Popular Treatments of Plant Ecology
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A New Garden Ethic by
Call Number: Available from Metropolitan Public Library System (OKC)ISBN: 9781550926507Publication Date: 2017Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much--not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. -
Lessons from Plants by
Call Number: QK46.5.H85 M65 2021ISBN: 9780674241282Publication Date: 2021Lessons from Plants enters into the depth of botanic experience and shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? -
Finding the Mother Tree by
Call Number: SD 411.52 .S56 A3 2021ISBN: 9780525656098Publication Date: 2021Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. -
Tomatoland by
Call Number: Available from Pioneer Library SystemISBN: 9781449408411Publication Date: 2012Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants. -
The Nature of Oaks by
Call Number: SD397.O12 T35 2021ISBN: 9781643260440Publication Date: 2021Rveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars, Tallamy illuminates and celebrates the wonders that occur right in our own backyards. -
The Botany of Desire by
Call Number: QK 46.5 .H85 P66 2001ISBN: 0375501290Publication Date: 2001"In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings -- and by doing so made themselves indispensable."
Popular Treatments of Microbiology and Plant Biology
These popular treatments should not be cited as primary or scholarly sources, but can be a great place to get inspiration, a general understanding of a topic, or find additional references.
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A Feeling for the Organism by
Call Number: Available online; also available in History of Science StacksISBN: 071671504XPublication Date: 1984-02-15A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains her work in genetics and traces her long unheralded career as a research scientist. -
The Tangled Tree by
Call Number: Learning Lab QH 367.5 .Q36 2018ISBN: 9781476776620Publication Date: 2018"In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field--the study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular level--is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important." -
Slime by
Call Number: QK566 .K37 2019 (Learning Lab)ISBN: 9780544432932Publication Date: 2019"With a multitude of lively, surprising science and history, Ruth Kassinger takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming." -
I Contain Multitudes by
Call Number: QR 171 .A1 Y66 2016ISBN: 0062368591Publication Date: 2016"Many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us--the microbiome--build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities. In this astonishing book, Ed Yong takes us on a grand tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to the scientists on the front lines of discovery." -
Spillover by
Call Number: RA 639 .Q83 2013ISBN: 9780393346619Publication Date: 2013"David Quammen [...] illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has never before been told. Spillover reads like a mystery tale, full of mayhem and clues and questions. When the Next Big One arrives, what will it look like? From which innocent host animal will it emerge? Will we be ready?"
Popular Treatments of Evolution
These popular treatments should not be cited as primary or scholarly sources, but can be a great place to get inspiration, a general understanding of a topic, or find additional references.
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The Fossil Hunter by
Call Number: QE 707 .A56 E46 2009 (Youngblood Energy Library; also available in History of Science stacks)ISBN: 9780230611566Publication Date: 2009"A story worthy of Dickens, The Fossil Hunter chronicles the life of this young girl, with dirt under her fingernails and not a shilling to buy dinner, who became a world-renowned paleontologist. Dickens himself said of Mary: "The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it." Here at last, Shelley Emling returns Mary Anning, of whom Stephen J. Gould remarked, is "probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology," to her deserved place in history." -
The Song of the Dodo by
Call Number: QH 541.5 .I8 Q35 1996ISBN: 0684800837Publication Date: 1996"Thirty years ago, two young biologists named Robert MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson triggered a far-reaching scientific revolution. In a book titled The Theory of Island Biogeography, they presented a new view of a little-understood matter: the geographical patterns in which animal and plant species occur. Why do marsupials exist in Australia and South America, but not in Africa? Why do tigers exist in Asia, but not in New Guinea? Influenced by MacArthur and Wilson's book, an entire generation of ecologists has recognized that island biogeography - the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape - yields important insights into the origin and extinction of species everywhere." Available in the stacks and on reserve. A fascinating book. -
The Making of the Fittest by
Call Number: QP 624 .C37 2006ISBN: 0393061639Publication Date: 2006"Sean Carroll guides the general reader on a tour of the massive DNA record of three billion years of evolution to see how the fittest are made. And what a eye-opening tour it is--one featuring immortal genes, fossil genes, and genes that bear the scars of past battles with horrible diseases."