Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science
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Paddy’s Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
$19.99 Add to cartA highly engaging, yet hearbreaking account of the Irish’s plight due to the Great Potato Famine. Gallagher explains why and how the famine happened, but also details the agonizing human experience of… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 1987
- ISBN10: 0156707004
- Language: English
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The Nature of Nature: The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change
$19.95 Read moreIn an age of climate catastrophes and extinction, we need to turn back to nature and learn, once again, how to live sustainably on planet Earth–beginning with our relationship to food.
Four billion y
- Author: Shiva, Vandana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022870
- Language: English
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Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway
$27.95 Add to cartA summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm–and learns far more than how to herd sheep
In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of yste- Author: Greensfelder, Liese
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1517917662
- Language: English
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Spirits Distilled: A Guide to the Ingredients Behind a Better Bottle
$34.95 Add to cartDo you know what’s in your drink? Which grains go into your favorite Bourbon? What makes an artisanal Tequila? Or why molasses-based rum is so different in flavor from its sugarcane juice counterpart?
- Author: Harry, Nat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1958510017
- Language: English
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How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world–and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.
How we live is shaped b- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368191
- Language: English
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The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
$78.00 Add to cartAnthropologists and historians have confirmed the central role alcohol has played in nearly every society since the dawn of human civilization, but it is only recently that it has been the subject of … [more below]
- Author: Wondrich, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0199311137
- Language: English
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
$17.99 Add to cartWhat 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, refriger
- Author: Brende, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060570059
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016772
- Language: English
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In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy
$19.95 Add to cart“Of soil and soul…Ms. Brox has restored a lost world.”–Wall Street Journal
A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrimack
- Series: Nonpareil Books #16
- Author: Brox, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928188
- Language: English
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The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful and heartwarming exploration of cuisine in conflict zones, highlighting the heroic persistence of people struggling to protect their food culture in the face of war, genocide, and violence.… [more below]
- Author: Shaikh, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0593442849
- Language: English
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Green Gold: The Avocado’s Remarkable Journey from Humble Superfood to Toast of a Nation
$29.00 Add to cartA lively and engrossing cultural history of the avocado and the people who transformed it into an American obsession
“Whether you’re a history buff or just enjoy a chip full of guacamole, you’ll be t- Author: Allaback, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096760
- Language: English
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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.
Humanity has cleared a l- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1982160071
- Language: English
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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
$27.99 Add to cartPer person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there.
What stories could I unravel from the … [more below]
- Author: Goh, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 196310823X
- Language: English
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Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
$32.00 Add to cartA vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster
“This book describes–in loving, living prose–on- Author: Hage, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 593447409
- Language: English
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Turning the Soil 250 Years of Vermont Agriculture
$21.00 Add to cartRoger Allbee has a deep-rooted connection to Vermont’s agricultural history. Growing up on a hilltop farm in a rural town, Roger witnessed the strength and persistence of his family, who has farmed th
- Author: Allbee, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: January 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798885450232
- Language: English
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Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick
$29.95 Add to cartHow Coca-Cola makes Americans sick–and makes sure we don’t know it.
If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The- Author: Carpenter, Murray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049503
- Language: English
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White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus-In Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World
$30.00 Add to cartA profound and lyrical reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it–told through the fate of phosphorus
“There would be no life without const- Author: Lohmann, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593316614
- Language: English
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Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
$35.00 Add to cartWhat we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.
Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what i- Author: Shapin, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 022683221X
- Language: English
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From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture
$27.99 Read moreAn award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food system
It’s well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorit
- Author: Anderson, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978148
- Language: English
