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What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America’s native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree’s natural home. But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don’t know the fascinating story of how native pecan trees fed Americans for thousands of years until the nut was “improved” a little more than a century ago—and why that rapid domestication actually threatens the pecan’s long-term future. In The Pecan, acclaimed writer and historian James McWilliams explores the history of America’s most important commercial nut. He describes how essential the pecan was for Native Americans—by some calculations, an average pecan harvest had the food value of nearly 150,000 bison. McWilliams explains that, because of its natural edibility, abundance, and ease of harvesting, the pecan was left in its natural state longer than any other commercial fruit or nut crop in America. Yet once the process of “improvement” began, it took less than a century for the pecan to be almost totally domesticated. Today, more than 300 million pounds of pecans are produced every year in the United States—and as much as half of that total might be exported to China, which has fallen in love with America’s native nut. McWilliams also warns that, as ubiquitous as the pecan has become, it is vulnerable to a “perfect storm” of economic threats and ecological disasters that could wipe it out within a generation. This lively history suggests why the pecan deserves to be recognized as a true American heirloom.
Pecan. --- Pecan industry. --- Carya illinoensis --- Carya illinoinensis --- Carya oliviformis --- Carya pecan --- Hicoria pecan --- Pecan tree --- Hickories --- Hicans --- Nut industry
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Pecan industry. --- Pecan. --- Nut industry --- Carya illinoensis --- Carya illinoinensis --- Carya oliviformis --- Carya pecan --- Hicoria pecan --- Pecan tree --- Hickories --- Hicans
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Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed to have caused Caitanya's advent by ceaselessly storming heaven, calling for the divine presence to come to earth. Advaita was a scholar and highly respected pillar of society, whose status lent respectability and credibility to the new movement. A significant body of
Vaishnavites --- Advaita Ācārya. --- Advaitācarya, --- Kamalākṣa Bhaṭṭācārya --- Advaita Acarya, --- Vaishnavites - Biography. --- Advaita Acarya, - 15th century.
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In horticulture, plant propagation plays an important role, as the number of plants can be rapidly multiplied, retaining the desirable characteristics of the mother plants, and shortening the bearing age of plants. There are two primary forms of plant propagation: sexual and asexual. In nature, the propagation of plants most often involves sexual reproduction, and this form is still used in several species. Over the years, horticulturists have developed asexual propagation methods that use vegetative plant parts. Innovation in plant propagation has supported breeding programs and allowed the production of high quality nursery plants with the same genetic characteristics of the mother plant, free of diseases or pests.
Carya illinoinensis --- orchards --- seedlings production --- emergence rate --- Ericaceae --- Vaccinium virgatum --- micropropagation --- in vitro culture --- cytokinins --- zeatin --- 2iP --- BAP --- kinetin --- WPM --- clone aging --- foundation-stock --- genetic-disorder --- non-infectious --- epigenetic --- pepper --- propagation --- domestic --- wild --- protocorm-like bodies --- light-emitting diode --- trehalose --- maltose --- CCC --- correlation --- growth retardants --- rooting --- cutting --- forcing --- oleander --- shading --- acclimatization --- auxins --- Dracaena draco --- in vitro --- auxin --- rhizobacteria --- Vaccinium spp. --- bacterial wilt --- Solanum melongena --- susceptible --- tolerance --- exopolysaccharides --- cell wall degrading enzymes --- nursery plants --- plant multiplication --- seeds --- cuttings --- budding --- grafting --- biotechnology
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Hardwood-dominated temperate forests (mostly in Eastern North America, Europe, North East Asia) provide valuable renewable timber and numerous ecosystem services. Many of these forests have been subjected to harvesting or conversion to agriculture, sometimes over centuries, that have greatly reduced their former extent and diversity. Natural regeneration following harvesting or during post-agricultural succession has often failed to restore these forests adequately. Past harvesting practices and the valuable timber of some species have led to a reduction in their abundance. The loss of apex predators has caused herbivore populations to increase and exert intense browsing pressure on hardwood regeneration, often preventing it. Particularly important are fruit, nut and acorn bearing species, because of their vital role in forest food webs and biodiversity. Restoring hardwood species to natural forests in which they were formerly more abundant will require a number of forest management actions (e.g., resistant hybrids, deer exclosures/protectors, enrichment planting, underplanting, etc.). Similarly, reforesting areas that were once natural forests will also require new silvicultural knowledge. Global warming trends will intensify the need for interventions to maintain the diversity and function of temperate hardwood forests, as well as for increase hardwood reforestation.
