Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

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What makes this book different: The perspective from the “villain” (the fungus-infected kid Melanie) is quite unique. In the UK since its launch in September 2011 this has been at the top of the bestseller lists for non-specialist books about fungi, with tremendous acclaim in book reviews. Sheldrake is a rare scientist who is not afraid to speculate about the truly profound implications of their work.

There is at the top of the page a listing of family, geographical distribution (there is also a coloured world map alongside), habitat and association, growth form, abundance, spore colour and edibility. This is the 4th STEM picture book from the Fishman/Greenberg duo and every one of them is worth a read.What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake.

Fascinated by Fungi is an easy-to-follow introduction to a complex and largely unexplored kingdom of life and the history, mystery, facts and fiction born out of the fascinating foibles of mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi. Pat O’Reilly’s fascination with mushrooms and other fungi stretches back more than 40 years and has taken him to many countries; but, as he says, there is a special satisfaction in finding and identifying beautiful fungi close to home. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

A 'door-opener' book is one with a specialist subject in which it finds pathways leading everywhere . Sheldrake's] rich text evokes an understanding of what it would actually be like to be a filamentous microbe.

I also just found out about Darwin's sister's crusade against the stinkwort because it looks like a phallus. The Hidden Life of Trees made me totally rethink that, and not simply for trees, but the interconnectedness of our world and how everything works together perfectly in harmony…until humans came along and began to hack the system, of course. This book is not intended to be and is too heavy to be a field book, but as a reference book, it is both informative, detailed and an utter joy to read and leaf through. Brilliant… entrancing… when we look closely [at fungi], we meet large, unsettling questions… Sheldrake… carries us easily into these questions with ebullience and precision… challenging some of our deepest assumptions… A ‘door-opener’ book is one with a specialist subject in which it finds pathways leading everywhere … Sheldrake’s book is a very fine example.This focus on the unseen world will then help kids understand the importance of the unseen fungi internet in Can You Hear the Trees Talking and the importance of tiny phytoplankton in Planet Ocean. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Sheldrake provides a new and penetrating analysis of the fungal kingdom of life that will be a greatly enriching read for all students of the living world.