Botany
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
$27.99 Add to cartThe Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.
White settlers did learn a few pl
- Author: Kindscher, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 1992
- ISBN10: 0700605274
- Language: English
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Plant Families: A Guide for Gardeners and Botanists
$29.00 Add to cartMost of us lump plants together in one big family, and when pressed can only explain their grouping by what they’re not–not an animal, not a mineral, and so just a plant. In reality, there are hundre… [more below]
- Author: Bayton, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2017
- ISBN10: 022652308X
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
$27.95 Add to cartWILLA Literary Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction
2022 Spur Award Winner
2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year
New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist in Cover Design
Honorable Mention in … [more below]- Author: Brown, Wynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496222814
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation: Step-By-Step Techniques for Making More Houseplants . . . for Free!
$24.99 Add to cartMake more houseplants (for free!) with this comprehensive bible of propagation techniques, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions covering over a dozen methods for over 80 different houseplants.
A- Author: Sisti, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 0760390401
- Language: English
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Botany for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartHarvest basic botany knowledge from this abundant book
Botany For Dummies gives you a thorough overview of the fundamentals of botany, but in simple terms that anyone can understand. Great for supplem
- Author: Fester Kratz, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1394273894
- Language: English
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The Science of Weed: An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis
$39.95 Add to cartA witty, engaging, in-depth, and evidence-based look at how cannabis affects our brains.
Pot, weed, ganja, chronic: whatever you call it, cannabis can profoundly affect the human body and brain. In The
- Author: Pearlson, Godfrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449951
- Language: English
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A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
$18.99 Add to cart“Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail. Consider yourself warned.”
Explore the strang
- Author: Hirsch, Rebecca E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765625248
- Language: English
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The Nation of Plants
$17.99 Read moreIn this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants–and by extension, humans–rests.
Even if they behave as th- Author: Mancuso, Stefano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421926
- Language: English
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Conifers of the New England-Acadian Forest: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartWhy did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making leather? In Conifers of the New England-Acadian
- Author: Keating, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1625347871
- Language: English
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Atlas of Poetic Botany
$24.95 Read moreBotanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances.
This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exoti
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Halle, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0262039125
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage
$50.00 Read moreJoseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego
- Author: Gooding, Mel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0500022879
- Language: English
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The Hidden World of Mosses
$40.00 Read moreMosses have a spectacular diversity of beautiful and surprising forms.
They are nearly always, what we as humans would consider, small; but they play a critical role in climate change prevention and- Author: Bell, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 191087745X
- Language: English
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Weeds of North America
$57.00 Read more“What is a weed, ” opined Emerson, “but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?” While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toi… [more below]
- Author: Dickinson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 08 2014
- ISBN10: 022607644X
- Language: English
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The Science of Compost: Life, Death and Decay in the Garden
$14.95 Add to cartThe Science of Compost: Life Death and Decay in the Garden takes you on a journey into the underworld of composting. Doberski explains the science of what goes on but also promotes interest in the liv… [more below]
- Author: Doberski, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1914902939
- Language: English
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A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina
$39.99 Add to cartA comprehensive and indispensable reference for identifying and appreciating native flora
From its summits to its shores, South Carolina brims with life and unparalleled beauty thanks to its abundant
- Author: McMillan, Patrick D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1643362631
- Language: English
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Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
$19.00 Add to cartThe 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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The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
$16.95 Add to cartForests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at
- Author: St George, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020237
- Language: English
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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving, 2nd Edition
$32.95 Add to cartAll gardeners and farmers should be plant breeders, says author Carol Deppe. Developing new vegetable varieties doesn’t require a specialized education, a lot of land, or even a lot of time. It can be
- Author: Deppe, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1890132721
- Language: English
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The Incredible Journey of Plants
$17.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and Mail
In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpec- Author: Mancuso, Stefano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1635421918
- Language: English
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Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe Including Britain and Ireland
$191.67 Read moreThe first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the region
Beneath the surface of bodies of freshwater–springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes–there is a world of plants of great variety an- Series: Wildguides #118
- Author: Schou, Jens Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0691251010
- Language: English
