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Pollen: The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers

Door Rob Kessler

Categorie	Bloemen & Planten
Boeknummer	#335655-WB2
Titel	Pollen: The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers
Auteur	Kessler, Rob
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Winterbourne, Berkshire : Papadakis Publisher
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	1901092445
ISBN13	9781901092448
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope - pollen grains, which are enclosed beyond the accessible beauty of the flower until the moment of release, when they will be carried by wind, water or animal vectors to achieve their purpose, procreation. Pollen is ubiquitous; in childhood we all learn a little of plant reproduction and the role of the bee but few people are aware of the astonishing diversity of the structure of pollen grains, although these tiny and extraordinary forms have fascinated the scientifically curious since the seventeenth century. Starting with a clear explanation of the structure and form of pollen, the authors go on to examine the remarkable events fro... (Lees verder)m pollination to fertilisation, and the many ways in which pollen impacts unseen on our lives. All of this is interwoven with a dazzling array of original images by the authors, created especially for the book, interpreting this magical world in a way that no other book on the subject has ever done.
Pagina's	264
Conditie	Goed — Slightly foxed on verso dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 30,00

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