Reading List

 

 title author pub Most reviews are from other sources 
Ancestral Stories Ingwe,  Ingwe    
Ancestral Stories Indian Tales Jaime de Angulo    
Ancestral Stories A Rendezvous Reader; Tall, Tangled, and True tales of the Mountain Men James H, Maguire, Peter Wild, and Donald A. Barclay    
Architecture A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) Christopher Alexander   This book is the 2nd volume of the set and is substantive, illustrated discussion of a pattern language derived from traditional architecture
Architecture The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander   The 1st volume of the text above.
Architecture New independent home Michel Potts Chelsea  
Camp Games The POSSIBLESbag Chris Cavert    
Camp Games The Empty Bag; Non-Stop, No-Prop, Adventure-Based Activities for Community Building. Dick Hammond and Chris Cavert    
Camp Games Raccoon Circle; A handbook for facilitators  Jim Cain    
Cultural Anthropology Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared M. Diamond  Penguin Diamond's book deals with "societal collapses involving an environmental component, and in some cases also contributions of climate change, hostile neighbors, and trade partners, plus questions of societal responses" . In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from history.
Cultural Anthropology Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell   This seminal work has influenced millions of readers since it was originally published in 1949, bringing the insights of modern psychology together with Campbell\'s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell formulated the dual schemas of the Hero\'s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through all of humanity\'s mythic traditions, and of the Cosmogonic Cycle, the stories of world-creation and -dissolution that have marked cultures around the world and across the centuries.
Cultural Anthropology Primitive Mythology; the Face of God Joseph Campbell    
Cultural Anthropology The Power of Myth (Paperback) Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers    
Cultural Anthropology The Sacred Hunt: Hunting As a Sacred Path   Randall L. Eaton PhD    
Ethnobotany Tending the Wild M. Kat Anderson M.   Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended.
Ethnobotany Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider: A California Indian Feast (Paperback) Margaret Denise Dubin    
Ethnobotany  Chumash Ethnobotany; Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California Jan Timbrook    
Field Guides,  Reptiles Peterson Field Guides: Reptiles & Amphibians, Western  Robert C. Stebbins    
Field Guides Peterson Field Guides: Venomous Animals & Poisonous Plants, Steven Foster & Roger Caras    
Field Guides,  Birds Sibley Field Guide: Birds Western,  David Allen Sibley    
Field Guides,  Birds The Birder's Handbook Erlich, Dobson & Wheye    
Field Guides,  Birds   Jon Young    
Field Guides,  Birds Peterson Field Guides: Western Birds Roger Tory Peterson    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Audubon Field Guide to Trees: Western  Elbert L. Little    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Pacific State Wildflowers is Plants of the Pacific  Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Peterson Field Guides: California & Pacific Northwest Forests John Kricher and Gordon Morrison    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Newcomb's Wildflower Guide Lawrence Newcomb    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Peterson Field Guides: Edible Wild Plants  Lee Peterson and Roger Tory    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Peterson Field Guides: Medicinal Plants & Herbs Western  Steven Foster & Christopher Hobbs    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Peterson Field Guides: Pacific States Wildflowers Theodore F. Niehaus    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees Botany in a Day  Tom Elpel    
Field Guides,  Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees        
Field Guides, Mammals Stokes Guide to Animal Tracking,  Donald W. Stoke and Lillian Q. Stokes    
Field Guides, Mammals Peterson Field Guides: Mammals Fiona Reid    
Field Guides, Mammals Skulls and Bones: A Guide to the Skeletal Structures and Behavior of North American Mammals Glenn Searfoss    
Field Guides, Mammals Stokes: Field Guide to Bird Songs, Western, CDs   Kevin J. Colver with Donald and Lillian Stokes    
Field Guides, Mammals Mammal Tracks & Sign Mark Elbroch    
Field Guides, Mammals Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species  Mark Elbroch    
Field Guides, Mammals Peterson Field Guides: Animal Tracks, Olaus Murie and Mark Elbroch    
Human Wast The Humanure Book Joseph Jenkin Joseph Jenkins, Inc The  pasteurization of human fecal material using the heat of composting.
