The Fungal Pharmacy
The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America
Written by Robert Rogers
Price: $29.95
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In The Fungal Pharmacy, noted herbalist Robert Rogers introduces readers to more than 300 species of medicinal mushrooms and lichens found in North America. These fungi, Rogers explains, have the capacity to heal both the body and, through the process of myco-remediation, the planet itself. Throughout the book, he documents their...
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The Four Global Truths
Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times
Written by Darrin Drda
Price: $18.95
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With the planet increasingly threatened with catastrophe and perhaps even collapse, many seekers are looking to past, proven models to create meaningful change in their lives. One such model is Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the root cause of suffering, the end of suffering, and the path to the...
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Psychedelic Shamanism, Updated Edition
The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants
Written by Jim DeKorne
Price: $19.95
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Psychedelic Shamanism presents the spiritual and shamanic properties of psychotropic plants and discusses how they can be used to understand the structure of human consciousness. Author Jim DeKorne offers authoritative information about the cultivation, processing, and correct dosages for various psychotropic plant substances including the belladonna alkaloids, d-lysergic acid amide, botanical...
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Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Price: $22.95
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Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to...
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Pharmako/Dynamis, Revised and Updated
Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $19.95
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***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.
This is the second volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books...
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Pharmako/Gnosis, Revised and Updated
Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $19.95
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***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.
This is the third and final volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005...
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Pharmako/Poeia, Revised and Updated
Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $19.95
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***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.
This is the first volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books...
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The Laws of Nature
Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edited by Walt McLaughlin
Price: $16.95
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Though written in the mid-nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, particularly his nature writing, speaks to contemporary sensibilities. The uniquely American, nature-based philosophy commonly attributed to Thoreau was first presented to the world by Emerson in his slender volume Nature and later developed by both men, each with his own distinct...
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Hope Beneath Our Feet
Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
Edited by Martin Keogh, Contribution by Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker and Howard Zinn
Price: $18.95
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The environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious reflection, inspiration, and direction on how to approach the future are...
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Earth, My Likeness
Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
Written by Walt Whitman, Edited by Howard Nelson, Introduction by Howard Nelson
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While Walt Whitman is best known as America’s first great urban poet, he was also a gifted nature poet, as the selections in this book show. Here his celebration of the “body electric” from Leaves of Grass expands into a celebration of an equally electrifying nature as he memorializes the seashore...
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Working the Sea, Updated and Expanded
Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobsterman
Written by Wendell Seavey
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Working the Sea is the story of a Maine fisherman’s life, a collection of memories and teachings from a master storyteller. Author Wendell Seavey, who grew up in the 1940s in the fishing village that inspired this story, avoids the overly romantic or picturesque language of other fishing and working-class narratives...
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Thoreau and the Art of Life
Reflections on Nature and the Mystery of Existence
Written by Henry David Thoreau, Edited by Roderick MacIver, Illustrated by Roderick MacIver
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Featuring nearly 100 luminous watercolor illustrations, Thoreau and the Art of Life collects eloquent passages from the writings of the seminal author and philosopher. Drawn mainly from his journals, the short excerpts provide fascinating insight into his thought processes by presenting his raw, unedited feelings about the things that meant the...
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Green Earth Guide: Traveling Naturally in Spain
Written by Dorian Yates
Price: $15.95
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Surveys by the International Ecotourism Society reveal that more than three-quarters of American travelers feel it is important not to damage the environment they are visiting. Green Earth Guide: Traveling Naturally in Spain helps travelers to Spain accomplish that goal. Author Dorian Yates focuses exclusively on where to find things green...
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Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence
Edited by Roderick MacIver
Price: $16.95
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Meditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence is a collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, Louise Dickinson Rich, and Lewis Thomas.
Through their inspirational poetry and other writings...
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Green Design
Creative Sustainable Designs for the Twenty-First Century
Written by Marcus Fairs
Price: $25.00
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In this timely book, author Marcus Fairs helps readers understand the shift of green design from marginal to mainstream by featuring products and buildings that address immediate concerns about global warming and environmental degradation. Through vast architectural projects to modest one-off pieces of salvaged furniture, the book shows how the design...
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Pharmako/Dynamis
Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $35.00
Hardcover
This is the second volume of North Atlantic Books’ hard cover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a...
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Pharmako/Gnosis
Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
Written by Dale Pendell
Price: $35.00
Hardcover
This is the third and final volume of North Atlantic Books’ hard cover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader...
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Pharmako/Poeia
Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Written by Dale Pendell, Foreword by Gary Snyder
Price: $35.00
Hardcover
This is the first volume of North Atlantic Books’ hardcover edition of Dale Pendell's Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a unique...
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Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada
Written by David L. Spahr
Price: $19.95
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This beautifully illustrated guidebook provides specific, easy-to-understand information on finding, collecting, identifying, and preparing the safer and more common edible and medicinal mushroom species of New England and Eastern Canada. Author David Spahr, a trained commercial photographer, here combines his mycological expertise and photographic skill to produce an attractive and detailed...
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Wild Design
Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
Written by Alan Marshall
Price: $18.95
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In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of...
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Green Earth Guide: Traveling Naturally in France
Written by Dorian Yates
Price: $14.95
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Written by the founder and publisher of The Alternative Health Guides, a web and print guide for Vermont and New Hampshire, Green Earth Guide is a one-stop reference that provides travelers in France with tips to stay green and healthy even when traveling. Green Earth Guide contains current, comprehensive listings of...
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Meadowlark Economics
Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality
Written by James Eggert
Price: $15.95
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Alarmed by the disappearance of meadowlarks from the fields near his home, James Eggert embarked on a close study of the economic and ecological factors behind the loss. His inquiry led him to conclude that the meadowlark’s survival is a metaphor for ours—that our future is intimately linked to the same...
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Sustainable Sushi
A Guide to Saving the Oceans One Bite at a Time
Written by Casson Trenor
Price: $15.95
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Sustainable Sushi answers the question on the minds of millions who enjoy eating fish: how can we indulge the desire to dine well while keeping our health and the health of the oceans in mind? With painstaking research found in no other book on the market to date, this pocket-size guide...
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On the Integration of Nature
Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes
Written by Richard Grossinger
Price: $15.95
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This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the strictures of science, religion, and all other forms of ideology. Author Richard Grossinger dazzlingly blends narrative memoir, short science fiction...
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Seasons Among the Vines
Life Lessons from the California Wine Country
Written by Paula Moulton
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Seasons Among the Vines explores the pleasures and pitfalls of following a lifelong dream. For Paula Moulton it was the dream of leaving the city for the California wine country to take up viticulture and gardening. In the process, she finds unexpected frustrations in running a farm and seeks help from...
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