The botany of desire :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
204 pages ; 22 cm
Edition
Young readers edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Rocky Pond Books, 2023.
Summary
"In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. He links four fundamental human desires--sweetness, beauty, energy, and control--with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, we have also helped them to thrive."
Call Number
YA 306.45/POLL 2023
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
ISBN
9780593531525
The botany of desire :
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
355 pages ; 25 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, ME : G.K. Hall, 2001.
Call Number
LP 306.45/POLL
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
ISBN
9780783896410
The botany of desire :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxv, 271 pages ; 21 cm
Edition
Random House trade pbk. edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House, 2002.
Summary
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The botany of desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. In telling the stories of four familiar species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants have done well by us. So who is really domesticating whom?
Call Number
304.27 POL
Publication Date
2002 2001-2002
Language
English
ISBN
9780375760396
The botany of desire :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxv, 271 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House, c2001.
Call Number
306.45 POLLAN
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
ISBN
9780375501296
The botany of desire :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
8 audio discs (approx. 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[Stratford, Conn.?] : Audio Evolution ; [New York?] : Distributed by Gildan Media Corp., p2006.
Summary
Examines the relationship between humans and domesticated plants.
Call Number
BCD 306 POL
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
ISBN
9781596590939
The botany of desire. Widescreen
Format:
DVD
System details note
DVD; Dolby 2.0 stereo.; widescreen; NTSC; region 1.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Widescreen.
Production / Publication Information
[United States] : Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2009.
Summary
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip markets of Amsterdam.
Call Number
DVD 306.45 BOT
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
ISBN
9780793670840
UPC
841887010856
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