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2024

Buchmann Stephen Title : La personalità dell'ape. Pensieri, ricordi, emozioni
Author: Buchmann Stephen
Publisher: Edizioni Ambiente

Quando sentite il ronzio di un'ape, non fatevi prendere dal panico: vi trovate di fronte a una creatura innocua e straordinaria, da cui abbiamo ancora molto da imparare. Pur avendo un cervello minuscolo, le api hanno la capacità di orientarsi, apprendere, comunicare e addirittura ricordare. Il libro sbircia all'interno di un mondo per noi ancora alieno, indagando i talenti e i misteriosi percorsi di questi impollinatori così preziosi per la sopravvivenza dell'ecosistema. Un viaggio in cui il lettore sarà accompagnato da noti biologi che hanno trascorso la loro carriera a porsi domande che nessuno avrebbe mai pensato di porre. Una lettura densa di meraviglia e scoperte, che ci ricorda come il mondo sia più complesso di quanto i nostri sensi riescano a dirci.
€ 23,00     Scontato: € 21,85
2020

Buchmann Stephen Title : La ragione dei fiori. Storia cultura e biologia di una creazione sublime
Author: Buchmann Stephen
Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie

Da epoche immemori, i fiori garantiscono la sopravvivenza materiale e spirituale degli uomini. I loro frutti e i loro semi permettono ancora oggi la produzione di cibo, spezie, vestiti e farmaci per gran parte della popolazione terrestre. Stephen Buchmann, associando lo sguardo clinico dello scienziato della natura a un bagaglio di conoscenze che abbraccia storia, letteratura, economia e cultura popolare, mette a nudo le segrete alchimie della vita dei fiori e indaga il ruolo cruciale che hanno ricoperto nell'evoluzione della nostra specie, ispirando miti, religioni, arte e architettura, poesia e scienza, in ogni tempo e in ogni latitudine. Se l'irrazionalità che governa l'industria floricola, il ricorso a tecniche di coltivazione che danno esemplari senza profumo e nocivi per l'uomo, la creazione in laboratorio di varietà insolite e accattivanti, come le rose blu e le petunie nere, sta conducendo oggi alla progressiva scomparsa delle specie che crescono spontaneamente in natura o nei nostri giardini, tuttavia «non tutto è perduto», assicura Buchmann: «fiori e uomini dipendono gli uni dagli altri e solo insieme possono assicurarsi la sopravvivenza». La ragione dei fiori, con l'ausilio di immagini mozzafiato, ci presenta queste magnificenze colorate sotto una luce inaspettata, svelando l'incantesimo che gettano su di noi mentre spargono la loro bellezza nel mondo.
€ 15,90     Scontato: € 15,11
1916

Buchmann Stephen Title : The Reason for Flowers
Author: Buchmann Stephen
Publisher: Scribner


€ 16,10
1915

Buchmann Stephen Title : The Reason for Flowers
Author: Buchmann Stephen
Publisher: Scribner

Cultural history at its best—the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world’s flowers, written by a passionately devoted author and scientist, and illustrated with his stunning photographs.

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. They have done so since before recorded history. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy ten million flowers a day and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion dollars annually. Yet, we know little about flowers, their origins, bizarre sex lives, or how humans relate and depend upon them.

Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, perfumes, while simultaneously bringing joy and health. Flowering plants continue to serve as inspiration in our myths and legends, in the fine and decorative arts, and in literary works of prose and poetry. Flowers seduce us—and animals, too—through their myriad shapes, colors, textures, and scents. And because of our extraordinary appetite for more unusual and beautiful “super flowers,” plant breeders have created such unnatural blooms as blue roses and black petunias to cater to the human world of haute couture fashion. In so doing, the nectar and pollen vital to the bees, butterflies, and bats of the world, are being reduced. Buchmann explains the unfortunate consequences, and explores how to counter them by growing the right flowers. Here, he integrates fascinating stories about the many colorful personalities who populate the world of flowers, and the flowers and pollinators themselves, with a research-based narrative that illuminates just why there is, indeed, a Reason for Flowers.
€ 22,10
2015

Buchmann Stephen Title : La ragione dei fiori. Storia cultura e biologia di una creazione sublime
Author: Buchmann Stephen
Publisher: Ponte alle Grazie

Da epoche immemori, i fiori garantiscono la sopravvivenza materiale e spirituale degli uomini. I loro frutti e i loro semi permettono ancora oggi la produzione di cibo, spezie, vestiti e farmaci per gran parte della popolazione terrestre. Stephen Buchmann, associando lo sguardo clinico dello scienziato della natura a un bagaglio di conoscenze che abbraccia storia, letteratura, economia e cultura popolare, mette a nudo le segrete alchimie della vita dei fiori e indaga il ruolo cruciale che hanno ricoperto nell'evoluzione della nostra specie, ispirando miti, religioni, arte e architettura, poesia e scienza, in ogni tempo e a ogni latitudine. Se l'irrazionalità che governa l'industria floricola, il ricorso a tecniche di coltivazione che danno esemplari senza profumo e nocivi per l'uomo, la creazione in laboratorio di varietà insolite e accattivanti, come le rose blu e le petunie nere, sta conducendo oggi alla progressiva scomparsa delle specie che crescono spontaneamente in natura o nei nostri giardini, tuttavia "non tutto è perduto", assicura Buchmann: "Fiori e uomini dipendono gli uni dagli altri e solo insieme possono assicurarsi la sopravvivenza". "La ragione dei fiori", con l'ausilio di immagini, ci presenta queste magnificenze colorate sotto una luce inaspettata, svelando l'incantesimo che gettano su di noi mentre spargono la loro bellezza nel mondo.
€ 22,00
1912

