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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging loo... »
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
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This book ranks with such classics of plant indentification as Agnes Chase's A First Book of Grasses, or Donald Culross Peattie's books on tree indentification. Taking a bird's-eye view and then drilling down from there, it provides an overview of plant structure and evolution as well as many technical details relating to the structure and identificati... »
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The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook: Forty Natural Prescriptions for Perfect Health
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Not in opposition to, but (surprisingly) in conjunction with impressive advances in the medical sciences, growing numbers of people are seeking gentle botanical methods for treating illnesses. Coauthors David Simon, M.D., and Deepak Chopra, M.D., attribute this "herbal renaissance" to our thriving information age and the resulting self-empowered "patie... »
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The Secret Life of Plants
I first read this book in the mid-70s. I've got a brother-in-law who's a vegetarian and I will pick this up for him. I actually eat vegetarian most of t... »
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Botany for Gardeners
The book covered the major topics of botany, but tended to emphasize dicots, giving the impression all plants are like dicots. I use this for teaching a ... »
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Citrus: A History
I must admit I only made it to page 42 of this book. Citrus is written in the type of light but informative style that I like in "science for the educated... »
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