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"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
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Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
254 pages ; cm
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"When a young girl, Cardy Raper told her mother, “When I grow up I want to be a scientist and make grand discoveries!” Her mother responded, “You could become a nurse.” Science was a man's world then. Cardy refused to take “no” for an answer. Her dream seemed attainable when she met her mentor, Professor John “Red” Raper at the University of Chicago who said “Yes, you can be a scientist!” They became soul mates, fell in love, married,...
Publisher
Earth Aware Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
181 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, and many more expterts make Fantastic Fungi an awe-inspiring visual journey through the exotic, little-known realm of fungi and its amazing potential to positively influence our lives.
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Stink Moody volume 10
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Stink may be a super science freak, but even Dr. Stinkelstein is feeling freaked out about having a slime mold living and growing in his very own room. At Saturday Science Club, Stink learns that these one-celled organisms are smart enough to find their way out of mazes and gang up on food sources.
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Sworn soldier volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable...
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
xi, 339 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and mushroom expert Paul Stamets explains how in this groundbreaking manual. The science goes like this: fine filaments of cells called mycelium, the fruit of which are mushrooms, already cover large areas of land around the world. As the mycelium grows, it breaks down plant and animal debris, recycling carbon, nitrogen, and other elements in the creation of rich new soil....
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"Discover the glorious world of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi, as described by Peter McCoy, one of today's foremost experts in the field. Covering the essential information and skills for identifying, cultivating, and celebrating the uniqueness of fungi, this book enables anyone to quickly and easily engage in the art and science of mycology-the study of fungi. Mycology offers vast opportunities to enhance our lives, support our communities,...
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Zoey and Sassafras volume 2
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A girl, Zoey, and her cat, Sassafras use science experiments to help a monster with a problem.
14) Act of God
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Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2015]
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179 pages ; 22 cm
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"It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who's mistaken her own eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: it seems to be phosphorescent, it's a mushroom . . . and it's sprouting from their wall. Upstairs, their landlady,...
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Stink volume 10
Publisher
Alfaguara, Penguin Random House Grup Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
Stink may be a super science freak, but even Dr. Stinkelstein is feeling freaked out about having a slime mold living and growing in his very own room. At Saturday Science Club, Stink learns that these one-celled organisms are smart enough to find their way out of mazes and gang up on food sources.
Stink puede ser un súper fanático de la ciencia, pero incluso el Dr. Stinkelstein se siente asustado por tener un moho de limo viviendo y creciendo...
16) Monstruos y moho
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Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 2
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Cuando un monstruo del posque lleha buscando ayuda por algo que lo avergüenza mucho, Zoé está segura de que será un problema fácil de resolver. Pero sus dos primeros intentos de ayudarlo fallan ¡y termina a cargo de un monstruo llorón! ¿Podrán Zoé y Sasafrás resolver el problema a tiempo para que Gorp asista al Baile anual de monstruos?
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Esteemed career mycologist Keith Seifert reveals the important role that microscopic fungi, including yeasts, molds, and slimes, play in our lives, all while remaining invisible to the naked eye. Divided into sections, each one exploring a different environment where fungi thrive, The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi introduces readers to the fascinating world of mycology"--
20) Fungarium
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Publisher
Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 38 cm.
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Return to the Museum with exquisite, detailed images of some of the most fascinating living organisms on this planet--fungi. Exploring every sort of fungi, from the kinds we see on supermarket shelves to those like penicillium that have shaped human history, this collection is the definitive introduction to what fungi are and just how vital they are to the world's ecosystem.
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