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Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2014
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English
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"David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. The Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a...
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Timber Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A "survey of 133 of the most commonly grown [plant groups] explains where each plant came from and the journey it took into home gardens. Kingsbury tells ... tales of the most important plant hunters, breeders, and gardeners throughout history, and explores the unexpected ways plants have been used"--Amazon.com.
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Zoey and Sassafras volume 5
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Language
English
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"An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust!"--Jacket.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded...
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"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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Applewood Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1833, The Florist's Manual is a stunning and painstakingly reproduced edition of one of America's first botanical encyclopedias. Definitive in its day, this edition, which includes 73 full-color drawings, is a treasure trove of information for modern gardeners and amateur historians alike. It is being published in conjunction with Old Sturbridge Village museum.
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English
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We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment, and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the Fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations...
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Editorial Kier
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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Paracelso, filósofo, médico y místico, nos introduce en el estudio de las plantas mágicas con este tratado de Botánica Oculta. El libro incluye temas como el hombre y la planta, la alimentación, e instrucciones sobre las comidas: tinturas, decocciones, tratamiento hermético de las plantas, entre otros. Además, encontraremos un diccionario con las propiedades medicinales y las virtudes mágicas de gran variedad de plantas, como ajo, apio, avena,...
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Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How Plants Work brings the stranger-than-fiction science of the plant world to vivid life. It explains how plants tell time, how they move to follow the sun and capture food, and why they change color. Linda Chalder-Scott, of the popular blog The Garden Professors, uncovers these and other fascinating mysteries in this engaging and accessible introduction to plant physiology.--COVER.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An exploration of seaweed's role in marine ecosystems and climate change solutions"--
"Imagine forests where you can float weightlessly among schools of fish. Huge green pastures where sea turtles graze. Forests that capture carbon from seawater and breathe out oxygen. The answers to many of our planet’s problems may lie underwater, in these forests of seaweed. Celebrated nonfiction author Anita Sanchez takes readers on a tour of seaweed...
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