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        Food & Drink
        May 2022

        Tea ceremony: from tea to understand tea

        by wang jianrong

        The distance from tea lover to tea master is just a book. There are more than 600 sharp images in this book, which showing you how to understand the drink, how to buy good quality tea leaf, how to make a nice cup of tea, how to taste the tea, and knowing about every aspect of tea. The book will lead you from tea ceremony, tea art and tea history of green tea, black tea and Pu'er tea to build your bourgeois life.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2019

        Chinese Tea Culture in Guzhang

        by Xie Hui

        Guzhang County, in western Hunan, is one of the birthplace of Chinese tea culture where several kinds of famous Chinese tea are produced and national industries and technology systems developing tea are set up.   The book focuses on tea culture, and describes how people in Guzhang County realized poverty alleviation as well as lived a better life in the process of planting tea, making tea, and promoting tea. The book is about 120,000 words divided into four chapters: the first chapter introduces the spirit of tea makers through the story of Guzhang "Tea King", history of tea in Guzhang, wishes of tea planters, and the development of tea industry; the second chapter tells the stories of tea makers who manage the tea industry and promote Guzhang tea; the third chapter talks about the innovation and brand of Guzhang tea; the fourth chapter relates how outsiders contributed to the growth of Guzhang.

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        Fiction
        September 2009

        Library of Chinese Classics :The Classic of Tea

        by Jiang Xin, Jiang Yi

        The Book of Tea is written by Lu Yu, who is hailed as the "Tea Saint." It was written in the first year of Jianzhong in the Tang Dynasty (AD 780). As the first tea in China and even in the world, "The Book of Tea" pioneered the Chinese tea ceremony and the precedent for the tea "writing study and learning", and its historical and cultural value has so far been unmanned. "The Book of Tea," a comprehensive account of planting tea, picking tea, tea, tea, tea, recorded tea, Yong tea and other rich content. "Continued Tea" Written in the "Book of Songs" was born about a thousand years later, the author is Qing Dynasty scholar Lu Tingcan. "Continued Tea" followed the "tea by" way, the word number is "tea" ten times. This tea monograph collects Luo Hongfu on the historical materials of tea after the Tang Dynasty, which has fine examination, clear definition and high academic and historical value. "The Book of Songs" and "Continuation of the Tea" is a pair of tea culture books in natural sciences and social sciences, material and spiritual clever combination of the shiny treasure. The translation of this translation and English translation by the Dalian University of Technology College of Foreign Languages Jiang Yi, Professor Jiang Xin completed.

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        Geography & the Environment
        October 2015

        Climate Change and Insect Pests

        by Christer Björkman, Pekka Niemelä, Björn C Rall, Riita Julkunen-Titto, John Terblanche, Juliana Jaramillo, Sanford D Eigenbrode, Kari Saikkonen, Kennet Raffa, Björn Ökland, Alain Roques, Tea Ammunét, Seppo Neuvonen, Andrea Battisti, Stig Larsson, Matthew P Hill, Linda J Thomson

        Insects, being poikilothermic, are among the organisms that are most likely to respond to changes in climate, particularly increased temperatures. Range expansions into new areas, further north and to higher elevations, are already well documented, as are physiological and phenological responses. It is anticipated that the damage to crops and forests by insects will increase as a consequence of climate change, i.e. increasing temperatures primarily. However, the evidence in support of this common "belief" is sparse. Climate Change and Insect Pests sums up present knowledge regarding both agricultural and forest insect pests and climate change in order to identify future research directions.

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        Food & Drink
        2022

        El viento entre los pinos

        Un ensayo acerca del camino del té

        by Malena Higashi, Nicolás Stimolo

        If learning to prepare tea takes a lifetime, what is truly learned in the process? That is the question that surrounds El viento entre los pinos, Japanese-style: without offering an answer, through anecdotes, poems, and reflections that bring the tea ceremony—one of the most exquisite disciplines of Japanese culture—closer to everyday life. Tasks such as purifying the utensils, arranging flowers, preparing the charcoal, and heating the water appear, in the author's words, as a genuine meditation in motion, inviting us to pause in the present and appreciate our surroundings with all our senses.

