作者簡介 理查．伊文斯．舒爾茲 Richard Evans Schultes 1915年生。民族植物學泰斗，美國哈佛大學知名民族植物學家，曾歷任哈佛大學生物學教授暨植物博物館館長（榮譽退休）。特別是對於亞馬遜河流域之原住民在治療與宗教儀式上，使用精神活性植物的研究，有重大貢獻。卒於2001年。 艾伯特．赫夫曼 Albert Hofmann 1906年生。瑞士知名生化學家，研究真菌、麥角等生物內部成分，合成迷幻藥LSD，發現其強大的致幻效果，卒於2008年。知名著作：《LSD：我的問題孩子》（LSD, My Problem Child）。 克里斯汀．拉奇Christian Ratsch 1957年生。德國民間醫療協會會長，專研精神活性植物之文化用途，致力於全球民間用藥的研究，對於南美熱帶雨林瑪雅人的治療醫學有相當深刻的研究。著作豐富，包括《大麻醫藥》(...(展开全部)

作者簡介 理查．伊文斯．舒爾茲 Richard Evans Schultes 1915年生。民族植物學泰斗，美國哈佛大學知名民族植物學家，曾歷任哈佛大學生物學教授暨植物博物館館長（榮譽退休）。特別是對於亞馬遜河流域之原住民在治療與宗教儀式上，使用精神活性植物的研究，有重大貢獻。卒於2001年。 艾伯特．赫夫曼 Albert Hofmann 1906年生。瑞士知名生化學家，研究真菌、麥角等生物內部成分，合成迷幻藥LSD，發現其強大的致幻效果，卒於2008年。知名著作：《LSD：我的問題孩子》（LSD, My Problem Child）。 克里斯汀．拉奇Christian Ratsch 1957年生。德國民間醫療協會會長，專研精神活性植物之文化用途，致力於全球民間用藥的研究，對於南美熱帶雨林瑪雅人的治療醫學有相當深刻的研究。著作豐富，包括《大麻醫藥》(...(展开全部)

World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.- Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.- Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world. - Cross-referenced b...(展开全部)

Christina Brodie draws on her extensive experience as a botanical art teacher in compiling this complete course on drawing and painting plants. Clear step-by-step instructions show how to accurately render a wide range of plants and plant parts -- from flowers, fruits, and seeds through leaves, stems, bark, and roots to fungi, ferns, mosses, and seaweeds. Christina Brodie's con...(展开全部)

The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis--"the true Proteus who...(展开全部)

每一种植物都是一个传奇，是风景、图谱和大地之根，是人类的亲戚和乡邻。本书作者对丝绸之路上的二十余种植物进行了实地考察，结合每一种植物的历史、文化、宗教背景，讲述了它们的源流、形态，以及与人类文明发展密切相关的故事。作者以多角度、跨文体的手法为植物塑像，科学描绘与诗意想象相结合，文字朴实优美，充满了诗与思的灵动色彩。本书配有近百幅图片。

For centuries, from foodstuffs and fabrics to medicine and industrial materials, plants have dominated trade between countries. Possession of rare spices, sweets, and narcotics could mean enviable wealth and power. In quest of these desired products and the income they brought, explorers ventured forth, risking death as they traveled unknown seas. Here is the story of seven pla...(展开全部)

Our peculiarly British obsession with gardens goes back a long way and the BBC Radio 4 series Plants: From Roots to Riches is going to take us back to where it all began. Across 25 vivid episodes, Kathy Willis, Kew's charismatic Head of Science, will show us how the last 250 years transformed our relationship with plants. Behind the scenes at the Botanical Gardens all kinds of ...(展开全部)

Our peculiarly British obsession with gardens goes back a long way and Plants: From Roots to Riches takes us back to where it all began. Across 25 vivid episodes, Kathy Willis, Kew's charismatic Head of Science, shows us how the last 250 years transformed our relationship with plants. Behind the scenes at the Botanical Gardens all kinds of surprising things have been going on. ...(展开全部)