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Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Small Island Developing States

Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Small...

Author: Wayne G. Ganpat ,  Wendy-Ann P. Isaac
ISBN: 9781466665019
Format: Hardback
$570.95

""This book discusses the repercussions of a shifting climate on food production and availability in small island...  Read More >>

Savoring Alternative Food: School gardens, healthy eating and visceral difference

Savoring Alternative Food: School gardens, healthy eating...

Author: Jessica Hayes-Conroy (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, USA)
ISBN: 9780415844239
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In this challenging book, the author explores the contradictions and shortcomings of alternative food activism to...  Read More >>

Pollan on Food Boxed Set: The Omnivore's Dilemma; In Defense of Food; Cooked

Pollan on Food Boxed Set: The Omnivore's Dilemma; In...

Author: Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780147514899
Format: Paperback
$139.92

The three groundbreaking books from our most trusted guide to...  Read More >>

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

Author: Ted Genoways ,  Michael Kramer
ISBN: 9798200027804
Format: Audio
$47.49

A searching expose in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson, and Eric Schlosser, The Chain is a mesmerizing...  Read More >>

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

Author: Ted Genoways ,  Michael Kramer
ISBN: 9798200027798
Format: Audio
$47.49

A searching expose in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson, and Eric Schlosser, The Chain is a mesmerizing...  Read More >>

The Chain Lib/E: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

The Chain Lib/E: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our...

Author: Ted Genoways ,  Michael Kramer
ISBN: 9798200027781
Format: Audio
$47.49

On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure...  Read More >>

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization...

Author: Amy Bentley
ISBN: 9780520283459
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children...  Read More >>

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet

Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization...

Author: Amy Bentley
ISBN: 9780520277373
Format: Hardback
$99.95

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children...  Read More >>

The Ghetto Grocer: 50 True Tales of Food Market Misadventure

The Ghetto Grocer: 50 True Tales of Food Market Misadventure...

Author: James LaFond
ISBN: 9781502894984
Format: Paperback
$42.24

What food handling standards are observed in supermarkets?What does 'clean' mean to a supermarket manager?How might...  Read More >>

Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure

Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure

Author: Samira Kawash
ISBN: 9780865478176
Format: Paperback
$73.92

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Tea Cult Of Japan: An Aesthetic Pastime

Tea Cult Of Japan: An Aesthetic Pastime

Author: Yasunosuke Fukukita
ISBN: 9780415654340
Format: Paperback
$110.00

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Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict

Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders...

Author: Susan F. Hirsch ,  E. Franklin Dukes
ISBN: 9780821421109
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in...  Read More >>

Controversies in Science and Technology: From Sustainability to Surveillance

Controversies in Science and Technology: From Sustainability...

Author: Daniel Lee Kleinman (Professor and Chair, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin) ,  Karen A. Cloud-Hansen (Managing Editor, DNA and Cell Biology)
ISBN: 9780199383771
Format: Hardback
$104.95

Discusses the issues surrounding several current scientific debates, including food policy, ecosystem management,...  Read More >>

Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict

Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders...

Author: Susan F. Hirsch ,  E. Franklin Dukes
ISBN: 9780821421093
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in...  Read More >>

Slippery Noodles: A Culinary History of China

Slippery Noodles: A Culinary History of China

Author: Hsiang Ju Lin
ISBN: 9781909248373
Format: Paperback
$46.58

A celebration of one of the world's big cuisines, introducing new and unfamiliar written sources - this is an evocation...  Read More >>

The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis

The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of...

Author: Ruth DeFries
ISBN: 9780465044979
Format: Hardback
$52.00

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Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media

Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media

Author: Karin Eli ,  Stanley Ulijaszek
ISBN: 9781409457718
Format: Hardback
$315.00

How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And...  Read More >>

Lifestyles Related to Eating Habits in Ready Meal Consumption: Comparative Study between São Paulo & Rome

Lifestyles Related to Eating Habits in Ready Meal Consumption:...

Author: Paulette Siekierski ,  Mateus Canniatti Ponchio
ISBN: 9781633214545
Format: Paperback
$219.91

In the last ten years the ready meals market has had considerable growth with an average of 4.0% in value and 3.0%...  Read More >>

Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Paul Collinson ,  Helen Macbeth
ISBN: 9781782384038
Format: Hardback
$269.10

The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflictnearly always impinges...  Read More >>

Brandy: A Global History

Brandy: A Global History

Author: Becky Sue Epstein
ISBN: 9781780233482
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Figs: A Global History

Figs: A Global History

Author: David Sutton
ISBN: 9781780233499
Format: Hardback
$33.61

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