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        Food & Drink

        Distinguishing and Drinking of Chinese Tea

        by Li Tao

        150 kinds of common teas and rare Souchong, more than 600 primary pictures of dry tea, tea infusion, infused leaf and tea dance. Distinguish the first-class tea and watch tea dance to enjoy its elegance and vulgarity. You can drink the most authentic Chinese Tea only through three steps of selecting, buying and making a tea. With 30 years of experience in tea, the author can teach you how to distinguish tea without being “cheated” and buy cheaper tea and to make a tea at once. With subtle words, selection method and illustration, it is required reading for these who start drinking tea at first and old tea drinkers for more than decade years.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2017

        Tea and empire

        by Angela McCarthy, T Devine

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        Food & Drink

        Good Aroma Tea worth Making and Tasting

        by Li Tao

        Dense tea aroma is written in this book by author compared with these books do not involve in too much knowledge on tea tasting but taking “tea tasting” as the title. The author gives new meaning and association on beautiful tea drinking and describes the true aroma, meaning of tea and experience of tea tasting with ink with spiritual technique of writing to bring you feel the secret of tea and enjoy the goodness of life all the time. You can learn the first hand of knowledge of distinguishing and making of tea except enjoy reading of clear picture for distinguishing and detail of tea making procedures. With detail of making procedures and illustrations, simple explanation, let you grasp the secret to make an aromatic tea fast. Even if you are a beginner, you grasp it fast.

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        The Basics of Tea

        by Chonglin Zhou

        Tang Dynasty, tea efficacy, cultivation, collection, decocting and drinking methods, etc. Zhou Chonglin, a famous writer of tea culture, has been studying tea for 15 years with profound knowledge. He has referred to more than 40 kinds of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign editions in detail. He has been well proofread and proofread the Classic of Tea, which is original and easy to understand. In addition to the careful translation of the original text, there is also an in-depth and extended discussion on the theme of each chapter, from the ancient and modern evolution of tea to the basic cultivation of tea people, from tea events in previous dynasties to tea ceremony, tracing back to the source, unique insights, comprehensive revelation of the code of thought of the Book of Tea. The combination of ancient tea sets and tea drawings can help readers understand the features and structure of ancient tea sets more intuitively, feel the elegant tradition of tea, and draw on the wisdom of ancient people in drinking tea. 《茶经》是关于历代制茶、饮茶、茶道演变的百科全书,后世茶书的开源之作;共十篇,全面记述了唐及唐以前的茶叶历史与产地,茶的功效、栽培、采制、煎煮、饮用方法等。 知名茶文化作家周重林,精研茶学15年,功底深厚,详细参考古今中外版本40余种,勘校精良,带来原汁原味而又通俗易懂的《茶经》读本。除对原文的精心译注之外,还有对每个章节主题的深入延伸探讨,从茶的古今演变到茶人的基本修养,从历代茶事到茶席茶礼,溯本求源,见解独到,全方位揭秘《茶经》的思想密码。搭配古代茶具、茶画图,帮助读者更为直观了解古代茶具的特点和构造,感受茶雅传统,汲取古人饮茶智慧。

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        Dietetics & nutrition
        September 2006

        Protective Effects of Tea on Human Health

        by Edited by Narender K Jain, Mohammad Siddiqi, John Weisburger

        Bringing together the latest research from leading experts, this book provides an indispensable reference on the health benefits of drinking tea. It examines the general health giving properties of tea before moving on to a detailed review of the evidence for the beneficial effects of tea on specific ailments including cancer, the common cold, renal disease, cardiovascular disease, antiviral influenza, arthritis, lung and pulmonary ailments, aging, oral health, and dementia. The book concludes by challenging misconceptions of the effects of tea.

