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Eating the Sun - How Plants Power the Planet (Paperback) Loot Price: R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
Eating the Sun - How Plants Power the Planet (Paperback): Oliver Morton

Eating the Sun - How Plants Power the Planet (Paperback)

Oliver Morton

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Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, release energy, and create living matter from the raw material of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Without photosynthesis, there would be an empty world, an empty sky, and a sun that does nothing more than warm the rocks and reflect off the sea.

Eating the Sun is the story of a world in crisis; an appreciation of the importance of plants; a history of the earth and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists; a celebration of how the smallest things, enzymes and pigments, influence the largest things, the oceans, the rainforests, and the fossil fuel economy. Oliver Morton offers a fascinating, lively, profound look at nature's greatest miracle and sounds a much-needed call to arms--illuminating a potential crisis of climatic chaos and explaining how we can change our situation, for better or for worse.

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Imprint: Collins
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2009
First published: November 2009
Authors: Oliver Morton
Dimensions: 204 x 135 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-716365-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Plant life: general > General
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LSN: 0-00-716365-7
Barcode: 9780007163656

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