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Wildlife Web | Wildlife Web A dynamic ecology strategy game. May 2018.
Can you forage or hunt for food, find a mate, and raise your young... without becoming someone else's lunch? Welcome to Wildlife Web, a game where you participate in the web of life. Wildlife Web is an exciting, dynamic game of strategy where adventure, luck, and cunning provide hours of fun for family and friends, recommended for ages 9 to 99. [Read more...]
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Five Months on the Missouri River | Five Months on the Missouri River March 2020. ISBN: 978-1-892784-50-6.
Thomas J. Elpel had the rare opportunity to carve a dugout canoe with Churchill Clark, the great-great-great-great grandson of Captain Clark. Together they whittled a 10,000 lb. Douglas fir log down to a 500+ lb. canoe. Enlisting friends with additional canoes to join the adventure, Tom led a five-month "Missouri River Corps of Rediscovery" expedition, paddling the 2,341-mile Missouri River segment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail from Montana to St. Louis. [Read more...]
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Living Homes | Living Homes Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction 6th Edition. May 2010. ISBN: 978-1-892784-32-2.
The house of your Dreams does not have to be expensive. The key is all in the planning. How much a house costs, how it looks, how comfortable it is, how energy-efficient it is--all these things occur on paper before you pick up even one tool. A little extra time in the planning process can save you tens of thousands of dollars in construction and maintenance. That is time well spent! [Read more...]
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Roadmap to Reality | Roadmap to Reality Consciousness, Worldviews, and the Blossoming of Human Spirit May 2008. ISBN: 978-1-892784-29-2.
Roadmap to Reality is the quest to unravel the illusions to discover what reality really is. The journey follows the link between technology and thought, showing how hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrial, and informational societies define reality in predictable ways. In essence, production technology dictates how we perceive cause and effect, how we solve problems, and how we approach parenting and governing. Roadmap to Reality sequentially follows simple ideas and commonsense logic to reveal how consciousness and worldviews evolve in layers over time. [Read more...]
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Green Prosperity | Green Prosperity
Quit Your Job, Live Your Dreams June 2018. ISBN: 978-1-892784-41-4.
Little actual work is required to provide for most human needs such as shelter, clothing, warmth, food, and water, and even new necessities, such as mobile phones and transportation. However, surplus time and idle hands represent a fundamental threat to society. The mechanism of control, subconsciously implemented throughout history, is to occupy people with meaningless work.
Due to population growth and technological development, unneccesary work now consumes our resource base at an unsustainable rate and threatens all life on earth. The solution? Quit your job. Green Prosperity is a manual to sidestep the treadmill of meaningless work and break free from the machine, outlining concrete steps to take control of your life and live your own Dreams. [Read more...]
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Participating in Nature | Participating in Nature
Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills 6th Edition. March 2009. ISBN: 978-1-892784-30-0.
Get in touch with your wild side! Primitive living is a way of learning about nature by participating in it. Instead of merely camping in the wilderness or passing through it, you can become part of the process. You learn about nature by using it to meet your needs for shelter, fire, water, and food. You set aside the trappings of modern culture and step directly into nature with little or nothing, to experience nature on its own terms. [Read more...]
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Foraging the Mountain West | Foraging the Mountain West Gourmet Edible Plants, Mushrooms, and Meat June 2014. ISBN: 978-1-892784-36-0
There's food in them thar hills! There is also food in the valleys, meadows, swamps, and all around town, too... maybe even in your own backyard. Foraging the Mountain West is a guide to harvesting and celebrating nature's abundance. Reach out and explore the world with your taste buds. Discover new delights you will never find at the store. Connect with nature on a deeper level by meeting, greeting, and eating the plants, fungi, and creatures that share the neighborhood. Become a little more self-sufficient, and a lot more aware. [Read more...]
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Botany in a Day | Botany in a Day
The Patterns Method of Plant Identification An Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families 6th Edition. June 2013. ISBN: 978-1-892784-35-3
Botany in a Day is changing the way people learn about plants! Tom's book has gained a nationwide audience almost exclusively by word-of-mouth. It is now used as a text at universities and high schools as well as herbal and wilderness schools across North America. Instead of presenting individual plants, Botany in a Day unveils the patterns of identification and uses among related plants, giving readers simple tools to rapidly unlock the mysteries of the new species they encounter throughout the continent. [Read more...]
