Plant Life category: 1095 books
An Enduring Wilderness
Toronto’s Natural Parklands
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Featuring tributes from award-winning writers
In a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. However, the last 25 years has seen these distinctive...
by Ken E. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
"This book is one-of-a-kind. It is the only book that I'm aware of that summarizes the biology, ecology, uses, and management of mesquite.... It is the most complete book in print on mesquite." -C. Wayne Hanselka, Associate Department Head and Extension Program Leader for Rangeland Ecology and Management,...
Wild Rides and Wildflowers
Philosophy and Botany with Bikes
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Two university professors set out to repeatedly bike the Great Western Trail, observing and writing about its variations with every season. The accounts of their adventures, however, refuse to be limited to flora and fauna. In Wild Rides and Wildflowers, Abbott and Rushforth share their deeply personal...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The application of ionic liquids to biomass for producing biofuels and chemicals will be one of the hot research areas during the next decade due to the fascinating properties of these versatile group of solvents that allow them to dissolve lignocellulosic materials. The present text provides up-to-date...
The Man Who Climbs Trees
The Lofty Adventures of a Wildlife Cameraman
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
**“A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world.” —Washington Post
Meet the man who climbs trees for a living. In this adventure memoir, Aldred carries us with him across the globe and up to the top of these towering forest titans as...
The Wollemi Pine
The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil From the Age of the Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
An enthralling detective story about evolution and natural history.
In mid-1994 a National Parks & Wildlife ranger abseiling in the Wollemi Wilderness outside Sydney, came upon an extraordinary sight: a canyon filled with massive pines. These trees towered above the surrounding foliage,...
by Howard P. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Wonderwalks is the first handy guide to all the accessible trails, sanctuaries, and nature centers owned and maintained by the New Jersey Audubon Society and open to the public free of charge. Nature lovers, hikers, birders, and anyone seeking a respite from the commotion of modern life will delight...
Mesquite
An Arboreal Love Affair
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls “arboreality.”
As a Franciscan brother and ethnobotanist who has often mixed mirth with earth, laughter with landscape,...
Wildflowers of the Northern and Central Mountains of New Mexico
Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This unique reference work describes over 350 wildflowers and flowering shrubs that grow in New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains, as well as neighboring ranges, including the Manzanita, San Pedro, Ortiz, and other lower-elevation mountains in central portions of the...
How the Earth Turned Green
A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence...
Wildflower Wonders
The 50 Best Wildflower Sites in the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
From the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia, this book showcases the most spectacular displays of wild blooms on the planet.
Each site account begins with a locator map and info panel detailing timing, key...
by Abel O. Olorunnisola
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book provides basic information on the design of structures with tropical woods. It is intended primarily for teaching university- and college-level courses in structural design. It is also suitable as a reference material for practitioners. Although parts of the background material relate specifically...
by Tanigami Kônan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Exceptionally drawn in a realistic fashion and awash in spectacularly rich colors, this one-of-a-kind art book — masterfully reprinted from a rare and costly edition — combines the perennial appeal of flowers with the art of Japanese woodblock prints.
Nothing expresses the richness and vigor of...
Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine
The Curious Stories of 43 Amazing North American Native Plants
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
International 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 during...