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Summary and Analysis of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
Based on the Book by Peter Wohlleben
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Hidden Life of Trees tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Peter Wohlleben’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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by Timothy Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal crops, fruit, and vegetables, but in their many other...
Plant whispers
A journey through new realms of science
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Plants are not passive, senseless objects. They use the language of fragrances to communicate above and below ground and engage in lively relationships with their environment and peers. Not only do they support relatives, harass strangers, make alliances, they also learn from experience, and remember...
The Tree
A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
A 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 landed, and pines still alive that...
by Bernd Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Ina book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd Heinrich takes readers on an eye-opening journey through the hidden life of a forest.
In the Land of the Blue Poppies
The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
A Modern Library Paperback Original
During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet, China, and Southeast Asia, in search of rare and elusive species of plants. He...
The Tulip
The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
THE TULIP is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today.
No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts...
Suburban Safari
A Year on the Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels, crows, worms, and spiders who think of her backyard as their own. Suburban Safari is...
Visionary Plant Consciousness
The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
23 leading experts reveal the ways that psychoactive plants allow nature’s “voice” to speak to humans and what this communication means for our future
• Presents the specific “human-plant interconnection” revealed by visionary plants
• Explores the relevance of plant-induced...
Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia
Ethnic Engineering in Borneo
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of...
Introduction to the Study of Natural History
Edited and Annotated by Christoph Irmscher
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book features Louis Agassiz’s seminal lecture course in which the Swiss-American scientist, a self-styled “American Humboldt,” summarized the state of zoological knowledge in his time. Though Darwin’s theory of evolution would soon dismantle his idealist science, Agassiz’s lectures...
by Ram J. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Cytogenetics plays an important role in understanding the chromosomal and genetic architecture of plant species. Plant Cytogenetics, Third Edition follows the tradition of its predecessors presenting theoretical and practical aspects of plant cytogenetics. Chapters describe correct handling of plant...
Ginkgo
The Tree That Time Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years...
Cannabis
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Cannabis sativa is best known as the source of marijuana, the world’s most widely consumed illicit recreational drug. However, the plant is also extremely useful as a source of stem fiber, edible seed oil, and medicinal compounds, all of which are undergoing extremely promising research, technological...