An essential information source, the only full-color desk reference available, offers a comprehensive one-volume collection of geographic facts, including charts, maps, photographs, a complete index, coverage of human and cultural geography, and more. BOMC.

An illustrated compendium of information on plants and their diverse therapeutic properties and benefits brings together folklore, scientific research, and medical theory to describe hundreds of plants and their origins.--

"This reference also delves into the roots of language, religion, culture, and technology to show how human ingenuity and the challenges of nature have interacted for millennia to produce the modern world. Finally, an alphabetical, country-by-country overview presents precise, specific data and statistics on everything from political structure to agricultural and industrial production to ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup."--Jacket.

Presents a geographical reference text of the world, with maps, charts, and photographs.

History.

An illustrated compendium of information on plants and their diverse therapeutic properties and benefits brings together folklore, scientific research, and medical theory to describe hundreds of plants and their origins.--

"Companion to National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America"--Cover.

A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.

A resource organized by body system lists the key herbal remedies available, their uses, and cautionary advice, in a book that includes full-color photos, a glossary and several thematic indexes.