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2019.
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For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng offers a new way to grow healthy house plants. He teaches the art of understanding a plants needs and giving it a home with the right balance of light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, the indoor gardener will be far less the passive follower of rules for the care of each species and much more the confident, active grower, relying on observation and insight. And in the process, the plant owner...
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. InThe Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...
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"In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history...
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Chicago Review Press
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English
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An array of abundant wild foods is available to hikers, campers, foragers, or anyone interested in living closer to the earth. Written by a leading expert on wild foods and a well-known teacher of survival skills, guide to wild foods and useful plants is more than a listing of plant types--it teaches how to recognize edible plants and where to find them, their medicinal and nutritional properties, and their growing cycles. This new edition features...
12) How plants grow
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Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An introduction to plants including descriptions of their flowers and fruit, spores and cones, roots, stems, leaves, and methods for storing food.
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"This volume enables both amateurs and professionals to identify quickly and accurately many Northern California plants in habitats ranging from lush riparian forests along rivers and streams to oak woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, and the ephemeral waters known as vernal pools."--
"Plants of Northern California is an informative guide to the rich and varied flora of Northern California. From lush riparian forests along the rivers and streams to...
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Pharmako volume 3
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North Atlantic Books
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[2010]
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English
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This is the third and final volume of North Atlantic Books' updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a unique, reliable, and often personal immersion in this medically, culturally, and spiritually fascinating subject.
16) How plants grow
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Describes the growth and development of various plants.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.
18) Watch it grow
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Compass Point Books
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[2002]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Flicker Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"Sustainability and a sense of place weave through this essential guidebook on native plants of the Sierra Nevada. This eco-friendly reference, beautifully illustrated with 140 color photographs, offers gardening advice for over 90 plant species, 70 gourmet food recipes using local leaves, nuts and berries and plant medicine remedies for common health conditions."--Publisher website.
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Detroit Public Television
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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This 2-part 2-hour documentary series thoughtfully considers the trade-off of carbon capture and storage, hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a nuclear renaissance, the costs of solar power, the sprawl of wind power and the feasibility of a super grid.
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