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Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages

Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making...
Author: Andrew F. Smith ISBN: 9780231151160 Format: Hardback	$49.95
A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making... Read More >>

Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories About Food and Culture

Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories About Food...
Author: Massimo Montanari , Beth Archer Brombert ISBN: 9780231157322 Format: Hardback	$140.95
Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry eye to the... Read More >>

Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts

Food and Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts
Author: Ann McCulloch , Pavlina Radia ISBN: 9781443841542 Format: Hardback	$200.51
This book traces the various configurations of food as hunger, desire, and appetite which point to the complex dialectic... Read More >>

Unfinished Puzzle: Cuban Agriculture: The Challenges, Lessons & Opportunities

Unfinished Puzzle: Cuban Agriculture: The Challenges,...
Author: May Ling Chan , Eduardo Francisco Freyre Roach ISBN: 9780935028423 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society

Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System:...
Author: Rod MacRae , Elisabeth Abergel ISBN: 9780774822695 Format: Paperback	$100.19
Lays out new strategies for advocacy groups to achieve a sustainable, healthy food system. Read More >>

The Still Hunter

The Still Hunter
Author: Theodore S Van Dyke ISBN: 9781612037240 Format: Paperback	$40.08
"STILL-HUNTING, the most scientific of all things pertaining to hunting, has hitherto been almost confined to the... Read More >>

Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon

Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
Author: Cindy Ott , William Cronon ISBN: 9780295991955 Format: Hardback	$132.00
A lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world... Read More >>

Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics...
Author: Cynthia Baron , Diane Cardon ISBN: 9780814334317 Format: Paperback	$92.37
Scholars of film studies and food studies will enjoy the thought-provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties.... Read More >>

Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction

Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction
Author: Parke Wilde (Tufts University, Boston, USA) ISBN: 9781299319448 Format: Electronic book text	$396.00
This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates... Read More >>

Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change

Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change
Author: Ian Hudson , Mark Hudson (Australian National University, Canberra Kyushu University, Japan Kyushu University, Japan) ISBN: 9781299406599 Format: Electronic book text	$237.60
The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable... Read More >>

Mushroom Hunters, The: On the Trail of an Underground America

Mushroom Hunters, The: On the Trail of an Underground...
Author: Langdon Cook ISBN: 9781299809635 Format: Electronic book text	$205.92
In the tradition of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky's... Read More >>

Food Police

Food Police
Author: Jayson Lusk ISBN: 9781299455665 Format: Electronic book text	$190.08
A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food. Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals?... Read More >>

Coal Dust on Your Feet

Coal Dust on Your Feet
Author: Janet MacGaffey (Bucknell University) ISBN: 9781299850446 Format: Electronic book text	$118.77
Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal... Read More >>

Food

Food
Author: Professor Jennifer Clapp (Trent University University of Waterloo, Ontario University of Waterloo, Ontario University of Waterloo, Ontario) ISBN: 9781299534438 Format: Electronic book text	$171.47
Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of the world's population... Read More >>

Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations

Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations
Author: David K Langford , Lorie Woodward Cantu ISBN: 9781299805491 Format: Electronic book text	$92.40
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San Francisco: A Food Biography

San Francisco: A Food Biography
Author: Erica J Peters ISBN: 9781299828230 Format: Electronic book text	$100.29
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Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System

Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System...
Author: Camille Tuason Mata ISBN: 9781299874299 Format: Electronic book text	$158.37
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities' ability... Read More >>

Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean: Building Capacity and Strengthening Local Food Production Systems

Domestic Food Production and Food Security in the Caribbean:...
Author: Clinton L Beckford , Donovan R Campbell ISBN: 9781299717619 Format: Electronic book text	$237.60
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Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa: The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments

Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa:...
Author: Fantu Cheru , Renu Modi ISBN: 9781299758643 Format: Electronic book text	$335.15
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Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality

Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality
Author: Alice P Julier ISBN: 9781299647992 Format: Electronic book text	$224.40
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Great African Land Grab?

Great African Land Grab?
Author: Lorenzo Cotula (International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK) ISBN: 9781299717725 Format: Electronic book text	$284.99
Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media... Read More >>

Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope

Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope
Author: Virginia D Nazarea , Robert E Rhoades ISBN: 9781299991118 Format: Undefined	$158.40
Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well... Read More >>

Weed Runners, The: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade

Weed Runners, The: Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists...
Author: Nicholas Schou ISBN: 9781306012492 Format: Electronic book text	$36.93
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In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America

In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore...
Author: Professor Maureen Ogle ISBN: 9781306055130 Format: Electronic book text	$68.64
The untold history of how meat made America: a tale of theoversized egos, self-made millionaires, and ruthless magnates;... Read More >>

British Electricity Experiment, The: Privatization: The Record, the Issues, the Lessons

British Electricity Experiment, The: Privatization:...
Author: John Surrey , Virginia D Nazarea ISBN: 9781306115933 Format: Electronic book text	$316.80
In 1990, energy in the UK underwent a unique and fundamental transformation, with the privatization of the electricity... Read More >>

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