What drives the author to spend time on the piano to re-establish calm or why did the song The Teddy Bears’ Picnic leave an unsettling feeling as a child? These comments are just some of the fascinating thoughts which...
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Laura Crook
Five Books From Oxford University Press to Deepen Your Fascination with Plants
The publisher of The Annals of Botany Company journals Annals of Botany and AoB Plants, Oxford University Press, has many titles about plants and plant science to further explore the fascinating world of plants. Here...
Ian Street
Classical texts re-imagined/re-imaged…
Do you remember the good old days when students read for a degree? Well, I don’t know how much proper reading they do these days – i.e. that which involves actually touching and turning the pages of a book or research...
Nigel Chaffey
This Is Not A Science Book
The Geek Manifesto by Mark Henderson is a book which wears its heart on its sleeve. This is unashamedly a political book – a campaign. The author, Mark Henderson, is Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust...
AJ Cann
Book reviews and a poll – what about ‘bad’ books?
Development of thoughts or ideas, and dissemination of techniques or methods, happens not only in the pages of Journals or on the web, but in books too. Over the last couple of years, we have increased the number...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Arabidopsis all the way?
Forget any notion that botany is boring – if you have any interest in what the day-to-day life of a research scientist is really like, this is the most accurate and most engaging account of “doing science for a living”...
