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"Nominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship"
"Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes"
"Few readers, I suspect, have ever considered fungi to be sentient, but Michael Hathaway . . . argues that mushrooms (as well as plants and other organisms widely considered as passive automatons), though not exactly conscious, nevertheless 'engage their surroundings in a dynamic way.' . . . The takeaway, Hathaway advises, should at least be a renewed appreciation of the interconnectedness of all forms of life, flora, fauna, and 'funga,' and a realization that the world is 'made and remade through relationships.'"---Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History
"This book will be valuable to social scientists and ecologists, and essential to philosophers of human-fungi relationships." * Choice *

What a Mushroom Lives For

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    A Hardback by Michael J. Hathaway

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 26 April 2022
      ISBN-13 9780691225883
      978-0691225883
      ISBN-10 0691225885
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      Nature and the natural world: general interest Social and cultural anthropology Mycology, fungi

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Nominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship"
      "Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes"
      "Few readers, I suspect, have ever considered fungi to be sentient, but Michael Hathaway . . . argues that mushrooms (as well as plants and other organisms widely considered as passive automatons), though not exactly conscious, nevertheless 'engage their surroundings in a dynamic way.' . . . The takeaway, Hathaway advises, should at least be a renewed appreciation of the interconnectedness of all forms of life, flora, fauna, and 'funga,' and a realization that the world is 'made and remade through relationships.'"---Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History
      "This book will be valuable to social scientists and ecologists, and essential to philosophers of human-fungi relationships." * Choice *

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