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Canongate Books. Publication date. 13 August 2020. ISBN. 978-0-525-55948-1. OCLC. 1255441549. The Midnight Library is a fantasy novel by Matt Haig, published on 13 August 2020 by Canongate Books. [ 1] It was abridged and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over ten episodes in December 2020.
Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge (Spanish: Emporio celestial de conocimientos benévolos) is a fictitious taxonomy of animals described by the writer Jorge Luis Borges in his 1942 essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" ( El idioma analítico de John Wilkins ). [ 1][ 2]
It was shortlisted for the 2021 British Book Awards "Fiction book of the year". [13] The Midnight Library was adapted for radio and broadcast in ten episodes on BBC Radio 4 in December 2020. [14] In 2021, Haig appeared on Storybound, accompanied by an original score from Robert Wynia. [15] The Comfort Book was released on 1 July 2021. [16]
The Man Who Planted Trees (French title: L'homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It tells the story of one shepherd's long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps , near Provence ...
Historia Plantarum was written some time between c. 350 BC and c. 287 BC in ten volumes, of which nine survive. In the book, Theophrastus described plants by their uses, and attempted a biological classification based on how plants reproduced, a first in the history of botany. He continually revised the manuscript, and it remained in an ...
The 1735 classification of animals. Only in the Animal Kingdom is the higher taxonomy of Linnaeus still more or less recognizable and some of these names are still in use, but usually not quite for the same groups. He divided the Animal Kingdom into six classes. In the tenth edition, of 1758, these were: Classis 1. Mammalia (mammals) Classis 2 ...
Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow. [ 4][ 5] It is similar in meaning to a biotope; an area of uniform environmental conditions associated with a particular community of plants and animals.
Braiding Sweetgrass explores reciprocal relationships between humans and the land, with a focus on the role of plants and botany in both Native American and Western European traditions. The book received largely positive reviews, and has appeared on several bestseller lists. Kimmerer is known for her scholarship on traditional ecological ...