Provides information on plants, including how plants are characterized, what are some of the ways in which humans and plants interact, if fungi and algae are types of plants, and more.

Presents strange but true facts on plant adaptations, from succulents in the arid desert and insect-eating carnivorous plants to foul-smelling flowers and gigantic seeds.

Presents a simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.

"Plants are living things. They need certain things to grow and live. What are they? Let's investigate what plants need to survive!"--

"This book details the history, current uses, and potential future applications of wind energy."--

Contains experiments that introduce the basics of botany, detailing the ways plants grow from seeds and bulbs, the nutrients they need for survive, and how they affect their environments.

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...

Describes in words and exposes through close-up photographs the amazing anatomy of a variety of plants.