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Dying to Eat: Health, Heresy and Hysteria

Dying to Eat: Health, Heresy and Hysteria

Author: Michael David Trevan
ISBN: 9781527507975
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book examines our oft emotional relationship with food; the way science has been used and misused by those...  Read More >>

Fermented Man

Fermented Man

Author: Derek Dellinger
ISBN: 9780715652749
Format: Paperback
$25.85

On a cold new year’s day, homebrewer and writer Derek Dellinger began a journey that changed everything he thought...  Read More >>

From Einkorn Wheat to Gmo: A Quick Look at the Evolution of Genetics in Agricultural Crops

From Einkorn Wheat to Gmo: A Quick Look at the Evolution...

Author: Wayne Persky
ISBN: 9781732079250
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This book looks at the relationship between the evolution of humans, agriculture, and crop biotechnology, including...  Read More >>

Branch Research Stations in Agriculture: History, Development, Operation, and Future

Branch Research Stations in Agriculture: History, Development,...

Author: Gale a Buchanan
ISBN: 9781495820694
Format: Hardback
$129.25

Branch research stations fulfill a critical role in the success of agricultural research. The idea for the need...  Read More >>

Berries: A Global History

Berries: A Global History

Author: Heather Arndt Anderson
ISBN: 9781780238951
Format: Hardback
$24.99

In Berries: A Global History  Read More >>

Brain Food: How to Eat Smart and Sharpen Your Mind

Brain Food: How to Eat Smart and Sharpen Your Mind

Author: Dr Lisa Mosconi
ISBN: 9780241976319
Format: Hardback
$39.99

We are what we eat' is an age-old adage. But while we often talk about diets affecting our fitness, we don't talk...  Read More >>

Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups

Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America...

Author: Andrew Fisher ,  Saru Jayaraman (Director, UC Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780262535168
Format: Paperback
$39.99

How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health,...  Read More >>

Critical Muslim 26: Gastronomy

Critical Muslim 26: Gastronomy

Author: Ziauddin Sardar
ISBN: 9781849049726
Format: Paperback
$34.95

What is halal? Does Islam have a particular flavour? Is culture transferred through gastronomy? In this issue we...  Read More >>

Eating Promiscuously: Adventures in the Future of Food

Eating Promiscuously: Adventures in the Future of Food...

Author: James McWilliams
ISBN: 9781640090323
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A bold and bracing argument for the complete reimagining of the human diet by the critically acclaimed author of...  Read More >>

Falcon Notebook

Falcon Notebook

Author: Wild Pages Press
ISBN: 9781718879515
Format: Paperback
$18.45

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Mindtap Agriscience, 2 Term (12 Months) Printed Access Card for Parker's Equine Science, 5th

Mindtap Agriscience, 2 Term (12 Months) Printed Access...

Author: Rick Parker
ISBN: 9781305949782
Format: Online resource
$456.72

MindTap Agriscience for Parker's EQUINE SCIENCE, Fifth Edition, helps you learn on your terms. Offering an enhanced...  Read More >>

The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest

The Fruitful City: The Enduring Power of the Urban Food...

Author: Helena Moncrieff
ISBN: 9781770413535
Format: Paperback
$29.99

When was the last time you picked fruit from a city tree? This book explores how growing troops of urban harvesters...  Read More >>

The Psychopolitics of Food: Culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age

The Psychopolitics of Food: Culinary rites of passage...

Author: Mihalis Mentinis
ISBN: 9781138549845
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A highly original and transdisciplinary exploratiojn of the contemporary 'foodscape', examining culinary practices...  Read More >>

Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture

Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture...

Author: Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo) ,  S. Ryan Isakson
ISBN: 9781773630236
Format: Paperback
$31.95

The centralization of finance and the corporatization of agriculture is having a very dramatic impact on the quality...  Read More >>

Curry: Eating, Reading and Race

Curry: Eating, Reading and Race

Author: Naben Ruthnum
ISBN: 9781925603668
Format: Paperback
$19.99

No two curries are the same.  Read More >>

Feasting in Southeast Asia

Feasting in Southeast Asia

Author: Brian Hayden
ISBN: 9780824876777
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Documents the dynamics of traditional feasting and the ways in which a bewildering array of different types of feasts...  Read More >>

Organic Resistance: The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France

Organic Resistance: The Struggle Over Industrial Farming...

Author: Venus Bivar
ISBN: 9781469641188
Format: Paperback
$92.27

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry....  Read More >>

Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational Literature in English: An Empirical Evaluation of Studentsʼ Competence Development in a Life-Writing Approach to Teaching Literature

Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational Literature...

Author: Maria Eisenmann ,  Mirja Beutel
ISBN: 9783631742662
Format: Hardback
$167.80

The book introduces a teaching approach that seeks to prepare students in multicultural EFL-classrooms for their...  Read More >>

Organic Resistance: The Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Postwar France

Organic Resistance: The Struggle Over Industrial Farming...

Author: Venus Bivar
ISBN: 9781469641171
Format: Hardback
$261.36

France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry....  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell ,  Donna Lee Brien
ISBN: 9781138048430
Format: Hardback
$483.00

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational...  Read More >>

The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution

The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the...

Author: Brent Preston
ISBN: 9781419731082
Format: Hardback
$34.99

First published by Random House of Canada in 2017.  Read More >>

Rebellious Spirits: Audacious Tales of Drinking on the Wrong Side of the Law

Rebellious Spirits: Audacious Tales of Drinking on the...

Author: Ruth Ball
ISBN: 9781783963799
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics

Author: Anne Barnhill (, University of Pennsylvania) ,  Tyler Doggett (, University of Vermont)
ISBN: 9780199372263
Format: Hardback
$246.00

The handbook is a partial survey of multiple areas of food ethics: conventional agriculture and alternatives to...  Read More >>

Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm

Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without...

Author: Gene Logsdon ,  Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781603588065
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Completed only a few weeks before Gene Logsdon's death, Letter to a Young Farmer is a remarkable testament to the...  Read More >>

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