Sunflowers : the secret history : the unauthorized biography of the world's most beloved weed /
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| Author / Creator: | Pappalardo, Joe. |
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| Imprint: | Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2008. |
| Description: | 256 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7705940 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The sunflower and me
- Of bees, mathematicians, and the sex life of sunflowers
- The godfather of sunflowers and the sunflower detective
- The cultivation controversy
- A wildflower tamed
- Plant hunters of the Newe World (and the sad tale of the SunChoke)
- The United States of sunflower
- Russian's unofficial national flower
- Welcome home-- Sunflowers in North America
- Comrade Helianthus: war, repression, and coming of age in Soviet Russia
- The sunflower gap
- Space flower
- Fights for the future
- Welcome to Fargo.
