Author: Sélection du Reader's digest
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 799
ISBN-13: 9780340162729
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rebecca Hey
Publisher:
Published: 1833
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each chapter with a brief narrative introduction preceding the poem. Most chapters are accompanied by a hand-colored steel engraving.
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Publisher: Gardners Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780276421914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book describes 900 genera and over 8000 plants. In addition it introduces a revolutionary way of identifying plants from their appearance alone. Packed with the most up to date information to ensure you get the best from what you grow
Author: Reader's Digest (Australia)
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780864381927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Australian edition of a book previously published by the Royal Horticultural Society in Britain in 1989. This edition has been adapted to suit the particular interests of Australian and New Zealand gardeners and lists over 8000 plants that will grow in these two countries, including over 1000 native plants. Contains more than 4000 colour photographs, a planter's guide, plant catalogue, special interest feature boxes, a glossary and a detailed index.
Author: Jonathan Silvertown
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0226757773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the heart of evolution lies a bewildering paradox. Natural selection favors above all the individual that leaves the most offspring—a superorganism of sorts that Jonathan Silvertown here calls the "Darwinian demon." But if such a demon existed, this highly successful organism would populate the entire world with its own kind, beating out other species and eventually extinguishing biodiversity as we know it. Why then, if evolution favors this demon, is the world filled with so many different life forms? What keeps this Darwinian demon in check? If humankind is now the greatest threat to biodiversity on the planet, have we become the Darwinian demon? Demons in Eden considers these questions using the latest scientific discoveries from the plant world. Readers join Silvertown as he explores the astonishing diversity of plant life in regions as spectacular as the verdant climes of Japan, the lush grounds of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the shallow wetlands and teeming freshwaters of Florida, the tropical rainforests of southeast Mexico, and the Canary Islands archipelago, whose evolutionary novelties—and exotic plant life—have earned it the sobriquet "the Galapagos of botany." Along the way, Silvertown looks closely at the evolution of plant diversity in these locales and explains why such variety persists in light of ecological patterns and evolutionary processes. In novel and useful ways, he also investigates the current state of plant diversity on the planet to show the ever-challenging threats posed by invasive species and humans. Bringing the secret life of plants into more colorful and vivid focus than ever before, Demons in Eden is an empathic and impassioned exploration of modern plant ecology that unlocks evolutionary mysteries of the natural world.
Author: George William Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 1846
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13:
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