Life Sciences - Botany
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Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
$19.00 Read moreThe fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon–at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing powe… [more below]
- Author: Plotkin, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 014012991X
- Language: English
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Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
$27.50 Read moreA New Scientist Best Book of the Year
From an acclaimed botanist and artist, a thrilling and beautifully illustrated expedition around the globe in search of the world’s most extraordinary plants.- Author: Thorogood, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823539
- Language: English
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Sexus Botanicus: The Love Lives of Plants
$27.95 Read moreA richly illustrated exploration of the astonishing diversity in sexual characteristics and behaviors of plants from the fig-tree to the sacred lotus.
Why do some plants flower while others do not? Wh- Author: Anton, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546450
- Language: English
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Grasses, Sedges, Rushes: An Identification Guide
$22.00 Read moreA portable, practical and expertly illustrated field guide to over one hundred grasses, sedges, and rushes–winner of 2020 Library Journal Best Reference Pick of the Year in the Science & Technology c… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0300236778
- Language: English
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Atlas of Perfumed Botany
$29.95 Add to cartA cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition.
For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefull- Author: Ellena, Jean-Claude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046733
- Language: English
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Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest
$45.00 Add to cartA key component in healthy ecosystems, lichens can be found in almost any natural habitat in the Pacific Northwest. This comprehensive guide to the region’s macrolichens is intended for use by beginn
- Author: McCune, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0870712519
- Language: English
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
$19.99 Add to cartDecades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants ma
- Author: Calvo, Paco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074612
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia
$43.95 Add to cartAbundantly illustrated with more than 400 color photographs and 200 detailed drawings, this comprehensive guide to the state’s rare and endangered plants provides photographs and botanical illustratio
- Author: Chafin, Linda G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0977962105
- Language: English
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The Story of Rice
$22.95 Add to cartRice is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population, but it is often taken for granted and regarded as a common cereal crop. As a rice-eater and a botanist, the author delves deep int… [more below]
- Author: Zhang, Xiaorong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1977253709
- Language: English
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The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Add to cartSeeds are nature’s consummate survivors. The next time you admire a field of waving green grassland or a stunning grove of acacia, stop to consider how it got that way–often against incredible odds. … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 19 2018
- ISBN10: 022636223X
- Language: English
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Tropical Plants of Costa Rica: A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora
$34.95 Add to cartTropical Plants of Costa Rica is the essential guide to Costa Rica’s native and exotic plant species. In this comprehensive volume, Willow Zuchowski introduces readers to an array of the country’s daz
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Zuchowski, Willow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501763075
- Language: English
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Montana Native Plants & Early Peoples
$17.95 Add to cartFrom alder to yellowbells, sixty native Montana plants are featured in this fascinating and informative guide, now in a new, easy-to-use format. Learn how Native Americans and other early inhabitants … [more below]
- Author: Hart, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0917298292
- Language: English
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The Natural History of Medicinal Plants
$24.99 Add to cartWild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years. Aspirin, for example, the most widely used drug in the Western pharmacopoeia, was first isolated from willows to trea… [more below]
- Author: Sumner, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0881929573
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Plants of Costa Rica
$45.99 Add to cartAt the biological crossroads of the Americas, Costa Rica hosts one of the widest varieties of plants in the wold, with habitats ranging from tidal mangrove swamps, and lowland rainforests, to dry trop… [more below]
- Author: Gargiullo, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 07 2008
- ISBN10: 019518825X
- Language: English
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Vegetation of Wisconsin: An Ordination of Plant Communities
$49.95 Add to cartOne of the most important contributions in the field of plant ecology during the twentieth century, this definitive survey established the geographical limits, species compositions, and as much as pos… [more below]
- Author: Curtis, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 15 1959
- ISBN10: 0299019403
- Language: English
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Plants That We Eat: Nauriat Nigi̱aqtaut РFrom the Traditional Wisdom of the I̱upiat Elders of Northwest Alaska
$28.95 Add to cartPlants That We Eat is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people healthy, the book uses photographs and
- Author: Jones, Anore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1602230749
- Language: English
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A Hiker’s Guide to Trailside Plants in Hawaii
$16.95 Read more- Author: Hall, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1566478723
- Language: English
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Tree by Tree: Saving North America’s Eastern Forests
$24.95 Add to cartTree by Tree is a warning and a toolkit for the future of forest recovery. Scott J. Meiners investigates the critical biological threats endangering tree species native to the forests of eastern North
- Author: Meiners, Scott J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501771264
- Language: English
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Alaska’s Wilderness Medicines: Healthful Plants of the Far North
$15.99 Add to cart“Whenever I open it, I find another marvelous tidbit, like Viereck’s description of uses for soft, acidic plant sphagnum, or peat moss, the plant often found chinking the walls of log cabins…” – Fai
- Author: Viereck, Eleanor G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0882403222
- Language: English
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Marijuana Botany: An Advanced Study: The Propagation and Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis
$24.95 Add to cartMarijuana Botany presents the scientific knowledge and propagation techniques used to preserve and multiply vanishing Cannabis strains. Also included is information concerning Cannabis genetics and br… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, Robert Connell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: June 15 1981
- ISBN10: 091417178X
- Language: English
