Remarkable Plants That Shape our World [Audiobook] download free by Helen Bynum
- Listen audiobook: Remarkable Plants That Shape our World
- Author: Helen Bynum
- Release date: 2014/8/16
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780226204741
- Rating: 8.98 of 10
- Votes: 535
- Review by: Lionel Toler
- Review rating: 8.74 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/2
- Duration: 2H56M9S in 256 kbps (47.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, TTA, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, WMA, MPEG-4 SLS (compression TAR.XZ, 7-ZIP, RAR, CAB, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 239
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M54S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Imagine a typical morning-munching on a bowl of cereal, sipping coffee, dressing for the day, riding to work. Every moment of this common routine draws on the power of plants, and the centuries of development that brought wheat, coffee beans, cotton, and rubber-among many others-into our daily lives.Remarkable Plants celebrates the wonder and utility of the green kingdom, taking a detailed look at how plants have shaped our world. It focuses on eighty key species and richly explores their history, highlighting their importance and bringing to light surprising stories. Organized thematically into eight sections, the book starts with 'Transformers' (including rice, beans, olives) and moves through sections such as 'Heal and Harm' (poppy, aloe, strychnos) and 'Revered and Adored' (lotus, frankincense, rose). Each species is introduced with its common and scientific names and followed by an exploration of its cultural, historical, botanical, and symbolic associations. Hundreds of botanical illustrations show full plants as well as highlight distinctive leaves, blooms, and fruits. Rooted in one of the world's most important and renowned temples of greenery, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Remarkable Plants is a symbiotic balance of science and art that will open readers' eyes to the deep influence of the natural world on our modern one.
- Other categories, genre or collection: General & World History, Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, Botany & Plant Sciences
- Download servers: BitShare, MEGA, Dropbox, Uploadable, FreakShare, Syncthing, 4Shared, Mediafire, Drop.me, Torrent. Compressed in TAR.XZ, 7-ZIP, RAR, CAB, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 43.26 USD
- Dimensions: 193x257x28mm
- Weight: 966g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: United States
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