Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Botany at Miami University and author of The Triumph of the Fungi, Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores , and Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard .
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Angels on the lawn | |
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| How mushrooms develop | |
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| Gill gymnastics | |
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| The beautiful mechanism of mushroom spore release | |
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| Triumph of the fungi | |
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| The diversity and functions of mushroom-forming fungi | |
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| Satan's gourmand | |
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| Harvesting wild mushrooms | |
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| Snow white and baby bella | |
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| The global industry of mushroom cultivation | |
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| Death caps and muscle wasters | |
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| Poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisoning | |
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| The victorian hippie | |
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| Mordecai Cooke and the science of mushroom intoxication | |
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| Cures for mortality? | |
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| The medicinal mushroom fraud | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Botany at Miami University and author of The Triumph of the Fungi, Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores , and Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard .
