Waterstones The Secret Life of Trees
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Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live and Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on them. What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees everywhere: from how they live so long to how they talk to each other and why they came to exist in the first place. Lyrical and evocative, this book will make everyone fall in love with the trees around them.'A love-letter to trees' Financial Times' One of those books you want everyone to have already read' Sunday Telegraph' Wonderful, invaluable and timely. Tudge is as illuminating a guide as one could wish for' Daily Mail' Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times Books of the Year Colin Tudge started his first tree nursery in his garden aged 11, marking his life-long interest in trees. Always interested in plants and animals, he studied zoology at Cambridge and then began writing about science, first as features editor at the New Scientist and then as a documentary maker for the BBC. Now a full-time writer, he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. His books include The Variety of Life and So Shall We Reap.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780141012933
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ISBN: 9780141012933
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Author: Colin Grimshaw
Rating: 5
Review: Fascinating and educational
Author: Knut
Rating: 1
Review: The idea to write a book about trees is great, and the book cover is great too. However, not only the author is often vague in his arguments, but he keeps going on about his belief in God, and (it becomes clear after a few pages) intelligent design. Indeed page 54 he uses the well known intelligent design wrong argument, claiming that creationism (as in Genesis) and atheism are both extreme positions ("Neither of these extreme positions is valid"), and that the truth lies in the middle etc... This "argument" is of course wrong, and for 2 reasons : 1. The author chooses what he wants to appear as a moderate position (intelligent design), and then two other positions so that his position is in the middle. He then claims that the two other positions are "extreme" and comes up as a moderate by believing in the middle position. Using the same argument he could say "Norway is neither North of the Tropic of Cancer, nore is it South of the Tropic of Capricorn, these are two extreme positions. The truth lies in the middle and Norway is indeed inbetween the two tropics, near the Equator". 2. The second reason for which this argument is wrong is that either God exists, or God does not exist. There are only two possibilities. And the author makes it look like if there were three (by dividing the "God exists" possibilities in two possibilities)!!! The first one being "God doesn t exist", the second one "God exists and Genesis is true", and the 3rd one "God exists but Genesis is wrong". Of course the intelligent design people need to do this in order to use the argument in the previous paragraph as the arguement requires three possibilities, not two. I have just talked about one particular shocking argument in the book. Even if it was the only one, that should be enough to put you off, rightly. But there are many more.... ("Many biologists believe in God" !!! etc...) So, one star, for the book cover, which - I say it again - is great.
