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Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilizationby Richard ManningISBN 0865477132 (0-86547-713-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization'Book summary:In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.[via]
The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.More editions of Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization:
All over Creationby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0142003891 (0-14-200389-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Another Turn of the Crank: Essaysby Wendell BerryISBN 1887178287 (1-887178-28-7)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Turn of the Crank: Essays'Book summary:This popular collection features six essays on sustainability and stewardship from one of America's most important cultural critics. Provocative, intimate, and thoughtful, Another Turn of the Crank reaches to the heart of Wendell Berry's concern for our nation, its communities, and their future. [via]
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essaysby Norman WirzbaISBN 1593760078 (1-59376-007-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays'Book summary:The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality, and happiness of the whole community of creation.[via]More editions of The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays:
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berryby Wendell Berry, Norman WirzbaISBN 1582431469 (1-58243-146-9)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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At Nature's Paceby Gene LogsdonISBN 0679427414 (0-679-42741-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technologyby Eric BrendeISBN 0060570059 (0-06-057005-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology'Book summary:What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or hooked to the grid, and spent eighteen months living in a remote community so primitive in its technology that even the Amish consider it antiquated. [via]
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant'S-Eye View of the Worldby Michael PollanISBN 0375760393 (0-375-76039-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Botany of Desire: A Plant'S-Eye View of the World'Book summary:Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication.
In making his point, Pollan focuses on the relationship between humans and four specific plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes. He uses the history of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) to illustrate how both the apple's sweetness and its role in the production of alcoholic cider made it appealing to settlers moving west, thus greatly expanding the plant's range. He also explains how human manipulation of the plant has weakened it, so that "modern apples require more pesticide than any other food crop." The tulipomania of 17th-century Holland is a backdrop for his examination of the role the tulip's beauty played in wildly influencing human behavior to both the benefit and detriment of the plant (the markings that made the tulip so attractive to the Dutch were actually caused by a virus). His excellent discussion of the potato combines a history of the plant with a prime example of how biotechnology is changing our relationship to nature. As part of his research, Pollan visited the Monsanto company headquarters and planted some of their NewLeaf brand potatoes in his garden--seeds that had been genetically engineered to produce their own insecticide. Though they worked as advertised, he made some startling discoveries, primarily that the NewLeaf plants themselves are registered as a pesticide by the EPA and that federal law prohibits anyone from reaping more than one crop per seed packet. And in a interesting aside, he explains how a global desire for consistently perfect French fries contributes to both damaging monoculture and the genetic engineering necessary to support it.
Pollan has read widely on the subject and elegantly combines literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific references with engaging anecdotes, giving readers much to ponder while weeding their gardens. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agriculturalby Wendell BerryISBN 1593760140 (1-59376-014-0)
Softcover, Shoemaker & Hoard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural'Book summary:Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and poet, may look like a Southern gentleman of conservative bearing, but in truth he stands among the foremost radical writers of our time: opposed to the dominant order, but, more important, radical in the primary sense, one who advocates a return to the source, the root, the old ways, in this case, of farming and living on the land. In The Unsettling of America and its companion volumes A Continuous Harmony and The Gift of Good Land, Berry discusses how rural communities can be made and maintained, how an ethic of wise land use can replace the dominant thinking of our present food-as-commodity economics. Berry has been accused of being an impractical romantic, but after reading his books you're likely to think that his ideas are well worth a try. [via]
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The Contrary Farmerby Gene Logsdon, Chelsea GreenISBN 0930031741 (0-930031-74-1)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Contrary Farmer'Book summary:Gene Logsdon offers an alternative to the decline of the family farm by explaining how to successfully engage in what he calls "cottage farming" part-time for enjoyment as well as profit. This book gives readers the tools and information they need to grow their own food in a sustainable and Earth-friendly fashion, but it also tells some great, hilarious stories and includes some truly beautiful and evocative writing. This is not a dry, "how-to" book; it's a really great read even if you haven't a clue about (or any interest in) farming. [via]
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Everyman's Rules for Scientific Livingby Carrie TiffanyISBN 0743286383 (0-7432-8638-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living'Book summary:In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment of an era.
Billowing dust and information, the government "Better Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing advice to the people living on the land. The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts, from Sister Crock, the prim head of "women's subjects," to Mr. Ohno, the Japanese chicken specialist, to Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil. Amid the swaying cars full of cows, pigs, and wheat, a strange and swift seduction occurs between Robert and Jean. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of transforming the land through science.