Issues in Haiti Walking on Fire: Haitian women’s stories of survival and resistance. Beverly Bell Cornell Paperbacks Thirty Haitian women speak for themselves. Defying victim status, together they tell the story of how Haiti’s poor and dispossessed women have fought for their personal and collective survival.
Issues in Haiti Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a path for the poor in the age of globalization Jean-Bertrand Aristide Common courage press  
Issues in Haiti In the Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide    
Livestock Pork Industry Handbook Purdue Extension and the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence   The 2008 Pork Industry Handbook is the premier reference for modern American pork production with over 220 science-based and cutting-edge fact sheets for pork producers and related industries. Written and reviewed by hundreds of experts, it's the most complete industry guide available, and it's brought to you by Purdue Extension and the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence.
Mushrooms Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005, ISBN 1-58008-579-2) Paul Stamets http://www.tenspeed.com Soil mitigation using fungus.  growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment and mushroom expert Paul Stamets explains how in MYCELIUM RUNNING, a groundbreaking manual for saving the world through mushroom cultivation. 
Nature Education Kamana 1 Jon Young   Self Study Nature course
Nature Education Kamana 2 Jon Young    
Nature Education Kamana 3 Jon Young    
Nature Education Kamana 4 Jon Young    
Nature Education Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature: For Kids of All Ages and their Mentors  Jon Young, Ellen Haas and Evan McGown   This is required reading for all staff that have not compleated RDNA or WAS
Nature Education Sharing Nature with Children  Joseph Cornell    
Nature Education Sharing Nature with Children II Joseph Cornell    
Nature Education The Tracker Tom Brown Jr.    
Play The Nature of Play: Great Apes and Humans  Anthony D. Pellegrini (Editor), PhD Peter K. Smith Phd    
Primitive Skills, General Earth Knack Bart & Robin Gibbs Smith Publishing Covers array of important basic skills. 
Primitive Skills, General Primitive Technology David Wescott  Gibbs Smith Publishing Best of the first 10 Bulletins of Primitive Technology. Great info.
Primitive Skills, General Primitive Technology Ii David Wescott  Gibbs Smith Publishing More of the best of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology. Great Info.
Primitive Skills, General Survival Skills Of Paul D. Campbell  Gibbs Smith Publishing Lots of how to and hands on information on traditional living skills.
Primitive Skills, General Participating In Nature Thomas J. Elpel's    
Primitive Skills, Tanning Skins Deerskins Into Buckskins Matt Richards    
Primitive Skills, Tanning Skins Buckskin ...the ancient art of braintanning Steven Edholm & Tamara    
Primitive Skills, Tool Making The Art Of Flint knapping DC Waldorf (Mound Builder Books)    
Sustainable Communities Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World Alan Weisman Chelsea Green Gaviotas is an eco-village located in the Colombian department of Vichada, at 4°33'17"N, 70°54'55"W. It was founded in 1971 by Paolo Lugari who assembled a group of engineers and scientists in an attempt to create a mode of sustainable living in one of the least hospitable political and geographical climates in South America.
Sustainable Communities Farmers Of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture In China, Korea And Japan  F. H. KING, D. Sc.   In the 1909, American agronomist F.H. King toured China, Korea, and Japan, studying traditional fertilization, tillage, and general farming practices. He wrote his findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries, Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan (1911, published shortly after his death by his wife, Carrie Baker King; numerous facsimile reprintings, including Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-43609-8, and Rodale Press, ISBN 0-87857-867-6). King lived in an era preceding synthetic nitrogen fertilizer production and before the use of the internal combustion engine for farm machinery, yet he was profoundly interested in the challenge of farming the same soils in a 'permanent' manner, hence his interest in the agricultural practices of ancient cultures. In recent years, his book became an important organic farming reference.