Books & Book Chapters

Published Books (Edited or Authored):

  1. Quave, C.L. (2021) The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines. Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 384 p. Viking Press, New York, NY. ISBN 9781984879110 [Link]
  2. Quave, C.L., Editor (2014) Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences. 312 p. Springer Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-4939-0422-8 [Link]
  3. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave, Editors (2014) Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation. 255 p. Springer Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-4939-1491-3 [Link]
  4. Quave, C.L. (2009). Medicina Popolare del Vulture: Traditional Medicine of the Vulture-Alto Bradano area, southern Italy. ISBN 978-1-61584-442-5

Published Invited Book Chapters:

  1. Shabih, S.**, A. Hajdari, B. Mustafa, C.L. Quave (2022) Medicinal plants in the Balkans with antimicrobial properties. In: F. Chassagne, (Ed.) Academic Press, Elsevier. Medicinal Plants as Anti-Infectives: Current Knowledge and New Perspectives. Pp. 103-138. London, UK. DOI: 0.1016/B978-0-323-90999-0.00013-6
  2. Chassagne F.**, Quave C.L. (2021) Collection, Extraction, and In Vitro Antibacterial Evaluation of Plants Used in Traditional Medicine. In: Barreiro C., Barredo JL. (eds) Antimicrobial Therapies. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2296. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1358-0_2 [Link]
  3. Salam, A.** and C.L. Quave (2019). Medicinal plants as a reservoir of new structures for anti-infective compounds. Ahmad I., Ahmad S., Rumbaugh K. (Eds.) In: Antibacterial Drug Discovery to combat MDR. Springer, Singapore. Pp. 277-298. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9871-1_13 [Link]
  4. Salam, A.M.**, J.T. Lyles, and C.L. Quave. (2019). Methods in the Extraction and Chemical Analysis of Medicinal Plants. In: Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. U.P. Albuquerque, L.V.F.C. da Cunha, R.F.P de Lucena, R.R.N. Alves (Eds.). Springer Press Pp. 257-283 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8919-5_17 [Link]
  5. Cicka, D.** and C.L. Quave. (2019). Bioprospecting for Pharmaceuticals- An Overview and Vision for Future Access and Benefit Sharing. In: Medicinal Plants. N. Joshee, S. Dhekney, and P. Parajuli (Eds.). Springer, Cham. Pp: 17-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31269-5_2 [Link]
  6. Salam, A.M.** and C.L. Quave (2018). Basic Neglected Research against AMR: What if plants provided a solution? AMR Control 2018. World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance. Pp. 92-96 [Link]
  7. Quave, C.L. (2017) The Brazilian Peppertree: An old cure for new wounds. AMR Control 2017: Alternatives to Antibiotics p. 124 [Link]
  8. Quave, C.L. and A.R. Horswill. (2017). Identification of Staphylococcal Quorum Sensing Inhibitors by Quantification of õ-Hemolysin with High Performance Liquid Chromatography. Quorum Sensing. Methods in Molecular Biology. Leoni, L. and Rampioni, G. (Eds.) vol 1673. Chapter 27 (pp. 363-370). Humana Press, New York, NY. [Link]
  9. Quave, C.L. (2016) Antibiotics from nature: Traditional medicine as a source of new solutions for combating antimicrobial resistance. AMR Control 2016: Overcoming Global Antimicrobial Resistance. World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance [Link]
  10. Pardo-de-Santayana, M., C.L. Quave, R. Sõukand, and A. Pieroni. (2015). Medical ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology of Europe. Chapter 29 (pp. 343-352) In: Ethnopharmacology: A Reader. M. Heinrich and A. Jaeger (Eds.). Wiley Press. [Link]
    1. ‡ Contributed to literature review, writing and revising the chapter.
  11. Quave, C.L. (2014) Linking student skill-building with public outreach and education. In: Innovative Strategies for Teaching in the Plant Sciences. Quave, C.L. (Ed.). Pp. 291-308. Springer Press, New York, NY, USA. [Link]
  12. Pieroni, A. and C. L. Quave. (2014). Ethnobotany in the Balkans: Quo Vadis? In: Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave (Eds.). Pp. 1-12. Springer Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-4939-1491-3 [Link]
  13. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2014). Wild food and medicinal plants used in the mountainous Albanian North, North-East, and East: a comparison. In: Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave (Eds.). Pp. 183-196. Springer Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-4939-1491-3 [Link]
  14. Rexhepi, B., B. Mustafa, A. Hajdari, J. Rushidi-Rexhepi, C.L. Quave, and A. Pieroni. (2014). Cross-cultural ethnobotany of the Sharr Mountains (North-Western Macedonia) In: Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave (Eds.). Springer Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-4939-1491-3 [Link]
    1. ‡ Contributed to literature review, field work, writing and revising the chapter.
  15. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2014). Pioneering Ethnobotanists in Italy. Pioneers in European Ethnobotany. Svanberg, I. and Ł. Łuczaj (Eds.). Pp. 263-272. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala, Sweden. ISBN: 978-91-554-8844-4 [Link]
  16. Quave, C.L. and A. Pieroni (2013). Mediterranean zootherapy: A historical to modern perspective. In: Animals in Traditional Folk Medicine: Implications for Conservation. Rômulo R. N. Alves and Ierece Rosa (Eds.). Pp. 303-316. Springer Press. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29026-8_14 [Link]
  17. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2011). Arbëreshë versus northern Albanian ethnobotany: wild plants for food and medicine in the Vulture area (Southern Italy) and in upper Kelmend and Shala Valley (Northern Albania). In: Linguistic Islands and Plant Genetic Resources. K. Hammer, G. Laghetti, and D. Pignone (Eds.). Pp. 237-251. Aracne, Italy. [Link]
  18. Quave, C.L. and A. Pieroni. (2007). Traditional health care and food and medicinal plant use among historic Albanian migrants and Italians in Northern Lucania, southern Italy. In: Travelling cultures, plants and medicines. The ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of migrations. ISBN 1845453735. A. Pieroni & I. Vandebroek (Eds.). Pp. 204-226. Berghahn Press, Oxford, UK. [Link]
  19. Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2006). Functional foods or food-medicines? On the consumption of wild plants among Albanians and south-Italians in Lucania. In: Eating and Healing. Traditional Food as Medicine. ISBN 1-56022-982-9. A. Pieroni and L. Price (Eds.). Pp. 101-129. Haworth Press: Binghamton, USA. [Link]
  20. Giusti, M.E., A. Pieroni and C. Quave. (2004). Medical anthropology at the borders: ritual healing in Arbëreshë Albanian ethnic communities in Lucania (southern Italy). In: Times, Places, Passages. Ethnological Approaches in the New Millennium. 7th SIEF Selected Papers. A. Paládi-Kovács, G. Csukás, R. Kiss, I. Kristóf, I. Nagy and Z. Szarvas (Eds.). Pp. 237-245. Akadémiai Kiadó: Budapest, Hungary. [Link]
  21. Quave, C. and A. Pieroni. (2002). Traditional healing in the Vulture area of southern Italy. In: Handbuch der Ethnotherapien/ Handbook of Ethnotherapies. C.E. Gottschalk-Batschkus and J.C. Green (Eds.). Pp. 97-118. Institut für Ethnomedizin: Germany. [Link]