THE FIGARO SELECTION – Trees, insects, planets, myths, microbes, water… Science also has its place under the tree. Discover twelve books as scholarly as they are delightful.
Walk in the forests of the world
“Trees are poems that the earth writes on the sky”, wrote Khalil Gibran. In a work combining botany, art, history and mythology, the tree is celebrated through 90 species among the 60,000 that grow on our planet. Through graphics, drawings, prints and spectacular photographs, the book combines homage and pedagogy to teach us that a mature oak provides for the needs of 2300 species, that we will never see a tree 200 meters high or that more 25% of our medicines are derived from rainforest plants.
The Beautiful Book of TreesEditions Leduc, €36.90.
Healing over the centuries
For at least 50,000 years man has been trying to heal his fellow human beings. This very richly illustrated book tells us about these inconceivable advances, from Neanderthal herbal medicine to the current marvels of stem cells or nanomedicine, passing through the revolutions of vaccines or the contraceptive pill. But the news knows how to show us that humanity is far from having…
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