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Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts

Product Description: The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientistsâand have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up around Arab grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in a family that has been emigrating to the United States and Mexico from Lebanon for more than a century, and he himself frequently travels to the deserts of the Middle East...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780816526581 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 25, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientistsâand have hardly been celebrated by society at large.

Paperback:

9780816526598 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 25, 2008, cover price $17.95

Canyons of Color: Utahs Slickrock Wildlands

By Jeff Garton (photographer), Gary Paul Nabhan and Caroline Wilson

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Hardcover:

9780062585714 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1995, cover price $37.50

Paperback:

9780062585608, titled "Canyons of Color: Utah's Slickrock Wildlands" | Harpercollins, May 1, 1995, cover price $25.00

Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781603582506 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, March 2, 2011, cover price $17.95

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780393335057 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 6, 2009), cover price $16.95 | also contains Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods

Capturing the vital human relation to the foods that nourish us and the powerful bonds to family, community, landscape, and season, a prize-winning author and naturalist details his experiences of eating only foods grown, fished, or caught within two hundred miles of his home to define the phrase 'think globally, eat locally.' Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780393020175 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Details the author's experiences of eating only foods grown, fished, or caught within two hundred miles of his home to define the phrase 'think globally, eat locally.

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9780393323740 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Capturing the vital human relation to the foods that nourish us and the powerful bonds to family, community, landscape, and season, a prize-winning author and naturalist details his experiences of eating only foods grown, fished, or caught within two hundred miles of his home to define the phrase 'think globally, eat locally.

Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America

Product Description: When migrating birds and other creatures move along a path of plant communities in bloom, they follow what has come to be known as a nectar trail. Should any of these plants be eliminated from the sequenceâwhether through habitat destruction, pests, or even aberrant weatherâthe movement of these pollinators may be interrupted and their very survival threatened...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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9780816522545 | Univ of Arizona Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When migrating birds and other creatures move along a path of plant communities in bloom, they follow what has come to be known as a nectar trail.

Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn

Product Description: Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them to focus their attention on just one animal—Ovis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarrÃ³n—and have them write about it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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9780816513857 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert.

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9780816513987 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert.

Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry

Product Description: In this book, Nabhan describes the circumstances of several of important--even breakthrough--discoveries that came about through the cross-pollination of science and the arts. His stories mix the personal and scientific in an engaging way...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781571312709 | 1 edition (Milkweed Editions, January 1, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author, a scientist, shares four stories of 'cross-pollination'--tales of his inspirations and movements as a researcher, a creative artist, and a citizen of the American Southwest.

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9781417672684 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: In this book, Nabhan describes the circumstances of several of important--even breakthrough--discoveries that came about through the cross-pollination of science and the arts.

Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story

Product Description: One day while studying population maps with a colleague at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Nabhan recognized a surprising correlation between upheavals in human communities and the incidence of endangered species. Where massive in-migrations and exoduses were taking place, more plants and animals had become endangered...read more

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9781887178471 | Counterpoint, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays explores the impact of indigenous cultures with stable communities on the conservation of biological diversity in natural habitats

Paperback:

9781887178969 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, September 16, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One day while studying population maps with a colleague at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Nabhan recognized a surprising correlation between upheavals in human communities and the incidence of endangered species.

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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Hardcover:

9780520267206 | Univ of California Pr, April 7, 2014, cover price $29.95

Desert Legends: Re-Storying the Sonoran Borderlands

Moving parables and beautiful photographs of the Sonoran Desert on the Mexico-United States border demonstrate and evoke the life that thrives in this apparent wasteland, a place where plants, animals, and people live in true symbiosis.

By Mark Klett (photographer) and Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780805031003 | Henry Holt & Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Parables and photographs demonstrate and evoke the life that thrives in this apparent wasteland, a place where plants, animals, and people live in true symbiosis

The Desert Smells Like Rain

Product Description: Seven stories from two of Nabhan's books, The Desert Smells Like Rain and Gathering the Desert, provide insights into natural history and folklore of the desert. 2 cassettes.

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780939643301 | Audio Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Seven stories from two of Nabhan's books, The Desert Smells Like Rain and Gathering the Desert, provide insights into natural history and folklore of the desert.

The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in O'Odham Country

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By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780816522491 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $19.95

Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country

An ethnobiologist examines the world of the Papago Indians of Arizona and Mexico, drawing attention to the role of the desert and desert ecology in Papago Indian agriculture, culture and mythology

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780865470491 | North Point Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An ethnobiologist examines the world of the Papago Indians of Arizona and Mexico, drawing attention to the role of the desert and desert ecology in Papago Indian agriculture, culture, and mythology

Paperback:

9780865470507, titled "The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country" | North Point Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An ethnobiologist examines the world of the Papago Indians of Arizona and Mexico, drawing attention to the role of the desert and desert ecology in Papago Indian agriculture, culture and mythology

Desert Terroir: Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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Hardcover:

9780292725898 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $24.95

Earth Notes: Exploring the Southwest's Canyon Country from the Airwaves

By Peter Friederici (editor), Diane Iverson (illustrator) and Gary Paul Nabhan (foreword by)

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9780938216841 | Grand Canyon Assn, September 1, 2005, cover price $6.95

Efrain of the Sonoran Desert: A Lizard's Life Among the Seri People

A Seri elder describes her special relationship with a sun-blotched lizard, giving the author insight into the Seri culture and their realtionship with their natural surroundings, including animals.

By Amalia Astorga, Janet K. Miller (illustrator) and Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780938317555 | 1 edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, September 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A Seri elder describes her special relationship with a sun-blotched lizard, giving the author insight into the Seri culture and their realtionship with their natural surroundings, including animals.

Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780865473430 | North Point Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions

Paperback:

9780816522590 | 1 edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $21.95

9780865473447 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions

Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity

Product Description: Ethnobiology holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many because of its dedication to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultural practices in some of the most distinctive places on Earth...read more

By Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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9780816532742 | Univ of Arizona Pr, April 15, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ethnobiology holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many because of its dedication to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultural practices in some of the most distinctive places on Earth.

Food, Genes, and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781610914925 | 2 edition (Island Pr, September 24, 2013), cover price $23.00

The Forgotten Pollinators

Product Description: This work looks at the human impact on plants and the animals they depend upon for reproduction. As an increasing number of species are erased by pesticides or habitat disruption, 80 per cent of the human diet is threatened.

By Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan

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9781559633529 | Island Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Looks at the variety of ways in which plants are pollinated

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9781559633536 | Island Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: This work looks at the human impact on plants and the animals they depend upon for reproduction.

Gathering the Desert.

Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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9780816509355, titled "Gathering the Desert" | Univ of Arizona Pr, October 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780816510146 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, January 1, 1987), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

Argues that children care deeply about the natural world, and explains how contact with nature influences child development (view table of contents)

By Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble

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9780807085240 | Beacon Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Argues that children care deeply about the natural world, and explains how contact with nature influences child development

Paperback:

9780807085257 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, April 30, 1995), cover price $23.00

Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty

By Bill McKibben (foreword by) and Gary Paul Nabhan

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Paperback:

9781603584531 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, June 14, 2013, cover price $29.95

Ironwood: An Ecological and Cultural Keystone of the Sonoran Desert

By John L. Carr (editor) and Gary Paul Nabhan (editor)

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Paperback:

9781881173076 | Conservation Intl, January 1, 1994, cover price $12.00

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