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Looks at the world of trees, journeying around the world to explore the facts, characteristics, natural history, life cycles, evolution, and environmental impact of trees and forests.
Record details
ISBN:9780141012933 (pbk.)
ISBN:0307395391 (pbk.)
ISBN:9780307395399 (pbk.)
ISBN:9781400050369 (hbk.)
ISBN:1400050367 (hbk.)
ISBN:9780713996982 (hbk.)
ISBN:0713996986 (hbk.)
Physical Description:x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2005.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-412) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I: What is a tree? -- Trees in mind: simple questions with complicated answers -- Keeping track -- How trees became -- Wood -- II: All the trees in the world -- Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- From palms and screw pines to yuccas and bamboos: the monocot trees -- Thoroughly modern broadleaves -- From oaks to mangoes: the glorious inventory of rose-like eudicots -- From handkerchief trees to teak: the daisy-like eudicots -- III: The life of trees -- How trees live -- Which trees live where, and why -- The social life of trees: war or peace? -- IV: Trees and us -- The future with trees.
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