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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780062048998 |
| Terms of availability |
RM84.90 |
| Qualifying information |
hardback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
PPANPs |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
580.92 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 090 00 - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) |
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| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
580.92 |
| Local cutter number (OCLC) ; Book number/undivided call number, CALL (RLIN) |
KAS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kassinger, Ruth, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1954- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A Garden of Marvels : |
| Remainder of title |
How We Discovered That Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
RUTH KASSINGER. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
William Morrow, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2014]. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xviii pages, 395 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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rdacontent |
| Content type code |
txt |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
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n |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
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nc |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368 -379)and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"A witty and engaging history of the first botanists, interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the labIn Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounts with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing the lessons that she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating personal crisis. In A Garden of Marvels, she extends the story. "This book was born of a murder, a murder I committed," she begins. The victim was a kumquat tree. Though she diligently did her best--watering, fertilizing, repotting, and pruning--the plant turned brown and brittle. Why did the kumquat die when other plants in the garden that received the same attention thrived? she wondered. It was an experience that offered invaluable insight. While she knew the basic rules of caring for indoor plants, Kassinger realized that she understood very little about plant physiology--how roots, stems, leaves, and flowers actually function. Determined not to repeat her failure, she set out to learn the fundamentals of botany in order to become a better gardener. A Garden of Marvels is the story of her wise and enchanting odyssey to discover the secret life of plants. Kassinger retraces the progress of the first botanists--including a melancholy Italian anatomist, a renegade French surgeon, a stuttering English minister, an obsessive German schoolteacher, and Charles Darwin--who banished myths and misunderstandings and discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, roots choose their food, and hormones make morning glories climb fence posts. She goes out into the world as well, visiting modern gardens, farms, and labs to discover the science behind extraordinary plants like one-ton pumpkins, truly black petunias, ferns that eat the arsenic in contaminated soil, biofuel grass that grows twelve feet tall, and the world's only photosynthesizing animal. Kassinger also introduces us to modern scientific research that offers hope for combatting climate change and alleviating world hunger. She then transfers her insights to her own garden, where she nurtures a "cocktail" tree that bears five kinds of fruit, cures an ailing Buddha's Hand plant with beneficial fungi, and gets a tree to text her when it's thirsty. Intertwining personal anecdotes, accessible science, and little-known history, A Garden of Marvels takes us on an eye-opening journey into Kassinger's garden--and yours--offering us a new appreciation of this exquisite gift of nature: "Our garden is more than a marvel. It's as close to a miracle as there is on Earth.""-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, the author of Paradise Under Glass gives us a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 599 ## - LOCAL NOTE |
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| Local Note |
LULUS |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kassinger, Ruth, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1954- |
| Form subdivision |
Anecdotes. |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Women gardeners |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Anecdotes. |
| 650 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Botanists |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Anecdotes. |
| 650 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Botany |
| Form subdivision |
Humor. |
| 650 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. |
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bisacsh |
| 650 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. |
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bisacsh |
| 650 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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NATURE / Plants / General. |
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bisacsh. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Cover image |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/tiff/8/9780062048998.tif |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Book |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
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| Local Accession Number |
0000545234(PN) |