Buchmann Stephen, Cohn Diana, Mirocha Paul (ILT) Title : The Bee Tree
Author: Buchmann Stephen, Cohn Diana, Mirocha Paul (ILT)
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

"A stunning children's picturebook."?Midwest Book Review

The Bee Tree tells the magical story of a honey hunt in the dense rainforest of Malaysia. The story is narrated by Nizam, a young boy whose grandfather Pak Teh is the leader of the honey hunting clan, the one who has the honor of climbing up the 120-foot tualang tree in the annual honey hunt. But Pak Teh is getting older and is now ready to prepare someone to take his place. He believes that Nizam is the one.



€ 8,60
1911

Buchmann Stephen Title : Honey Bees
Author: Buchmann Stephen
Publisher: Random House Childrens Books

In Honey Bees: Letters From the Hive, bee expert Stephen Buchmann takes readers on an incredible tour. Enter a beehive--one part nursery, one part honey factory, one part queen bee sanctum--then fly through backyard gardens, open fields, and deserts where wildflowers bloom. It's fascinating--and delicious!

Hailed for their hard work and harmonious society, bees make possible life on earth as we know it. This fundamental link between bees and humans reaches beyond biology to our environment and our culture: bees have long played important roles in art, religion, literature, and medicine--and, of course, in the kitchen.

For honey fanatics and all who have a sweet tooth, this book not only entertains and enlightens but also reminds us of the fragility of humanity's relationship with nature.

 




From the Hardcover edition.
€ 8,60
2007

Buchmann Stephen, Cohn Diana, Mirocha Paul (ILT) Title : The Bee Tree
Author: Buchmann Stephen, Cohn Diana, Mirocha Paul (ILT)
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Pr

In the rain forests of Malaysia, Nazam waits anxiously to climb the bee tree, proving that he is capable of succeeding his grandfather as leader of the traditional honey-hunting clan, followed by a text containing facts about Malaysia.
€ 16,80
2006

Buchmann Stephen L. Title : Letters from the Hive
Author: Buchmann Stephen L.
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group

They work hard, are devoted to family, love sex, and know the importance of a good piece of real estate. Honey bees, and the daily workings of their close-knit colonies, are one of nature's great miracles. And they produce one of nature's greatest edible bounties: honey. More than just a palate pleaser, honey was once an offering to the gods, a preservative, and a medicine whose sought-after curative powers were detailed in ancient texts . . . and are being rediscovered by modern medical science.

In Letters from the Hive, Prof. Stephen Buchmann takes us into the hive--nursery, honey factory, queen's inner sanctum--and out to the world of backyard gardens, open fields, and deserts in full bloom, where the age-old sexual dance between flowers and bees makes life on earth as we know it possible. Hailed for their hard work, harmonious society, and, mistakenly, for their celibacy, bees have a link to our species that goes beyond biology. In Letters from the Hive, Buchmann explores the fascinating role of bees in human culture and mythology, following the "honey hunters" of native cultures in Malaysia, the Himalayas, and the Australian Outback as they risk life and limb to locate a treasure as valuable as any gold.

To contemplate a world without bees is to imagine a desolate place, culturally and biologically, and Buchmann shows how with each acre of land sacrificed to plow, parking lot, or shopping mall, we inch closer to what could become a chilling reality. He also offers honey-based recipes, cooking tips, and home remedies--further evidence of the gifts these creatures have bestowed on us.

Told with wit, wisdom, and affection, and rich with anecdote and science, Letters from the Hive is nature writing at its best. This is natural history to be treasured, a sweet tribute that buzzes with life.


From the Hardcover edition.
€ 13,40
1997

Buchmann Stephen L., Nabhan Gary Paul Title : The Forgotten Pollinators
Author: Buchmann Stephen L., Nabhan Gary Paul
Publisher: Island Pr

Consider this: Without interaction between animals and flowering plants, the seeds and fruits that make up nearly eighty percent of the human diet would not exist.In The Forgotten Pollinators, Stephen L. Buchmann, one of the world's leading authorities on bees and pollination, and Gary Paul Nabhan, award-winning writer and renowned crop ecologist, explore the vital but little-appreciated relationship between plants and the animals they depend on for reproduction -- bees, beetles, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, bats, and countless other animals, some widely recognized and other almost unknown.Scenes from around the globe -- examining island flora and fauna on the Galapagos, counting bees in the Panamanian rain forest, witnessing an ancient honey-hunting ritual in Malaysia -- bring to life the hidden relationships between plants and animals, and demonstrate the ways in which human society affects and is affected by those relationships. Buchmann and Nabhan combine vignettes from the field with expository discussions of ecology, botany, and crop science to present a lively and fascinating account of the ecological and cultural context of plant-pollinator relationships.More than any other natural process, plant-pollinator relationships offer vivid examples of the connections between endangered species and threatened habitats. The authors explain how human-induced changes in pollinator populations -- caused by overuse of chemical pesticides, unbridled development, and conversion of natural areas into monocultural cropland-can have a ripple effect on disparate species, ultimately leading to a "cascade of linked extinctions."

€ 35,10


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