The revolutionary genius of plants : (Record no. 17552)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781501187858
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1501187856
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781501187872
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035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1048600309
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency FMG
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency FMG
Modifying agency CDX
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041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text ita
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QK711.2
Item number .M35813 2018
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mancuso, Stefano,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 77218
240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title <a href="Plant revolution.">Plant revolution.</a>
Language of a work English
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The revolutionary genius of plants :
Remainder of title a new understanding of plant intelligence and behavior /
Statement of responsibility, etc Stefano Mancuso ; English translation by Vanessa Di Stefano.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First Atria Books hardcover edition.
264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2018.
264 #4 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice
Date of publication, distribution, etc ©2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 225 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (chiefly color) ;
Dimensions 24 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "Originally published in Italy in 2017 by Giunti Editore S.p.A. as Plant Revolution : le piante hanno già inventato il nostro futuro."
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Memories without a brain -- Moving without muscles -- The sublime art of mimesis -- Green democracies -- The capsicophagous and other slaves of plants -- Archiplants -- Living without freshwater -- From plants to plantoids -- Space plants.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Do plants have intelligence? Do they have memory? Are they better problem solvers than people? Plants make up 80 percent of the weight of all living things on earth, and yet it is easy to forget that these innocuous, beautiful organisms are responsible for not only the air we breathe, but for many of our modern comforts: our medicine, food, even our fossil fuels. Now, Stefano Mancuso, one of the world's foremost experts on plant neurobiology, reveals the surprisingly sophisticated ability of plants to innovate, to remember, and to learn, highlighting the creative solutions plants offer to the most vexing technological and ecological problems that face us today. Despite not having brains or central nervous systems, plants perceive their surroundings with an even greater sensitivity than animals. They efficiently explore and react promptly to potentially damaging external events thanks to their cooperative, shared systems; without any central command centers, they are able to remember prior catastrophic events and to actively adapt to new ones. [This book] is packed with eye-opening research that makes it more and more clear how remarkable our fellow inhabitants on this planet really are. on this planet really are. Consider the Victoria amazonica, whose leaf arrangement allows it to grow to more than two feet in diameter while floating on water, a unique construction that has inspired the design of numerous landmark human structures, from Victorian London's Crystal Palace to Eero Saarinen's graceful Terminal 5 at New York's JFK airport. Or, the tree genus Acacia in Africa and Latin America, which uses its addictive extrafloral nectar to mobilize an army of ants in its defense against predators, even those as large as an elephant. Or, the Boquila trifoliolata--the most accomplished mimic in nature--a vine that can change the size, shape, and color of its leaves to copy the leaves of the host species it climbs, even mimicking two or three other types of leaves at the same time. Making the complicated science of plants wonderfully accessible, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants opens our minds to a new understanding of life on earth."--Dust jacket.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plants.
9 (RLIN) 291
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant physiology.
9 (RLIN) 292
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plants
General subdivision Irritability and movements.
9 (RLIN) 57694
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Di Stefano, Vanessa,
Relator term translator.
9 (RLIN) 77219
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
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    Library of Congress Classification     Elisabeth C. Miller Library Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves 09/12/2018 3 QK50 .M26 2018 39352800172223 01/26/2021 07/19/2019 09/12/2018 Lending Books

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