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  • Rodale's 21st-Century Herbal

    A Practical Guide for Healthy Living Using Nature's Most Powerful Plants

    de Michael Balick ...
    It turns out that Mother Nature is a brilliant chemist. Our ancestors have used indigenous herbs in daily life for thousands of years due to these plants' ability to heal and promote good health. Now modern science has identified the compounds that give herbs their medicinal qualities, scent, and flavor. The extraordinary diversity of herbal plants has the potential to improve our health and well ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Messages from the Gods

    A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize

    de Michael J. Balick, Rosita Arvigo ...
    Despite its small size, Belize is one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse nations in Central America. Over 3,400 species of plants can be found here, within a diversity of ecological habitats. Because of this, Belize is paradise for ecotourists, hosting over 900,000 visitors annually, who enjoy the natural habitat and friendly people of this nation. Many of the plants of Belize have a ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants

    de Lewis S. Nelson, Michael J. Balick ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This third edition of the Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants is designed to assist the clinician in the initial response to the needs of a child or adult exposed to a poisonous or injurious plant. It highlights common and important plants that lead to the adverse effects upon exposure, and it describes the mechanisms of action of the implicated toxin, clinical manifestations, and specific ... Leer más

    $58.49 USD

  • Human Impacts on Amazonia

    The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation and Development

    Edición de Darrell Posey, Michael Balick ...
    Series series Biology and Resource Management Series
    From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainability. These priorities stand in stark contrast to colonial and contemporary exploitation of Amazonia by outside interests. With essays from environmental scientists, botanists, and anthropologists, this volume explores the various effects of human ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Plants, People, and Culture

    The Science of Ethnobotany

    Edición de Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan Cox ...
    Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today, indigenous agricultural innovations ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • Ethnobiology for the Future

    Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity

    Edición de Gary Paul Nabhan ...
    Series series Southwest Center Series
    Ethnobiology holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many because of its dedication to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultural practices in some of the most distinctive places on Earth. Yet we live in a world of diminishing natural and linguistic diversity. Whether due to climate change or capitalism, homogeneity is trumping the once-resplendent ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Medicinal Gardening Handbook

    A Complete Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Using Healing Herbs

    de Dede Cummings, Alyssa Holmes ...
    Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating weeds found to speed the healing of wounds, soothe skin irritations, calm uneasy stomachs, and ward off illnesses. Now you can plan and grow your own garden first aid kit.In these pages, you’ll learn the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Wicked Plants

    The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

    de Amy Stewart ...
    The author of The Drunken Botanist "offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants" ( Booklist ).American Horticultural Society Book Award WinnerChosen One of the Best Gardening Books of the Year by the Washington Post and National Pub... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Fresh Banana Leaves

    Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

    de Jessica Hernandez Ph.D. ...
    **A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.**Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Natural Liquid Soaps

    Herbal Shower Gels, Conditioning Shampoos, Moisturizing Hand Soaps, Luxurious Bubble Baths, and more

    de Catherine Failor ...
    Make our own liquid soaps and body products right in your kitchen. Catherine Failor shows you how to use her simple double-boiler technique to create luxurious shower gels, revitalizing shampoos, energizing body scrubs, and much more. Step-by-step instructions teach you how to turn basic ingredients like cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba into sweet-smelling liquid soaps. You’ll soon be ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Big, Bad Book of Botany

    The World's Most Fascinating Flora

    de Michael Largo ...
    "This combination of history, mythology, lore, science and sheer entertainment takes us on a tour of the world's most unusual plants." — Sacramento BeeThe Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edición de Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Leer más

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