Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

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From the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher. These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. Each of the 600 gets a whole page to itself with a decent colour photograph of a single specimen or cluster/troop, often with an additional scaled photograph to actual size if the main diagram is not itself actual size. This is my way to learn more and do a good deed for all that might not have the time to delve deep into the topic.

Sheldrake is a rare scientist who is not afraid to speculate about the truly profound implications of their work. What makes this book different: Connecting mushrooms foraging, cultural identity, global trade, forest ecology, and capitalist economy; and all this just around one fungus! We perceive ourselves as autonomous, discrete individuals with an unchanging inner self that persists throughout our lifetime, but this is an illusion. It is both a wonderful collection of fungal feats… and a personal account of Sheldrake’s experiences with these miraculous organisms.Conservation organisations are often criticised for using charismatic animals to engage public interest. Instead it has lots of detailed photographs and ticklists for positive identification of 25 of the best and most common edible species.

So when a systematic mycologist falls into a deep coma, he wakes up in what might be his own personal paradise. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Discover the fascinating stories behind 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before!There is advice on producing mushroom meals – field and forest food for free – with menus, preparation and cooking details, and pictures of the final meals. Shelley Evans was conservation officer for the British Mycological Society for ten years, and is on the executive committee of the European Council for the Conservation of Fungi and the IUCN world specialist group for fungi. It would be hideous if the reader wouldn’t root for the kid, who is actually resisting the urge to be a monster. Sheldrake's] rich text evokes an understanding of what it would actually be like to be a filamentous microbe. In what can sometimes feel like an oversaturated market for nature writing, Sheldrake’s book stands apart, and does what all the best books do: it expands our world, and makes us look up from the page with renewed wonder.

What makes this book different: The perspective from the “villain” (the fungus-infected kid Melanie) is quite unique.Not for beginners, but useful for more experienced foragers wishing to expand their mycological identification skills beyond the commonplace and edible. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). What makes this book different: The excursus about fungi, their metabolism and lifestyles — and the fact that fungi are described as “the third kingdom” in a book from 1968 — towards the middle of the book is quite impressive.

Where possible, species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. Extended summary: Melanie is one of the students in a high-security school with kids infected with a Cordyceps fungus who haven’t turned into full zombie mode. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation.Extended summary: A semi-human investigator tries to find out what three scientists discovered on the fungal planet Nacre. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. A true masterpiece, a thrilling and fascinating insight into the living world, beautifully written, entertaining, funny and inspiring, while representing the science carefully and responsibly. Sheldrake awakens the reader to a shapeshifting, mind-altering, animate world that not only surrounds us but intimately involves us as well. I also just found out about Darwin's sister's crusade against the stinkwort because it looks like a phallus.