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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan  
Publisher Comments 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 once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this...
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Used: $11.95 Hardcover List Price $45.00
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The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
by Anna Pavord Publisher Comments An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller The Tulip. The Naming of Names traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. ...
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic,...
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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Powells.com Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech...
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
by Amy Stewart
Powells.com Staff Pick The magic of a great writer is that she can elevate any topic to fascinating status. In Flower Confidential, Amy Stewart uses equal parts journalism and florid writing to illuminate the machinal underpinnings of the flower industry. From the grail-like...
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Plants of the Rocky Mountains
by Linda Kershaw Synopsis Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are included, as are color-coded sections to allow for quick...
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How to Identify Plants
by H D Harrington Synopsis This classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington's clear and careful organized textbook provides step-by-step instructions and definitions to aid in recognition and classification of...
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
by Thomas J. Elpel Synopsis Learn to identify plants by the hundreds, based on the principle that related plants have similar patterns for identification and that they often have similar uses....
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The Names of Plants
by David Gledhill Publisher Comments A handy reference book on the names of plants for the botanist and amateur gardener....
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers
by Simon & Schuster Publisher Comments perennial plants with underground rhizomatic sterns, long and large radical leaves, upright and well stemmed, with complete, leathery, shiny green lamina, narrowing to a channelled stalk one-third the length of the blade. Purple, insignificant flowers...
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Plants of Western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia
by Eugene N. Kozloff Publisher Comments A great resource for botanists, native plant enthusiasts, ecologists, conservationists, and amateur naturalists who desire a comprehensive, up-to-date, and well-illustrated book for the identification of plants of the Pacific Northwest. This is the...
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Sale: $18.50 Hardcover List Price $24.95
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Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
by Claire Cummings Publisher Comments Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their...
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Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change
by R. M. M. Crawford Publisher Comments Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to withstand the changes that may be brought about by a warmer world? Biogeography...
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Botany for Gardeners ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Brian Capon Publisher Comments A bestseller since its debut in 1990, this indispensable and handy reference has now been expanded and updated to include an appendix on plant taxonomy and a comprehensive index. Two dozen new photos and illustrations make this new edition even richer...
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The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms
by Michael Hickey Publisher Comments This beautifully illustrated glossary constitutes an extraordinary collection of the specialist terms used in many botanical works. The book is arranged in two sections: the glossary, which provides clear definitions for over 2400 of the most commonly...
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Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide
by Thomas Elias Publisher Comments “Season-by-season guide to identification, harvest, and preparation of more than 200 common edible plants to be found in the wild....Hundreds of edible species are included....[This] handy paperback guide includes jelly, jam, and pie recipes, a...
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Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives (Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology)
by Patricia G. Gensel Synopsis < P> What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotany...
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An Instant Guide to Edible Plants
by Pamela Forey Publisher Comments An Instant Guide to Edible Plants is an ideal compact guide to the identification and uses of the most commonly found edible wild plants of North America. An easy-to-understand system of color-coded bands that denotes the edible part of the plant leads...
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Flower Confidential
by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has soughtand#8212;for better or worseand#8212;to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers...
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Brassinosteroids: A New Class of Plant Hormones
by V A Khripach Publisher Comments Plants possess the ability to biosynthesize a large variety of steroids, but it was not until 1979 that a hormonal function for these substances was demonstrated in plants. Today, more than 40 structurally and functionally related steroids, known as...
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