Andrew Hipp – författare

Corn has a rich history that stretches around the world and across centuries. A professor of botany, Hipp relates the history of corn and its various uses while focusing on an in-depth examination of the plant’s appearance, structure, growth, and development. The book is lavishly illustrated with dazzling illustrations and photographs of corn’s interior and exterior surfaces and intricate features and processes.

With the help of beautifully detailed illustrations and photographs, this book leads us on an intimate tour of the oak tree’s dense root system, its lush canopy, the trunk’s complex circulatory system, its reproductive processes, and its unique and densely-packed seed—the acorn. We learn the importance of the oak to combat air pollution, and supply building materials for people, as well as provide a food supply for many woodland animals.

This fascinating book reveals the rich history of this magnificent tree and its fruit and their enduring importance. The beautifully detailed illustrations and photographs highlight the important components of the tree and its fruit as it takes us inside each to reveal their inner structures and functions. This stunning book features fascinating visual explanations of how the tree is grafted, how olives are harvested and prepared for packaging, and how they are pressed to produce oil.

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy "head?" These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant’s structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.