Agriculture & Food

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885210173Author Lynn R MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Davila Art & BooksPublisher Davila Art & BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633917521Author Keokam KraisoraphongFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 178g

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540216670Author Jody L Lamp DobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636480749Author Chahira AdouaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 152g

How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well? This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consumption and eating patterns since the 1950s. The culinary landscape of Britain is explored through...

Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored -...

Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of "public" eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, "food streets," and "ethnic"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733987806Author K Rashid NuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Nuri Group, LLCPublisher Nuri Group, LLCWeight(grams) 418g

Tomatoes are a $2-billion industry in the United States. The commercially grown varieties are intended to ship well and have a long shelf life, but how do they actually taste? In the search for a superior alternative to bland and mealy grocery-store...

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a "Blue Revolution" has taken place in global aquaculture. Geared towards quenching the appetite of privileged consumers in the global North, it has come at a high price for the South: ecological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944528836Author Lacey ThackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Et Alia PressPublisher Et Alia PressWeight(grams) 263g

For millennia, rice has sealed the fate of dynasties and kingdoms in Asia but has only remained a cultural curiosity to Western financial markets. Today the food and agricultural markets of India and China are in motion. The history of agricultural...

Lenin described The Agrarian Question as the first systematic Marxist study of capitalism and agriculture and the most important event in economic literature since the third volume of Capital. This great work is regarded as Kautsky's main achievement and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636481395Author Italo Guimaraes Do ValeFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966720542Author Benjamin Oginga DangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Wamra TechnoprisesPublisher Wamra TechnoprisesWeight(grams) 1143g

Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities' ability to access healthy, fresh foods. It exposits the meaning of marginalization through several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272622Author Roberto Garcia RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734004021Author Cherrie LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint DabopressPublisher DabopressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612295305Author Courtney Irene Powell ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Common Ground PublishingPublisher Common Ground PublishingWeight(grams)...

American Farms, American Food bridges the gap between agricultural production and food studies allowing readers to learn about both subjects up close and in detail. Beyond that, the book provides background on the domestication, breeding, and development...

American Farms, American Food bridges the gap between agricultural production and food studies allowing readers to learn about both subjects up close and in detail. Beyond that, the book provides background on the domestication, breeding, and development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144278Author Lawrence GibbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief biographies traces the lives of 13 well known literary drinkers, examining how their relationship with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467140539Author Scott StursaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

What started as an impossible dream-to build a cafe that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312140844Author David Stallings VanderpoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274503Author Andaleeb RahmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Hunger, malnutrition, poor health, and deficient food systems are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. While much is known about African food systems and about African health and nutrition, our understanding of the interaction between food systems and...

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. At the outset he notes it was Victor Frankenstein's "daemon" in Mary Shelley's novel that...

Combining the study of food culture with gender studies and using per spectives from historical, literary, environmental, and American studies, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines what southern women's choices about food tell us about race, class,...

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. At the outset he notes it was Victor Frankenstein's "daemon" in Mary Shelley's novel that advocated...

Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture-fresh food, green space, educational opportunities-can mask structural...

In Meanings of Maple, Michael A. Lange provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity. Readers will go deep into a Vermont...

Texas has its barbecue tradition, and a library of books to go with it. Same with the Carolinas. The mid-South, however, is a region with as many opinions as styles of cooking. In The Slaw and the Slow Cooked, editors James Veteto and Edward Maclin seek...

This expansive collection enriches the field of food studies with a feminist intersectional perspective, addressing the impacts that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality have on nutritional customs, habits, and perspectives. Throughout the text,...

The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security...

Agriculture is becoming increasingly influenced by globalisation. The result is a more interconnected world where new forms of trade and cultural exchange can thrive on an international level. This novel Handbook provides insights to the ways in which...