Botanical illustrated guide to hong kong native plants

This third volume of the Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants continues the vital mission of documenting the region’s unique floral heritage.

Botanical illustrated guide to hong kong native plants (volume ii)

This book presents a meticulously curated collection of 20 rare and endangered native plant species found in Hong Kong.

Flora of the santa ana river and environs

How plants work

A large-format, heavily illustrated look at the wide adaptability and rich diversity of the plant kingdomAll the plants around us today are descended from simple algae that emerged more than 500 million years ago. While new plant species are still being discovered, it is thought that there are ar...

Monarchs and milkweed

The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to ...

Plants in place

Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.

Plants that cure

A full-color illustrated guide to the natural history of plants with medicinal propertiesOf the nearly 400,000 plants that have evolved on Earth, around seven percent of them have been used in traditional herbal medicine or as local remedies. More recently, scientific studies have revealed how pl...

Pollination and floral ecology

Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise the...

Sex in city plants, animals, fungi, and more

This book explores the natural history of sex in urban bacteria, fungi, plants, and nonhuman animals. Kenneth D. Frank illuminates the reproductive behavior of scores of species.

The philosopher's plant

A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

The sounds of life

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatur...

Through vegetal being

A unique collaboration to map the ontology and epistemology of the human-plant relationship.