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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the PlanetFrom acclaimed science journalist Oliver Morton comes Eating the Sun, a fascinating, lively, profound look at photosynthesis, nature's greatest miracle. From the physics, chemistry, and cellular biology that make photosynthesis possible, to the quirky and competitive scientists who first discovered the beautifully honed mechanisms...
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Wisconsin Flora: An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Plants of WisconsinWisconsin Flora: An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Plants of Wisconsin is the first modern, comprehensive guide to the vascular flora of Wisconsin, including keys, descriptions, illustrations, and county distribution maps for over 2,100 plant species in 145 plant families and 750 genera.Includes: Keys...
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The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us about Living Well in the WorldA riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life Looking around at the world today--a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant...
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The Story of RiceRice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population, but it is often taken for granted and regarded as a common cereal crop. As a rice-eater and a botanist, the author delves deep into the fascinating history and biology of...
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Wild Roots: A Forager's Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Roots, Tubers, Corms, and Rhizomes of North AmericaFor more than two decades Doug Elliot has wandered the fields, forests, and marshlands of North America gathering roots and herbs, and plant lore. A labor of love, Wild Roots is filled with practical information, extraordinary drawings and lively commentary, and offers a wealth...
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Vintage Botanical Illustration: Copyright-Free Images for Artists, Designers and Plant LoversAre you looking to gain access to hundreds of beautifully rendered copyright-free botanical illustrations to use in graphic design projects, wedding invitations and collages? Alternatively, are you looking for the best reference material available for your own botanical illustrations and designs?This 2019 offering from...
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Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine: The Curious Stories of 43 Amazing North American Native PlantsInternational Herb Association's 2017 Thomas DeBaggio Book Award Winner 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plants to nourish, shelter, heal, clothe, and even entertain us. Did you know that...
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They MatterA blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future. There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first...
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A Field Guide to Plants of Costa RicaAt the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry tropical evergreen and deciduous forests. Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica...
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Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World: An Illustrated GuideTropical fruits such as banana, mango, papaya, and pineapple are familiar and treasured staples of our diets, and consequently of great commercial importance, but there are many other interesting species that are little known to inhabitants of temperate regions. What delicacies are best known...
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House PlantsExploring the economics, science, and cultural significance of houseplants, a many-tendrilled history of our domestic, pot-bound companions. Our penchant for keeping houseplants is an ancient practice dating back to the Pharaohs. House Plants explores the stories behind the plants we bring home and how...
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The French Collector: Journal and Letters of Théodore Leschenault, Botanist of the Baudin ExpeditionThe French botanist Théodore Leschenault (1773-1826) travelled with Nicolas Baudin's voyage of discovery to Australia in the years 1800 to 1803: his journal and letters vividly record his impressions of the plant life and animals he encountered, along with dramatic and unsettling meetings with...
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Nature All Around: TreesThis comprehensive and beautifully illustrated introduction to trees and the important role they play is part of the essential Nature All Around series. The book first explores the parts of trees, their life cycles, the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees, leaf types and...
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Weeds of the SouthWeeds threaten the safe, efficient, and sustainable production of food, feed, fiber, and biofuel throughout the world. Featuring more than fifteen hundred full-color photographs, this handy guide provides essential information on four hundred of the most troublesome weedy and invasive plants found in the...
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First Studies of Plant Life (Yesterday's Classics)A guide to discovery of the forces at work in the world of plants. Through germinating seeds and varying their growing conditions, students learn by observation the different ways seeds germinate and young plants respond to moisture and light. Further experiments shed light on...
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The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated ManualPennsylvania, a state of diverse geography and geology, is rich in flora. The second edition of The Plants of Pennsylvania identifies the nearly 3,400 species of trees, wildflowers, ferns, grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, and weeds native to or naturalized in the Commonwealth. Retaining the...
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North American Wildland Plants: A Field GuideNorth American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland...
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Alaska's Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North"Whenever I open it, I find another marvelous tidbit, like Viereck's description of uses for soft, acidic plant sphagnum, or peat moss, the plant often found chinking the walls of log cabins..." - Fairbanks News-MinerThis guide to Alaskan wild plants, native and introduced, is...
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Our Knowledge Is Not PrimitiveTraditional Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Chippewa) knowledge, like the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples around the world, has long been collected and presented by researchers who were not a part of the culture they observed. The result is a colonized version of the knowledge, one...
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Food Plants of Coastal First PeoplesIn Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples, renowned ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner describes more than 100 plants traditionally harvested and eaten by coastal aboriginal groups. Each description contains botanical details and a colour photograph to help identify the plant, information on where to find...
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