With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Johns, Timothy

Diets & Weight Loss

University of Arizona Press

People have always been attracted to foods rich in calories, fat, and protein; yet the biblical admonition that meat be eaten “with bitter herbs” suggests that unpalatable plants play an important role in our diet. So-called primitive peoples show a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of how their bodies interact with plant chemicals, which may allow us to rediscover the origins of diet by retracing the paths of biology and culture. The domestication of the potato serves as the focus of Timothy Johns’s interdisciplinary study, which forges a bold synthesis of ethnobotany and chemical ecology. The Aymara of highland Bolivia have long used varieties of potato containing potentially toxic levels of glycoalkaloids, and Johns proposes that such plants can be eaten without harm owing to human genetic modification and cultural manipulation. Drawing on additional fieldwork in Africa, he considers the evolution of the human use of plants, the ways in which humans obtain foods from among the myriad poisonous and unpalatable plants in the environment, and the consequences of this history for understanding the basis of the human diet. A natural corollary to his investigation is the origin of medicine, since the properties of plants that make them unpalatable and toxic are the same properties that make them useful pharmacologically. As our species has adapted to the use of plants, plants have become an essential part of our internal ecology. Recovering the ancient wisdom regarding our interaction with the environment preserves a fundamental part of our human heritage. Originally published in hardcover as With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine

The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine: Chemical Ecology (Arizona Studies in Human Ecology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Night Just Before the Forest (English and French Edition)

Ward, Matthew

Koltes, Bernard

Pub Center Cultural Resources

Far from Hagondange (translated by Kourilsky and Kepros) A  moving portrait of a retired couple trying to come to terms with their  unfulfilled lives.  14 scenes.  1f, 1m Vater Land, the Country of our  Fathers (Co-authored with Bernard Bloch, translated by Johns) The past  and present converge as a German soldier's abandoned son goes to  post-war Germany in search of his father.   7 scenes. 8f, 7m

Far from Hagondance and Waterland the Country of Our Fathers (English and French Edition)

Kourilsky, Françoise

Bloch, Bernard

Wenzel, J.

Kepros, Nicholas

Kourilsky, Franoise

Book by Fabien, Michile, Temerson, Catherine, Harris, Jessica, Mac Dougall, Jill, Schwarz-Bart, Simone, Johns, Timothy, Miller, Richard, Gallaire-Bourega, Fatima, Bonal, Denise

Plays By Women (Ubu Repertory Theater Publications)

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Richard

Schwarz-Bart, Simone

Temerson, Catherine

Harris, Jessica

Bonal, Denise

Mac Dougall, Jill

Fabien, Michile

Gallaire-Bourega, Fatima

Dramas & Plays

UBU Repertory Theater

Have you ever had an argument with a four year old and lost? This book is for you, offering practical advice on how to manage the strong-willed child.

Parenting the Strong-Willed Child

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This highly illustrated and definitive dictionary, by two renowned biologists - one Kenyan, one Canadian - contains extensive coverage of the flora, fauna and animals of the Lake Victoria region of East Africa occupied by the Luo community, and is based on ten years of research by the authors. It is an expansion of the 1972 publication Luo-English Botanical Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Uses and now provides more botanical entries and an additional section consisting of a zoological dictionary. The individual entry comprises Luo terminology, its botanical/zoological equivalent, common name (when applicable), physical description, its prevalence, and its respective economic use.

Luo Biological Dictionary (English and Nilo Saharan Languages Edition)

Reference

Kokwaro, John O.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

East African Educ Pr

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