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Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family
Second Edition
Deni Bown |
$34.95
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Originally published in 1988, Aroids was enthusiastically welcomed by botanists and horticulturists alike for its attention to scientific detail and its delightful writing style. This new edition includes the latest taxonomic and nomenclatural revisions, twice as many color photos, and a new guide to the cultivation of ornamental aroids.
468 pp, 108 color photos, 50 line drawings, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 2000
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Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline
Edited by Richard Evans Schultes and Siri von Reis |
$49.95
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Published on the 100th anniversary of the science of ethnobotany, this volume provides a comprehensive summary of the history and current state of the field. The 36 articles present a truly global perspective on the theory and practice of today's ethnobotany.
416 pp, 54 tables & figures including 23 b/w photos, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1995
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The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia
Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf
Foreword by His Royal Highness, Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh
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$69.95
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This definitive book represents the life's work of the late Richard Evans Schultes, one of the fathers of modern ethnobotany and the greatest plant explorer of our age, including nearly 50 years of field research in the Northwest Amazon.
500 pp, 136 b/w photos, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1990
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Islands, Plants, and Polynesians: An Introduction to Polynesian Ethnobotany
Edited by Paul Alan Cox and Sandra Anne Banack
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$34.95
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These essays examine the diverse plant environments of Polynesia, the relationship of plants to Polynesian voyaging, and use of specific plants by Polynesians.
240 pp, 16 b/w photos, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1991
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The Journals of Hipolito Ruiz: Spanish Botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777--1788
Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and María José Nemry von Thenen de Jaramillo-Arango
by Hipólito Ruiz
Transcribed from the original manuscripts by Jaime Jaramillo-Arango
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$44.95
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Ruiz spent 11 years exploring the villages and botanical landscapes of Peru and Chile. His journals contain detailed, personal observations of about 2000 plants, along with his impressions of the culture and perils of exploration in South America.
369 pp, 11 color illus., 11 b/w illus., 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1998
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Native American Ethnobotany
Daniel E. Moerman |
$79.95
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An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. More than 44,000 uses for some 4000 plants by various tribes are documented here.
927 pp, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1998
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The Natural History of Medicinal Plants
Judith Sumner
Foreword by Mark J. Plotkin
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$24.95
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Wild and cultivated plants have provided humans with cures for thousands of years, from aspirin to quinine. Writing for the lay reader, the author surveys the history of the use of plants in medicine, the range of chemicals produced by plants, and the prospects for future discoveries.
0-88192-483-0, 252 pp, 30 color photos, 45 b/w illus., 6 x 9", hardcover, © 2000
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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
Jean H. Langenheim
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$49.95
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Few people are aware of the great diversity of resin-producing plants or the remarkable roles resins play for plants and people. Resins evolved millions of years ago to defend plants against their enemies, as recorded by fossil resins like amber, and humans have used them since prehistory. Plant Resins tells the whole story about these fascinating plant products. The book is richly illustrated with maps, color and black-and-white photographs, and exquisite and sometimes whimsical line drawings by Jesse Markman. This comprehensive and integrated discussion of resins will appeal to botanists, ecologists, ethnobotanists, chemists, anthropologists, archeologists, museum conservators, and amber enthusiasts.
608 pp, 47 color photos, 33 b/w photos, 51 line drawings, 4 tables, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover
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Plants and People of Nepal
Narayan P. Manandhar
With the assistance of Sanjay Manandhar
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$69.95
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The author has spent decades in a firsthand study of the ethnobotanical riches of Nepal's flora and the human uses thereof, including field research in all 75 districts of Nepal. The result is this magnum opus, in which he describes the uses of an astonishing 1517 kinds of plants belonging to 858 genera and 195 families, equal to perhaps one-fifth of the entire Nepalese flora. This indigenous wisdom is dying with the older generation, so we are fortunate that Manandhar has preserved this ethnobotanical heritage for posterity. More than 830 drawings and 48 color photographs by the author illustrate the text.
636 pp, 48 color photos, 3 tables, 834 line drawings, 2 maps, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 2002
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