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Foraging New England: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants from Maine to Connecticut
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THE RURAL RANGER A SUBURBAN AND URBAN SURVIVAL MANUAL & FIELD GUIDE OF TRAPS AND SNARES FOR FOOD AND SURVIVAL
The Modern Day Survival Primer For Solving Modern Day Survival Problems! This book will teach you the techniques to not just survive, but to use ingenuity and household items to solve your problems scientifically with a bit of primitive know how thrown in. A complete and detailed section utilizing explicit drawings and easy to understand photographs covers thoroughly the topic of survival trapping using Modern Snares, Deadfalls, Conibear Traps, and Primitive Snares. This book is dedicated for long term survival in the country or the suburbs to insure you survive and thrive! Build a solar oven or pasteurize water its all in here! Catch your dinner, then cook it or preserve it too! Food procurement is the name of the game along with purified water in a survival or disaster situation. Are you ready?.
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Living off the Land, Revised and Updated Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Tracking, Building Traps, Constructing Shelters, Toolmaking, Finding Water, Foraging For Food, and Much More
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Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information (Oxford Series in Human-Technology Interaction)
Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990's Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of information growth continues unabated. This wealth of information provides resources for adapting to the problems posed by our increasingly complex world, but the simple availability of more information does not guarantee its successful transformation into valuable knowledge that shapes, guides, and improves our activity. When faced with something like the analysis of sense-making behavior on the web, traditional research models tell us a lot about learning and performance with browser operations, but very little about how people will actively navigate and search through information structures, what information they will choose to consume, and what conceptual models they will induce about the landscape of cyberspace. Thus, it is fortunate that a new field of research, Adaptive Information Interaction (AII), is becoming possible. AII centers on the problems of understanding and improving human-information interaction. It is about how people will best shape themselves to their information environments, and how information environments can best be shaped to people. Its roots lie in human-computer interaction (HCI), information retrieval, and the behavioral and social sciences. This book is about Information Foraging Theory (IFT), a new theory in Adaptive Information Interaction that is one example of a recent flourish of theories in adaptationist psychology that draw upon evolutionary-ecological theory in biology. IFT assumes that people (indeed, all organisms) are ecologically rational, and that human information-seeking mechanisms and strategies adapt the structure of the information environments in which they operate. Its main aim is to create technology that is better shaped to users. Information Foraging Theory will be of interest to student and professional researchers in HCI and cognitive psychology..
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Foraging: Behavior and Ecology
Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large—as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake’s digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat. This and related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and conservation biology—and they can be further extrapolated in economics, neurobiology, and computer science. Foraging is the first comprehensive review of the topic in more than twenty years. A monumental undertaking, this volume brings together twenty-two experts from throughout the field to offer the latest on the mechanics of foraging, modern foraging theory, and foraging ecology. The fourteen essays cover all the relevant issues, including cognition, individual behavior, caching behavior, parental behavior, antipredator behavior, social behavior, population and community ecology, herbivory, and conservation. Considering a wide range of taxa, from birds to mammals to amphibians, Foraging will be the definitive guide to the field. .
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The Foraging Spectrum
The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange, gender relations, division of labour, marriage, descent and political organisation. By considering the actual, not imagined, reasons behind diverse behaviour this book argues for a revision of many archaeological models of prehistory..
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Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State
By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies.
Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, which the authors explain in terms of a coherent theory of political economy—defined as the mobilization and exchange of goods and services between families. The authors show that the interconnected processes of technological change and population growth are the motor of social change, resulting in three related processes—intensification, integration, and stratification—that transform human societies over time. The validity of their theory rests on evidence drawn from 19 case studies that range widely over time and space.
For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case materials to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that applies their theoretical perspective to the problems of change since the industrial revolution and the globalization of trade and political influence.
Reviews of the First Edition
“In a book full of perceptive observations and persuasive arguments . . . Johnson and Earle show in masterly detail how societies articulate to their environments and . . . how they evolve.”
—Ethnohistory
“A major contribution. . . . The book is a marvelous synthesis of ethnographic and historical data.”
—American Journal of Sociology
“A large amount of research and thought has produced sensible and illuminating specific analyses of the mechanisms of evolutionary change. Another plus is that the writing is clear and the argument is neatly conceived.”
—American Anthropologist
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Feasting and Foraging in Costa Rica: A Comprehensive Food and Restaurant Guide
Feasting and Foraging in Costa Rica is a comprehensive guide to all things edible in this tropical Eden. The book is written to aid and titillate residents, visitors, cooks, food lovers everywhere and armchair travelers. The author brings his knowledge of nutrition from more than thirty years as a cardiologist, his writing skills from more than 150 publications, his kitchen basics from years as a chef for charity fund raisers and non- profit events, his local understanding from living full-time in Costa Rica and his evaluation of restaurants from stints as a reviewer in California and for AM Costa Rica, an on-line daily. His style is both encyclopedic and literary, sprinkled with anecdotes and humor. Since the Nuevo-Latino culinary revolution, the evolution of more than a dozen foreign subculture kitchens, the emergence of inventive fusion restaurants and the arrival of a few famous international chefs, Costa Rican has escaped its rice and beans tradition with a glorious explosion - fine dining for all palates and budgets. The ingredient index describes more than three hundred items. The fruit chapter includes fifty-five tropical varieties. Other chapters demystify local vegetables, meats, seafood, dairy products, baked goods, sweets and spices. There are sections on markets, local preferences, standard and creative recipes, ingredient substitutions for cooks outside the tropics and even some basic restaurant Spanish. From humble roadside cafés, to five star grand dining-rooms, the book contains information on type and quality of the cuisine plus setting and price of about eighty eateries. You need never suffer from lack of choice with this road map. Amidst the breathtaking biodiversity of birds, butterflies, orchids and other flowers, volcanoes, surf and rain forests there is an edible cornucopia as well. The greatest treasures of Costa Rica are the people. The culture is non-violent, relaxed and welcoming. No one is in a hurry. Few are judgmental and fewer are ever angry. Break bread with locals whenever the opportunity arises. Savor the people, the land, the culture and the cuisine..
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