32 books in Social Science - Agriculture & Food
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The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.00
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.00
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Food Police
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
Written by Jayson Lusk
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $12.99
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.
Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?
A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Saber comer
64 reglas basicas para aprender a comer bien
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.00
Una guía sencilla para comer de manera inteligente
Comer no tiene por qué ser tan complicado. En esta época de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutrición, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas básicas para nuestra alimentación diaria. Escrito con claridad, precisión y una agudeza que lo ha... Read more >
64 reglas basicas para aprender a comer bien
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.00
Una guía sencilla para comer de manera inteligente
Comer no tiene por qué ser tan complicado. En esta época de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutrición, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas básicas para nuestra alimentación diaria. Escrito con claridad, precisión y una agudeza que lo ha... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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White Bread
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
Saber comer
64 reglas basicas para aprender a comer bien
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2012
Price: $8.99
Una guía sencilla para comer de manera inteligente
Comer no tiene por qué ser tan complicado. En esta época de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutrición, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas básicas para nuestra alimentación diaria. Escrito con claridad, precisión y una agudeza que lo ha... Read more >
64 reglas basicas para aprender a comer bien
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2012
Price: $8.99
Una guía sencilla para comer de manera inteligente
Comer no tiene por qué ser tan complicado. En esta época de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutrición, Saber comer nos ofrece 64 reglas básicas para nuestra alimentación diaria. Escrito con claridad, precisión y una agudeza que lo ha... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Table Comes First
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
From the author of Paris to the Moon, a beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food mania, in search of eating’s deeper truths.
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing. With our top chefs as...
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Stuffed and Starved
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Revised and Expanded Edition
"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable."
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving... Read more >
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Revised and Expanded Edition
"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable."
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Stuffed and Starved
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years.
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.
To find out how we got to... Read more >
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years.
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.
To find out how we got to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Farming in the 1920s and 30s
Written by JONATHAN BROWN
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $12.95
After answering the call to feed the nation during the First World War, the farmer of the 1920s had to settle down to a peace time of low prices for his produce. A new generation of farmers and workers had to face the challenges of farming in recession. How they did... Read more >
Written by JONATHAN BROWN
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $12.95
After answering the call to feed the nation during the First World War, the farmer of the 1920s had to settle down to a peace time of low prices for his produce. A new generation of farmers and workers had to face the challenges of farming in recession. How they did... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
White Bread
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $27.95
What can the history of America's one-hundred-year love-hate relationship with sliced white bread tell us about contemporary efforts to change the way we eat? Fluffy industrial loaves are about as far from slow, local, and organic as you can get, but the story of social reformers, food experts, and diet gurus... Read more >
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $27.95
What can the history of America's one-hundred-year love-hate relationship with sliced white bread tell us about contemporary efforts to change the way we eat? Fluffy industrial loaves are about as far from slow, local, and organic as you can get, but the story of social reformers, food experts, and diet gurus... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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White Bread
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $27.95
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $27.95
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Food and the City
Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
Written by Jennifer Cockrall-King
Format: Trade Paperback, 372 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $21.00
A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities.
When you’re standing in the midst of a supermarket, it’s hard to imagine that you’re looking at a failing industrial food system. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is... Read more >
Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
Written by Jennifer Cockrall-King
Format: Trade Paperback, 372 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $21.00
A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities.
When you’re standing in the midst of a supermarket, it’s hard to imagine that you’re looking at a failing industrial food system. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Food and the City
Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
Written by Jennifer Cockrall-King
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities.
When you’re standing in the midst of a supermarket, it’s hard to imagine that you’re looking at a failing industrial food system. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is... Read more >
Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
Written by Jennifer Cockrall-King
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands—and in our cities.
When you’re standing in the midst of a supermarket, it’s hard to imagine that you’re looking at a failing industrial food system. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Table Comes First
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a... Read more >
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Table Comes First
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $13.99
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a... Read more >
Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $13.99
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Written by Mark Winne
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $16.00
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Written by Mark Winne
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $16.00
Agribusiness giants don’t want you to know—or care—if the food you eat is genetically modified, factory farmed, or grown with toxic chemicals. But the rapidly growing alternative food movement is resisting these practices and helping people reclaim their connections to their food. A forty-year veteran of this movement, Mark Winne introduces...
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All You Can Eat
How Hungry is America?
Written by Joel Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as... Read more >
How Hungry is America?
Written by Joel Berg
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
With the biting wit of Supersize Me and the passion of a lifelong activist, Joel Berg has his eye on the growing number of people who are forced to wait on lines at food pantries across the nation—the modern breadline. All You Can Eat reveals that hunger is a problem as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Gene Wars
The Politics of Biotechnology
Written by Kristin Dawkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this book, Kristin Dawkins discusses the international policies that are shaping this future, including those that govern the genetic engineering of plants... Read more >
The Politics of Biotechnology
Written by Kristin Dawkins
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this book, Kristin Dawkins discusses the international policies that are shaping this future, including those that govern the genetic engineering of plants... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Written by Mark Winne
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Written by Mark Winne
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the world fed. Through the use of factory “farms,” genetic engineering, and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust in technology and ask consumers to put our trust in...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Written by Mark Winne
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture
Written by Mark Winne
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $24.95
In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the world fed. Through the use of factory “farms,” genetic engineering, and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust in technology and ask consumers to put our trust in...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity
Edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Olga F. Linares
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations.
After introducing theoretical... Read more >
Edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Olga F. Linares
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations.
After introducing theoretical... Read more >
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The Unhealthy Truth
One Mother's Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America's Food Supply-- and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself
Written by Robyn O'Brien and Rachel Kranz
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $14.99
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic... Read more >
One Mother's Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America's Food Supply-- and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself
Written by Robyn O'Brien and Rachel Kranz
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $14.99
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Unhealthy Truth
How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It
Written by Robyn O'Brien and Rachel Kranz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $13.99
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic... Read more >
How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It
Written by Robyn O'Brien and Rachel Kranz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $13.99
Robyn O’Brien is not the most likely candidate for an antiestablishment crusade. A Houston native from a conservative family, this MBA and married mother of four was not someone who gave much thought to misguided government agencies and chemicals in our food—until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Uncertain Peril
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Written by Claire Hope Cummings
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2009
Price: $20.00
Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining our... Read more >
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Written by Claire Hope Cummings
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2009
Price: $20.00
Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining our... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Closing the Food Gap
Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
Written by Mark Winne
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
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 get food? And in a time of rising rates of both... Read more >
Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty
Written by Mark Winne
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
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 get food? And in a time of rising rates of both... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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