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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.01
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Terence Mckenna
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 133
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Publication Date: 1994-04-22
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A thoroughly revised edition of the much-sought-after early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.66
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Manufacturer: Bear & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner
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Publisher: Bear & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 615.32108997
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Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: The first in-depth examination of the sacred underpinnings of the world of Native American medicinal herbalism
• Reveals how shamans and healers “talk” with plants to discover their medicinal properties
• Includes the prayers and medicine songs associated with each of the plants examined
• By the author of The Secret Teachings of Plants
As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable--food, weapons, baskets, clothes, shelter, and medicine. Indigenous peoples the world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by communicating directly with plants and honoring the sacred relationship between themselves and the plant world.
In Sacred Plant Medicine Stephen Harrod Buhner looks at the long-standing relationship between indigenous peoples and plants and examines the techniques and states of mind these cultures use to communicate with the plant world. He explores the sacred dimension of plant and human interactions and the territory where plants are an expression of Spirit. For each healing plant described in the book, Buhner presents medicinal uses, preparatory guidelines, and ceremonial elements such as prayers and medicine songs associated with its use.
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Price: $79.95
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Sale: $46.38
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel E. Moerman
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.6097
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Publication Date: 1998-08-01
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Reading Level: 927
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Description: An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than 4000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented here. This is undoubtedly the most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken, preserving an enormous store of information for the future.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $10.29
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pierre Laszlo
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 509
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you’ll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes—and sometimes even more exotic fare like the Japanese yuzu or the baboon lemon. Nearly 100 million tons of citrus are produced globally every year, but where did these fruits first come from? How did they find their way into the Western world? And how did they become both a culinary and cultural phenomenon?
Pierre Laszlo here traces the spectacular rise and spread of citrus across the globe: from Southeast Asia in 4000 BC through North Africa and the Roman Empire to early modern Spain and Portugal, whose explorers introduced the fruits to the Americas during the 1500s. Blending scientific rigor with personal curiosity, Citrus ransacks over two millennia of world history, exploring the numerous roles that citrus has played in agriculture, horticulture, cooking, nutrition, religion, and art—from the Jewish feast of the Tabernacles through the gardens and courts of Versailles to the canvasses of Vincent van Gogh to the orange groves of southern California and the juicing industry of today.
“Laszlo . . . has approached the lore of citrus fruit with the élan of a master chef (the man is French, after all), mixing history, economics, biology and chemistry to produce a book that will bring a smile to readers of every taste.”—Natural History
“Altogether charming, eccentric, erudite, and definitely worth the price.”—Times Higher Education Supplement
“Stimulating. . . . Laszlo shows that the citrus fruit ‘is a treasure trove of chemicals that are highly useful to humankind’—which also happens to taste wonderful.”—Sunday Times (UK) “A short but brilliant account of 6,000 years of citrus fruits that should be devoured with fervor.”—Financial Times
“Did you know there are a billion citrus trees under cultivation, or that grapefruit juice may potentiate the effects of Viagra? Citrus mines over two millennia of history to explore the spread of these fruits out of Asia, their commercialization in the United States, and enduring symbolism the world over.”—New Scientist
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.81
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Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gilbert L. Wilson
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Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 630.978
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Publication Date: 1987-10
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Reading Level: 129
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Description: Includes sustainable gardening methods from seed preparation to harvest, including the ceremonies, songs, and stories required for a bountiful harvest.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.91
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Manufacturer: Park Street Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joan Parisi Wilcox
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Publisher: Park Street Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.84
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Publication Date: 2003-10-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: A comprehensive autobiographical account of the transforming experiences possible with ayahuasca
• Reveals the protocols of a traditional ayahuasca retreat and the importance of its ritual diet, isolation, and sacred songs
• Relates an extensive personal account of the traditional indigenous use of ayahuasca for healing and revelation
Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author’s work with ayahuasca, a potent and sacred plant brew of the Amazon region that is known for its extraordinary visionary and healing powers. As she learned from her experience, with the help of ayahuasca we are able to grasp our paradoxical nature, the first step to acceptance of ourselves in both our glorious and dark aspects. Ayahuasca teaches us how to release the illusions we hold about ourselves and makes it possible to integrate our many diverse aspects to acquire our true power.
This book reveals the ritual protocols that must be followed prior to partaking of ayahuasca, including the traditional preparatory “diet”--which requires enduring austere conditions, isolation, and only small amounts of bland food before receiving the powers of the plant spirit from an ayahuasquero, a healing master--and the sacred songs, icaros, that are sung when imbibing the substance. Although the use of ayahuasca is growing among “underground” spiritual seekers and through the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism trade in South America, few of its seekers understand how it is used traditionally and the importance of the rituals the indigenous people follow. With this book, the author hopes to restore the importance of these indigenous practices so that we may truly understand all the gifts of ayahuasca.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $15.56
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Gribbin::Mary Gribbin
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 580.922
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Publication Date: 2008-04-15
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, and helped establish the new science of botany. For these adventurers, the search for new, undiscovered plant specimens was something worth risking - and often losing - their lives for.
From the Douglas-fir and the monkey puzzle tree, to exotic orchids and azaleas, many of the plants that are now so familiar to us were found in distant regions of the globe, often in wild and unexplored country, in impenetrable jungle, and in the face of hunger, disease, and hostile locals. It was specimens like these, smuggled home by the flower hunters, that helped build the great botanical collections, and lay the foundations for the revolution in our understanding of the natural world that was to follow. Here, the adventures of eleven such explorers are brought to life, describing not only their extraordinary daring and dedication, but also the lasting impact of their discoveries both on science, and on the landscapes and gardens that we see today.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $17.73
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. Gordon Wasson::Stella Kramrisch::Carl Ruck::Jonathan Ott
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1992-07-29
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Reading Level: 257
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Description: This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and used by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or 'god generated within.'
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.36
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Manufacturer: Timber Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lytton John Musselman
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Publisher: Timber Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 220.858
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Publication Date: 2007-11-01
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: This book celebrates the plants of the Old Testament and New Testament, including the Apocrypha, and of the Quran. From acacia, the wood of the tabernacle, to wormwood, whose bitter leaves cured intestinal worms, 81 fascinating chapters—covering every plant that has a true botanical counterpart—tell the stories of the fruits and grains, grasses and trees, flowers and fragrances of ancient lore. The descriptions include the plants' botanical characteristics, habitat, uses, and literary context. With evocative quotations and revelatory interpretations, this information is all the more critical today as the traditional agrarian societies that knew the plants intimately become urbanized. The unusually broad geographic range of this volume extends beyond Israel to encompass the Holy Land's biblical neighbors from southern Turkey to central Sudan and from Cyprus to the Iraq border. Richly illustrated with extensive color photography and with a foreword by the incomparable Garrison Keillor, this delightful ecumenical botany offers the welcome tonic of a deep look into an enduring, shared natural heritage.
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Price: $6.95
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Sale: $5.93
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Manufacturer: Meyerbooks, Publisher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edith Van Allen Murphey
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Publisher: Meyerbooks, Publisher
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Edition: 3 Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 1987-08-01
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Plants were used by Native Americans in all aspects of their lives--for food, shelter, grooming, tanning, basketry, medicine, feasts, ceremonies and magic. The author's information includes botanical and Indian plant names, detailed descriptions and methods of preparation, traditional recipes and histories of use. A genuinely enchanting catalog of the folkways of western American Indians, written by a woman who spent 25 years studying the tribes of the intermountain regions.
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