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Rainforest
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REVIEW: Like a master artisan, Weisberger weaves together threads of anthropology, botany, ecology and psychology in an inspiring tapestry of ideas sure to keep discerning readers warm and hopeful in these cold and desolate times.Unlike other texts, which ordinarily prescribe structural (ie. social, political, economic) solutions to the global crisis of environmental destruction, Rainforest Medicine hones in on the root cause of Western schizophrenia: spiritual poverty, and the resultant alienat
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― Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
― Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon
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Deep in the heart of the hot, wet African rainforest, there lives a tribe of peacemakers who share a multiplicity of pleasures and make a very special kind of love. South of the sprawling Congo River, in the midst of war-ravaged territory, some 2,000 miles from the arid Ethiopian desert where the oldest human fossils have been found, lies this lush and steamy jungle paradise, the only natural habitat of the bonobo.
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― The Bonobo Way
― The Bonobo Way
Elizabeth Leiknes's The Understory is a small press, independent novel getting some big response…more
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