Natalie Lawrence
autor
Enchanted Creatures
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.
From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors, giving form to what we don't wish to know or understand. For millennia, monsters have helped us to manage the extraordinary complexity of our minds and to deal with the challenges of being human.
In Enchanted Creatures, Natalie Lawrence delves into 15,000 years of imaginary beasts and uncovers the other-worldly natural history that has evolved with our deepest fears and fascinations. Join Lawrence on a tour of prehistoric cave monsters, serpentine hybrids, deep-sea leviathans and fire-breathing Kaiju. Discover how this monstrous menagerie has shaped our minds, our societies and how we see our place in nature.
Planta Sapiens
What is it like to be a plant?
It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their predators to cannibalism. But they're usually just the backdrop to our frenetic animal lives.
While plants may not have brains or move around as we do, cutting-edge science is revealing that they have astonishing inner worlds of an alternate kind to ours. They can plan ahead, learn, recognise their relatives, assess risks and make decisions. They can even be put to sleep. Innovative new tools might allow us to actually see them do these things - from electrophysiological recordings to MRI and PET scans. If you can look in the right way, a world full of drama unfurls.
In PLANTA SAPIENS, Professor Paco Calvo offers a bold new perspective on plant biology and cognitive science. Using the latest scientific findings, Calvo challenges us to make an imaginative leap into a world that is so close and yet so alien - one that will expand our understanding of our own minds.
From their rich subjective experiences to how they are inspiring novel ways of approaching the ecological crisis, PLANTA SAPIENS is a dazzling exploration of the lives of plants and a call to approach how we think about the natural world in a new, maverick way.
Planta sapiens - O inteligenci rostlin
Kniha Planta Sapiens je fascinující sondou do vnitřního světa rostlin založená na nejmodernějším výzkumu rostlinné inteligence. Dokážeme-li pochopit, jaké je to být rostlinou, mohli bychom mít z okolního světa mnohem víc. Schopnosti rostlin vědci dokumentují už desítky let. Prokázali, že rostliny spolu komunikují, manipulují s ostatními druhy a provádějí důmyslné pohyby. Méně známé jsou nejnovější důkazy, že rostliny mohou mít „vědomí“. Ačkoli nemají mozek, jejich mikroskopické vnitřní pochody odkrývají soustavu, která se příliš neliší od nervové sítě v našem těle. Dokážou si tak pamatovat, učit se a disponují inteligencí, která jim umožňuje chovat se adaptivně, flexibilně, účelně a předvídavě. Pokud se na rostliny podíváme novým způsobem, může to zásadně proměnit celé naše chápání světa.
Paco Calvo, přední osobnost filozofie rostlinné signalizace a chování, v knize Planta Sapiens předkládá zcela nový pohled na biologii rostlin a vysvětluje, jak rostliny pohánějí technologický rozvoj: od robotiky přes umělou inteligenci až po řešení ekologické krize. Především však dokládá, že rostliny nejsou jen zelená kulisa — jsou to aktivní živé organismy s vlastními zájmy.
Kniha Planta Sapiens vám umožní nahlédnout do rostlinné říše jako nikdy předtím. Změní váš pohled na jiné formy života, takže rostliny budete vnímat jako spojence při řešení globálních problémů, ne jako pouhé suroviny. Poznáte rostliny jako učitele, od kterých se můžete učit o své vlastní mysli. Pokud zkusíte dívat se na rostliny jinak, budete ohromeni tím, co objevíte.
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Enchanted Creatures
The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.
From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors, giving form to what we don't wish to know or understand. For millennia, monsters have helped us to manage the extraordinary complexity of our minds and to deal with the challenges of being human.
In Enchanted Creatures, Natalie Lawrence delves into 15,000 years of imaginary beasts and uncovers the other-worldly natural history that has evolved with our deepest fears and fascinations. Join Lawrence on a tour of prehistoric cave monsters, serpentine hybrids, deep-sea leviathans and fire-breathing Kaiju. Discover how this monstrous menagerie has shaped our minds, our societies and how we see our place in nature.
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23,90 €
Planta Sapiens
Have you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might seem strange. We like to watch things that move, that do something. But in fact, plants are doing a great deal too - plants behave, as animals do - they are just doing it on a very different timescale. They cannot move about freely like animals do, so they grow into space instead and make new chemicals to interact with the species around them. Not only that, but what causes them to do these things, what drives this behaviour, is far more similar than we humans, with our speedy, animal-centric perceptions, have always assumed. If we learn to look differently, we might be amazed at what we find.
We are dismantling the traditional hierarchies of nature: we are becoming increasingly aware of the interior lives of other species and how much we share with them. We are also coming to understand that there are many more ways to be intelligent than we have previously believed. We can't see ourselves as the only, privileged intelligent life on Earth any more. And if we are to save the global biome, we must not. PLANTA SAPIENS opens up the plant kingdom like never before and will transform how you view other forms of life, to see plants as allies in tackling global problems rather than as mere resources; as teachers from whom we can learn about our own minds.
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