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Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics

Author: Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition Food Studies and Public Health Marion Nestle (New York University) ,  Malden Nesheim, PhD
ISBN: 9781280116629
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

Calories too few or too many are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today s globalized...  Read More >>

Rodeo Austin: Blue Ribbons, Buckin' Broncs, and Big Dreams

Rodeo Austin: Blue Ribbons, Buckin' Broncs, and Big...

Author: Liz Carmack
ISBN: 9781280772375
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

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You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture

You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture

Author: Steven Poole
ISBN: 9781299099494
Format: Electronic book text
$18.90

When did the basic human imperative to feed ourselves mutate into such a multitude of anxieties about provenance,...  Read More >>

Paul Bunyan vs. Hals Halson: The Giant Lumberjack Challenge!

Paul Bunyan vs. Hals Halson: The Giant Lumberjack Challenge!...

Author: Teresa Bateman ,  Virginia D Nazarea
ISBN: 9781306126519
Format: Electronic book text
$90.50

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You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture

You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture

Author: Steven Poole
ISBN: 9781306402385
Format: Electronic book text
$52.77

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Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming...

Author: Wenonah Hauter
ISBN: 9781306434409
Format: Electronic book text
$71.15

Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the...  Read More >>

Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health

Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks,...

Author: Martha Rosenberg
ISBN: 9781306927475
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

This hard-hitting exposE blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What...  Read More >>

Beautiful Corn

Beautiful Corn

Author: Anthony Boutard
ISBN: 9781322524665
Format: Electronic book text
$52.67

From seed to plate - the seasons of a remarkable crop  Read More >>

Fair Food

Fair Food

Author: Oran Hesterman
ISBN: 9781322531540
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

We can't fix the broken food system simply by changing what's on our plate: the answer lies beyond the kitchen....  Read More >>

Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism

Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of...

Author: Julie Guthman
ISBN: 9780520266254
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This...  Read More >>

Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism

Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of...

Author: Julie Guthman
ISBN: 9780520266247
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This...  Read More >>

The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change

The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change

Author: Chris Gosden ,  Jon G. Hather
ISBN: 9780415513494
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture

Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the...

Author: Christopher Rosin (University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Paul Stock (University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA)
ISBN: 9781849712293
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food...  Read More >>

Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture

Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture...

Author: Jeremy Strong ,  Jeremy Strong
ISBN: 9780803219359
Format: Paperback
$92.40

A collection of new essays that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. It spans such diverse...  Read More >>

Conversations with the Land

Conversations with the Land

Author: Jim Vanderpol
ISBN: 9780983950301
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Jim VanDerPol farms and writes in a western Minnesota world very different from the one in which he was raised in...  Read More >>

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of...

Author: Tom Mueller (John Deere & Company, Urbandale, Iowa, USA) ,  Peter Ganim
ISBN: 9781611203486
Format: Audio
$118.77

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been a necessity--for food, medicine, beauty, and religion. Today's researchers...  Read More >>

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of...

Author: Tom Mueller (John Deere & Company, Urbandale, Iowa, USA) ,  Peter Ganim
ISBN: 9781611203530
Format: Audio
$79.17

Globalization, deception, crime - how Extra-Virgin Olive Oil became corrupt.  Read More >>

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of...

Author: Tom Mueller (John Deere & Company, Urbandale, Iowa, USA) ,  Peter Ganim
ISBN: 9781611203523
Format: Mixed media product
$184.77

Globalization, deception, crime - how Extra-Virgin Olive Oil became corrupt.  Read More >>

The Big Handout: How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live In and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills

The Big Handout: How Government Subsidies and Corporate...

Author: Thomas M. Kostigen
ISBN: 9781609611132
Format: Hardback
$65.97

"Just reading the word ""subsidies"" may cause many people's eyes to glaze over. We don't think it affects us directly,...  Read More >>

Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to Transform Our Food System

Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to Transform Our Food...

Author: Eric Holt-Gimenez ,  Samir Amin
ISBN: 9780935028386
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the...  Read More >>

Spring

Spring

Author: International Union for Conservation of Nature
ISBN: 9782831713199
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Spring is the the eighth title in IUCN's successful WANI Toolkit series, which provides practical guidance on the...  Read More >>

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