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Nancy Drew, fictional teenage amateur detective in an extended series of mystery books written by Carolyn Keene (a collective pseudonym, used by Edward Stratemeyer and, among many others, by his daughter Harriet S. Adams). Nancy Drew’s intelligence, cou
Nature and importance of plant diseases Plant diseases are known from times preceding the earliest writings.Fossilevidence indicates that plants were affected by disease 250 million years ago. TheBibleand other early writings mention diseases, such asrusts,mildews, andblights, that have causedfamine...
Winterson’s grasp of language and form is imaginative andfacile. The book is divided into eight chapters named after the first eight books of the Bible, and the narrative of each chapter is thematically related to the named book. Fanciful tales are woven into the realistic story as well, an...