Eastern/ Central U.S. Peterson Field Guides   1999   432p   4.5 x 7 With more than 300 photos, this guide shows how to identify more than 500 healing plants. Descriptive text includes information on where the plants are found, as well as their known medicinal uses. An index to medical topics, symbols next to plant … Continue reading Medicinal Plants and Herbs →

Race and the Making of the American Working Class David Roediger     1991     195p     5 x 8 Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism … Continue reading Wages of Whiteness →

Herbert Aptheker 1943 428p 5 x 8 A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Includes the story of Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey Gabriel and others. $8-15 Other works involving slave revolts, nat turner, slavery, armed struggle, race, escape, sabotage, excarceration, the south, 1800s

Eastern/ Central North America Peterson Field Guides   1999   352p   4.5 x 7 More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous look-alikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses. $5-15 Other … Continue reading Edible Wild Plants →

Animal Tracks Peterson Field Guides   2006   432p   4.5 x 7   $5-15   Astronomy Peterson Field Guides   1998   128p   4 x 7   $4-10 Birds of Missouri Stan Tekiela   2001   300p   4.5 x 6   $4-10 Butterflies and Moths Peterson Field Guides   1998   128p … Continue reading Field Guides →