{"product_id":"paths-of-pollen-hardback-9780228018971","title":"Paths of Pollen (Hardback) 9780228018971","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePaths of Pollen\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Humphrey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780228018971\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 51 photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.478 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stephen Humphrey is a highly accomplished, and engaging storyteller. In the manner of Carl Sagan or Aldo Leopold, he calls attention to little-known or misunderstood topics, and presents these to an often science-hostile public. \u003cem\u003ePaths of Pollen\u003c\/em\u003e advances the cause of pollinator and plant conservation for their benefits to all humankind and wildlife, now and in the future. I couldn't put it down.\" Stephen Buchmann, author of *What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees *\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003ePaths of Pollen\u003c\/em\u003e, Humphrey has extended an accessible invitation to consider these relationships at multiple scales, from the wide view of global environmental activism to the microscopic perspective of a grain of pollen.\" *Montreal Review of Books *\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePaths of Pollen\u003c\/em\u003e is meticulously researched and supported by both academic and lived experience. In an increasingly science-averse world, Humphrey's call to other citizen scientists functions on two levels: to support the gathering of data to help specialists in their work, and to empower us to take a deeper stake in the more-than-human world.\" \u003cem\u003eAlbertaviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReview, Albertaviews https:\/\/albertaviews.ca\/paths-of-pollen\/#:~:text=It's%20no%20coincidence%20that%20a,lack%20of%20attention%20to%20detail\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Humphrey's well-earned reputation as a popular science journalist in Canada is upheld by this intimate look into the not-so-secret lives of plants. During an age in which we continue to witness the augmentation of some of the worst qualities of our kind – the flagrant celebration of ignorance culminating in conspiratorial populism protracted upon a flat earth with a fake moon and where anthropogenic warming isn't real – Humphrey's investigation into plant sex is a general invitation away from dimness and toward a return to civility and reason.\" \u003cem\u003eH-Science\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tiny organism called pollen pulls off one of nature's key tasks: plant reproduction. Pollination involves a complex network of different species interacting with one another and mutually adapting to their ecosystems, which are constantly changing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome pollen grains require just a puff of wind to set them in motion, but most plants depend on creatures gifted with mobility. These might be birds, bats, reptiles, or insects including butterflies, beetles, flies, wasps, and over twenty thousand species of bee. In \u003cem\u003ePaths of Pollen\u003c\/em\u003e Stephen Humphrey asks readers to imagine a tipping point where plants and pollinators can no longer adapt to stressors such as urbanization, modern agriculture, and global climate change. Illuminating the science of pollination ecology through evocative encounters with biologists, conservationists, and beekeepers, Humphrey illustrates the significance of pollination to such diverse concerns as food supply, biodiversity, rising global temperatures, and the resilience of landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs human actions erase habitats and raise the planet's temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of pollinators faces decline or even extinction. \u003cem\u003ePaths of Pollen\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles pollen's vital mission to spread plant genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking towards an ecologically uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670830412056,"sku":"9780228018971","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/paths-of-pollen-hardback-9780228018971","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}