London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 116. In the past, emphasis has mainly been placed on ways to protect cultivated plants from attack or damage, nowadays our over-reliance on pesticides has been replaced by a far more enlightened approach to plant protection. While... More about Plant pests
St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 1997. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Edgar Anderson understood plants' fundamental relationship to man's life on Earth and his writings help us understand it by posing a series of questions. More about Plants, man and life
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2016. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations, tables. We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also... More about Plant variation and evolution
Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs and illustrations. In this beautiful and original book, renowned thinker and geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry and geometry. What is... More about Hidden geometry of flowers: living rhythms, form and number
Boston: Beacon Press, 2009. Octavo, softcover. Gift demonstrates that weeds often carry a message for us about the land and our treatment of it, if we are willing to listen. More about A weed by any other name: the virtues of a messy lawn, or learning to love the plants we don't plant
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photogprahs, line drawings. The metamorphosis of plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora... More about Metamorphosis of plants
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2010. reprint). Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. A very readable overview of the biology of mangrove systems around the world. The text is clear and lively, illustrated with relevant anecdotes as well as many photographs and drawings, and supplemented with ample references for... More about The biology of mangroves and seagrasses
London: Papadakis Publisher, (2006. new edition). Oblong format, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope - pollen grains, which are enclosed beyond the accessible beauty... More about Pollen: the hidden sexuality of flowers
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, black and white photographs. Natural history has always been the foundation of conservation biology. For centuries, botanists collected specimens in the field to understand plant diversity; now that many habitats are threatened, botanists have turned their focus to conservation, and... More about Plant conservation: a natural history approach
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white photographs, line drawings. Leaves are all around us in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they are everywhere, it's easy to overlook... More about Nature's fabric: leaves in science and culture
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, text illustrations. Beginning with reminders of how deeply interwoven plant colours are with human life and culture, this title takes you through details of pigments, the evolution of colour perception, the nature of light, and dozens of other topics. Also... More about Nature's palette: the science of plant color
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In "Between Earth and Sky", a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she... More about Between earth and sky: our intimate connections to trees
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2005. fourth edition). Quarto, paperback, Fully updated textbook looking at the fundamental principles of plant biology and new molecular techniques including genetically modified plants., This latest edition of The Physiology of Flowering Plants has been completely updated to cover the explosion of interest in plant biology... More about The physiology of flowering plants
St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 2011. Octavo, paperback, line drawings. "Realizing Nature`s Potential: The Once and Future King of Drug Discovery" was a two-day event held at the Missouri Botanical Garden in the fall of 2006 in honor of Dr Gordon Cragg. Dr Cragg, former chief of the Natural Products... More about Realizing nature's potential: Proceedings of the William L. Brown Symposium Honoring Dr Gordon Cragg
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white line drawings. The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco-de-mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder... More about An orchard invisible: a natural history of seeds
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist # 129. The word 'alien' can conjure up a range of sentiments including fear, dislike and also fascination. It is used to describe strange beings from Mars, human migrants, and non-native plants and animals -... More about Alien plants
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps, graphs. New Naturalist # 129. The word 'alien' can conjure up a range of sentiments including fear, dislike and also fascination. It is used to describe strange beings from Mars, human migrants, and non-native plants and animals - the term... More about Alien plants
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, BRAND NEW. This novel book is the first to properly address the controversial issue of plant intelligence, arguing convincingly that cells and whole plants growing in competitive wild conditions exhibit aspects of plant behaviour that can be accurately described as 'intelligent'. The... More about Plant behaviour and intelligence
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. In this book, the leaf serves as a biological example, an ordinary living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf's world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own, answering... More about The life of a leaf
Carlton: Black Inc., 2016. Octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their... More about Hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate