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  • The Secret Life of Plants

    A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

    "Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book." — John White, San Francisco ChronicleExplore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

    The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magical yew tree to the bad-tempered dandelion. Here are traditional tales about the trees and plants that shape our landscapes and our lives through the seasons. They explore the complex relationship between people and plants, in lowlands and uplands, fields, bogs, moors, woodlands and towns. Suitable ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

    by Paco Calvo ...
    **“Weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living.” —Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled LifeAn astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence.**Decades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • Houseplants For All

    How to Fill Any Home with Happy Plants

    by Danae Horst ...
    Danae Horst's Houseplants for All is a beautiful guide to selecting and growing the right plants for your home, complete with a plant profile quiz!Turn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All, and actually keep all your plant babies happy and healthy. Use the plant profile quiz to easily find your perfect match instead of picking up whatever catches your eye at the store and hoping that it'll ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Fungi

    Discover the Science and Secrets Behind the World of Mushrooms

    A stunning, authoritative book on the fungal kingdom, uncovering the hidden world of more than 300 global speciesDiscover the fascinating stories behind 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before!Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavor in chocolate? Fungi is everywhere we look in a forest, under the sea, and in the kitchen.In this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Food For Free (Collins Gem)

    by Richard Mabey ...
    Series series Collins Gem
    The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.This is the perfect pocket guide for aspiring foragers. Over 100 edible plants are listed, fully illustrated and described, together with recipes and other fascinating details on their use throughout the ages.Practical advice on how to pick along with information on countryside ... Read more

    $10.49 USD $8.49 USD

  • The Plant Messiah

    Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species

    Carlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable. Back in the lab—at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, home of the largest botanical collection in the world—we watch as he develops groundbreaking, left-field ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • The Cactus Hunters

    Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade

    An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives itCacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world’s most threatened species. The fervor driving the illegal trade in succulents might also be driving some species to extinction. Delving into the strange world of succulent collecting, The Cactus ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    **Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for History/BiographyA Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023A New Yorker Best Book of 2023The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.**In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Scent

    A Natural History of Fragrance

    A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinatorPlants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswellia seals injured tissues and protects trees from invading pathogens. Jasmine produces a molecule called linalool ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • World of Wonders

    In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

    “A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir.” —Kirkus ReviewsAs a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Basic Illustrated Edible Wild Plants and Useful Herbs

    by Jim Meuninck ...
    Series series Basic Illustrated Series
    For a generation, the Basic Illustrated series has been as much a part of the outdoors experience as backpacks and hiking boots. Information-packed tools for the novice or handy references for the veteran, these volumes distill years of knowledge into affordable and portable books. Whether you’re planning a trip or thumbing for facts in the field, Basic Illustrated books tell you what you need to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares

    The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms

    by Greg Marley ...
    2011 Winner, International Association of Culinary Professionals Jane Grigson Award2011 Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals in the Culinary History categoryThroughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine, beneficial decomposers or deadly "toadstools" ready to kill anyone foolhardy enough to eat them? In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Plants and Planting Plans for a Bee Garden

    How to design beautiful borders that will attract bees

    For many people gardening is predominantly about plants and choosing the right combination and balance to make beautiful borders. This book will help you achieve this - and more, because it will also help you create an ecologically sound, bee-friendly garden, showing that you can have an aesthetically pleasing garden full of beautiful flowers which at the same time will attract and nurture bees. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Midwest Foraging

    115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Burdock to Wild Peach

    by Lisa M. Rose ...
    Series series Regional Foraging Series
    “This full color guide makes foraging accessible for beginners and is a reliable source for advanced foragers.” —Edible ChicagoThe Midwest offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with Lisa Rose as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in Midwest Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • The Botany of Desire

    A Plant's-Eye View of the World

    The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaIn 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Forest Types of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana

    A methodology for identifying, projecting, and restoring our 8 local forest types

    This book introduces and describes the local forest type expressions based on their physical environment characteristics; Soil PH, Topography, Hydrology, and Soil Parent Material + the correlated tree species. This information was extrapolated from cross-studying over a thousand acres of soil surveys with disturbed forest regeneration, 2nd growth forests, and older growth forests. Each forest type ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition

    The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere

    The ultimate guide to surviving anywhere, now updated with more than 100 pages of additional material, including a new chapter on urban survival**"A classic. ... Addresses every conceivable disaster scenario. Don’t leave home without it” —OutsideRevised to reflect the latest in survival knowledge and technology, and covering new topics such as urban survival and terrorism, the multimillion-copy ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Weeds

    In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants

    by Richard Mabey ...
    “[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.”—Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder“In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.”—Carl Zimmer, author of EvolutionRichard Mabey, Great Britain’s Britain’s “greatest living nature writer” (London Times), ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Thus Spoke the Plant

    A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants

    A research scientist’s fascinating study of plant communication reveals how we “have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of history” (The Paris Review).“A compelling story of discovery . . . [that] will change the way you see the world”—for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees (Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass)In this “phytobiography”—a collection of stories written ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What a Plant Knows

    A Field Guide to the Senses: Updated and Expanded Edition

    Thoroughly updated from root to leaf, this revised edition of the groundbreaking What a Plant Knows includes new revelations for lovers of all that is vegetal and verdant.Plants can hear—and taste things, too!The renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz builds on the original edition to present an intriguing look at how plants themselves experience the world—from the colors they see to the schedules ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Natural History

    Series series DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
    A spectacular and exceptionally well-illustrated guide to everything on Earth. From rocks to redwoods and microbes to mammals – this is a dazzling visual introduction to our planet’s treasures.Filled with more than 5,000 species and in-depth studies of animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms, rocks, and minerals, it’s the ultimate celebration of the world’s extraordinary diversity of life.Planet ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Wild Spring Plant Foods

    The Foxfire AMericana Library (7)

    Series series The Foxfire Americana Library
    A handy illustrated guide to the edible plant life available in Appalachia and other temperate areas during the spring. From sassafras to rhubarb, each entry includes instructions on where to find the plant, how to spot it, and the ways it is best eaten, often with recipes.Plants include:MorelAsparagusWild onionWild garlicNettlesWild radishWhite mustardWater cressHorseradishChicoryWild ... Read more

    $1.99 USD