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  • Lab Girl

    A Memoir

    by Hope Jahren ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER •NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist."Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s ... Read more

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  • Arcadian Visions

    Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape

    by Allan R. Ruff ...
    This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in ... Read more

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  • 禁忌植物園:毒物、麻藥與藥草,來自黑暗深淵的危險香氣

    愈冶豔愈危險!見血封喉毒箭木、斷腸草、曼陀羅……不少毒花毒草自古以來就為人所用,並活躍在歷史舞台上。一舉介紹能滿足人類慾望,有時甚至令人墜入暗黑深淵的36種毒品、有毒植物與藥用植物。  為人類帶來鴉片、嗎啡、海洛因 【罌粟】  帶來千變萬化幻覺的仙人掌 【皮約特仙人掌】  深受藝術家們喜愛的禁忌之酒,艾碧斯 【苦艾】  吞雲吐霧令人暫忘俗事 【菸草】  犧牲了母親與妻子的全身麻醉藥實驗 【洋金花】  沉睡於正倉院謎團重重的毒草 【鉤吻】  以暗藏蓖麻毒蛋白的子彈進行暗殺 【蓖麻】  被用來處決蘇格拉底的毒物 【毒參】 ... Read more

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  • Entangled Life

    How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.**“Grand and dizzying in how ... Read more

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  • The Orchid Thief

    A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

    by Susan Orlean ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • THE BASIS FOR THE FILM ADAPTATION DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE AND STARRING NICOLAS CAGE AND MERYL STREEPThe “eccentric, illuminating, [and] hilarious” (New York Daily News) true story of beauty and obsession in the swamps of Florida and the impassioned individuals who risk everything for the ultimate prize: a rare ghost orchid“Fascinating . . ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Life of Trees

    What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

    Series Book 1 - The Mysteries of Nature
    A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.“Breaks entirely new ground ... [Peter Wohlleben] has listened to trees and decoded ... Read more

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  • The Forager's Treasury

    The essential guide to finding and using wild plants in Aotearoa

    by Johanna Knox ...
    In the urban and rural wildernesses, there is an abundance of food just waiting to be discovered, if only you know what to look for. Foraged food is healthy, economical and sustainable, but the best part is the fun you will have finding it.This book is guaranteed to make you look at the plants around you in a different light. The Forager's Treasury features profiles of many edible plants commonly ... Read more

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  • Urban Forests

    A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape

    by Jill Jonnes ...
    **“Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” *—*Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction“Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America’s city trees over the past two centuries. . . . An authoritative account.” —Gerard ... Read more

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  • How Mushrooms Should Be Grown

    by Anon ...
    This book contains a comprehensive guide to the successful growing of mushrooms, written with the absolute beginner in mind. Complete with detailed diagrams and photographs, this handbook is a must-have for anybody looking to grow mushrooms in large numbers and constitutes a great addition to any mycological collection. Chapters contained herein include: Composts; The Preparation of the Compost ... Read more

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  • Gesund und fit mit Kräuterkraft

    Die besten Rezepturen der "WIR in Bayern" Kräuterexpertinnen

    Series series Landleben
    Im Einklang mit der Natur leben, sanft den Organismus unterstützen und die Heilkräfte von Kräutern für die Gesunderhaltung nutzen – das möchten immer mehr Menschen. Die Kräuterexpertinnen Monika Engelmann und Adelheid Lingg widmen sich diesen Themen in der beliebten Sendung "Wir in Bayern" vom Bayerischen Rundfunk. Im vorliegenden Buch geben sie nun ihr vielfältiges Wissen rund um Kräuter und ... Read more

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  • Welcher Pilz ist das?

    Der Kosmos-Naturführer zur Bestimmung von über 450 Pilzen aus ganz Europa. Durch den Kosmos-Farbcode ist die schnelle Orientierung garantiert. Pro Art werden mehrere Bilder und Zeichnungen gezeigt, Detailwissen wird direkt am Bild vermittelt. Das Plus zum Buch: Die kostenlose KOSMOS-PLUS-App mit einzigartigen Erklärfilmen direkt aus der Natur und Expertentipps für eine noch einfachere Bestimmung. ... Read more

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  • A Pompeian Herbal

    Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants

    "The appeal of such a work will be wide, encompassing professionals and laymen alike. The book is the type which a visitor to Pompeii, or to Italy generally, would want to take along as a vade mecum [guidebook]." —Robert I. Curtis, Professor of Classics, University of Georgia When workmen excavating the ruins of Pompeii eagerly gathered the native medicinal plants growing there, Wilhelmina ... Read more

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  • Urban Plants

    by Trevor Dines ...
    Series series British Wildlife Collection
    An illuminating account of urban botany in the British Isles – its ecology, history and cultural significance.The walls, pavements, lawns, parks, playing fields, verges and waste ground that make up the built environment of Britain and Ireland are home to an extraordinary array of plant species. Native and non-native species together find ways to endure in often harsh and uncompromising habitats. ... Read more

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  • 1000 plantas y flores para el jardín - Segunda parte

    ¿Desea transformar su jardín en un auténtico oasis? Esta obra le ayudará a responder las cuestiones y solucionar los problemas más habituales que pueden encontrar los jardineros principiantes. Gracias a los trucos y consejos que ofrece este libro y el ilustrativo DVD adjunto usted tendrá en su mano todas las armas necesarias para conseguir un jardín lleno de belleza y encanto. ... Read more

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  • Humusphere

    Humus, a Substance or a Living System?

