Plant Science

Take a walk through the climate regions of the world and discover the effect of climate change on plants and how plants are coping in changing climatic conditions. As extreme weather conditions take over our planet, what will be their effect on plants? How can plants cope with these changing conditions? Which plants already survive in extreme and changing environments?

The Forgotten Botanistis a timeless tale about a woman who discovered who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is one of resilience, determination, and courage—and is as relevant to our nation today as it was in her own time.

With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow.

El cerebro humano cuenta, desde el principio de los tiempos, con una memoria orgánica y otra mineral, grabada en piedras y tabletas de arcilla. Junto a ellas, de forma paralela, se ha desarrollado otra más profunda, silenciosa y revolucionaria: la memoria vegetal, impresa en papiros y en trapos hasta llegar al papel procedente del árbol que conocemos hoy. Su instrumento de supervivencia es el libro, objeto de amor y devoción durante siglos.

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his ’little women’ when he comes home.

For many years Josephine Moon struggled with the question of eating meat, fervently wishing to live as a vegetarian yet requiring meat in her diet. From Josephine’s philosophical, spiritual and physical battle with eating meat came, Buddhism for Meat Eaters - a book for animal lovers, the environmentally and ethically conscious, and generally thoughtful people who eat meat but perhaps aren’t entirely comfortable doing so.

Cuando pensamos en las plantas, nos sentimos tentados a atribuirles dos características: inmovilidad e insensibilidad. Pero investigaciones científicas llevadas a cabo durante los últimos cincuenta años han demostrado que las plantas son sensibles, se comunican e intercambian información, duermen, memorizan, cuidan de sus hijos, tienen su propia personalidad, toman decisiones e incluso son capaces de manipular a otras especies. Su capacidad para resolver los problemas que se les presentan ha sido probada por los estudios más recientes.

How much better would your life be if you had an army of Nobel Laureates, MacArthur "geniuses", and National Medal of Science winners whispering tips in your ear about your body language, or how to resist that impulse purchase you’ll regret tomorrow, or when to sell your car - or even helping you trick your spouse into doing the dishes? With this mighty little audio tome, you can have the next best thing - because Brain Trust is packed with bite-sized scientific wisdom on everyday challenges....

Do bulls get angry when they see the color red? Do plants grow by snacking on soil? Are bats blind? At one time science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about plants and animals, and see how scientific thought changed over time.

Grow your first hydroponic garden! You might have seen beautiful designs of inside gardens somewhere with some strange looking balls in the pot and wondered what kind of gardening is this!? There is practically no soil required to cultivate plants with hydroponic systems. That is why you had noticed that those "strange-looking" gardens were so clean. Yes, it is true. You can actually grow plants without soil.

Most plants can’t survive the demands of “wet feet.” Usually, too much water causes them to wilt and virtually “meltdown,” as they become bloated and soggy. But there are a few hardy plants that know exactly how to deal with this problem—in fact wetland grasses, sedges, rushes, mosses, ferns, horsetails were the first plants to evolve on Earth and are, indeed, the ancestors of the garden trees, bushes, and flowers that we grow today.

Historia nauki dowodzi, że wiek XIX był czasem chemii, XX fizyki, a XXI prawdopodobnie będzie wiekiem biologii. Nauki biologiczne należą do tych, które w coraz szybszym tempie spektakularnie wyjaśniają skomplikowane mechanizmy rządzące między innymi światem roślin. W świetle dzisiejszej wiedzy śmiało możemy mówić o inteligentnych zachowaniach roślin.

Does smoking weed actually make you lazy? How does THC replace your brain’s neurotransmitters? From the beginnings of where marijuana came from to the future of what a world with legal pot could look like, listen in as Seeker dives in on the fascinating world of marijuana in this short-form audio collection.

This audio book offers a fun way to meet the Insects, Mammals, Birds, Bats, Reptiles, Wind & Water that form Nature’s troupe of pollinators. Betty Bumblebee introduces us to the passions and perils of insect life and the tricks that flowers like to play in order to attract suitable pollinators.

With food prices rising, sustainability becoming an increasing concern, and a greater awareness of health and nutrition spreading throughout the population, foraging is the golden ticket to a better way of life. Despite the rise in newbie foragers, many people are hesitant because they don’t think they have the skills or knowledge to do it safely. But all of that is about to change. When you know where to look, what to look for, and how to confidently identify and harvest safe and nutritious treats, a whole world of possibility opens up

The simple activities in this audiobook don’t take specialized skills or vast amounts of money, but will translate into huge returns. Anyone can go out into their community and co-create a healthy, compassionate, and sustainable world.

On our walks, we come across wildlife and many different wildflowers and plants growing in each area at different times of the year—from ground-hugging flowers to giant trees, ancient plants to weird and wonderful fungi, and mosses and grasses—on our monthly walks we cover the whole spectrum.

After spending a life wandering around, confused, anxious, and alone, Terra, a florist, acquires a series of six esoteric self-help discs that are designed to help those struggling to ascend to their higher selves from her sister’s yard sale.

Do plants really move? Absolutely! You might be surprised by all ways plants can move. Plants might not pick up their roots and walk away, but they definitely don't sit still! Discover the many ways plants (and their seeds) move. Whether it's a sunflower, a Venus flytrap, or an exotic plant like an exploding cucumber, this fascinating book shows just how excitingly active plants really are.

Heard about the fish that clean shark teeth? Or the frog that lives with a tarantula? Welcome to the weird world of symbiosis—where animals form incredible relationships. Macken Murphy, host of the popular animal podcast Species, introduces his favorite symbiotic relationships in his first kids’ nonfiction audiobook, Animal Sidekicks. Along the way he explains the cool science behind the baffling behavior of some animals—from friendly alliances to pesky parasites.