Balick, Michael J.,  1952- <br/><br/>
Plants, people, and culture :  the science of ethnobotany / 
Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan Cox. 
 - New York :  Scientific American Library,  1996. 
 - ix, 228 p. :  ill. (some col.), col. maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index. 
<br/><br/> Choice.  Kliatt.  Reference and Research Book News. 
<br/><br/> Studies the interactions of plants and people, arguing that plants, especially those used by indigenous people around the world, have influenced the course of human nature, and providing examples such as the adaptation of arrow poisons in the development of anesthetics. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0716750619 (hard cover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96006493 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnobotany.<br/>Botany--Folklore.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN476.73  / .B35 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>581.6 581.6