Humans are entirely dependent on plants: we eat them, build with them, burn them for power, breathe the air they maintain, cure our ills with them. Yet, we are destroying this fundamental resource at a terrifying rate. This extensively revised and updated edition of Anthony Huxley’s magnificent global overview of our plant kingdom portrays the beauty, diversity, and history of wild and cultivated plants, highlighting their profound importance in our lives. With its beautiful color photographs, drawings, charts, diagrams, and superb text, Green Inheritance describes the role of plants in the global environment and across cultures; shows how plants are used for food, fuel, and medicine; considers their role for us as objects of beauty in gardens; and much more. Encyclopedic in scope and full of intriguing stories about many individual plants, this remarkable book emphasizes just how essential our green inheritance is to the future of humanity. Huxley explores many topics that reflect a deepening concern about the threats to our plant heritage such as the slender genetic base of the world’s staple crops and the dwindling last locations of wild resources with unexplored potential. This new edition expands its coverage of current issues such as invasive plants, hotspots of plant diversity, herbal medicines, genetically modified crops, and sustainable timber harvesting. Writing with wisdom and vision, Huxley has created an invaluable resource for learning about the world’s plant life that underscores the importance and urgency of plant conservation.

Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World

Science & Math

Huxley, Anthony

Smith, Katy

Biological Sciences

University of California Press

It is not enough to be against racism in education - teachers must be actively antiracist. Yet how do we start reflecting on our own beliefs and lives so we can truly teach for racial literacy? In Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters, authors Tonya Perry, Steven Zemelman, and Katy Smith engage in honest conversations between educators of color and their white colleagues. Authentic, inspiring, and sometimes uncomfortable, teachers share stories of personal histories and experiences that shaped them as people and educators. In this book you will find: <ul> <li>Strategies to understand different backgrounds through a racial lens and ways to address potentially difficult conversations with fellow educators</li> <li>In-depth overview of Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz's Archaeology of Self(tm) and how it can be personally and professionally adopted</li> <li>Lists of resources for teaching about and actively interrupting racism in education and tools that document systemic inequalities in the classroom</li> <li>Ways to facilitate student-led conversations which examine race and inequitable conditions found nationwide</li> </ul> &nbsp; By examining inequalities found at a systemic level, teachers can start to remove some of their internal biases and allow students to show who they truly are. In turn, this can help create a school curriculum that makes space for BIPOC voices that inspire and invite students to share. Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters provides a resource for teachers and educators to critically reflect and begin work to interrupt racism at all levels. &nbsp;

Teaching for Racial Equity

Education & Teaching

Zemelman, Steven

Perry, Tonya B.

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

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