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Newcomb's Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb Publisher Comments Newcomb's Wildflower Guide covers more plants than any other guides and has more color illustrations, a more complete glossary, and — most important — a more accurate identification system, easilt mastered by nonbotanists. It is... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Audubon Society Field Guide) by National Audubon Society Publisher Comments Trees is divided into 3 main sections: "Discovering Trees" includes background information on evolution, biology, anatomy and environment; "Observing Trees" provides practical advice on leaf collecting, bark rubbing and how to select and plant trees;... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Flexible
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Botany for Gardeners an Introduction & Guide by Brian Capon Synopsis A clear, nontechnical explanation of how plants work, and our bestselling book. It succeeds in explaining the complex processes of plant growth, functions, adaptation, responses, and reproduction in simple language. As the author intended, the gardener... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant Publisher Comments The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Food of the Gods : the Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (92 Edition) by Terrence Mckenna Staff Pick McKenna starts his radical revision of human evolution by positing the theory that we evolved from apes to humans because of brain changes brought about by ingesting psilocybin-containing mushrooms. This was, in his opinion, the birth of religion, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Harr Buhner Publisher Comments Ancient and indigenous peoples have insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves, perceived through a heart-centered mode of perception, not trial-and-error experimentation. Author Stephen Harrod Buhner explores this heart... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tropical Plants of Costa Rica: A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora by Willow Zuchowski Publisher Comments Beautifully illustrated with more than 540 full-color photographs, this guide to the native and exotic flora in Costa Rica is an indispensable resource for naturalists, students, and researchers, as well as both experienced and first-time visitors to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Herbal Volume 2 the Medicinal Culinar by Maud Grieve Synopsis Volume 2 of the fullest, most useful compilation of herbal material. Gigantic alphabetical encyclopedia, from aconite to zedoary, gives botanical information, medical properties, folklore, economic uses, more. 161 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region (Audubon Society Field Guide) by National Audubon Society Publisher Comments All 933 identification pictures are full-color photos of significant details of virtually all native trees and many cultivated species as you see them in their natural habitat.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Flexible
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (Audubon Society Field Guide) by National Audubon Society Publisher Comments With more than 700 mushrooms detailed with color photographs and descriptive text, this is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to the mushrooms of North America. The 762 full-color identification photographs show the mushrooms as they appear... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Flexible
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore by Mark J Plotkin Publisher Comments For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart Staff Pick The magic of a great writer is that she can elevate any topic to fascinating status. In Flower Confidential, Amy Stewart uses equal parts journalism and florid writing to illuminate the machinal underpinnings of the flower industry. From the grail-like... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible by Wolfgang Stuppy Publisher Comments A remarkable collaboration of nature, art and photography, celebrating the beauty of fruit. The landmark books Seeds and Pollen were published in 2006 to rave reviews-with adjectives ranging from breathtaking to spectacular, from spellbinding to dazzling.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Trees of North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Golden Field Guides) by Christian Brockman Publisher Comments Smell the bark of the aromatic Sassafras. Wonder at the Lodgepole Pine, whose heat-activated cones reseed forests destroyed by fire. Search for the Sugar Maple, whose foliage blazes red and yellow in autumn. North America's trees rank among nature's most... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, BC and Alaska by Jim Pojar Publisher Comments This is a revised edition of our bestselling book Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast marking the 10th anniversary of publication. This superb reference book features 794 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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National Geographic Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine by Steven Foster Publisher Comments For millennia, humans have looked to nature for remedies to ailments great and small. Long before formal science enabled us to take a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of dozens of diseases, and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One River by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious investigations, but on the wisdom passed down by local tribes. Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World by Ian Hall Publisher Comments This well-rounded look at mushrooms includes information about their cultivation, ethnobotanical uses, and the fascinating roles they play in nature. More than 250 stunning photographs accompany the text.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Northwest Trees: Identifying and Understanding the Region's Native Trees by Stephen F. Arno and Ramona P. Hammerly Publisher Comments How can you distinguish a Noble fir from a Grand fir? Or a Quaking Aspen from a Sitka Alder? Stephen Arno and Ramona Hammerly will show you how in their classic guide to identifying and appreciating Northwest trees. Arno and Hammerly have been studying... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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