Botany

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants...

Examines Why Fruits Exist And How Their Short Lives Are Critical To The Natural Order. Features Razor-sharp Cross-sections By Visual Artist Rob Kesseler Usi...

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society yea...

One of Americas greatest landscape designers and conservationists, Jensen used native plants to introduce the influential Prairie style of landscape archi...

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red ha...

As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, s...

In 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 ...

This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens as it tours the most mag...

This book is a comprehensive manual on the bulk cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms, using do-it-yourself equipment made of common materials wherever possi...

The Concept Of Heritage Relates To The Ways In Which Contemporary Society Uses The Past As A Social, Political Or Economic Resource. However, Heritage Is Op...

The third edition of Gordon Bonan's comprehensive textbook introduces an interdisciplinary framework to understand the interaction between terrestrial ecosy...

A knowledge of how plants have responded to environmental change in the past is our principal source of evidence for predicting how they might respond to th...

This comprehensive text introduces students to both the art and science of ornamental horticulture. The book includes equal coverage of such diverse topics...

In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth centur...

This introductory, one quarter/one-semester text takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the relationship between plants and people. The authors st...

written For The Introductory-level Course In Economic Botany, This Edition Offers More Emphasis On Key Topics Like Biotechnology And Ethnobotany. Categori...

Ruth Kassinger was at an emotional crossroads. Confronted with the death of a beloved sister, her children’s departure for college, and her own recent...

Since Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the...

a New Method For The Practical Identification And Recognition Of Trees — And An Important Supplement To Existing Botanical Methods. the Book Is In Two Par...

With stunning illustrations from the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library collection and concise text by Royal Horticultural Society archivist Dr....