received his Ph.D. from the Tashkent Agricultural Institute, USSR and since 1992 he has worked in various capacities at Rutgers University, including as a faculty member in the Plant Biology Department. He is the author of nearly 100 research articles and 3 textbooks. In 1998, he was acknowledged as an Honorary Professor of Tashkent State Agrarian University, the Republic of Uzbekistan. Dr. Lena Struwe is an Associate Professor and Director of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, and has over 25 years of research and teaching experience in the fields of botany and medicinal plants.  Her expertise is in the evolution and taxonomy of gentians, anti-malarial plants, and the ways in which humans have used plants throughout history.

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Medicinal plants -- Kyrgyzstan. --- Medicinal plants -- Uzbekistan. --- Pharmacology. --- Medicinal plants --- Plants --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Plants, Medicinal --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Plant Physiology --- Botany - General --- Drug plants --- Life sciences. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant development. --- Life Sciences. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plants, Useful --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Psychotropic plants --- Biochemistry. --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Composition --- Structure --- Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Ontogeny --- Floristic botany


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Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
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ISBN: 9781461439127 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, NY Springer

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 Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan is the first English-language book detailing medicinal plant diversity in the region. More than two hundred of the most important medicinal plants of Central Asia are listed and it includes many whose medicinal uses and activities are being compiled for the first time.  Information on the taxonomy, morphology, ecology, ethnobotany, chemistry, and pharmacology of plants from this region are presented with hundreds of beautiful color photographs. The book is co-authored by scientists from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and the U.S. and draws upon a rich source of local knowledge. The extensive English-Russian linguistic glossary to ecological, botanical, chemical, and medical terms is the first of its kind for this type of book.  Dr. Sasha Eisenman received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture at Temple University. His research focuses on chemical and genetic variation in medicinal plants, conservation genetics of rare species, and investigating underutilized plant species. Dr. David Zaurov received his Ph.D. from the Tashkent Agricultural Institute, USSR and since 1992 he has worked in various capacities at Rutgers University, including as a faculty member in the Plant Biology Department. He is the author of nearly 100 research articles and 3 textbooks. In 1998, he was acknowledged as an Honorary Professor of Tashkent State Agrarian University, the Republic of Uzbekistan. Dr. Lena Struwe is an Associate Professor and Director of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, and has over 25 years of research and teaching experience in the fields of botany and medicinal plants.  Her expertise is in the evolution and taxonomy of gentians, anti-malarial plants, and the ways in which humans have used plants throughout history.

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