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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.14
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Manufacturer: Sterling
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Elias::Peter Dykeman
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Publisher: Sterling
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.6320973
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Publication Date: 1990-12-31
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: “Season-by-season guide to identification, harvest, and preparation of more than 200 common edible plants to be found in the wild....Hundreds of edible species are included....[This] handy paperback guide includes jelly, jam, and pie recipes, a seasonal key to plants, [and a] chart listing nutritional contents.”—Booklist. “[Five hundred] beautiful color photographs...temptingly arranged.”—The Library Letter
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $6.10
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George A. Petrides
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.160974
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Publication Date: 1998-07-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: This field guide features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and the South. The 48 color plates, 11 black-and-white plates, and 26 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 266 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.130974
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Publication Date: 2001-04-03
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Reading Level: 896
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Description: This compact guidebook, produced to the National Audubon Society's high standards of quality, gives full descriptions of more than 650 species found east of the Rocky Mountains, along with notes on several hundred more. The eminently sensible organization relies on first-impression visible characteristics rather than the elaborate keys of some older texts--a format well suited to beginning wildflower enthusiasts. If, for instance, you wanted to identify a long-stemmed, tubular red flower that you found in a grove of loblolly pines, you would first turn to the color plates, find the section devoted to red flowers, find a likely match from the 30-odd choices, and then turn to the text to see that the flower's habitat and range made a good fit, ruling out those species that do not. After a few minutes' looking, you'll have identified a trumpet honeysuckle. Well written and richly illustrated, this peerless guide makes the ideal companion for an expedition to eastern wood or prairie. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.78
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tony Rodd::Jennifer Stackhouse
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.16
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Publication Date: 2008-04-01
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Beautifully illustrated and designed, this gorgeous reference book explores the world of trees from every perspective--from the world's great forests to the lifespan of a single leaf. Arresting color photographs of a wide variety of trees and close-ups of many of their remarkable features provide an enormous amount of information in a highly accessible format. The volume illustrates how trees grow and function, looks at their astounding diversity and adaptations, documents the key role they play in ecosystems, and explores the multitude of uses to which we put trees--from timber and pharmaceuticals to shade and shelter. A highly absorbing read cover to cover or dipped into at random, Trees: A Visual Guide delves into many specific topics: the details of flowers, bark, and roots; profiles of favorite trees; how animals and insects interact with trees; trees in urban landscapes; the role trees play in our changing climate; deforestation and reforestation; and much more. With clear diagrams, illustrations, and intriguing sidebars on many featured topics, this unique volume is a complete visual guide to the magnificence of the arboreal world.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.31
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Manufacturer: Countryman
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Wessels
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Publisher: Countryman
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.30974
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Publication Date: 2005-09-20
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: Landscape is much more than scenery to be observed or even terrain to be traveled, as this fascinating and many-layered book vividly shows us. Etched into the land is the history of how we have inhabited it, the storms and fires that have shaped it, and its response to these and other changes. An intrepid sleuth and articulate tutor, Wessels teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. What exactly is the meaning of all those stone walls in the middle of the forest? Why do beech and birch trees have smooth bark when the bark of all other northern species is rough? How do you tell the age of a beaver pond and determine if beavers still live there? Why are pine trees dominant in one patch of forest and maples in another? What happened to the American chestnut? Turn to this book and no walk in the woods will ever be the same.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Adam Leith Gollner
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Publisher: Scribner
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.34
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Publication Date: 2008-05-20
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste like piña coladas, orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits and the miracle fruit that turns everything sour to sweet, making lemons taste like lemonade. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit -- smugglers, inventors, explorers and epicures -- this extraordinary book unveils the mysterious universe of fruit, from the jungles of Borneo to the prized orchards of Florida's fruit hunters to American supermarkets. Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them (the scientific, economic and aesthetic reasons); traces the life of mass-produced fruits (how they are created, grown and marketed) and explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden in the Western world. An intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature -- both human and botanical -- Adam Leith Gollner has written a vivid tale of horticultural obsession.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.10
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Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tom Brown
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Publisher: Berkley Trade
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.610973
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Publication Date: 1986-12-15
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $10.64
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Manufacturer: "Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc."
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Euell Gibbons
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Publisher: "Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc."
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Dewey Decimal Number: 581.632
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Publication Date: 1962-01-01
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Reading Level: 303
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Description: Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of “living off the land.” He sought out wild plants all over North America and made them into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies. He also shows how to make numerous jellies, jams, teas, and wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.78
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Manufacturer: Healing Arts Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Evans Schultes::Albert Hofmann::Christian Rätsch
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Publisher: Healing Arts Press
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 394.14
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Publication Date: 2001-11-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.
• Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.
• Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world.
• Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation, season of collection, and chemical constituents.
• First edition sold 33,000 copies.
Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these "plants of the gods," tracing their uses throughout the world and their significance in shaping culture and history. In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful of those plants, which are known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred. The authors detail the uses of hallucinogens in sacred shamanic rites while providing lucid explanations of the biochemistry of these plants and the cultural prayers, songs, and dances associated with them. The text is lavishly illustrated with 400 rare photographs of plants, people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world's sacred psychoactive flora.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $29.92
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lawrence Griffith
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 580
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Publication Date: 2008-10-28
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America’s colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a leading historic plant expert brings this botanical heritage back to life. Drawing on years of archival research and field trials in Colonial Williamsburg’s gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, Lawrence Griffith documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used. For each plant, an elegant period hand-colored engraving, watercolor, or woodcut is presented along with glorious new photographs by Barbara Temple Lombardi. This book is a dazzling treat for armchair gardeners and for those who have visited and admired the famous gardens of Colonial Williamsburg. It is also an invaluable companion for twenty-first-century gardeners who will appreciate the specific advice of a master gardener on how to plan, choose appropriate species for, and maintain a beautiful, historic flower and herb garden. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a not-for-profit educational institution that operates the world’s largest living history museum. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation |
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