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Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution by Jonathan Silvertown
Booksplease Price: £24.80What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive... -
An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds by Jonathan Silvertown
Booksplease Price: £17.69The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. With "An Orchard Invisible", Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied... -
Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution Jonathan Silvertown 9780226760094
Booksplease Price: £16.75What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive... -
Fragile Web: What Next for Nature? by Jonathan Silvertown 9780226757810
Booksplease Price: £31.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226757810Author Jonathan SilvertownFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Chicago... -
Introduction to Plant Population Biology Jonathan Silvertown (The Open University) 9780632049912
RRP: £77.95Booksplease Price: £70.57This completely revised, fourth edition of Introduction to Plant Population Biology continues the approach taken by its highly successful predecessors. Ecological and genetic principles are... -
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life by Jonathan Silvertown 9780198876397
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.76For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of... -
The Long and the Short of it: The Science of Life Span and Aging by Jonathan Silvertown 9780226757896
Booksplease Price: £22.93Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans - and that variation is... -
An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds Jonathan Silvertown (The Open University) 9780226757735
Booksplease Price: £24.80The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. With "An Orchard Invisible", Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied... -
Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity by Jonathan W. Silvertown
Booksplease Price: £18.63Jonathan Silvertown here explores the astonishing diversity of plant life in regions as spectacular as the verdant climes of Japan, the lush grounds of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the shallow... -
Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context: 14th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society by Jonathan W. Silvertown
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £69.22The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don't are only just becoming clear. In this volume, an international team of authors, experts in... -
Plant Life Histories: Ecology, Phylogeny and Evolution by Jonathan W. Silvertown 9780521574952
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £41.86Plant Life Histories re-examines patterns of relationship between plant life history traits in phylogenetic perspective. The re-examination first recognises that because evolution is a branching... -
Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties by J. Philip Grime 9780470850404
RRP: £88.95Booksplease Price: £78.90Plant Strategies, Vegetation Processes, and Ecosystem Properties, Second Edition, is a thoroughly updated and comprehensive new edition of the very successful Plant Strategies and Vegetative... -
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food Norman C. Ellstrand 9780226574899
Booksplease Price: £20.12At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the... -
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world,...