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245	1	0	_aEntangled life : _bhow fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures / _cMerlin Sheldrake.
250			_aFirst US edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2020]
300			_ax, 352 pages : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c25 cm.
336			_btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_bn _2rdamedia.
338			_bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-326) and index.
520			_a"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause bread to rise and orchestrate the fermentation of sugarinto alcohol; to psychedelic fungi; to the mold that produces penicillin and revolutionized modern medicine. And we can partner with fungi to heal the damage we've done to the planet. Fungi are already being used to make sustainable building materials andwearable leather, but they can do so much more. Fungi can digest many stubborn and toxic pollutants from crude oil to human-made polyurethane plastics and the explosive TNT. They can grow food from renewable sources: edible mushrooms can be grown on anything from plant waste to cigarette butts. And some fungi's antiviral compounds might be able to ease the colony collapse of bees. Merlin Sheldrake's revelatory introduction to this world will show us how fungi, and our relationships with them, are more astonishing than we could have imagined. Bringing to light science's latest discoveries and ingeniously parsing the varieties and behaviors of the fungi themselves, he points us toward the fundamental questions about the nature of intelligence and identitythis massively diverse, little understood kingdom provokes"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aFungi.
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