In luminous prose, Tiffany writes about the challenges of farming, the character of small towns, the stark and terrifying beauty of the Australian landscape, and the fragile relationships among man, science, and nature. Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living is a passionate and heartbreaking novel from an astonishing new writer. [via]
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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japanby F.H. KingISBN 0878578676 (0-87857-867-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japanby F.H. KingISBN 0486436098 (0-486-43609-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan'Book summary:Professor King provides intriguing glimpses of Japan, China, Manchuria, and Korea, with information about the customs of the common people; utilization of waste; methods of irrigation, reforestation, and land reclamation; and the cultivation of rice, silk, and tea. An invaluable, profusely illustrated resource for organic gardeners, farmers, and conservationists. 249 illustrations.[via]More editions of Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan:
Farming:a Hand Book: A Hand Bookby Wendell BerryISBN 0151304084 (0-15-130408-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
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Farming: A Handbookby Wendell BerryISBN 0156301717 (0-15-630171-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farming: A Handbook'Book summary:"Love the world. Work for nothing. / Take all that you have and be poor. / Love someone who does not deserve it," writes Wendell Berry in the persona of "the mad farmer," a conservative landsman who deeply opposes the then-current war in Vietnam and the ongoing crisis of farming and the environment. Lyric, satiric, didactic, by turns funny and earnest, the poems collected in Farming, most from the late 1960s, established Berry as a social critic and artist of the first order. [via]
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Fast Food Nationby Eric SchlosserISBN 0618130977 (0-618-13097-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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- Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal: ISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0395977894 (0-395-97789-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0060938455 (0-06-093845-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
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- Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal: ISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Worldby Greg CritserISBN 0618380604 (0-618-38060-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World'Book summary:What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).[via]
Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls.
Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose.
Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.More editions of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World:
Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Ideaby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0684835703 (0-684-83570-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea'Book summary:Classicist, professor, and farmer Hanson chronicles the decline of small-scale agriculture in the Central Valley of California. He takes his classics seriously, likening the raisin farmers of Modesto to Aeschylus' ideal virtuous man, who "did not wish to seem just, but to be so." He takes modern cultural dictates less seriously: "Is it not odd," he writes, "to rise at dawn with Japanese-, Mexican-, Pakistani-, Armenian-, and Portuguese-American farmers and then be lectured at noonday 40 miles away on campus about cultural sensitivity and the need for 'diversity' by the affluent white denizens of an exclusive, tree-studded suburb?" Hanson relates the life stories of his farmer neighbors, writing that their way of life will likely soon disappear, thanks in part to a federal system of agricultural subsidies that favors large-scale, industrial farm corporations over individual "yeomen." This is a sobering and eye-opening book. [via]
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Five Acres and Independenceby Maurice Grenville KainsISBN 0452252377 (0-452-25237-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Frm Managementby M. G. KainsISBN 0486209741 (0-486-20974-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Georgicsby VirgilISBN 1419163515 (1-4191-6351-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Georgics'Book summary:A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, "The Georgics" is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry. [via]
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- Georgics: ISBN 0140444149 (0-14-044414-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Georgics: ISBN 0192806793 (0-19-280679-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Georgics: ISBN 0872206092 (0-87220-609-2)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Georgics: ISBN 0872206106 (0-87220-610-6)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Georgics: ISBN 0198144458 (0-19-814445-8)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press - Georgics: ISBN 0850670101 (0-85067-010-1)
Hardcover, Folio Society - Georgics: ISBN 0856353388 (0-85635-338-8)
Hardcover, Carcanet Pr - Georgics: ISBN 1419163515 (1-4191-6351-5)
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- Georgics: ISBN 0140444149 (0-14-044414-9)
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The Georgics of Virgilby Virgil, Peter FallonISBN 1852353643 (1-85235-364-3)
Softcover, Gallery Books
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The Georgics of Virgilby David FerryISBN 0374530319 (0-374-53031-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Georgics of Virgil'Book summary:John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in difficult--and beautiful--circumstances, and in the context of all we share in nature.[via]
The Georgics celebrates the crops, trees, and animals, and, above all, the human beings who care for them. It takes the form of teaching about this care: the tilling of fields, the tending of vines, the raising of the cattle and the bees. There's joy in the detail of Virgil's descriptions of work well done, and ecstatic joy in his praise of the very life of things, and passionate commiseration too, because of the vulnerability of men and all other creatures, with all they have to contend with: storms, and plagues, and wars, and all mischance.More editions of The Georgics of Virgil:
The Georgics Of Virgil: A Translationby Virgil, David FerryISBN 0374161399 (0-374-16139-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Gift of Good Landby Wendell BerryISBN 0865470510 (0-86547-051-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agriculturalby Wendell BerryISBN 0865470529 (0-86547-052-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural'Book summary:In this collection of essays, continuing the argument begun with The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes of the importance of good farming to a healthy culture. By health he means not the mere absence of disease, but the operation of a balanced, nondestructive way of life; his essays on the Amish people of Pennsylvania and Ohio offer a model. "An economy of waste," Berry writes, "is incompatible with a healthy environment"--an environment that operates in balance, within bounds. Arguing for the primacy of family-based, local economies, and for the exercise of intelligence, reverence, and community values, Berry crafts a prose idyll celebrating the pastoral existence. [via]
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393038912 (0-393-03891-2)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companionby Jared DiamondISBN 1586638637 (1-58663-863-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion'Book summary:Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:- Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?
