Stefano Mancuso, Alessandra Viola

Broschiertes Buch

Brilliant Green

The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

Beschreibung

Leading plant scientist, Stefano Mancuso, offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. He argues that plants process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another- showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware.

Autor

Stefano Mancuso is the Director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV) in Florence, Italy, a founder of the International Society for Plant Signaling and Behavior, and a professor at the University of Florence. His most recent project is the Jellyfish Barge, a modular floating greenhouse which grows plants through solar-powered seawater desalination, featured in the 2015 Universal Expo in Milan. Mancuso's books and papers have been published in numerous international magazines and journals, and La Repubblica newspaper has listed him among the twenty people who will change our lives. Alessandra Viola is a scientific journalist, writer of documentaries, and a television scriptwriter. In 2011, she directed the Genoa Science Festival.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• None ed.
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781610917315
• ISBN-10: 1610917316
• Artikelnr.: 52415832