The Seedling Stars
The Seedling Stars

Author: James Blish

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0575104155

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You didn't make an Adapted Man with just a wave of the wand. It involved an elaborate constellation of techniques, known collectively as pantropy, that changed the human pattern in a man's shape and chemistry before he was born. But the pantropists didn't stop with biology. Education, thoughts, ancestors and the world itself were changed, because the Adapted Men were produced to live and thrive in the alien environments found only in space. They were crucial to a daring plan to colonize the universe. And millennia later, it is only fitting that they should return to a long forgotten planetary system to colonise a hostile world called . . . Earth.

Year 2018!
Year 2018!

Author: James Blish

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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In a post cold war world the government of the United States is virtually identical to the government of the Soviet Union. Space exploration has halted. Senator Wagoner commissions a bridge to be built on Jupiter.

The Seedling Stars
The Seedling Stars

Author: James Blish

Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780451049643

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The Seedling That Didn't Want to Grow
The Seedling That Didn't Want to Grow

Author: Britta Teckentrup

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 379137429X

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This story about a reluctant seedling packs a powerful message about the benefits of being different. It's early spring and below the earth's surface seeds are just starting to sprout. One by one they stretch through the dirt and towards the sun, extending their shoots and leaves and growing tall. All except for one seedling, who isn't quite ready. Each page of this gentle but powerfully evocative book demonstrates how some of us are different. As most of the seeds transform into strong flowers, they block out the sun from the one left behind. But the little seedling persists, twisting and turning until, with the help of bird and insect friends, it finds its own place to grow and blossom. In the end, this little seed turns into a flower that's just as beautiful and healthy as all the others. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "delicate, complex, extravagant, beautiful and strong," Teckentrup's inviting and softly colored illustrations provide the perfect backdrop for this moving tale about being unique while subtly teaching kids about the life cycle of plants.

Seedling Ecology and Evolution
Seedling Ecology and Evolution

Author: Mary Allessio Leck

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-09-18

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 0521873053

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Seedlings are highly sensitive to their environment. After seeds, they typically suffer the highest mortality of any life history stage. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the seedling stage of the plant life cycle. It considers the importance of seedlings in plant communities; environmental factors with special impact on seedlings; the morphological and physiological diversity of seedlings including mycorrhizae; the relationship of the seedling with other life stages; seedling evolution; and seedlings in human altered ecosystems, including deserts, tropical rainforests, and habitat restoration projects. The diversity of seedlings is portrayed by including specialised groups like orchids, bromeliads, and parasitic and carnivorous plants. Discussions of physiology, morphology, evolution and ecology are brought together to focus on how and why seedlings are successful. This important text sets the stage for future research and is valuable to graduate students and researchers in plant ecology, botany, agriculture and conservation.

I Have a Little Seedling
I Have a Little Seedling

Author: Cari Meister

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 1534410031

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New Books for Newborns is where to start. With lilting lullaby text and lovely illustrations, the New Books for Newborns stories are the perfect first books for new parents to share with their little ones right from the start! Start here. With so many decisions to be made when you have a baby, it can be difficult to figure out what’s right in the first year. But with this line of storybooks, you really just need to open the book and start reading. Designed as the very first books to start sharing with your baby, these just-right stories have soothing read-aloud texts that are perfect for reading together. So start here. Snuggle up. It’s story time! In this sweet board book, a little seedling needs some rain, bright sunshine, and gentle hands to care for it, so that one day, it can spread its roots and grow into a mighty tree—just like the child that grows up beside it. A lovely book for parents to share about growing roots and branching out.

Three Lost Seeds: Stories of Becoming (Tilbury House Nature Book)
Three Lost Seeds: Stories of Becoming (Tilbury House Nature Book)

Author: Stephie Morton

Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0884487660

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To author Stephie Morton, nature's powerful forces are a metaphor for the hardships faced by displaced children. Kids, like seeds, thrive when given a chance. Each of the three seeds in this story—a cherry seed in the Middle East, an acacia seed in Australia, and a lotus seed in Asia—survives a difficult journey through flood, fire, or drought, then sprouts (in the case of the lotus seed, a hundred years later) and flourishes. Stephie's verses and Nicole Wong's art make a picture book to treasure.

Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics
Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics

Author: Nancy C. Garwood

Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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Knowledge of seedling ecology is essential for understanding the local abundance, distribution, and dynamics of plant species, for deciphering the mechanisms of high species diversity in tropical forests, and for forest conservation and management.

Wild Seed
Wild Seed

Author: Octavia E. Butler

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1538765446

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In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis). Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu -- until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.