{"product_id":"thus-spoke-the-plant-a-remarkable-journey-of-groundbreaking-scientific-discoveries-and-personal-encounters-with-plants-paperback","title":"Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMonica Gagliano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSuzanne Simard\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication reveals how we \"have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of history\"--for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Life of Trees \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this \"\u003ci\u003ephyto\u003c\/i\u003ebiography\"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist Monica Gagliano shares genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people--beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMONICA GAGLIANO, PhD, is Research Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the Centre of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia, a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, and former Fellow of the Australian Research Council. She is the author of numerous scientific articles in the fields of animal and plant behavioral and evolutionary ecology, and is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World\u003c\/i\u003e (Lexington Books, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy and Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(Minnesota University Press, 2017). Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory and consciousness) in plants. Gagliano has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. For more information, visit: www.monicagagliano.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770581221664,"sku":"9781623172435","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c9eee01007babd00a5eeeb68e54548ae.webp?v=1780374369","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/thus-spoke-the-plant-a-remarkable-journey-of-groundbreaking-scientific-discoveries-and-personal-encounters-with-plants-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}