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Magic Bean The Rise of Soy in America


Free Download Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America By Matthew Roth
2018 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0700626336 | PDF | 14 MB
Magic Bean traces the paths by which the soybean–as a crop, food, and idea–made its way into American farming, bodies, and culture over the course of the twentieth century. Along the way, it shows that its coming was by no means predictable, even as its consequences have been important.

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Easy Bean Cookbook Discover the Wonders of Legumes with Delicious Bean Recipes (2nd Edition)


Free Download Easy Bean Cookbook: Discover the Wonders of Legumes with Delicious Bean Recipes (2nd Edition) by BookSumo Press
English | January 22, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BSHZ6K18 | 73 pages | PDF | 2.19 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

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The Calabar Bean and its Alkaloids From Magic, via Miracle, to Memory


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9402411909 | 762 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB
Investigations into Calabar beans (the dried ripe seeds of Physostigma venenosum) and their alkaloidal components compose a classical scientific journey throughout some one-and-a-half centuries and not only represent a fascinating aspect of the history of medicine but which is, moreover, still ongoing at the forefront of chemical and medical discovery. Those in particular involving its major such component, l-physostigmine, have led to an understanding of some of the fundamental mechanisms occurring in physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry and, either actually or potentially (by providing a template and thereby acting as a "lead compound") have provided a useful treatment for a variety of neurological disorders associated with irregularities in cholinergic transmission in which augmentation of cholinergic activity has proved to be beneficial.

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