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Weeds of the West (5th edition) by Tom Whitson Publisher Comments Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Paul Stamets Publisher Comments After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mushrooms Demystified 2ND Edition by David Arora Publisher Comments Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner's... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon 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: $12.50 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow Publisher Comments This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of our nations history. Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 by Terence 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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge: A Comprehensive Field Guide (Jack Murdock) by Russ Jolley Publisher Comments A guide to Gorge wildflower species with 744 entries, each with a full-color photo. Includes field trips, glossary, blooming dates, and a foldout, waterproof map.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forest of Visions: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Spirituality, and the Santo Daime Tradition by Alex Polari Alverga Publisher Comments The story of Santo Daime--a new religion that blends elements of Christianity with older Amazonian indigenous spiritual practices--and the ecologically sound and spiritually centered utopian community it has inspired. 30 photos.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peterson Field Guide To Western Trees by George Petrides Publisher Comments This newly designed field guide features detailed descriptions of 387 species, arranged in six major groups by visual similarity. The 47 color plates and 5 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 295 color... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 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: $11.95 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: $7.95 Used - Flexible
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Seeds of Change : Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (05 Edition) by Henry Hobhouse Publisher Comments In the manner of Barbara Tuchman and Paul Johnson, a superior, popular account of how five plants--quinine, sugar, tea, cotton and the potato--have determined the course of history. Illustrated.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Bradford Angier Publisher Comments First-ever revision of a classic guidebook Essential information on each plant's characteristics, distribution, and edibility as well as updated taxonomy and 18 new species How to find, prepare, and eat plants growing in the wild This illustrated guide... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton Publisher Comments Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, release energy, and create living matter from the raw material of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Without photosynthesis, there would be an empty world, an empty sky, and a sun... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadows on the Gulf by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage done to the Gulf every year by what... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (Falcon Guides Wildflowers) by Wayne Phillips Publisher Comments Field guide features over 260 wildflowers found in the heart of the Rockies. Includes vibrant color photos and descriptions.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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