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  • Slime

    How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

    by Ruth Kassinger ...
    "No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime , Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due." — Elizabeth KolbertSay "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Garden of Marvels

    How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

    by Ruth Kassinger ...
    In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from brown thumb to green, sharing lessons she learned from building a home conservatory in the wake of a devastating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paradise Under Glass

    The Education of an Indoor Gardener

    by Ruth Kassinger ...
    "A sumptuously written history of greenhouse horticulture" as well as a memoir of one woman's quest to build an indoor garden ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the wake of her sister's death and her children's departure for college, baby boomer and journalist Ruth Kassinger found herself with time on her hands—and a lone, struggling houseplant at the top of her basement stairs. One cold, gray evening, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Slime

    How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

    by Ruth Kassinger ...
    Narrated by Xe Sands ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook