Plants: Food, Medicine, and the Green Earth

Abstract

There are seven books in the set that deal with the following topics: Earth sciences, atmosphere, oceans, ecology, animals, plants, and exploration. These topics will be of interest to students of environmental studies, ecology, biology, geography, and geology. Students of the humanities may also enjoy them for the light they shed on the way the scientific aspect of Western culture has developed. The language is not technical, and the text demands no mathematical knowledge. Sidebars are used where necessary to explain a particular concept without interrupting the story. The books are suitable for all high school ages and above, and for people of all ages, students or not, who are interested in how scientists acquired their knowledge of the world about us how they discovered the Earth.