What may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history?

The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places (Concord Library)

Gary Paul Nabhan

Stephen Trimble

Teen & Young Adult

Beacon Press

To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries and offers sustenance in its surprisingly wide range of plant life.Gary Paul Nabhan has combed the desert in search of plants forgotten by all but a handful of American Indians and Mexican Americans. In Gathering the Desert readers will discover that the bounty of the desert is much more than meets the eye—whether found in the luscious fruit of the stately organpipe cactus or in the lowly tepary bean. Nabhan has chosen a dozen of the more than 425 edible wild species found in the Sonoran Desert to demonstrate just how bountiful the land can be. From the red-hot chiltepines of Mexico to the palms of Palm Springs, each plant exemplifies a symbolic or ecological relationship which people of this region have had with plants through history. Each chapter focuses on a particular plant and is accompanied by an original drawing by artist Paul Mirocha. Word and picture together create a total impression of plants and people as the book traces the turn of seasons in the desert.

Gathering the Desert

Paul Mirocha

Literature & Fiction

University of Arizona Press

Winner of the John Burroughs Association’s John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing and a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries and offers sustenance in its surprisingly wide range of plant life. Gary Paul Nabhan has combed the desert in search of plants forgotten by all but a handful of American Indians and Mexican Americans. In Gathering the Desert readers will discover that the bounty of the desert is much more than meets the eye—whether found in the luscious fruit of the stately organpipe cactus or in the lowly tepary bean. Nabhan has chosen a dozen of the more than 425 edible wild species found in the Sonoran Desert to demonstrate just how bountiful the land can be. From the red-hot chiltepines of Mexico to the palms of Palm Springs, each plant exemplifies a symbolic or ecological relationship which people of this region have had with plants through history. Each chapter focuses on a particular plant and is accompanied by an original drawing by artist Paul Mirocha. Word and picture together create a total impression of plants and people as the book traces the turn of seasons in the desert.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Renewing America's Food Traditions: Bringing Cultural and Culinary Mainstays of the Past Into the New Millennium

Ashle Rood

Center for Sustainable Environments

Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat. In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person could be disastrous for another. If your ancestors were herders in Northern Europe, milk might well provide you with important nutrients, whereas if you’re Native American, you have a higher likelihood of lactose intolerance. If your roots lie in the Greek islands, the acclaimed Mediterranean diet might save your heart; if not, all that olive oil could just give you stomach cramps. Nabhan traces food traditions around the world, from Bali to Mexico, uncovering the links between ancestry and individual responses to food. The implications go well beyond personal taste. Today’s widespread mismatch between diet and genes is leading to serious health conditions, including a dramatic growth over the last 50 years in auto-immune and inflammatory diseases. Readers will not only learn why diabetes is running rampant among indigenous peoples and heart disease has risen among those of northern European descent, but may find the path to their own perfect diet.

Food, Genes, and Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

What does it mean to eat with grace? The writers whose essays and poems are collected here have many answers, but they all come back to something essential: connection-with each other, with our inner selves, with the earth that sustains us. Whether foraging, baking, or gardening, digging their hands into the soil of their backyards or being seduced by the exotic fruits of a far-off place, these writers praise the sensuous and spiritual ways that our food can nourish us. As Darra Goldstein writes in her forward, "When we eat good food, we smell and taste the earth, and thereby reconnect with it: this is what it means to eat with grace."

To Eat with Grace

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Jane Hirshfield

Tamar Adler

Barbara Baer

Tamara Dean

Maxine Kumin

Laurie Kutchins

Robin MacArthur

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Deborah Slicer

Joni Tevis

Katrina Vandenberg

Allison Wallace

The Orion Society

Food, Genes, and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins (Chinese Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Shanghai Science and Technology Publisher

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