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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.
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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
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The Innovation Press
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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.
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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]
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English
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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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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Gets deep into the weeds, so to speak, of the microscopic architecture of plants and the biochemical processes at play." -Washington Post
Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed, but many of us know little about the nature of the science involved. In Teaming with Nutrients, Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener's perspective. In his trademark down-to-earth, style, Lowenfels explains the role...
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Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
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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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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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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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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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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
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Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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The story of David Douglas, the premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and other areas of western North America. Douglas' discoveries include hundreds of western plants--most notably the Douglas Fir. The Collector tracks Douglas, from his humble birth in Scotland in 1799 to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker to his adventures in North America discovering "exotic" new plants for the English and European market....
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