Entangled life : how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures
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Published
New York : Random House, [2020].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780525510314 (HRD), 0525510311 (HRD)
Status
Town of Pelham Public Library - Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Random House, [2020].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780525510314 (HRD), 0525510311 (HRD)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause bread to rise and orchestrate the fermentation of sugarinto alcohol; to psychedelic fungi; to the mold that produces penicillin and revolutionized modern medicine. And we can partner with fungi to heal the damage we've done to the planet. Fungi are already being used to make sustainable building materials andwearable leather, but they can do so much more. Fungi can digest many stubborn and toxic pollutants from crude oil to human-made polyurethane plastics and the explosive TNT. They can grow food from renewable sources: edible mushrooms can be grown on anything from plant waste to cigarette butts. And some fungi's antiviral compounds might be able to ease the colony collapse of bees. Merlin Sheldrake's revelatory introduction to this world will show us how fungi, and our relationships with them, are more astonishing than we could have imagined. Bringing to light science's latest discoveries and ingeniously parsing the varieties and behaviors of the fungi themselves, he points us toward the fundamental questions about the nature of intelligence and identitythis massively diverse, little understood kingdom provokes"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sheldrake, M. (2020). Entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures (First edition.). Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sheldrake, Merlin. 2020. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. New York: Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures New York: Random House, 2020.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Sheldrake, M. (2020). Entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures. First edn. New York: Random House.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures First edition., Random House, 2020.
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