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1) Roots
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Roots carry out vital jobs for all flowering plants, they collect water and nutrients and help to hold plants in place. This book provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of roots, their structure and how they are brilliantly designed to do these jobs. Clear diagrams, engaging text, and stunning photographs are used to explain how strong roots can be, how they work, what happens inside a root, how some roots can...
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English
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"The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard Mabey."--
A sweeping work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Mabey shows...
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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English
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"Stems carry out vital jobs for all flowering plants, they hold plants up and carry water and food around each plant. This book provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of stems, their structure and how they are brilliantly designed to do these jobs. Clear diagrams, engaging text, and stunning photographs are used to explain the huge variation between stems from blades of grass to tree trunks, how stems work, what...
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xiii, 563 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth's long history -- that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of...
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Contributions from the United States National Herbarium volume 16, no. 4
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v, 109-196, vii-xi pages : plates 48-50 ; 25 cm.
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English
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Contributions from the United States National Herbarium volume XIII, pt. 6
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v pages, 143-246, vii-xiv pages : 2 maps (1 folded in pocket) ; 25 cm.
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English
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