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Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the wide world of botany--the branch of biology that studies the plant kingdom, including physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, and classification of all plants, as well as how they interact with their environment.
2) Green wisdom
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1981]
Physical Desc
xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
9) Botany
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A sweeping work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in "The Big Bad Book of Botany, " Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. The "Big, Bad Book of Botany" introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn...
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