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Land of Plants in Motion
Author | : Thomas R. H. Havens |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824882891 |
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Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences. The majority of plant species regarded as “Japanese” trace their origins to western China and the eastern Himalaya but are so indigenized that they often seem native today. Early modern scientists in Japan drew on knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine but achieved distinctive insights into plant life commensurate with but separate from their European counterparts. Scholars at the University of Tokyo pioneered Japanese plant biology in the late nineteenth century. They incorporated Western botanical methods but sought a degree of difference in taxonomy while also gaining international legitimacy through publications in English. Japan’s age of empire (1895–1945) was less about plant exploration and more about plant collection, for both scientific and economic benefits. Displays of species from throughout the empire made Japan’s sphere of colonization and conquest visible at home. The infrastructure for research and instruction expanded slowly after World War Two: new laboratories, botanical gardens, scholarly societies, and publications eventually allowed for great diversity of specialized study, especially with the growth of molecular biology in the 1970s and DNA research in the 1980s. Basic research was harmed by cuts in government funding during 2012–2017, but Japanese plant biologists continue to enjoy international esteem in many fields of scholarship.
Plants in Action
Author | : Brian James Atwell |
Publsiher | : Macmillan Education AU |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0732944392 |
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Accompanying CD-ROM includes 600 figures, tables and color plates from the book Plants in action which can be used for the production of color transparencies or for projections in lectures.
Plants and Mechanical Motion
Author | : Norman M. Wereley,Janet M. Sater |
Publsiher | : DEStech Publications, Inc |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781605950433 |
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Beginning with the basics of plant motion, this book explains technologies for translating plant-like movements to new adaptive materials, with explicit reference to helicopter and aeronautic applications. It intends to assist materials scientists and engineers to initiate research and design in the field of nastic materials and structures.
Alice in the Land of Plants
Author | : Yiannis Manetas |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642283383 |
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Why is it that plants do not need to move? How does a nonmotile organism have sex or defend itself? Why are some plants virtually immortal? What is the mechanism that allows plants to exploit a practically inexhaustible extraterrestrial energy source? How do plants regulate the composition of our planet’s atmosphere? Why have there not been mass extinctions among plants as there have been among animals? How do plants communicate with one another? In the end, are plants intelligent organisms? These are some of the questions the author discusses to demonstrate that plants are wrongly considered to be simple organisms lacking specific behaviour and intelligence. This book promises to be as pleasant a surprise as Alice’s experience in the white rabbit’s warren, in which she encountered a world very different from ours. The author explains the biology of plants following Einstein's maxim that everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Library of Congress Catalog Motion Pictures and Filmstrips
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Filmstrips |
ISBN | : WISC:89015339955 |
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New views of matter life motion and resistance also an enquiry into the materiality of electricity heat light colours and sound
Author | : Joseph Hands |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600044692 |
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Manufacture of Floating Nuclear Power Plants by Offshore Power Systems Pt 2
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556030595516 |
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