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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Raj Patel
Melville House
Melville House
“One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.”âNaomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine Half the world is malnourished,...
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The End of Food
Paul Roberts
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing. In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the...
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Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair
Carlo Petrini
Rizzoli Ex Libris
Rizzoli Ex Libris
By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it...
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Dan Koeppel
Hudson Street Press
Hudson Street Press
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the worlds most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges...
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Wendell Berry
Sierra Club Books
Sierra Club Books
The mid-20th-century environmental crisis that led to important protective legislation in the 1970s, is, to poet/farmer Wendell Berry's mind, also a crisis of character, agriculture, and culture. Because Americans are divorced from the land, they...
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Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
Mark Winne
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
In Closing the Food Gap, food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to...
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
Lauren St John
Scribner
Scribner
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild,...
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Hobby Farming For Dummies
Theresa A. Husarik
For Dummies
For Dummies
Do you long for the country life? Hobby Farming For Dummies is a practical guide that will show you how to handle all the basics of small-scale farming, from growing healthy crops to raising livestock and managing your property. You'll see how to...
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Organic Farming: Everything You Need to Know (Everything You Need To Know)
Peter V. Fossel
Voyageur Press
Voyageur Press
Going organic may be a clear way of getting back to basicsâand getting away from the havoc chemicals can wreak on our health and our environmentâbut the basics themselves may not be so clear. How to begin? What kind of fertilizer and feed are...
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