Hmmmmmm..... I have mixed feelings about this book. There is a lot of information about Trees and the writing style isn't bad, but the middle section is rather tedious. The book has a few black and white sketches/illustrations of trees. My edition of the book [ISBN 9780307395399] also has very t...
What a load of crap! This person hate Richard Dawkins for some reasons and try to write a book that goes against Dawkins famous work "The Selfish Gene". He failed. Really failed big time. There is no science in this book. This writer is ignorant about evolution biology and basic science. It i...
Sometimes he did get bogged down in detail but overall I did enjoy this story of trees, what they are, how they divide and why they're important. Being the daughter of a woodwork teacher and having grown up around trees and wood I was baised towards this book before I started and I found it facinat...
Genetic engineering is an incredible technology with many controversial applications. This book as a very approachable primer on those possible applications and the ethical issues they raise. While the science is handled very well and the author didn’t spend enough time on the basics to bore me, I d...
Oddly, I'm going to miss this book. I didn't think I would. I know some people found the middle part of this book to be boring, but I enjoyed every part of this book. I can't say there weren't times that I wish a part was shorter. I wish I had a hardcopy/ebook of this book. There are so many things ...
I ran out of time with this one -- due back to the library before I am doing it justice. I'll probably take it out again at some point. The writing style is a bit dense and there aren't a lot of pictures (I do find that helpful in books about nature). However, what is there is quite a lot.4 sections...
This book is a really quick read but it has lots of ideas that I really enjoyed hearing. It's not like it posits anything breathtaking or mind-boggling, it's just a short journey from the 'conventional wisdom' on agriculture, but it was well written and interesting to read!
"For those who like paleontology but are not be scientists in the field, this book offers a unique look into the study of paleontology, the search for fossils and just what fossil finds entail for the scientists involved. Mr. Tudge does a great job of setting the backdrop and explaining in fairly ea...
Tudge is exasperated by our inability to feed the world's population, and posits how to not only defeat hunger, but do so in an ecological, human, healthy way."For in truth, there is no such thing as cheap food. If chickens ever sell in the supermarket for 75 cents a pound as they often do, or cans...
This is a short monograph (50 pages) that synopsizes Colin Tudge's argument that pre-Neolithic Revolution humans (and, indeed, hominids in general) have been modifying their environment for hundreds of millennia, and this includes "farming," of which Tudge identifies three types:1. Horticulture: Or,...
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