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        Medicine
        October 2017

        Health Benefits of Green Tea

        An Evidence-based Approach

        by Yukihiko Hara, Chung S Yang, Mamoru Isemura, Isao Tomita, R Agnihotri, Z Apostolides, T Asakawa, Z. M. Chen, S Gaur, Yukihiko Hara, M Inai, Mamoru Isemura, T Kakuda, T Kan, M. J. Lee, Z Lin, M Maeda-Yamamoto, S Masuda, S Meguro, T Minami, N Miyoshi, M Monobe, H Moriwaki, Y Nakamura, O Numata, K Saeki, K Sayama, Y Shimamura, M Shimizu, T Suzuki, H Tachibana, P. W. Taylor, I Tokimitsu, I Tomita, T. A. Tomita, K Unno, H Wang, H Yamada, C. S. Yang, H Yokogoshi

        This book provides evidence to support the health-promoting components of green tea for human health. It explores the significance of green tea and its catechins represented by epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), demonstrating their beneficial effects on diseases including cancer, obesity, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hepatitis, and neurodegenerative diseases. The present status of human studies and avenues for future research are discussed. It is written by a team of experts from across the globe and makes significant Japanese findings available to international researchers. It is an essential resource for researchers interested in the biochemistry and pharmacology of green tea, and functional foods and beverages.

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        Food & Drink

        A cup of Tea for Healthcare and Dispelling Diseases

        by Cai Ming

        Everyone including the old man, children, women and office workers can find the most suitable healthy tea. It includes 1,000 small folk prescriptions, diet tea, tea for maintaining beauty, four seasons tea, health tea, tea for reducing hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia, tea for maintaining five viscera and different effect of teas. It is guaranteed that active ingredients of herbal are fully dissolved, not damaged to function a effect beyond of brewing medicines through brewing repeatedly everyday. It is made of delicious food or herbals without odor and bitterness. It tastes better than tisane and has a better effect than that taking medicine. You will find that almost any herbal in the life is used for making tea and it is easy to make a cup of health tea.

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        Horticulture
        March 1999

        Coffee, Cocoa and Tea

        by Ken C Willson

        While botanically quite different, coffee, cocoa and tea are often considered together in the teaching of students of horticulture or agriculture. This is because all three represent plantation cash crops that are used as stimulant beverages and are grown in many of the warmer, less developed regions of the world. While there are a number of specialist books available on aspects of each individual crop, as well as grower manuals focusing on particular regions, there is currently no book that provides a general introductory overview of the scientific principles underlying production of all three crops. This book fills this gap, and will serve as a broad-based text for students of agriculture, horticulture and food science, as well as professionals seeking an overview of the topic.

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        July 2018

        Practical Feline Behaviour

        Understanding Cat Behaviour and Improving Welfare

        by Trudi Atkinson

        Practical Feline Behaviour contains all the relevant information that a veterinary nurse or technician needs to understand and handle the behaviour and welfare of house cats, and to offer safe and practical advice to clients. There have been ground-breaking advances in our understanding of feline behaviour in recent years and, to protect the welfare of cats, it is increasingly important that anyone involved with their care, especially those in a professional capacity, keep up to date with these developments. This approachable and down-to-earth text describes the internal and external influences on feline behaviour; on communication, learning, social behaviour, the relationship between behaviour and disease, and the cat - human relationship. It also provides practical advice on how the welfare of cats in our care may be protected and how behaviour problems should be addressed and how to avoid them. In this book Trudi Atkinson draws on her extensive experience as a veterinary nurse and a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist to provide a rapid reference and an intensely practical feline behaviour resource for owners, breeders, veterinary professionals, shelter and cattery workers and anyone involved in the care of our feline companions. - Practical, down to earth guide detailing all aspects of feline behaviour - Rapid reference for instant access to information - Written by a well-known animal behaviourist who has extensive experience in treating feline behaviour problems and in advising clients to protect the welfare of their cats - Includes a foreword by John Bradshaw, School of Veterinary Science at University of Bristol, UK

