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(0)Wade Davis
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucson, and San Diego, and much of the power and water of Los Angeles and Phoenix, cities that are home to morethan 25 million people. If it ceased flowing, the water held in its reservoirs might hold out for three to four years, but after that it would be necessary to abandon most of southern California and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The award winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer--a longtime Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society--recounts an enthralling journey down Colombia's Magdalena River that illuminates the country's rebirth after decades of political violence, drug cartels, and guerrilla warfare"--
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Colombia. Acclaimed anthropologist and explorer Wade Davis makes a remarkable journey into the heart of war-torn Colombia to visit one of the indigenous groups that call themselves the Elder Brothers. These extraordinary people claim to be the last descendants of a once-great civilization, the Tairona, and to speak with their voice. Could they be the last window we have on the great high civilizations of the ancient Americas? -- Amazon. National Geographic...
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize that the legacy of this mythology is haunting us. Designers understand the urgency of reducing humanity's negative environmental impact, yet perpetuate the...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Wade Davis as they travel the Grand Canyon.
11) The last stand
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"THE LAST STAND for Trees is about saving the world's last remaining ancient forests. Using the flash-point of British Columbia's "Battle for the Trees" at FAIRY CREEK- the documentary examines the importance of keeping intact forest ecosystems: here in North America, in the Amazon, and around the world"-- Back cover.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow the great Colorado River as it reveals the most pressing environmental story of our time, the world's growing shortage of fresh water. Join environmental advocates as they travel deep into the Grand Canyon on a ride through the raging rapids and breathtaking canyons. Will leave you with a deeper respect for water everywhere and see how water makes a difference for our parched planet.
14) Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (Volume 2): Proceedings from the 2017 Conference
Author
Publisher
Synergetic Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A defining scholarly publication on the past and current state of research with psychedelic plant substances for medicine, therapeutics, and spiritual uses.
Certain plants have long been known to contain healing properties and used to treat everything from depression and addiction, to aiding in on one's own spiritual well-being for hundreds of years. Can Western medicine find new cures for human ailments by tapping into indigenous plant wisdom?...
Certain plants have long been known to contain healing properties and used to treat everything from depression and addiction, to aiding in on one's own spiritual well-being for hundreds of years. Can Western medicine find new cures for human ailments by tapping into indigenous plant wisdom?...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.
Publisher
Lost People Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens...
