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
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
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
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
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, 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 the humble leaf, but a...... More
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
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
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
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
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2020. Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations. The science of tree rings unlocks fascinating stories of discovery, fraud, and adventure otherwise lost to history, painting a picture of the natural and human worlds we could never before imagine. More
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
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