Fagaceae species --- soil disturbance --- non-timber forest products --- precision restoration --- protected landscape area --- tree selection --- cultural diversity --- Quercus rubra --- hardwood restoration --- enrichment planting --- sub-tropical hardwoods --- agroforestry --- herbicide effects --- biological diversity --- competition --- Juglans nigra L. --- understorey --- invasive plants --- wildfire --- forest restoration --- Quercus macrocarpa --- riparian forest restoration --- vegetation management --- assisted migration --- sugar maple --- deer browsing --- species composition --- tolerance --- phosphorus --- growth efficiency index --- floristic quality index --- shelterwood --- Carya cordiformis (Wangenh.) K. Koch --- monitoring --- indicators --- seed predation --- Bioclimatic niche --- non-parametric correlation --- unmanaged forest --- Native Americans --- abandoned agricultural field --- native mixed forests --- tree vigor --- forest diversity --- predation --- weed control --- nitrate --- facilitation --- inventory --- hardwoods --- Mexican tree species --- yellow birch --- tree plantation --- seedling establishment --- deer abundance --- avian guilds --- Pinus strobus L. --- Central Hardwood Forest region --- Pinus strobus --- Durango --- MaxEnt --- Juglans nigra --- oak regeneration --- forest regeneration --- Quercus rubra L. --- deer herbivory --- ecosystem services --- tree shelter
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The work explores the historical and intellectual context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the critical issues related to questions of development and originality in Tsongkhapa's thought. It also deals extensively with one of Tsongkhapa's primary concerns, namely his attempts to demonstrate that the Middle Way philosophy's deconstructive analysis does not negate the reality of the everyday world. The study's central focus, however, is the question of the existence and the nature of self. This is explored both in terms of Tsongkhapa's deconstruction of the self and his reconstruction of
Madhyamkia (Buddhism). --- Philosophy, Tibetan. --- Tson?-kha-pa Blo-bzan?-grags-pa, 1357-1419. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Buddhism --- Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa, --- Ācārya Sumatikīrti Coṅkhāpa, --- Ācārya Tsoṅkhāpā, --- Ācāryacoṅkhāpā, --- Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Tsong-kha-pa, --- Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Rje Tzong-kha-pa, --- Bogd Zonkhaba, --- Bogd Zonkhav, --- Coṅ-khāpa, Sumatikīrti, --- Rje Tsong-kha-pa, --- Rje Tsong-kha-pa chen-po, --- Rje Tzong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, --- Shar Rgyal-ba Tsong-kha-pa Dpal-bzang-po, --- Sumatikīrti Coṅkhāpa, --- Tsong-kha-pa Dpal-bzang-po, Shar Rgyal-ba, --- Tsong-ka-pa, --- Tsong-kha-pa, --- Tsong Khapa, --- Tsongkapa, --- Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa, --- Tsonkapa, --- Tsoṅkhāpā, Ācarya, --- Tsung-kʻa-pa, --- Tsung-kʻa-pa-ta-shih, --- Zongkaba, --- Zonkhaba, --- Zonkhav, --- Zonkhava Luvsandagva, --- Zongkeba, --- Зонхав, --- 宗喀巴, --- 宗喀巴大師, --- 宗喀巴大师,
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Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931-1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the "sex guru" and the "Rolls Royce guru," who built a hugely successful but scandal-ridden utopian community in central Oregon during the 1980's. Yet Osho was arguably the first truly global guru of the twentieth century, creating a large transnational movement that traced a complex global circuit from post-Independence India of the 1960's to Reagan's America of the 1980's and back to a developing new India in the 1990's. The Osho movement embodies some of the most important economic and spiritual currents of the past forty years, emerging and adapting within an increasingly interconnected and conflicted late-capitalist world order. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival research, Hugh Urban has created a rich and powerful narrative that is a must-read for anyone interested in religion and globalization.
Gurus --- New Age movement --- Aquarian Age movement --- Cults --- Social movements --- Occultism --- History --- History. --- Osho, --- Osho Rajneesh, --- Rajneesh, --- Ōṣō, --- Rajanīśa, --- Mohan, Rajneesh Chandra, --- Rajŭnishwi, --- Jain, Chandra Mohan, --- Pakavān̲ Rajan̲īṣ, --- Rajan̲īṣ, --- Rajneesh, Mohan Chandra, --- Ошо, --- אושו, --- اوشو، --- Rajaneesh, Ācarya, --- Rajnīshu, --- Rajnessh, --- Oshu, Rajnesh, --- anti gandhi. --- bhagwan shree rajneesh. --- buddhism. --- buddhist guru. --- buddhists. --- eastern religions. --- fallen gurus. --- global capitalism. --- global osho movement. --- global religion. --- globalization. --- gurus. --- hinduism. --- indias most dangerous guru. --- new age movement. --- oregon guru. --- osho movement. --- osho. --- rajneesh community. --- rajneeshpuram. --- religious sexual liberation. --- rolls royce guru. --- sex guru. --- sex. --- sexual liberation. --- spiritual leaders. --- spiritual logic of late capitalism. --- tantra. --- world religion. --- God-Men --- globalization --- India --- Rajneesh --- independence --- socialism --- the Anti-Gandhi --- the early Rajneesh community in the 1970s --- sex --- superconsciousness --- sexuality --- tantra --- liberation --- Rajneeshpuram --- 1980s America --- Osho --- 1990s India --- Osho's legacy --- the twenty-first century --- the spiritual logic of late capitalism
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Religions. --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Thomas, --- Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, --- Pinker, Steven, --- Ācārya Sumatikīrti Coṅkhāpa, --- Ācārya Tsoṅkhāpā, --- Ācāryacoṅkhāpā, --- Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Tsong-kha-pa, --- Blo-bzang-grags-pa, Rje Tzong-kha-pa, --- Bogd Zonkhaba, --- Bogd Zonkhav, --- Coṅ-khāpa, Sumatikīrti, --- Rje Tsong-kha-pa, --- Rje Tsong-kha-pa chen-po, --- Rje Tzong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, --- Shar Rgyal-ba Tsong-kha-pa Dpal-bzang-po, --- Sumatikīrti Coṅkhāpa, --- Tsong-kha-pa Dpal-bzang-po, Shar Rgyal-ba, --- Tsong-ka-pa, --- Tsong-kha-pa, --- Tsong Khapa, --- Tsongkapa, --- Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa, --- Tsonkapa, --- Tsoṅkhāpā, Ācarya, --- Tsung-kʻa-pa, --- Tsung-kʻa-pa-ta-shih, --- Zongkaba, --- Zonkhaba, --- Zonkhav, --- Zonkhava Luvsandagva, --- Zongkeba, --- Зонхав, --- 宗喀巴, --- 宗喀巴大師, --- 宗喀巴大师, --- Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa, --- Akʻvineli, Tʻoma, --- Akvinietis, Tomas, --- Akvinskiĭ, Foma, --- Aquinas, --- Aquinas, Thomas, --- Foma, --- Thomas Aquinas, --- Tʻoma, --- Toma, --- Tomas, --- Tomasu, --- Tomasu, Akwinasu, --- Tomasz, --- Tommaso, --- Tʻovma, --- Тома, Аквінський, --- תומאס, --- תומס, --- اكويني ، توما --- Ākvīnās, Tūmās, --- اكويني، توما, --- آکويناس، توماس,
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