Name: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our Futures
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Author: Merlin Sheldrake
ISBN: 9780525510321

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our Futures

Type

Physical Book

Author

Merlin Sheldrake

Publisher

Random House Trade

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780525510321

Synopsis "Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our Futures "

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 An Immense World 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. Sheldrake's vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the "Wood Wide Web," to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life's processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms--and our relationships with them--are changing our understanding of how life works. Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award - Shortlisted for the British Book Award - Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

Merlin Sheldrake

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Merlin Sheldrake es biólogo especializado en hongos y escritor. Es doctor en Ecología Tropical por la Universidad de Cambridge por su trabajo de investigación sobre redes fúngicas subterráneas en bosques tropicales de Panamá para el Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. En 2016, Robert Macfarlane le dedicó un artículo sobre la Wood Wide Web en The New Yorker. Sheldrake tenía entonces 27 años. Además, es músico y fermentador entusiasta. La red oculta de la vida es su primer libro. Merlin en Twitter @MerlinSheldrake Y en Instagram @merlin.sheldrake

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