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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
de Michael Pollan
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0375501290
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501296
- Librería
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Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Quarter bound light brown boards and green blind stamped author's initials on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Book is as new, with no defects noted.
DJ has very minor edge wear. Price is intact.
In this work, the author Michael Pollan delivers four witty and thoughtful narratives on how plants satisfy human desires of sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. The four plants that he uses as examples are the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potatoes.
A superb read for anyone interested in the coevolution of plants and humans.
Personal note- I love this book. One of my favorites.
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Sinopsis
In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- thought this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin?In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. 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 humankinds's most basic yearnings -- and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom?Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Bonnie Lane Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 03-09-2023-05
- Título
- The Botany of Desire
- Autor
- Michael Pollan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tight and square
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, 2001
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0375501290
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501296
- Editorial
- Random House, Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Páginas
- 271
- Tamaño
- 9 1/2" x 5 9/16"
- LCCN
- 00066479
- Palabras clave
- Botany, Plant systems, Plant history
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