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Last Child in the Woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder
by
Richard Louv
Call Number: 155.418 L936l
Publication Date: 2008
The Botany of Desire: a plant's eye view of the world
by
Michael Pollan
Call Number: 306.45 P76b
Publication Date: 2001
Prairie Crossing: creating an American conservation community
by
John Scott Watson
Call Number: 307.7 W33p
Publication Date: 2016
The New Economy of Nature: the quest to make conservation profitable
by
Gretchen C. Daily
Call Number: 333.72 D143n
Publication Date: 2002
The Green Belt Movement: sharing the approach and the experience
by
Wangari Maathai
Call Number: 333.75 M112g
Publication Date: 2003
Unbowed: a memoir
by
Wangari Maathai
Call Number: 333.72092 M112u
Publication Date: 2006
Flower Confidential: the good, the bad, and the beautiful
by
Amy Stewart
Call Number: 338.1 St49f
Publication Date: 2008
The World According to Monsanto: pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply
by
Marie-Monique Robin
Call Number: 338.7 R552w
Publication Date: 2010
Food and the City: urban agriculture and the new food revolution
by
Jennifer Cockrall-King
Call Number: 363.8 C64f
Publication Date: 2012
Diet for a Hot Planet: the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it
by
Anna Lappe; Bill McKibben (Introduction by)
Call Number: 363.738 L318d
Publication Date: 2010
The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals
by
Michael Pollan
Call Number: 394.1 P76o
Publication Date: 2006
Books
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
by
Aldo Leopold;
Call Number: 508.75 L55s
What a Plant Knows: a field guide to the senses
by
Daniel Chamovitz
Call Number: 571.2 C35w
Publication Date: 2012
The Forgotten Pollinators
by
Stephen L. Buchmann
Call Number: 571.8642 B853f
Publication Date: 1997
The Monk in the Garden: the lost and found genius of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics
by
Robin Marantz Henig
Call Number: 576.5092 M522h
Publication Date: 2000
The Ghosts of Evolution: nonsensical fruit, missing partners, and other ecological anachronisms
by
Connie Barlow
Call Number: 577 B249
Publication Date: 2002
Witness Tree: seasons of change with a century-old oak
by
Lynda Mapes
Call Number: 577.3 M32w
Publication Date: 2017
The High Frontier: exploring the tropical rainforest canopy
by
Mark W. Moffett
Call Number: 577.43 M723h
Publication Date: 1994
Killer Algae
by
Alexandre Meinesz
Call Number: 579.8 M477k
Publication Date: 1999
Flora Mirabilis: how plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty
by
Catherine H. Howell
Call Number: 580.9 H83f
Publication Date: 2009
Botanic Gardens: a living history
by
Nadine Monem
Call Number: 580.73 M74b
Publication Date: 2007
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world
by
Judith A. Carney
Call Number: 581.63 C217i
Publication Date: 2010
Fifty plants that changed the course of history
by
Bill Laws
Call Number: 581.63 L44f
Publication Date: 2011
Wicked Plants: the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities
by
Amy Stewart
Call Number: 581.65 St49w
Publication Date: 2009
An Orchard Invisible: a natural history of seeds
by
Jonathan Silvertown; Amy Whitesides (Illustrator)
Call Number: 581.467 Si39o
Publication Date: 2009
The Drunken Botanist: the plants that create the world's great drinks
by
Amy Stewart
Call Number: 581.632 St49d
Publication Date: 2013
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
by
Mark J. Plotkin
Call Number: 581.634 P724t
Publication Date: 1994
Seeing Trees: discover the extraordinary secrets of everyday trees
by
Nancy Ross Hugo
Call Number: 582.16 H87s
Publication Date: 2011
Ginkgo: the tree that time forgot
by
Peter R. Crane
Call Number: 585 C85g
Publication Date: 2013
Gathering Moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses
by
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Call Number: 588.2 K57g
Publication Date: 2003
Medicine Quest: in search of nature's healing secrets
by
Mark Plotkin
Call Number: 615.321 P724m
Publication Date: 2001
Darwinian Agriculture: how understanding evolution can improve agriculture
by
R. Ford Denison
Call Number: 631 D416d
Publication Date: 2012
Seedtime: on the history, husbandry, politics, and promise of seeds
by
Scott Chaskey
Call Number: 631.5 C38s
Publication Date: 2014
The Seed Underground: a growing revolution to save food
by
Janisse Ray
Call Number: 631.5 R21s
Publication Date: 2012
Brave New Seeds: the threat of transgenic crops to farmers in the south
by
Robert Ali Brac de la Perriere; Franck Seuret
Call Number: 631.52 B721b
Publication Date: 2000
Weeds: in defense of nature's most unloved plants
by
Richard Mabey
Call Number: 632.58 M11w
Publication Date: 2011
The Botanist and the Vintner: How wine was saved for the world
by
Christopher Campbell
Call Number: 634.8 C15b
Publication Date: 2006
The Forest for the Trees: how humans shaped the north woods
by
Jeff Forester
Call Number: 634.9 F76f
Publication Date: 2004
Tomatoland: how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit.
by
Barry Estabrook
Call Number: 635 Es8t
Publication Date: 2011
The Reason for Flowers: their history, culture, biology, and how they change our lives
by
Stephen Buchmann
Call Number: 635.9 B85r
Publication Date: 2015
Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passions it aroused
by
Mike Dash
Call Number: 635.93 D26t
Publication Date: 2000
Orchid Fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust, and lunacy
by
Eric Hansen
Call Number: 635.93 H198o
Publication Date: 2001
The Orchid Thief
by
Susan Orlean
Call Number: 635.93 Or5o
Publication Date: 2000
Requiem for a Lawnmower
by
Sally Wasowski; Andy Wasowski
Call Number: 635.95 W282r 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Redesigning the American Lawn: a search for environmental harmony
by
F. Herbert Bormann
Call Number: 635.964 B645a
Publication Date: 2001
Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: five case studies from the U.S.
by
Mary Doyle
Call Number: 639.9 L323
Publication Date: 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life
by
Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
Call Number: 641 K617a
Publication Date: 2007
Mendel in the Kitchen: a scientist's view of genetically modified foods
by
Nina Fedoroff
Call Number: 641.3 F31m
Publication Date: 2004
Chasing Chiles:
by
Kurt Michael Friese; Kraig Kraft; Gary Paul Nabhan
Call Number: 641.3 F91c
Publication Date: 2011
The True History of Chocolate
by
Sophie D. Coe
Call Number: 641.3374 C65t
Publication Date: 2007
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
by
D. Fairchild Ruggles
Call Number: 712 R84i
Publication Date: 2008
Prodigal Summer: a novel
by
Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: 813 K617pr
Publication Date: 2001
Ishmael
by
Daniel Quinn
Call Number: 813 Q44i
Publication Date: 1995
A Walk in the Woods
by
Bill Bryson
Call Number: 917.4 B848w
Publication Date: 1999
Enduring Seeds: native American agriculture and wild plant conservation
by
Gary P. Nabhan
Call Number: 970.73 N112e
Publication Date: 1991
Plains Apache Ethnobotany
by
Julia A. Jordan
Call Number: 970.775 J764p
Publication Date: 2008
E-Books
Black Rice: the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas
by
Judith A. Carney
Publication Date: 2009
Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm
by
Apfelbaum, S.
Publication Date: 2009
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe botanical teachings
by
Mary Siisip Geniusz
Publication Date: 2015
The Triumph of Seeds: how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, & pips conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history
by
Thor Hanson
Publication Date: 2015
Where Our Food Comes From: retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine
by
Gary Paul Nabhan
Publication Date: 2012
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