Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany

6 best books like Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (Michael J. Balick): Brief Lives, Letter from the Birmingham Jail, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class, Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, Hickory, Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

Brief Lives

Author	Neil Gaiman
ISBN	1563891379

A mad journey about change.


Creative Team:

Writer: Neil Gaiman

Illustrators: Jill Thompson & Vince Locke

Covers: Dave McKean

Letterer: Todd Klein


COINS, BUTTERFLIES, PONdS, QUESTS & FAMILIES

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Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Author	Martin Luther King Jr.
ISBN	0062509551

Martin Luther King, Jr. rarely had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations. "Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell," King pondered a letter that fellow clergymen...

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

Author

Elizabeth Warren

The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s middle class, and by the time the people...

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record

Author	Errol Fuller
ISBN	0691161372

A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or wildlife parks, and in some cases depict the last known individual of the species. Lost Animals is a unique photographic...

Hickory

Author	Palmer Brown
ISBN	0060208872

A grandfather clock makes a lovely home for a family of mice—if you don’t mind the occasional clang. And here Hickory lives with his parents, his brother, Dickory, and his sister, Dock. But Hickory is a restless, fearless mouse, and he longs to be on the move, to breathe the sweet air and nibble on the...

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

Author	Richard Wagamese
ISBN	1771621338

"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose to face life head on—and I have become a comet. I arc across the sky of my life and the harder times are the friction...