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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780751337150
This title is part of a series of beginner's guides to a wide range of scientific concepts and topical issues affecting our daily lives. It examines future farming methods and its inherent problems such as BSE and offers potential solutions - from organic to genetically modified foods....more details Format:Paperback Pages:72
Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy - and this could be done without cruelty...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780099288756
In the 1850s and 1860s, growing peas in his monastery garden in Brno in Moravia, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel worked out the basic laws of heredity. Colin Tudge argues that once what Mendel is understood...more details Format:Book
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780297842583
1 of the 1st 4 titles of a new series, provocative, controversial long essays by today's leading Darwinian thinkers. The Darwin seminars at the LSE have beome a crucial intellectual forum in recent years...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
Tradition has it that agriculture began in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago, that once people realized the advantages of farming, it spread rapidly to the furthest outposts of the world...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780713996982
The age of trees often inspires awe, from the redwoods of California to English oaks. We wonder how they live so long, and how they really work - after all...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
This volume provides an overview of modern farming, acknowledging the astonishing achievements of modern farming in providing for such a rapidly growing population...more details Format:Hardback Pages:448
Scientific progress should make it increasingly easy to feed the masses, and to feed them well. So why are so many people starving, or eating badly? In So Shall We Reap Colin Tudge explores the way in which traditional agriculture has been transformed into a multinational business...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780307342041
In this follow-up to his acclaimed work "The Tree," Tudge offers a delightful exploration of the fascinating world of birds. b&w illustrations throughout....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:462
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780307342058
- How are birds so good at flying and navigating? - Why are birds so like mammals- and yet so very different? - Did birds descend from dinosaurs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:480
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780316070096
For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:262
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780141012933
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy "The Secret Life of Trees". I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' - "The Times"...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Colin Tudge
ISBN:9780307395399
There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:459
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Tudge Colin
ISBN:9781846140976
All animals are equal - but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first rank. They can do almost everything that mammals can do - and more besides. By mastering flight...more details Format:Hardback Pages:512
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Tudge Colin
ISBN:9780141034768
Birds are beautiful, intriguing and life-enhancing. They can do everything mammals can, and even more besides. In Consider the Birds lifelong bird enthusiast Colin Tudge explores the lives of some of our most extraordinary fellow creatures...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:496