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Book

The triumph of seeds : how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history

Call Number

  • 581.467 H2517 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.

Physical Description

xxv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents

  • Seed for a day
  • The staff of life
  • Sometimes you feel like a nut
  • What the spike moss knows
  • Mendel's spores
  • Methuselah
  • Take it to the bank
  • By tooth, beak, and gnaw
  • The riches of taste
  • The cheeriest beans
  • Death by umbrella
  • Irresistible flesh
  • By wind and wave.

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