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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Liberation'
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"our systematic disregard of nonhuman animalsinspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them.
In Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing proceduresdestroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Beef : The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture'
Traces the history of human beef consumption and asks why Western civilization continues to raise and eat the cattle that threaten the global environment, human health, and economic stability. 35,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth'
john robbins has written a most extraordinary, compelling book, one bound to shake our innermost core. Diet for a new america is a must for anyone concerned about ecology."--the las vegas sun. Photos [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diet for a Small Planet'
With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diet for a Small Planet: 20th Anniversary Edition'
With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enchanted Broccoli Forest'
In this revision of her classic vegetarian cookbook, Katzen introduces many new ideas which reflect current cooking trends and offers a wealth of revised recipes. She includes changes that will simplify steps, additions and combinations, always keeping in mind her continuing attention to fat and cholesterol content. Illustrations. [via]
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"The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook" is a fresh, modern approach to vegetarian cooking, providing exciting, innovative recipes. Beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos, this cookbook also includes easy-to-understand nutritional information plus notes on unusual ingredients and special cooking techniques. This book provides a wealth of information and inspiration for the vegetarian cook. Color photos. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook'
"The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook" is a fresh, modern approach to vegetarian cooking, providing exciting, innovative recipes. Beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos, this cookbook also includes easy-to-understand nutritional information plus notes on unusual ingredients and special cooking techniques. This book provides a wealth of information and inspiration for the vegetarian cook. Color photos. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer'
For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides a deep understanding of vegetarianism as more than just a dietary decision.
This is the first comprehensive collection of primary source material on vegetarianism as a moral choice and includes the writings of Carol Adams, Bernard de Mandeville, Mohandas Gandhi, Oliver Goldsmith, Anna Kingsford, Frances Moore Lappe, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Tom Regan, Albert Schweitzer, Seneca, Peter Singer, Leo Tolstoy, and Richard Wagner, among others. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'
Jonathan safran foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, everything is illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.nine-year-old oskar schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of new york. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the world trade center on the morning of september 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation'
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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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'
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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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism & the World's Religions'
Combines interviews with vegetarian spiritual leaders from each of the world's religions, essays on vegetarianism and selection of vegetarian recipes. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant'
Packed with recipes from the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant in San Francisco that regularly please vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike, Greens is this cook's personal favorite cookbook. From New Potato and Grilled Pepper Pizza to Zuni Stew, these recipes are consistently innovative and delicious. --MTB
"I consider Greens to be the ultimate vegetarian restaurant. The cuisine is elegant, inspiring, and astonishingly creative. Many of us have long awaited this major event in cookbook publishing. Congratulations!" --Mollie Katzen, Moosewood Cookbook [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism'
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Introduction to a vegetarian lifestyle.
"The Higher Taste" is a great introduction to the philosophy and practice of vegetarianism, Hare Krishna style. It lets the reader discover the health and economic advantages, as well as the important ethical and spiritual considerations, of a Krishna conscious approach to diet and nutrition. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet'
Thirty years after Frances Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet changed eating habits around the world, she and her daughter Anna bring us a new round of iconoclastic recommendations that break overwhelming issues down to a simple matter of personal choice. Hope's Edge presents many of the same issues of the original title, but it also provides a wealth of new discoveries and possibilities in this era of genetically engineered foods, worldwide famine, and growing rates of obesity-related health issues.
Beyond discussing a wide range of reasons to become a vegetarian (and that means no fish or chicken either, folks), the authors introduce you to a number of individual reasons for hope--Bob, the Wisconsin cheese maker; Jean-Yves, the farmer from Brittany who created the Sustainable Agriculture Network; and Muhammad Yunas, who has changed the lives of countless living in poverty with his remarkable microcredit programs. Along with these stories and the theories they're based on, you'll also find luscious recipes calling for grains, fruits, vegetables, and a handful of dairy products that will delight your taste buds and your conscience.
The Lappes firmly believe that the choices of low-level consumers have the potential to make positive changes, both in the world economy and in our physical health. By eating a vegetarian diet, shopping with care, and cooking with love, we might all brighten our future tremendously. --Jill Lightner [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laurel's Kitchen'
Includes nutrition charts. Illustrated with woodcuts by the author. A modern classic in the field of nutrition and vegetarian cookery. About 9.5 inches tall by 7.5 wide, 508 pages, index, illustrated endpapers. [via]

› Find signed collectible books: 'Living among Meat Eaters : The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'May All Be Fed : Diet for a New World: Including Recipes by Jia Patton and Friends'
A guide to improving lives through diet describes how food choices are influenced by commercial interests, how the consumption of animal products leads to heart disease, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, obesity, and cancer, and more. 250,000 first printing. $185,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, And Money'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side-By-Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts'
Author of the popular vegetarian classic Moosewood Cookbook, Mollie Katzen now offers Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven, another celebration of nature's bounty. The book (also illustrated by Katzen), presents more than 200 approachable recipes for a wide range of vegetable dishes, from openers, soups, and side dishes to pastas, condiments, and entrees. The recipes draw freely from diverse culinary styles, and cooks of all kinds should enjoy the dishes, as well as Katzen's casual, spontaneous tone. Standout recipes include Roasted Eggplant Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette, Tomato-Fennel Consommé, Giant Mushroom Popovers, and Frittata with Red Onions, Roasted Garlic, Greens, and Goat Cheese. The book's "Side-by-Side" chapter, a collection of small dishes meant to be served together, features bean and grain delights like Coconut Rice with Ginger, Chilies, and Lime, Tuscan Bean and Pasta Stew, and "Don't Knock 'Em Till You Try 'Em" Soyburgers. Condiments and sauces are used to enliven simple vegetable fare and Katzen accordingly offers recipes for such flavor boosters as Red Onion and Shallot Marmalade, Summer Fruit Salsa, and Chipotle Cream. There are dessert recipes, too, for old favorites like Ginger Thins and Homemade Butterscotch Pudding and "newer" enticements like Mexican Chocolate Cake, Pineapple Pomegranita, and Blueberry-Lemon Mousse Pie. With a selection of seasonal menus and useful ingredient notes, the book brims with modern vegetarian cooking ideas presented in Katzen's much-loved style. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moosewood Cookbook'
A fifteenth-anniversary edition of a collection of healthful recipes features recipes that contain less fat and fewer dairy products and eggs and have been retested and rewritten. Simultaneous. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York'
Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper wi th it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the author has revised many of her recipes to be lighter and healthier. Illustrated. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Year of Meats'
At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption via the not-so-subliminal suggestion that prime rib equals a perfect family:
TO: AMERICAN RESEARCH STAFF
FROM: Tokyo Office
DATE: January 5, 1991
RE: My American Wife!...
