A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi that will change your understanding of life on earth “A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book . . . I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world—the secrets of which modern science is only now beginning to fathom.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the “Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Advance praise for Entangled Life “I was completely unprepared for Sheldrake’s book. It rolled me over like a tsunami, leaving the landscape rearranged but all the more beautiful.”—Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics and author of A History of the Mind and Soul Dust “Fungi are fascinating! Elegant life strategies meet with delicate omnipresence, driving global ecosystems. Sheldrake’s book informs and offers new concepts. Looking through Sheldrake’s lens, fungal biology integrates with art, philosophy, and human society. His voice is real and personal. His book educates and entertains.”—Uta Paszkowski, professor of plant molecular genetics, University of Cambridge

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Science & Math

Sheldrake, Merlin

Biological Sciences

Random House]

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Merlin Sheldrake’s marvelous tour of these diverse and extraordinary life forms is eye-opening on why humans should consider fungi among the greatest of earth’s marvels. . . . Wondrous.”—Time 
A mind-bending journey into the hidden universe of fungi, “one of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you” (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk).\nWINNER OF THE ROAYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • BBC Science Focus • The Daily Mail • Geographical • The Times • The Telegraph • New Statesman • London Evening Standard • Science Friday 
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.\nIn 
Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the “Wood Wide Web,” to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.\nFungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE\n“ 
Entangled Life is a gorgeous book of literary nature writing in the tradition of [Robert] Macfarlane and John Fowles, ripe with insight and erudition. . . . Food for the soul.” 
—Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal\n“[An] ebullient and ambitious exploration . . . This book may not be a psychedelic—and unlike Sheldrake, I haven’t dared to consume my copy (yet)—but reading it left me not just moved but altered, eager to disseminate its message of what fungi can do.” 
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times 
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Entangled Life is a special book and Merlin is, as his name suggests, a magical writer. Through his writing I feel connected to nature through a thousand invisible threads” 
—Russell Brand 
“I fell in love with this book. Merlin is a scientist with the imagination of a poet and a beautiful writer. . . . This is a book that, by virtue of the power of its writing, shifts your sense of the human. . . . It will inspire a generation to enter mycology.” 
—Michael Pollan (Bay Area Book Festival, 2020)\n“Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing . . . a remarkable work by a remarkable writer, which succeeds in springing life into strangeness again.” 
—Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland\n“Fungi are everywhere, and Merlin Sheldrake is an ideal guide to their mysteries. He’s passionate, deeply knowledgeable, and a wonderful writer.” 
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction“Sheldrake’s charm and curiosity make for a book that is delightful to read but also grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world and the often overlooked organisms within it.” 
—Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes 
“True to his name, Merlin takes us on a magical journey deep into the roots of Nature—the mycelial universe that exists under every footstep we take in life. Merlin is an expert storyteller, weaving the tale of our co-evolution with fungi into a scientific adventure. 
Entangled Lif

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Merlin Sheldrake’s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi.\nWhen we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.\nIn the first edition of the mind-bending, “gorgeous” (Margaret Atwood), ”brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) Entangled Life, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This new edition, abridged from the original, features over 100 full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of fungi to life as never before.\nFungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.

Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds

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Le Monde caché - Comment les champignons façonnent notre monde et influencent nos vies

Pocket

Verwobenes Leben: Wie Pilze unsere Welt formen und unsere Zukunft beeinflussen

Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg

Ullstein Verlag GmbH

Over ten years ago, Anna Tsing's essay 'Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species' made its unofficial appearance in post-humanist academic circles. In 2011 it was first published in issue 18 of Antennae, and then proceeded to spawn the book The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins in 2015. 
Tsing's work on mushrooms stood at the edge of non-anthropocentric reasoning, challenging categories and hierarchies to radically redesign conceptions of identity, companionship, and agency. To many, Tsing's proposal initially seemed extreme, but today, after the emergence of critical plant studies, interest in omnipresent fungi and their invisible ability to support and orchestrate global ecosystems is steadily on the rise. 
This issue of Antennae features the work of many scholars, researchers, and artists who have harnessed the world-forming power of empathy and imagination in order to make visible what has for too long been made invisible. Over time, they have devised new and much-needed thinking structures that can reconnect us with the ecosystems and ecologies we share with other earthlings.

Antennae #58 Mycologies

Wee, Helena

Antennaeproject

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No son plantas ni animales y se encuentran en la tierra, en el aire y en nuestros cuerpos. Están por doquier, pero cuesta verlos. Además, pueden ser microscópicos, pero también representan a los organismos de mayor tamaño jamás registrados. Comen piedra, crean suelos, asimilan agentes contaminantes, se nutren de plantas, pero también las matan, sobreviven en el espacio e influyen en la composición de la atmósfera terrestre. 
Ha llegado la hora de descubrir el oculto y fascinante mundo de los hongos, formas de vida extrañas y maravillosas que nos obligan a repensar el funcionamiento de la vida. Al proporcionar a los humanos pan, alcohol y medicamentos, han cambiado la historia de nuestra especie, mientras que su capacidad para digerir plástico, explosivos, pesticidas y petróleo crudo se aplica en el campo de las nuevas tecnologías. 
Su capacidad para conectar plantas en grandes redes de colaboración subterráneas, la ‘Wood Wide Web’, está transformando nuestra comprensión de los ecosistemas. Los hongos tienen la llave para entender nuestro planeta y nuestras formas de pensar, sentir y comportarnos aunque su vida transcurra principalmente fuera de nuestra vista. 
Merlin Sheldrake obliga a reconsiderar los reinos de la naturaleza en esta aventura, y nos introduce al mundo espectacular y desconocido de los hongos: organismos infinitamente sorprendentes y esenciales para la vida en nuestro planeta que han cambiado el curso de la vida y continúan dando forma a nuestro futuro. La red oculta de la vida es un libro brillantemente escrito y ampliamente documentado que demuestra cuán fundamentales son estos organismos para la sostenibilidad del planeta. Y este es solo el principio porque tan solo estamos empezando a entender las complejidades y sofisticaciones de la vida de los hongos. 
 Book Description 
Cuanto más sabemos de los hongos, menos sentido tiene nada sin ellos. 
 About the Author 
Merlin Sheldrake es biólogo especializado en hongos y escritor. Es doctor en Ecología Tropical por la Universidad de Cambridge por su trabajo de investigación sobre redes fúngicas subterráneas en bosques tropicales de Panamá para el Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. En 2016, Robert Macfarlane le dedicó un artículo sobre la Wood Wide Web en The New Yorker. Sheldrake tenía entonces 27 años. Además, es músico y fermentador entusiasta. La red oculta de la vida es su primer libro. Merlin en Twitter @MerlinSheldrake Y en Instagram @merlin.sheldrake

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