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Author | : Stefano Mancuso |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1635429927 |
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Named 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 unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. They release huge quantities of spores that can be transported thousands of miles. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing: we have seeds dispersed by wind, by rolling on the ground, by animals, by water, or by a simple fall from the plant, which can happen thanks to propulsive mechanisms, the swaying of the mother plant, the drying of the fruit, and much more. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.
Author | : Stefano Mancuso |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1635429919 |
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Named 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 unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. They release huge quantities of spores that can be transported thousands of miles. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing: we have seeds dispersed by wind, by rolling on the ground, by animals, by water, or by a simple fall from the plant, which can happen thanks to propulsive mechanisms, the swaying of the mother plant, the drying of the fruit, and much more. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.
Author | : Stefano Mancuso |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2023-04-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1635421004 |
Download The Nation of Plants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 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 though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago—nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet—humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their own survival. The causes of this reckless behavior are in part inherent in their predatory nature, but they also depend on our total incomprehension of the rules that govern a community of living beings. We behave like children who wreak havoc, unaware of the significance of the things they are playing with. In The Nation of Plants, the most important, widespread, and powerful nation on Earth finally gets to speak. Like attentive parents, plants, after making it possible for us to live, have come to our aid once again, giving us their rules: the first Universal Declaration of Rights of Living Beings written by the plants. A short charter based on the general principles that regulate the common life of plants, it establishes norms applicable to all living beings. Compared to our constitutions, which place humans at the center of the entire juridical reality, in conformity with an anthropocentricism that reduces to things all that is not human, plants offer us a revolution.
Author | : Stefano Mancuso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-04-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800815469 |
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Author | : Stefano Mancuso |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2023-04-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1635422620 |
Download Planting Our World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With fun, fascinating vignettes, a renowned neurobiologist illuminates the interconnectedness of plant life and how we can learn from it to better plan our communities. We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet’s biomass while plants add up to 85%. And when, with just a little training, we are able to look at the world without seeing it solely as humanity’s playground, we cannot help but notice the ubiquity of plants. They are everywhere, and their stories are inevitably bound up with ours. As every tree in a forest is linked to all the others by an underground network of roots, uniting them to form a super organism, so plants constitute the nervous system, the plan that is the “greenprint” of our world. To ignore the existence of this plan is one of the most serious threats to the survival of our species. In this latest book, the brilliant Stefano Mancuso is back to illuminate the greenprint of our world. He does it through unforgettable stories starring plants that combine an inimitable narrative style with remarkable scientific rigor, from the story of the red spruce that gave Stradivarius the wood for his fourteen violins, to the Kauri tree stump, kept alive for decades by the interconnected root system of nearby trees. From the mystery of the slipperiness of the banana skin to the plant that solved the “crime of the century,” the Lindbergh kidnapping, by way of wooden ladder rungs.
Author | : STEFANO MANCUSO |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800815476 |
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Author | : Michael Luman |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011-05-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1462867332 |
Download Life An Incredible Journey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a story about the last forty three years of my working life. I have found that things that you learn and people that you meet help to guide you through life along a pathway. My story is about the different people I have met and how they have influenced me along my path. What I have learned and accomplished may seem hard to believe, but everything is true. The saying,” Everything happens for a reason”, certainly rings true for me time and time again. My struggles and accomplishments are a testament that the ordinary person can accomplish anything if you set your mind to it and have a plan. There are good times and bad times in this story, but I have always been able to get through the hardships and have learned from my mistakes. Love, family support and a plan will get you wherever you want to go.
Author | : Nicholas Harris |
Publisher | : Brighter Child |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780872262935 |
Download The Incredible Journey to the Beginning of Time Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a geological, biological, and social history of the earth by focussing on the same four locales--New York, southwestern France, the Nile Valley, and northern China--through thirteen time periods covering more then 550 million years.
Author | : Monica Gagliano |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1623172438 |
Download Thus Spoke the Plant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A research scientist’s fascinating study of plant communication reveals how we “have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of history” (The Paris Review). “A compelling story of discovery . . . [that] will change the way you see the world”—for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees (Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass) In this “phytobiography”—a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant—research scientist Monica Gagliano shares genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people—beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.
Author | : Maja and Reuben Fowkes |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2022-04-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0500777845 |
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Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that addresses the climate emergency, as artists across the world call for an active, collective engagement with the planet, and illuminate some of the structures that threaten humanitys survival. Across five chapters, curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes examine artworks that respond to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impact on our world, from scenes of nature decimated by ongoing extinction events and landscapes turned to waste by extraction, to art from marginalized communities most affected by the injustice of climate change. What guides the artists gathered together here is an ardent concern for the living, breathing subject of the Earth and all fellow terrestrials caught up in this fast-moving climate drama.