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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Where Titans Meet -- Chapter 2. Reinventing Pristine Nature -- Chapter 3. Jungle Cowboys -- Chapter 4. Pillars of Life -- Chapter 5. A Banquet of Wild Fruits -- Chapter 6. In the Shadow of the Forest -- Chapter 7. Chainsaw Orgy -- Chapter 8. Fishing and Plants in the River -- Chapter 9. The Hunt between Land and Water -- Chapter 10. Misty Dawn -- APPENDIX 1. Common and Scientific Names of Plants -- APPENDIX 2. Common and Scientific Names of Animals -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index

This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of many landscapes in Amazonia, and they are important culturally, economically, and for a variety of ecological roles they play. Humans have been reorganizing the biological furniture in the region since the first hunters and gatherers arrived over 20,000 years ago.

Intro -- The changing nature of democracy -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The changing nature of democracy -- 2 Some basic assumptions about the consolidation of democracy -- 3 Fifty years after the ''Great Transformation'': Reflections on social order and political agency -- 4 Toward consolidated democracies -- 5 Democracy and constitutionalism -- 6 Mass media and participatory democracy -- 7 Party representation in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan -- 8 The democratization process and the market -- 9 Political representation and economic competitiveness: Is a new democratic synthesis conceivable? -- 10 A structure for peace: A democratic, interdependent, and institutionalized order -- 11 Asian-style democracy? -- 12 Post-communist Europe: Comparative reflections -- 13 Religion and democracy: The case of Islam, civil society, and democracy -- 14 The Philadelphia model -- 15 Democracy at the United Nations -- 16 A meditation on democracy -- Contributors -- Index