Botany
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Hortus Curious: Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and FungiCelebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world. Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own, or by growing off...
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Plants That Can Kill: 101 Toxic Species to Make You Think TwiceFollowing the success of Plants You Can't Kill, Tornio now takes a look at those plants that can actually kill you if you're not careful. This book will offer up information to gardening enthusiasts of all levels about common plants that are toxic, poisonous,...
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Weedy Wisdom for the Curious Forager: Common Wild Plants to Nourish Your Body & SoulFind Delicious and Healthful Plants Hiding in Plain Sight With more than fifty recipes, hands-on activities, and thought-provoking social themes, Rebecca Randall Gilbert shows you exciting ways to incorporate common wild plants into your life. This beginner-friendly book provides eight essential foraging lessons based...
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Foraging Pennsylvania and New Jersey: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild FoodsFrom cattails to wild garlic, this guide uncovers the edible wild foods and healthful herbs of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Written for people who want to know more about foraging, including those who are absolute beginners and perhaps don't even know where to start,...
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Edible Wild Plants for Beginners: The Essential Edible Plants and Recipes to Get StartedDig up a whole new culinary world with this New York Times best-selling field guide to foraging Most of us "forage" for food in the aisles of well-lit grocery stores. But there are delicious edible plants for the taking right outside your door! This...
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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and ExploredSince Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite for tending perennials, all gardeners stand to benefit from learning a bit...
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The Story of Trees: And How They Changed the WorldWonderful stories and in-depth information you will normally never find in books about trees. -- Piet Oudolf, Landscape Designer and creator of the planting design for New York's High Line Entwining fascinating facts about 100 trees with inspiring stories of their importance to ancient...
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Lawns Into Meadows, 2nd Edition: Growing a Regenerative LandscapeLandscape designer Owen Wormser explains how to replace the deadscape we call lawn with low-maintenance, eco-friendly meadows. In this second edition of his award-winning book, he includes photos of meadows in progress plus more ways to cultivate your own organic meadow. This how-to book...
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The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the FutureForests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at astonishing rates. Today, however, an array of obstacles--humans...
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Modern Middle East: A HistoryExtensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first...
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Marijuana Botany: An Advanced Study: The Propagation and Breeding of Distinctive CannabisMarijuana Botany presents the scientific knowledge and propagation techniques used to preserve and multiply vanishing Cannabis strains. Also included is information concerning Cannabis genetics and breeding used to begin plant improvement programs. The book presents scientific and horticultural principles, along with their practical applications,...
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The Incredible Journey of PlantsNamed a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and Mail In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should...
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The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the WorldThe story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums,...
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Stalking the Wild AsparagusFifty years ago an unknown writer named Euell Gibbons (1911-1975) presented a book on gathering wild foods to the New York publisher David McKay Co. Together they settled on the title, Stalking the Wild Asparagus. No one expected that this iconic title would become...
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant IntelligenceDecades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic commerce exposes a...
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Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition"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....
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The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants: An A-Z of Healing Plants and Home RemediesThe Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, which combines exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects. Every day sees a discovery in the press about the new uses of plants, and it's certain that most of our...
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Planting Clues: How Plants Solve CrimesbDiscover the extraordinary role of plants in modern forensics, from their use as evidence in the trials of high profile murderers such as Ted Bundy to high value botanical trafficking and poaching. /b We are all familliar with the role of blood spatters or...
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Baby BotanistBaby Scientist is an adorable board book series that brings fun, accessible science concepts to baby's world using simple language, recognizable settings, and vibrant art. Read them all with your baby scientist Baby Botanist studies plants. In her lab coat, she looks at plants...
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Native American EthnobotanyAn extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than...
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