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        Science & Mathematics
        March 2022

        Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests

        by Takumasa Kondo, Gillian Watson

        Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible to control by natural enemies so biological control is possible. They have unique genetic systems, unusual metamorphosis, a broad spectrum of essential symbionts, and some are sources of commercial products like red dyes, shellac and wax. There is, therefore, wide interest in these unusual, destructive, beneficial, and abundant insects. The Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests is the most comprehensive work on worldwide scale insect pests, providing detailed coverage of the most important species (230 species in 26 families, 36% of the species known). Advice is provided on collection, preservation, slide-mounting, vouchering, and labelling of specimens, fully illustrated with colour photographs, diagrams and drawings. Pest species are presented in two informal groups of families, the 'primitive' Archaeococcids followed by the more 'advanced' Neococcids, covered in phylogenetic order. Each family is illustrated and diagnosed based on features of live and slide-mounted specimens, with information on numbers of genera and species, main hosts, distribution, and biology. For the important pest species, coverage includes information on the morphology of live and slide-mounted specimens, common names, principal synonyms, geographical distribution, plant hosts, plant damage and economic impact, reproductive biology, dispersal, and management strategies including biological, cultural and chemical control, sterile insect techniques, regulatory control, early warning systems and field monitoring. An additional complete list of scale insect pests worldwide is provided, comprising 642 species in 28 scale insect families (about 8% of the 8396 species of living scales known), with information on plant hosts, geographical distribution and validation sources. Beneficial uses of scale insects as sources of red dyes, natural resins and waxes, as agents for invasive weed control. The importance of their honeydew to bees for making honey, and as a food source to other animals, are included. Academic researchers, students, entomologists, pest management officials in agribusiness or government including plant quarantine identifiers, extensionists, farmers, field scientists and ecologists will all benefit from this book.

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        2022

        Al borde de la boca

        Diez intuiciones en torno al mate

        by Carmen M. Cáceres

        Many books have been written about mate—its properties, benefits, history, and ritual. Al borde de la boca, however, intuits what none of those books consider: the firsthand experience of drinking mate. It is an experience of both body and mind, better evoked through literature than through scientific vocabulary. Sensitive and precise, this essay captures that experience and puts it into words without ever exhausting its private, personal dimension.

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        2022

        Phytotherapy in Equine Practice

        Pocket guide

        by Dr. Herbert Konrad

        Lemon balm tea for competition anxiety, cottonwood bark for myositis, devil’s claw root for laminitis – yes, herbal preparations promote healing in horses too! An experienced veterinarian has gathered together the skills of his holistic treatment - Profiles of herbal drugs: Therapy-relevant characteristics of the medicinal plants - Veterinary practice: Examination, repertorisation (finding the suitable remedy), treatment plan, calculation of the dose for a horse, including examples of equine patients - Indications: Proven phytotherapeutic agents for the most common diseases This book shows that even chronic cases or those refractory to conventional medicine can be successfully treated with the healing power of plants.

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        May 2022

        Feline Reproduction

        by Aime Johnson, Michelle Kutzler

        Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world, and as homes become smaller, and single-person households become more common, it is predicted that the numbers being bred and kept will only grow. In Feline Reproduction, the global author team cover all aspects of reproduction in the queen and the tom. Beginning with basic anatomy and normal reproduction, it goes on to cover practical knowledge about pregnancy, neonatal care, breeding soundness exams, and semen cryopreservation. It also includes an overview of factors, diseases, and abnormal conditions affecting reproduction, such as infertility, causes of abortion and contraception. Covering both pet patients and nondomestic species, this book provides a thorough grounding in feline reproduction for the general veterinary practitioner, veterinary student, animal scientist, and experienced cat breeder.

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