Pollan, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.45 POLPollan, Michael
Summary: In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. He links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, energy, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.45 POLPollan, Michael.
Summary: Traces the history of four domesticated species, the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato, from the plant's point of view and discusses how they have been cultivated to fill human needs and desires.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Evolution 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2009