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A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Originally published in 1993, A Guide to Kansas Mushrooms went out of print in 2017. Original author Richard Kay suggested his wife, Sherry Kay, ...
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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mushrooms
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Simon & Schuster's Guide to Mushrooms is indispensable to anyone fascinated by mushrooms and other fungi. Lavishly illustrated, it contains d...
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Mushrooms of North America in Color: A Field Guide Companion to Seldom-Illustrated Fungi / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This volume is the first guide to identify mushroom species not commonly classified or illustrated elsewhere in current literature. The book, whi...
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Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent acti...
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Atlas of Poetic Botany
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances.This Atlas invites the reader to tour th...
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has no...
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Guide to the Plants of Arizona's White Mountains
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /George C. West provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, an...
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Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Handy in-the-field identification guideFeatures the "Foolproof Five"Includes a useful identification flowchartThe northeastern United States is h...
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Introduction to California Plant Life / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /California’s unique plants range in size from the stately Coast Redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts and in age from the f...
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Fruits of the Forest: A Field Guide to Pacific Northwest Edible Mushrooms
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Key characteristics for each species to aid in identification Full-color photographs depicting each featured species Includes recipes for simple...
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Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined? Winner of the World Wildlife Fund's 2020 Jan Wolkers Prize...
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In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, exe...
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Botanicum Medicinale: A Modern Herbal of Medicinal Plants
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A beautifully illustrated, informative, and engaging guide to 100 plants used for medicinal purposes.Remedies derived from plants are the world's...
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Introduction to California Chaparral / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The characteristic look of California Chaparral—a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently covering the hills—is known to millions who have...
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Atlas of Perfumed Botany
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition.For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude...
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Botany For Dummies
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The easy way to score your highest in botany Employment of biological scientists is projected to grow 21% over the next decade, much faster than ...
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The Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California
PaperbackOriginal price $57.95Original price $57.95 - Original price $57.95Original price $57.95Current price $49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the spirit of the avid desert botanist Willis Linn Jepson, The Jepson Desert Manual provides botanical enthusiasts of all backgrounds with the...
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The Writings of Ferdinand Lindheimer: Texas Botanist, Texas Philosopher
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer is known as the “father of Texas botany.” While he was not the first botanist to collect plants for scientific examina...
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Air Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Often growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plants. The majority use their roots on...
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How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancie...
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The Science and Spirit of Seaweed: Discovering Food, Medicine and Purpose in the Kelp Forests of the Pacific Northwest
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Sustainable Pacific Northwest-based seaweed harvester Amanda Swinimer describes the ecology, culinary uses, evidence-based health benefits and clim...
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Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator "An evocati...
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How Light Makes Life: The Hidden Wonders and World-Saving Powers of Photosynthesis
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /It's a clunky word for a miracle: Photosynthesis. But there's no life on Earth without it. For biologist Raffael Jovine, it's a consuming passion, ...
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White Pine: The Natural and Human History of a Foundational American Tree
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /America was built on white pine. From the 1600s through the Civil War and beyond, it was used to build the nation's ships and houses, barns, and br...
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