Author: Catherine Veitch
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1406269247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This beautiful and simple label book introduces young readers to the names of different trees and their parts.
Lessons from Plants
Author: Beronda L. Montgomery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674259394
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment. Lessons 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? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do?
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674259394
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment. Lessons 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? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do?
Tap the Magic Tree Board Book
Author: Christie Matheson
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780062274465
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The acclaimed interactive picture book about the changing seasons. “Like Hervé Tullet’s Press Here, Matheson’s Tap the Magic Tree proves you don’t need apps for interactivity,” praised the New York Times. This board book edition is perfect for little hands. Every book needs you to turn the pages. But not every book needs you to tap it, shake it, jiggle it, or even blow it a kiss. Innovative and timeless, Tap the Magic Tree asks you to help one lonely tree change with the seasons. Now that’s interactive—and magical! It begins with a bare brown tree. But tap that tree, turn the page, and one bright green leaf has sprouted! Tap again—one, two, three, four—and four more leaves have grown on the next page. Pat, clap, wiggle, jiggle, and see blossoms bloom, apples grow, and the leaves swirl away with the autumn breeze. The collage-and-watercolor art evokes the bright simplicity of Lois Ehlert and Eric Carle and the interactive concept will delight fans of Pat the Bunny. Combining a playful spirit and a sense of wonder about nature, Christie Matheson has created a new modern classic that is a winner in every season—and every story time! And don't miss the follow-up, Touch the Brightest Star!
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780062274465
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The acclaimed interactive picture book about the changing seasons. “Like Hervé Tullet’s Press Here, Matheson’s Tap the Magic Tree proves you don’t need apps for interactivity,” praised the New York Times. This board book edition is perfect for little hands. Every book needs you to turn the pages. But not every book needs you to tap it, shake it, jiggle it, or even blow it a kiss. Innovative and timeless, Tap the Magic Tree asks you to help one lonely tree change with the seasons. Now that’s interactive—and magical! It begins with a bare brown tree. But tap that tree, turn the page, and one bright green leaf has sprouted! Tap again—one, two, three, four—and four more leaves have grown on the next page. Pat, clap, wiggle, jiggle, and see blossoms bloom, apples grow, and the leaves swirl away with the autumn breeze. The collage-and-watercolor art evokes the bright simplicity of Lois Ehlert and Eric Carle and the interactive concept will delight fans of Pat the Bunny. Combining a playful spirit and a sense of wonder about nature, Christie Matheson has created a new modern classic that is a winner in every season—and every story time! And don't miss the follow-up, Touch the Brightest Star!
What a Plant Knows
Author: Daniel Chamovitz
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374288739
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Explores the secret lives of various plants, from the colors they see to whether or not they really like classical music to their ability to sense nearby danger.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374288739
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Explores the secret lives of various plants, from the colors they see to whether or not they really like classical music to their ability to sense nearby danger.
Botany in a Day
Author: Thomas J. Elpel
Publisher: Hops Press
ISBN: 9781892784353
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.
Publisher: Hops Press
ISBN: 9781892784353
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.
Tree Is a Plant
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613455589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Depicts the life cycle of an apple, emphasizing the physical changes that occur in each season
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613455589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Depicts the life cycle of an apple, emphasizing the physical changes that occur in each season
Plant Identification Terminology
Author: James G. Harris
Publisher: Spring Lake Publishing
ISBN: 9780964022171
Category : Botanique - Dictionnaires anglais
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Publisher: Spring Lake Publishing
ISBN: 9780964022171
Category : Botanique - Dictionnaires anglais
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Growing Trees
Author: Judith Bauer Stamper
Publisher: Teaching Strategies
ISBN: 9781606171271
Category : Tree planting
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Teaching Strategies
ISBN: 9781606171271
Category : Tree planting
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Learning About Trees
Author: Catherine Veitch
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1406269247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This beautiful and simple label book introduces young readers to the names of different trees and their parts.
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1406269247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
This beautiful and simple label book introduces young readers to the names of different trees and their parts.
Learning about the Environment
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Memory and Learning in Plants
Author: Frantisek Baluska
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331975596X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order to react faster or even better. This is an essential tool for all adaptation purposes. Such memory/learning skills can be found from bacteria up to fungi, animals and plants, although until recently it had been mentioned only as capabilities of higher animals. With the rise of epigenetics the context dependent marking of experiences on the genetic level is an essential perspective to understand memory and learning in organisms. Plants are highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realize the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behavior accordingly. The book will guide scientists in further investigations on these skills of plant behavior and on how plants mediate signaling processes between themselves and the environment in memory and learning processes.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331975596X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order to react faster or even better. This is an essential tool for all adaptation purposes. Such memory/learning skills can be found from bacteria up to fungi, animals and plants, although until recently it had been mentioned only as capabilities of higher animals. With the rise of epigenetics the context dependent marking of experiences on the genetic level is an essential perspective to understand memory and learning in organisms. Plants are highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realize the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behavior accordingly. The book will guide scientists in further investigations on these skills of plant behavior and on how plants mediate signaling processes between themselves and the environment in memory and learning processes.