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Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankind is a 1985 book by Henry Hobhouse which explains how the history of the world since Columbus linked America to Europe has been changed by five plants. [1]
Wild Seed is a science fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler.Although published in 1980 as the fourth book of the Patternist series, it is the earliest book in the chronology of the Patternist world.
Earthseed also teaches that it is humanity's destiny to inhabit other planets and spread the "seeds" of the Earth. [2] Parable of the Sower was the winner of multiple awards, including the 1994 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and has been adapted into an opera and a graphic novel.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. [5] The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides ...
Silo is a dystopian series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey.The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name.
Earthseed is a young adult novel by Pamela Sargent, first published in 1983. [1] It is set in the unknown future about a group of teenagers who live and grow up on Ship, preparing themselves to live on a completely new planet.
The Seed of Earth is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in June 1962, and expanded as an Ace Double in 1962. The novel takes place in the near future, and tells the story of a group of individuals, selected randomly by a government-sponsored lottery, who are forced to ...
His later book, The One-Straw Revolution, was published in 1975 and translated into English in 1978. From 1979, Fukuoka travelled the world extensively, giving lectures, working directly to plant seeds and re-vegetate areas, and receiving a number of awards in various countries in recognition of his work and achievements.