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Taking Glycine to the max!
The Story of Soy by Christine du Bois 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Before encountering Christine du Bois’ book, The Story of Soy, I had little real
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The Biostats Booklist
The Biostats Booklist is a crowdsourced list of statistics resources for biologists by biologists. Anyone is welcome to add their own recommendations to the list, be
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Let’s go down to the forest … to bathe!
Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Qing Li, Viking, 2018 If you go down to the woods today, you’re
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The cosmopolitan Compositae (or Sunflowers at large…)
Sunflowers by Stephen Harris 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Stephen Harris’ Sunflowers isn’t about sunflowers. OK, correction, it is, but it’s not just about sunflowers.
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Earpedia: Plants
Amazon, through its Audible audiobook brand, is releasing free audio shows for subscribers. One of these was Zoopedia, a series looking at animals. It’s now
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Discovering Discoveries in the Garden
Discoveries in the garden by James Nardi, 2018. University of Chicago Press. I must have reached some level of fame because a few weeks ago a
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Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World by Alice Roberts
List books can be good, but there’s a knack to them. Nick Lane’s Life Ascending works because the various features to life he lists
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Talking Tolkien and plants
Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, 2017. OUP It’s hard to
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Plants that … KILL!
Plants that kill: A natural history of the world’s most poisonous plants by Elizabeth Dauncey and Sonny Larsson, 2018. Kew Publishing. When we think of
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Are intelligent plants out of this world?
Semiosis by Sue Burke, 2018. Tor Books. First, two ‘spoiler alerts’ *. One, this book views plants in a much more enlightened way than those of a
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A bumper crop of fungi
The Fungal Kingdom, edited by Joseph Heitman, Barbara J. Howlett, Pedro W. Crous, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Timothy Y. James and Neil A. R. Gow, 2018. American
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Book reviewing: A cautionary tale of conifers
Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference by James Eckenwalder, 2009, reprinted 2013*. Timber Press Inc. This is not the book appraisal I was hoping to