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Chaumet
A stunning celebration of the ravishing nature-themed drawings created by Parisian high jewelry house Chaumet from the eighteenth century to today.
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018
This popular yearly anthology gives a snapshot of the very best science writing Australia has to offer, including everything from the most esoteric philosophical questions about ourselves and the universe, through to practical questions about the environment in which we live. Now in its eighth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 draws on the knowledge and insight of Australia’s brightest authors, journalists and scientists to challenge perceptions of the world we think we know. This year’s selection includes the best of Australia’s science writing talent: Jo Chandler, Andrew Leigh, Michael Slezak, Elizabeth Finkel, Bianca Nogrady, Ashley Hay, Joel Werner, Margaret Wertheim and many more.
Ghost Letters
In Ghost Letters, one emigrates to America again, and again, and again, though one also never leaves Senegal, the country of one’s birth; one grows up in America, and attends university in America, though one also never leaves Senegal, the country of one’s birth; one wrestles with one’s American blackness in ways not possible in Senegal, though one never leaves Senegal, the country of one’s birth; and one sees more deeply into Americanness than any native-born American could. Ghost Letters is a 21st century Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, though it is a notebook of arrival and being in America. It is a major achievement. —Shane McCrae
Lichens
Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our customary ways of classifying forms of life, and allow us to conceive of an ecology that is no longer based on distinctions between nature and culture, urban and rural, competition and cooperation. The result of several years of investigation carried out on several different continents, this remarkable book...
Botanical: Observing Beauty
A gorgeous botanical tour of art and design across the ages This handsome volume invites readers on an intimate stroll through centuries of jewelry, botany, drawing, prints, video-game imagery and scientific illustrations, offering a primer on the beauty and ingenuity of nature as reflected in art. Five contributions punctuate the visually structured journey, including a previously unpublished leporello by the late artist Etal Adnan that pulls out into a six-page gatefold. Indeed, this book-as-object is a masterpiece in and of itself, featuring a cover infused with fluorescent and silver inks and titled with a serigraph, in addition to eight pages of sumptuous endpapers printed in deep fores...
Botaniste
C’est un bâtiment austère, à l’arrière du Jardin des Plantes de Paris, qui recèle secrets et merveilles : huit millions de plantes séchées, trois cent cinquante ans de cueillette et pressage, fruits d’une course folle nourrie par l’appétit des explorateurs et conquérants lancés à corps perdus, dans le défrichage d’une nature vaste, alors riche et méconnue. Bienvenue dans le plus grand herbier du monde – où tout bruisse, vit, témoigne... Où l’on apprendra que les plantes prennent leur temps et exigent attention. Marc Jeanson le sait, qui dans l’enfance se passionnait pour les animaux, jusqu’à ce qu’une bouture, oubliée sur un coin de fenêtre, ne germe à...
Botanica: The French National Herbarium
A tribute to the world's most extensive collection of botanical specimens, which scientists have meticulously gathered, preserved, and studied since the eighteenth century. With over eight million samples, the Herbarium's prestigious botanical collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris is the most extensive in the world. The Herbarium's archive is a living testament to the world's major historical events--from the 1237 BCE funerary headdress of Egyptian king Ramses II, to third-generation botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's groundbreaking natural classification of flowering plants, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau's hand-annotated botanical notebook. Today, scientists at the Herbarium continue their important work in the study and preservation of plant biodiversity. The practice of assembling a herbarium, while first used as a scientific tool, became an art in its own right due to the beauty of its floral forms and colors. This handsome volume traces the creative, patrimonial, and scientific dimensions of this exceptional collection that safeguards a rare international heritage; a testimony to the modern challenges of biodiversity.
Il botanista
Un potente inno alla natura e al ruolo che le piante ricoprono nella nostra vita Marc Jeanson è uno scienziato e un sognatore, appassionato di piante, di fiori, di alberi e di ramoscelli. Bisogna essere un po’ folli, oppure ben consapevoli dei pericoli che gravano sulla Terra per percorrerla senza sosta tentando di ricostruirla all’interno del più grande erbario del mondo: quello di Parigi. Qui si trovano milioni di tesori: ghirlande di Ramses II, palme del Madagascar, camomilla d’Athis-Mons, rampicanti polinesiani ormai estinti, ma anche zucche e rabarbaro, cipollotti e susini… Otto milioni di esemplari raccolti in più di tre secoli e provenienti da tutto il pianeta, frutto di un...
