Tag: Plants

Free Download Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now by Stéphane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Golé, Nancy Pick
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 0691158657 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 248.14 MB
A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them

Free Download The Big Book of House Plants by Emma Sibley
English | April 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 1787139425 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 76.64 MB
The Big Book of House Plants is a source of green inspiration for small-space gardening, featuring an impressive directory 110 of the most popular varieties of foliage to own, including cacti, succulents and house plants.

Free Download Medicinal Plants from Sub-Saharan Africa: Undiscovered Therapeutic Potential by Namrita Lall, Anna-Mari Kok
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 290 Pages | ISBN : 3031649036 | 51 MB
South Africa boasts high biodiversity among its flora and this is associated with many undiscovered medicinal plants with therapeutic potential. To target this untapped resource, the first step is to introduce these species to a wider spectrum of audience, be they the academics who carry out research, students interested in holistic medicine and healing, or those working in the natural product industry. In this work, we document a list of medicinal plants from Sub-Saharan Africa that have been underestimated in their therapeutic value and not thoroughly studied. Our book contains the recent scientific studies and validation on the individual plants. Written and organised in an easily accessible way, each entry includes specific information on the plant’s distribution, traditional usage and their phytochemical content.

Free Download Edward S. Casey, "Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal "
English | ISBN: 0231213441 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world. How do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing beings shape the places they inhabit, and how are they shaped by them? How do human places interact with those of plants―in lived experience; in landscape painting; in cultivation and contemplation; in forests, fields, gardens, and cities?

Free Download Vegetation-Climate Interaction: How Plants Make the Global Environment By Dr Jonathan Adams (auth.)
2010 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 3642008801 | PDF | 9 MB
Jonathan Adams provides a readable, accessible account of the way in which the world’s plant life partly controls its own environment. Starting from the broad patterns in vegetation which have classically been seen as a passive response to climate, the book builds up from the local scale – microclimates produced by plants – to the regional and global scale. The influence of plants (both on land and in the ocean) in making clouds, haze and rain is also considered, along with plant effects on the composition of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. Broad global feedbacks that either stabilize or destabilize the Earth’s environment are explored in the context of environmental change both in the recent geological past and in the near future. Common contentions and misconceptions about the role of vegetation or forest removal in the spread of deserts are also considered. Since the first edition of this book was published, many new papers in this rapidly advancing field have been published. This new, updated Second Edition incorporates information from these and also significant works not included in the first edition. New diagrams and photographs are also included.

Free Download David H. Benzing, "Air Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens"
English | ISBN: 0801450438 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Often growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plants. The majority use their roots only for attachment in the crowns of larger, usually woody plants―or to objects such as rocks and buildings―and derive moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere and by collecting falling debris. Only the mistletoes are true parasites. Epiphytes are not anomalies and there are approximately 28,000 species―about 10 percent of the higher or vascular plants―that grow this way. Many popular houseplants, including numerous aroids, bromeliads, ferns, and orchids, rank among the most familiar examples. In Air Plants, David H. Benzing takes a reader on a tour of the many taxonomic groups to which the epiphytes belong and explains in nontechnical language the anatomical and physiological adaptations that allow these plants to conserve water, thrive without the benefit of soil, and engage in unusual relationships with animals such as frogs and ants.

Free Download Plants and People in the African Past: Progress in African Archaeobotany by Anna Maria Mercuri
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 577 Pages | ISBN : 3319898388 | 129.99 MB
There is an essential connection between humans and plants, cultures and environments, and this is especially evident looking at the long history of the African continent. This book, comprising current research in archaeobotany on Africa, elucidates human adaptation and innovation with respect to the exploitation of plant resources. In the long-term perspective climatic changes of the environment as well as human impact have posed constant challenges to the interaction between peoples and the plants growing in different countries and latitudes.

Free Download Why we are carnivores …and how plants try to poison you by Anthony Chaffee
English | December 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 3000770100 | 138 pages | True EPUB | 6.11 MB
25% of the royalties of this book will be donated to Dr. Thomas Seyfried’s cancer research!

Free Download The Plants of the Appalachian Trail: A Hiker’s Guide to 398 Species by Kristen Wickert
English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1643260405 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 170.92 MB
Identify an amazing range of plants along the Appalachian Trail with this guide to flowers, trees, and other vegetation you could experience on your next nature hike.

Free Download Medicinal Plants and Antimicrobial Therapies by Vinay Kumar, Varsha Shriram, Abhijit Dey
English | January 5, 2024 | ISBN: 9819972604 | 233 pages | MOBI | 4.42 Mb
This book serves as an excellent comprehensive material covering the current understandings and updates on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the use of medicinal plant resources for tackling it. Chapters cover important aspects of AMR and strategies to address this threatening issue with medicinal plants and their resources. One health perspectives for addressing AMR have been presented for the readers. Antimicrobial medicinal plant therapeutic resources including crude extracts, active fractions, pure molecules and essential oils, besides using them as functionalizing agents for nano-antimicrobials have been covered. Further, plant endophytes as a source of antimicrobial compounds have been discussed. Chapters cover both the bactericidal as well as resistance-reversal (or potentiating/ combinatorial therapies) potencies of medicinal plant resources. The book also focuses on how medicinal plant resources effectively target major determinants of AMR. Use of metabolomics in understanding and targeting AMR mechanisms and identifying potent phyto-therapeutics has been discussed as well. The book is a valuable read for both experienced and younger researchers working in the field of AMR and related fields in biomedicine, pharmacy, and clinical research.