The Secret Life of Plants

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Harper Collins, Mar 8, 1989 - Nature - 416 pages
The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore."--Newsweek

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Contents

Plants and ESP
3
Plants Can Read Your Mind
17
Plants That Open Doors
33
Latest Soviet Discoveries
63
Plant Life Magnified 100 Million Times
81
Plants Will Grow to Please You
120
The Harmonic Life of Plants
145
PART
205
The Staff of Life
217
Chemicals Plants and Man
240
Dowsing Plants for Health
295
Radionic Pesticides
317
Bibliography
375
Index
393
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Peter Tompkins was an American journalist, World War II spy, and best-selling author. His best known and most influential books include The Secret Life of Plants, published in 1973, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, reprinted in paperback in 1997, and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, published in 1976. He is the father of author Ptolemy Tompkins. Christopher Bird was a writer best known for his books The Secret Life of Plants and The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing. He served in the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. Fluent in French and Russian, Mr. Bird was an editor of the Gallatin Annual of International Business and a correspondent for Time Magazine in Yugoslavia.

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