- Why is geography the most important factor in human history?
- How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?
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How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagineby John JeavonsISBN 1580082335 (1-58008-233-5)
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How to Grow More Vegetables: Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Cropsby John JeavonsISBN 0898157676 (0-89815-767-6)
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Letters from an American Farmerby J. Hector John de CrevecoeurISBN 1419129805 (1-4191-2980-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters From An American Farmer'Book summary:Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and identity issues, these Letters celebrate personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression, and the largeness and fertility of the land. They also address darker and more symbolic elements, particularly slavery. This book is the only critical edition available of what is seen by many as the first-ever work of American literature. [via]
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- Letters from an American Farmer: ISBN 0192838989 (0-19-283898-9)
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Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Letters from an American Farmer: ISBN 0486444082 (0-486-44408-2)
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Letters from an American Farmer ; And, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century Americaby J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Albert E. StoneISBN 0140390065 (0-14-039006-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dreamby Gene LogsdonISBN 189013256X (1-890132-56-X)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardenerby Eliot Coleman, Sheri Amsel, Molly Cook FieldISBN 093003175X (0-930031-75-X)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsby Michael PollanISBN 1594200823 (1-59420-082-3)
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On Good Land : The Autobiography of an Urban Farmby Michael AblemanISBN 0811819213 (0-8118-1921-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Orangesby John A. McPheeISBN 0374512973 (0-374-51297-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case For The Independent Farm And Against Industrial Foodby George PyleISBN 1586481150 (1-58648-115-0)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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Seeds of Change: Five Plants That Transformed Mankindby Hobhouse S.ISBN 0333582632 (0-333-58263-2)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankindby Henry HobhouseISBN 1593760493 (1-59376-049-3)
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Square Foot Gardening: A New Way To Garden In Less Space With Less Workby Mel BartholomewISBN 1579548563 (1-57954-856-3)
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* A complete garden book for both the beginner and the expert
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The Story of Cornby Betty FussellISBN 0826335926 (0-8263-3592-6)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it around the globe. She explores corn's roles as food, fetish, crop, and commodity to those who have planted, consumed, worshiped, processed, and profited from it for seven centuries.
Now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, The Story of Corn, is the winner of a Julia Child Cookbook Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
"Written in a lively and nontechnical style."--Library Journal
"Fussell has clearly done a good deal of research and a lot of traveling--peering over a precipice at Machu Picchu, descending into a restored ceremonial kiva of the Anasazi people in New Mexico, visiting the sole surviving corn palace from the Midwest boosters--glory days of a century ago."--Kirkus Reviews
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Traditional American Farming Techniques: A Ready Reference on All Phases of Agriculture for Farmers of the United States and Canadaby Frank D. GardnerISBN 1585744123 (1-58574-412-3)
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Unsettling of Americaby Wendell BerryISBN 0871561948 (0-87156-194-8)
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agricultureby Wendell BerryISBN 0871568772 (0-87156-877-2)
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Virgil Georgicsby R.A.B. MynorsISBN 0198149786 (0-19-814978-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Virgil's Georgicsby Virgil, Janet LembkeISBN 0300119860 (0-300-11986-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The word georgics means farming. Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poem gives specific instructions to Italian farmers along with a passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains. The Georgics is also a heartfelt cry for returning farmers and their families to land they had lost through a series of dispiriting political events. It is often considered the most technically accomplished and beautiful of all of Virgils work.More editions of Virgil's Georgics:
Virgil's Georgics: A Modern English Verseby Smith Palmer BovieISBN 0226857409 (0-226-85740-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eatsby Raymond SokolovISBN 0671797913 (0-671-79791-3)
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Virgil: The Georgics, Books I and IIby Richard F. ThomasISBN 0521261767 (0-521-26176-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Virgil Vol. 1, Bks. I-II : The Georgicsby Virgil, Richard F. Thomas, P. E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Richard HunterISBN 0521278503 (0-521-27850-3)
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Virgil Vol. 2, Bks. III-IV : The Georgicsby Virgil, Richard F. Thomas, P. E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Richard HunterISBN 0521346789 (0-521-34678-9)
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steelby Jared DiamondISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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Georgicasby VirgilioISBN 8437612667 (84-376-1266-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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