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A richly illustrated exploration of the astonishing diversity in sexual characteristics and behaviors of plants from the fig-tree to the sacred lotus.Why do some plants flower while others do not? What happens during pollination? How can the Haleakalā silversword reproduce all alone? In Sexus Botani... Read More about Sexus Botanicus: The Love Lives of Plants

A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition.For perfume makers, each smell carries with it a multitude of associations and impressions that must be carefully analyzed and understood before the sum of all its parts emerges. All perfumers have their own idios... Read More about Atlas of Perfumed Botany

With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich M hsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists--specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt. Through 25 case studies, arranged alphabetically (from Aunt Amalia to Aunt Zerlinde), M... Read More about Psychology of the Rich Aunt: Being an Inquiry, in Twenty-Five Parts, Into the Question of Immortality

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politica... Read More about Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions