Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A brilliant [and] entrancing (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi the great connectors of the living world and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world. Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective.

  • Product Features

    • Author - Merlin Sheldrake
    • Publisher - Random House Publishing Group
    • Publication Date - 04-13-2021
    • Page Count - 368
    • Hardcover
    • Adult
    • Nature and Wildlife
    • Product Dimensions - 5.1 H x 7.9 W x 0.9 D
    • ISBN-13 - 9780525510321

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8 months ago
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You'll never look at mushrooms the same way..

I certainly gained a new appreciation for fungi after reading this. I've known that they're vital to the world's ecosystem, but reading about the depth and breadth of their importance really put things in perspective. The oyster mushroom that could grow out of used cigarette butts, and the company working on creating furniture and even housing materials were highlights for me.

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9 months ago
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Entangled life

I bought 2 month ago and am happy to reading this bookRed Tower Books are so amazing its was really very awesome stroy ami i achoeved some knowledge

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4 years ago

Great read!

This book helped to highlight many different aspects of fungi that are unique and it does include several tidbits about recent research into the area of the ability of fungi to grow in some insane conditions and with some nonconventional food sources. There are several passages that I highlighted to use in my classroom because they were very insightful and surprising. Another reviewer on a different site claimed that there is a lot of repetition and while that is true, I think that was intentional and i have no problem with an author circling back to something they said previously as it helps to tie things in. I hope this author writes some more books in the future as this one was a gem!

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