
Bananas
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …
city’s enchanting gardens, where pome- granates, bananas, bamboo, and a myriad of luxuriant flowers flour- …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English
A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …
directed toward my age group. Dick and Jane drove me bananas and I hankered for books that would satisfy my …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …
and a bunch of bananas high up out of reach. The ape figured out how to get the bananas. He moved the … the box under the bananas, got the stick, climbed onto the box, reached up with the stick, and brought … brought down the bananas. Searle says the ape displayed a type of rationality that humans display. But, he …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 8 October 2024 English
Everyone's guide to using the power of science to produce healthier and tastier fruits and vegetables From garden to fork, Food Science for Gardeners is everyone's guide to optimizing the …
supermarket. In my store we have regular bananas and organic bananas, and nobody knows where either one came …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 18 September 2024 English
Thus, the students students to situate their personal experience in the are primarily Naval and Officer Cadets (N/OCdts) be- context of psychological research into gender and the tween the ages …
consequences of de-prioritization of cer- chapter from Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making tain individuals, groups … and Transformative Learning.” 13 Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International … N18314-ADP_6-0-000-WEB-3.pdf. Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 17 September 2024 English
A powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war. "An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements." – Omar …
the smell of that hallway: body spray and old bananas and sweat. Older students milling about, paying …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Without Beginning or End is Jacqueline Bourque’s final testament to a life well lived, written in the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis. Deeply inspired by her Acadian upbringing along …
the Sky that Morning 1. Untethered. A clump of bananas. It didn’t occur to me that I was no longer attached …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English
Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout …
ask Joseph what else they grow in the village. Bananas, paw-paw, watermelons, and sago, he replies. Vanilla …
PHABC: Public Health Association of BC · 12 August 2024 English
Shelby Roberts Research Associate, Applied Research and Innovation College of New Caledonia In partnership with Richard Han Director of Community Engagement and Food Systems Public Health Association of British Columbia …
(and similar comments noting produce like lemons, bananas and foods from foreign cultures not being able …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 9 August 2024 English
This case study analyzes the extent to which a small agribusiness in Rwanda complies with international standards for responsible investment in agriculture.
father were both farmers, growing cassava, beans, bananas, and coffee. I then came back to this area as it …