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The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Samuel Thayer
Forager's Harvest Press, 2006
It fills the void!
This book is unique in that it fills a big void in the other wild edible books out there. This void is filled mainly by the chapters entitled "Harvest and Preparation Methods for Wild Plant Foods" and "Storing Wild Foods". Thayer wrote this book with his experience and ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Changed My World View
Let me put it out front -- I'm an omnivore and nothing in the book changes that. What has changed is my entire way of looking at food. The book is loaded with information that makes one reconsider the mix of foods you eat. What I like is that it does this while not ...
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Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song
Les Beletsky
Chronicle Books, 2006
Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birds including the rediscovered Ivory-billed Woodpecker in a stunning new format. Renowned bird biologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with ...
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Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet
Sloan Barnett
Atria, 2008
A book to be savored and returned to again and again
"Most Americans, but especially children, have dozens of pesticides and other toxic compounds in their bodies, many of them linked to health threads. A source of many of these toxins? Common, everyday, run of the mill household consumer products. There's no polite way ...
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The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Picador, 2008
Fascinating Look at Our Effect on the Planet
When I first picked up this book, I was concerned that it would simply be a lesson on how plants and animals would overtake our cities and houses once humans had disappeared from our planet. That is a major part of the book, but I never found it to be overdone. The ...
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002
The best
In style and substance this is one of the best books I've read in recent years, as well as one of the most enjoyable. It also broadened my perspective in several areas. I highly recommend.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
North Point Press, 2002
Visionaries!
McDonough & Baumgarten have re-envisioned how companies might redesign their manufacturing processes to actually leave the environment better than they found it. And create better products in the end, products that people will want to buy because they are ...
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The Lorax (Classic Seuss)
Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel
Random House Books for Young Readers, 1971
I guess I'm a tree-hugger
Okay, so this is probably as preachy as Dr. Suess gets, and it just might get on the nerves of some people, but the tree hugger in me salutes him for it, even as he paints a grimmer picture of environmental destruction than Al Gore ever thought of.
Even so, it's ...
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep ...
Irene Pepperberg
Collins, 2008
You'll love both Alex and Irene
Prior to this, I knew little about African Grey parrots, only what I read in the mystery novel, BLACK SECONDS. However, I had also just read MERLE'S DOOR, another book on animal communication although Merle was a dog. I also have had my own experiences with animal ...
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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
Harmony, 2008
Addictive animal trivia
I defy you to read even a few pages of this little book and not be tempted to yell out to whoever else is in the house: "Did you know that ...?" The other person will laugh and say "You made that up!"
This is a perfect book for people who love animals and/or arcane ...
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Silent Spring (Edition 001)
Rachel Carson
Mariner Books, 2002
Ahead of its time.
This book is more than I expected it to be. It is way ahead of its time and makes an important contribution to the environmental movement.
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Le Desert (Folio Ser .: No 1670)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
Gallimard Education, 1987
Time to abolish the Nobel for literature
I didn't believe it could be done, but these senile boys from Stockholm have done it anyway: they have added a new low point to the Nobel by giving it to this entirely irrelevant writer of cute little nothings.
These men are clearly unable to distinguish literature ...
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A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R))
Houghton Mifflin, 1999
excellent seller and product
Item as described and received in a timely manner... an excellent buying experience!
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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (Peterson Field Guides(R))
Roger Tory Peterson
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
Peterson Field Guide
Exceptional guide. Link to pod cast is easy to access. Maps easy to follow.
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Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
Chris Pellant
DK ADULT, 2002
Clear & Beautifully Presented
I bought this for my 7-yr. old daughter - budding rock hound and naturalist! Like other DK books, the photography is luscious and the layout is casual and very inviting - full of beautiful images.
It provides a great overview of rocks and minerals, including tools ...
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