| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (107 pages). |
| Series |
Credo |
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Credo series (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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| Bibliography |
Selected bibliography of Gary Paul Nabhan's work: pages 95-101. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107). |
| Contents |
Cross-pollinations, an overture -- Blending field science and the arts: insights from the cereusly color-blind -- Why poetry needs science: decoding the songs that can help us heal -- Why science needs poetry: fitting new metaphors when old clichés fail -- How metaphors can serve to conserve: staving off the extinction of relationships, saving the tree of life -- Gary Paul Nabhan: a portrait / by Scott Slovic -- Selected bibliography of Gary Paul Nabhan's work / by Ceiridwen McKenzie-Terrill. |
| Summary |
A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art class leads to his career as a scientist; in the second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated, reveal an understanding of plants and animals that rivals modern research; in the third, a poem inspires an approach to diabetes using desert plants; and in the fourth, a coalition of scientists and artists creates the Ironwood Forest National Monument in the Sonoran Desert. Cross-Pollinations is about dissolving boundaries and blending disciplines to reveal a world rich in possibility. An accomplished biologist and writer, Gary Paul Nabhan believes that the free movement between science and literature, between cultivated and wild habitats, and between culture and language engenders the kind of unlikely and seemingly incompatible perceptions that are essential to discovery of any kind. He illustrates the successful marriage of science and poetry with true stories about color-blind scientists, the knowledge stored in ancient Native American songs, the link between an Amy Clampitt poem and diabetes research, and a unique collaboration in support of the Ironwood Forest National Monument. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
License restrictions may limit access. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Science Reference Center |
| Subject |
Literature and science.
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Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093
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Naturwissenschaften
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Lyrik
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nabhan, Gary Paul. Cross-pollinations. 1st ed. Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, ©2004 (DLC) 2003011419 (OCoLC)52334929 |
| ISBN |
1571312706 (acid-free paper) |
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9781571312709 (acid-free paper) |
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