In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants 0300247915, 9780300247916

In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants [1 ed.] 2022942256, 9780300247916

Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and l

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In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants 9780300271409

How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria

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Pressed Plants: Making a Herbarium 9780772680570, 9780772680563, 0772680574

A compact and contemporary guide to collecting, drying and storing plant specimens—suitable for both professional resear

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Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World’s Plants 9781643260525

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Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants 9780691209494

This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immo

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Domestication of plants in the Old World: the origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin [4th edition] 9780199549061, 0199549060, 9780199688173, 0199688176

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 10,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherer

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The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul 9780691194257

The first study of album-making in the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire, demonstrating the period's little-known

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The Hidden World of the Fox 0062966103, 9780062966100

One ofPW's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019" Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understan

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The Boy In The Mask: The Hidden World of Lawrence of Arabia 9781843516569, 9781843516842

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Things hidden since the foundation of the world 0804722153, 9780804722155

An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to co

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