    In this breakthrough work — now available in English for the first time — the independent German-Norwegian explorer of soil life, graduate permaculture designer and graduate engineer Herwig Pommeresche shares his lifetime of research into humus.His entire career has focused on the theory and practice of humus management in gardening and farming. Digging deep into a myriad of little-known research ... Read more

    PHP465.75 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ferns, Spikemosses, Clubmosses, and Quillworts of Eastern North America

    by Emily Sessa ...
    Series series Princeton Field Guides
    A comprehensive, richly illustrated photographic field guide to the ferns and lycophytes of the eastern United States and CanadaThis is a comprehensive photographic field guide to the ferns, spikemosses, clubmosses, and quillworts of eastern North America. Accessible yet scientifically accurate, the book will appeal to beginners and experts alike and enhance the field experience of any user.Keys, ... Read more

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  • Phytoconscience

    La phytoconscience est une réflexion importante et un voyage spirituel profond sur le règne végétal, plus précisément sur la connaissance mise à la disposition de nous tous - êtres dans l'expérience humaine - à travers les plantes apportées d'autres planètes et constellations, matérialisées sur la planète Terre pour aider à la constante re-signification existentielle et à l'étalonnage de l'homme. ... Read more

    PHP399.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pollen Landscape

    by Joss Bartlet ...
    In this book, we are going to follow one colony of bees through their year of gathering pollen, to see what they find, and how they use it. We will look at the plants which make the pollen too, and the different aspects of the relationship that pollen creates between flower and bee. With the help of a microscope, we can examine something of the variety of pollen forms, and see how those can affect ... Read more

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  • SILVOPASTURE

    QUICK READ AND FARMERS GUIDE TO THE CONCEPT OF FORAGING AND MIXED FARMING.

    A deliberately mixed, carefully tended system of trees, animals, and fodder plants is known as a silvopasture. Silvopasture can present lucrative opportunities for people who grow softwood or hardwood timber, own forest land, or rear cattle.This brief book, which takes only 50 minutes to complete, offers in-depth information on a variety of cutting-edge agricultural practices, such as foraging and ... Read more

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  • 山林花草追尋記:日本植物學之父牧野富太郎的自然書寫:最真實動人的生態現場踏查紀實

    牧野富太郎と、山

    Translated by 蘇暐婷 ...
    Series series Neo Reading
    走進山,是牧野富太郎接觸植物的契機,山是植物的初生地,也是他心靈的原鄉。「我覺得自己出生在這個世上,就是要來當植物伴侶的。我甚至懷疑過自己是不是草木的精靈呢!」――最天真爛漫的植物學家牧野富太郎他是「日本植物學之父」,台灣桂竹、愛玉的命名人,畢生蒐集40萬件以上的植物標本,並為植物親手描繪了1700多幅圖鑑,新種命名超過1500種,奠定了日本植物分類學的基礎。牧野富太郎帶你探索蘊藏在植物中的滿滿喜悅和珍貴發現牧野富太郎在童年時經常在位於故鄉佐川的山中遊玩,這也成為他接觸植物的契機。即使在開始研究之後,為了調查和收集植物,他仍然前往日本各地的山區,並將當時的情景記錄下來。本書忠實地呈現牧野富太郎在日本各地山林遊歷與調查植物的現場,例如描述他在佐川山的童年經歷〈狐狸放屁〉,以及追尋植物時差點陷入危險的〈利尻山及其植物〉,還有充分談論日本各地高山植物的生態和魅力的〈夢幻美妙的高山植物〉等 ... Read more

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  • THE CHAGA MUSHROOM CULTIVATION GUIDE

    Unlocking the Power and Mysteries of Nature's Miraculous Medicinal Fungus

    by Maya Walker ...
    In "The Chaga Mushroom Cultivation Guide," embark on a captivating journey into the fascinating world of one of nature's most remarkable and elusive treasures. This comprehensive guide is a must-have for both seasoned foragers and aspiring cultivators seeking to unlock the secrets of the incredible Chaga mushroom.Delve into the depths of ancient wisdom and modern science as this book unveils the ... Read more

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  • Forests and French Sea Power, 1660-1789

    by Paul Bamford ...
    Series series Heritage
    By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr. Bamford has not only provided the first monograph on that subject in the English language, but has gone far toward explaining why France was the loser in the long duel with England for the control of commerce and the extension of ... Read more

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  • Plants in Contemporary Poetry

    Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination

    by John Ryan ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses the relationship between language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and ... Read more

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  • Fior da fiore

    Ritratti di essenze vegetali

    Series series Quodlibet Storie
    Alberi e fiori parlano dalle pagine dei libri quanto i personaggi umani, aprono squarci di verità sulle opere e sul mondo. Una doppia antologia, botanica e letteraria. Sessanta ritratti di essenze vegetali – alberi arbusti fiori erbe, nelle loro posture e qualità, nei dettagli di forme e colori – accompagnati da riferimenti poetici: ogni varietà è còlta attraverso gli occhi e le parole di ... Read more

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