Lives of Weeds
Opportunism, Resistance, Folly

An important and timely book, this exploration of weeds covers every aspect of them – ecology, agriculture, science, conservation, medicine and so much more – and is a meticulously researched and comprehensive study of the plants that are usually considered worthless and something to be erased but w......more

In case you think I mistakenly gave five stars to John Cardina's Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly -- I did not. Cardina has written a captivating book on a select number of weeds that have become more than a nuisance to many farmers and gardeners across the globe. With thick slices of......more

It's a bit too scientific for me. I mean in a way that I didn't really understand the stuff about the agricultural in depth things. I've never really learned much about that so it was a sort of introduction to this topic for me. Therefore it's not the book, I'm the problem. My attention drifted then......more

Weeds are resilient. They are always ahead in the race in which the humans trying to eliminate them. Weeds are the results of activities of modern humans and are closely linked to modern farming practices. But the author covers the story from weeds' point of view. Weeds are antifragile. The grow str......more