Here is list of IMPORTANT THINGS for My American Wife!
DESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Attractiveness, wholesomeness, warm personality
2. Delicious meat recipe (NOTE: Pork and other meats is second class meats, so please remember this easy motto: "Pork is Possible, but Beef is Best!")
3. Attractive, docile husband
4. Attractive, obedient children
5. Attractive, wholesome lifestyle
6. Attractive, clean house...
UNDESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Physical imperfections
2. Obesity
3. Squalor
4. Second class peoples
The series, My American Wife!, initally seems like a dream come true for Jane as she criss-crosses the United States filming a different American family each week for her Japanese audience. Naturally, the emphasis is on meat, and Ozeki has fun with out-there recipes such as rump roast in coke and beef fudge; but as Jane becomes more familiar with her subject, she becomes increasingly aware of the beef industry's widespread practice of using synthetic estrogens on their cattle and determines to sabotage the program.
Cut to Tokyo where Akiko Ueno struggles through the dull misery of life with her brutish husband, who happens to be in charge of the show's advertising. After seeing one of Jane's subversive episodes about a vegetarian lesbian couple, Akiko gets in touch and the two women plot to expose the meat industry's hazardous practices. Romance, humor, intrigue, and even a message--My Year of Meats has it all. This is a book that even a vegetarian would love. [via]
› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest'
The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking) [Paperback] [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passionate Vegetarian'
Crescent Dragonwagon shares a wealth of recipes and memories with humor and intelligence in her extraordinary Passionate Vegetarian. She promises that "here you will be well fed, well loved, well tended to, satisfied," and 1,000-plus recipes later, that's exactly what's delivered.
For 18 years Dragonwagon owned and ran a country inn, where she fed glorious food to everyone including vegetarians, diabetics, the lactose intolerant, and people with food allergies. But the real draw here is that this is vegetarian cooking for everyday living. Ingredient lists are always reasonable and understandable; you won't have to search high and low for something esoteric that'll make or break a recipe. This is comfort food that's easy to prepare, and that deprives you of nothing. If you're not a full-time vegetarian, this is the biggest book of potential starters and side dishes you'll ever see.
Dragonwagon's "swoon-worthy, knock-your-socks-off, delicious food" includes hors d'oeuvres; salads; soups; stews; layered dishes; dishes that star grains, beans, or soy; recipes for every vegetable imaginable; burgers and patties; quick dishes; and desserts. From the simple Melissa's Spinach Casserole and Susie Pryor's beautifully impressive "Perfectly Delicious" Stuffed Acorn Squash to the vibrant Stir-Fry of Asparagus with Black Bean-Ginger Sauce and Mr. Panseer's North-Indian-Style Spinach, Dragonwagon offers flavors and cooking techniques from all over the world--everything from old favorites to new twists. With notes on "cooking, eating, loving and living fearlessly," there's a lot to learn here, and it's not just about vegetables. --Leora Y. Bloom [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminis- Vegetarian Critical Theory'
In just over a year, the book with the strange title--and even strager ideas, some would say--has become the classic articulation of the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, between vegetarianism and feminism. Now in paperback and widely available to readers everywhere, The Sexual Politics of Meat will have an even larger impact on the American public. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tassajara Cooking'
When it was first issued, Tassajara Cooking became an overnight classic. Ed Brown's recipes for cookingfor learning to appreciate all the steps involved in making a meal, from selecting the ingredients to serving the finished dishstruck a chord with people who care about food and nutrition. This groundbreaking book, in a completely redesigned format, is just as timely and relevant today, more than thirty years later.
Brown discusses methods for working with vegetables, grains, beans, dairy products, and fruits; cooking techniques; and suggestions for planning good tasting, nutritious meals, from soups and salads to desserts. Generously seasoned with illustrations that detail every part of the cooking process, Tassajara Cooking is a comprehensive guide to inspired cooking, with joy. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian'
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone'
The elegant simplicity and exquisite flavor of Deborah Madison's food make her one of America's leading cooks. In Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, she offers more than great food: her book includes comprehensive information about ingredients and techniques, plus more than 800 recipes. The recipes range from dishes as familiar as Guacamole to those as distinctive as Green Lentils with Roasted Beets and Preserved Lemons, and Cashew Curry. The 124-page chapter titled "Vegetables: The Heart of the Matter" is a virtual book of culinary revelations; you could use it as a manual on buying and preparing vegetables. Madison provides equally inspired recipes and guidance for everything from grains and soy to dairy foods and desserts. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vegetarian Epicure'
A friendly informal tone and some splendid recipes have made this a perennial bestseller. For all who love the fruits of the earth and the art of cooking. A classic with almost a million copies sold to date. [via]
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vegetarian Planet: 350 Big-Flavor Recipes for Out-Of-This-World Food Every Day'
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