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An Instant Guide to Edible Plants by Pamela Forey Publisher Comments An Instant Guide to Edible Plants is an ideal compact guide to the identification and uses of the most commonly found edible wild plants of North America. An easy-to-understand system of color-coded bands that denotes the edible part of the plant leads... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Edition by National Audubon Society Powells.com Staff Pick Since its founding in 1905, the National Audubon Society has actively promoted wildlife protection and environmental education. Keeping in sync with the work of its namesake and inspiration, famed wildlife artist John James Audubon (1785-1851... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird Powells.com Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees, Eastern Region by Elbert L. Little Publisher Comments Tree peepers everywhere will enjoy these two guides which explore the incredible environment of our country's forests-including seasonal features, habitat, range, and lore. Nearly 700 species of trees are detailed in photographs of leaf shape, bark... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Herbs (Reader's Digest Home Handbooks) by Lesley Bremness Synopsis Everything you need to know about the world of herbs in a full color A-Z catalog of over 90 herbs, complete with detailed instructions on growing, harvesting and preserving, along with home remedies, cosmetic uses, and original recipes.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers by Simon & Schuster Publisher Comments perennial plants with underground rhizomatic sterns, long and large radical leaves, upright and well stemmed, with complete, leathery, shiny green lamina, narrowing to a channelled stalk one-third the length of the blade. Purple, insignificant flowers... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence Mckenna Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Indian Medicine by Virgil J. Vogel Review "It is a well and interestingly written essay on the medical aspects of Indian history, folklore, pharmacology, and botany. Emphasis is correctly placed on those things which have been carried over from the Indian's medical practice to that of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wildflowers of the Western Cascades by Robert A Ross Publisher Comments A practical field guide to a rich wildflower area, this book combines useful plant descriptions with truly spectacular photographs. All the wildflowers are found on Oregon's Iron Mountain in the Cascades, but the book is useful throughout the region.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Botany on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region by Elbert L. Little 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) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Weeds of the West 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) Your price $24.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants by Anna Pavord Publisher Comments An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller The Tulip. The Naming of Names traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. ... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant Publisher Comments As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trees of Greater Portland by Phyllis C. Reynolds and Elizabeth F. Dimon Publisher Comments The authors selected 132 local trees exceptional for their size, beauty, rarity, or history. Each description includes a color photograph and locations of notable specimens visible from the street. Appendices list trees by the months for best viewing and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wild Edible Plants of Western North America #1: Wild Edible Plants of Western North America by Donald R Kirk Synopsis A husband and wife team with Donald Kirk author and Janice Kirk illustrator. Still a popular book, but in its heyday, it kept us hopping to print more books than went out the door! Nearly 2000 species of wild edible plants found in the western United... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki Publisher Comments "Only God can make a tree," wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a "biography" of this extraordinary — and extraordinarily important —... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching by Terence Mckenna Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rainforest Remedies Revised Edition by Rosita Arvigo Synopsis The work of Rosita Arvigo and Michael Balick to bring the knowledge of the Mayan healers to the Western reader deserves due credit. This revised and enlarged second edition includes much additional information about the major herbs in the Mayan... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trees of North America & Europe a Photog by Roger Phillips Publisher Comments This splendid guide to tree identification contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs. Each tree is illustrated in full detail -- by leaf, flower, fruit, bark, and mature tree shape -- and is fully described in the text. A unique leaf index makes... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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