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Shanleya's Quest (Book 1) | Shanleya's Quest (Book 1)
A Botany Adventure for Kids Ages 9 to 99 March 2005. ISBN: 1-892784-16-5
Shanleya's Quest is a story that is both educational and fun. In a mythical world where time is a liquid that falls as rain upon the land, young Shanleya paddles her canoe out to the "Tree Islands" to learn the plant traditions of her people. Each island is home to a separate family of plants and an unforgettable Guardian with lessons to teach about the identification and uses of those plants. Shanleya's Quest is a truly unique educational book that presents botanical concepts and plant identification skills in an easy and fun metaphorical format for children as well as for adults who are young at heart. [Read more...]
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Shanleya's Quest (Card Game 1) | Shanleya's Quest (Card Game 1)
Patterns in Plants Card Game March 2006. ISBN: 1-892784-23-8
Read the book. Play the game! The Patterns in Plants Card Game is a fun way to test your skills at identifying the family patterns described in Shanleya's Quest. Learn to see the patterns in the game. Then you will be able to recognize them in the real world! Many different plant identification games are possible with this deck of cards. [Read more...]
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La Búsqueda de Shanleya (Spanish Translation) | La Búsqueda de Shanleya (Book)
Una aventura botánica para niños de 9 a 99 años May 2016. ISBN: 978-1-892784-38-4.
En un mundo mítico donde el Tiempo es un líquido que cae en forma de lluvia, Shanleya remó su canoa hacia "Las Islas del Árbol" para aprender las tradiciones de las plantas de su pueblo. Cada isla es el hogar de una familia diferente de plantas y de un Guardián inolvidable, con lecciones para aprender acerca de la identificación y uso de esas plantas.
La Búsqueda de Shanleya es un libro único verdaderamente educativo, que presenta conceptos botánicos y habilidades de identificación de plantas en un formato metafórico fácil y divertido para los niños y adultos. Read More...
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Shanleya's Quest 2 (Book 2) | Shanleya's Quest 2 (Book 2)
Botany Adventure at the Fallen Tree May 2020. ISBN: 978-1-892784-51-3
& The Adventure Continues... After hearing tales of adventure at the Great Tree in Shanleya's Quest, Adelia, Katyln, and Peter now embark on a magical journey back in time to meet the legendary botanist. Together they explore the world that bloomed after the fall of the Great Tree. They examine old flower fossils, discover new plant families and their guardians, and experience the wonderful world of plants. [Read more...]
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Shanleya's Quest 2 (Card Game 2) | Shanleya's Quest (Card Game 2)
Patterns in Plants Card Game June 2020. ISBN: 978-1-892784-46-9
Read the book. Play the game! The Patterns in Plants Card Game is a fun way to test your skills at identifying the family patterns described in Shanleya's Quest 2. Learn to see the patterns in the game. Then you will be able to recognize them in the real world! Many different plant identification games are possible with this deck of cards. [Read more...]
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I'm a Medicine Woman, Too! | I'm a Medicine Woman, Too! A Tale of Herbal Wisdom and Personal Empowerment March 2009. ISBN: 978-1-892784-31-5
I'm a Medicine Woman, Too! is a colorful and soulful book of self discovery and personal empowerment for budding healers, as well as every kid heeding a calling or pursuing a dream.
Rhiannon is the inspiration and model for this tale of realization and growth, as she first resists believing she could ever be a Medicine Woman like the herbalists and healers she's met... but then realizes the ways in which she is already the woman of power she hopes to be. [Read more...]
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Dear Thomas and Jeanne,
I've just arrived home from Portugal to find that your book and the DVDs have arrived. The old farm houses in the south of Portugal are built out of stone, and I'm planning to use your building ideas and method there. The book is a gold mine of information and you have put a lot of effort into it, left nothing out, even your philosophy on how to live is a gift to all (myself included) who live in a world of consumerism. THANK YOU!
Best wishes,
Carlos
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