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Death in the Marsh by Tom Harris.
Island Press, 1991
On certain dry plains and hillsides of the West, the Astragalus species of wildflower grows in abundance, spreading carpets of pea-shaped pink, purple or yellow blossoms across the arid landscape. The delicate colors and innocent-looking nature of the plants belie a deadly disposition.
Astragalus, more commonly known as [...]

Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World
by Carolyn Merchant
Routledge, 2005
How we comprehend our world determines, to a large extent, how we interact with its features — soils, water, air, plants and animals. Logical positivism, handed down from Aristotle and Isaac Newton, is largely responsible for a mechanistic worldview that looks at nature as individual [...]

Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
by Jeffrey A. McNeely and Sara J. Scherr
In pursuit of a win-win solution to land use conflicts, conservationists Jeffrey McNeely and Sara Scherr advance the argument that biodiversity can be protected or even enhanced through creative design and careful implementation of agricultural strategies they dub as [...]

The Yew Tree: A Thousand Whispers
by Hal Hartzell, Jr
Hulogosi Books, 1991
reviewed by Michael Hofferber
Copyright © 1992. All rights reserved.
Claudius, the 1st century Roman Emperor, believed that the juices of the yew tree could be used as an antidote for snake venom. Germans of the Middle Ages were conivinced that yew pitch mixed with butter could [...]

This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
PublicAffairs, 2007
The profiles of activists collected in this book illustrate not only the breadth and diversity of the “new environmentalism” that the authors champion, but also the fragmented nature of the environmental movement and its lack of [...]