Tag: Rainforest

Free Download Gregory M. Thaler, "Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics "
English | ISBN: 0300272480 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 3 MB
An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism

Free Download The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals By Leslie Taylor
2017 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0757001440 | PDF | 84 MB
Rainforests contain an amazing abundance of plant life-over half of the planet’s vegetation. For centuries, tribal shamans have successfully used these botanicals as remedies for various health disorders. Now, scientists have begun to uncover the medicinal qualities of these plants, which offer new approaches to health and healing. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs is a unique guide to these herbs and their uses.Detailing more than seventy rainforest botanicals, this book presents the history of the herbs’ uses by indigenous peoples and describes current usage by natural health practitioners throughout the world. Discover Amazon healers’ traditional knowledge, as well as the clinical studies that support what shamans have known for ages. Essential dosage and preparation methods are provided, while at-a-glance tables help you locate the best botanicals for each disorder. Here is a unique book that offers a blend of ancient and modern knowledge in an accessible reference format.

Free Download Kathryn T. Long, "God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190608986 | EPUB | pages: 480 | 4.1 mb
In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women-the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another-with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century.

Free Download Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia [OP] by Bill Peel
English | October 1, 2010 | ISBN: 0643094717 | 352 pages | EPUB | 23 Mb
Rainforest Restoration Manual for South-Eastern Australia is the definitive guide to the recovery and restoration of Subtropical, Warm Temperate, Cool Temperate, Gallery, Dry, Dry Gully and Littoral Rainforests from south-eastern Queensland to Tasmania. All of these rainforest types were inherently rare prior to settlement, and today with depletion, feral animals, weeds and climate change, all are threatened – with many listed under state and federal legislation.