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The Secret Life of Plants
by Tompkins, Peter; Christopher Bird
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060143266
- ISBN 13
- 9780060143268
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Harper & Row, 1973. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Sturdy book, quality cream cloth with embossed purple flower design at center front, also on spine with very fine lettering, orange color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 402 heavy pages. DJ glossy with black borders front and back, a color-photo of flower and plant with face on front, on back with clouds in badkground. DJ has light wear to bottom tips, two light creases to front bookfold edge. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
Published in 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It is described as "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man. " Essentially, the subject of the book is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53635
- Title
- The Secret Life of Plants
- Author
- Tompkins, Peter; Christopher Bird
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060143266
- ISBN 13
- 9780060143268
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Plants Plant Intelligence Botany
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; Nature;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....