Agriculture & Food

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often...

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian...

Why do famines occur and how have their effects changed through time? Why are those who produce food so often the casualties of famines? Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African Sahel during the 1970s, Michael J. Watts examines the...

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it...

Gates to a Global Empire gathers evidence and throws light on the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting the corporate takeover of our seed, agriculture, food, knowledge and global health systems--manipulating information and eroding...

It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today's most sophisticated...

Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in...

An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West. Why are some disgusted at the thought of eating insects while others find them delicious? Edible Insects: A Global History provides a broad...

Get in on the ground level of the next artisan food obsession-honey! Just like wine, cheese, beer or coffee, honey is an artisan food with much to be discovered. Whether you're interested in tasting the various varietals, using it as a cure, or...

Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws,...

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of...

Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods but they are also the most widely misunderstood. Oishii: The History of Sushi reveals that sushi began as a fermented food with a sour taste, used as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648870586Author Albert HowardFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Distant MirrorPublisher Distant MirrorWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046296Author Sidney MintzFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases...

From breakfast to bedtime the food that we eat and the natural world that we all share have the power to nourish our bodies, nurture our growth and support our health, vitality and survival. But are we taking it all for granted? Are we making the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534087Author Bruce PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900322430Author Tamzin PinkertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Transition BooksPublisher Green BooksWeight(grams) 644g

Thought of as one of the world's greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci's writings push readers to interpret and change the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini enlarges upon his seminal works, disentangling it from the prevailing orthodoxy...

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems. Marc Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking their claims from farmers'...

Intoxicating and evocative, vanilla is so much more than a spice rack staple. It is a flavor that has defined the entire world--and its roots reach deep into the past. With its earliest origins dating back seventy million years, the history of vanilla...

In Comfortably Unaware, Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of global depletion as it relates to food choice. We should all be committed, he tells us, to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963810977Author Joel SalatinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Polyface, IncorporatedPublisher Polyface, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

'A provocative vision.' Sunday Times In 2017, the number of people going hungry in the world increased, for the first time in a decade. Pesticide-resistant bugs lay waste to crops across the globe, from bananas to potatoes. Food production releases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648870524Author Albert HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Distant MirrorPublisher Distant MirrorWeight(grams) 152g

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have...

In many contexts of Greek social life, Scotch whisky has coincidentally become a symbol of "Greekness," national identity, modernity and middle class. This ethnographic study follows the social life of Scotch in Greece through three distinct...

What is our place in nature?Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have has exercised unprecedented dominance over nature, with consequences that are now catching up with us. Many have pointed to Christianity as a culprit. Yet Christianity actually...

Veganism is so much more than what we eat. It's about striving to live an ethical life in a profoundly unethical world. Is being vegan difficult or is it now easier than ever? What does veganism have to do with wider struggles for social justice -...

It's the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most...

'Funny, insightful and hugely informative ... a charming book' DAILY MAIL'Tremendous ... We all need to take stock, and this is the ideal starting point. I learnt a lot from this book and laughed a lot too.' ROSAMUND YOUNG, author of The Secret Life of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641439Author Albert HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint David RehakPublisher David RehakWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

This is not a cookbook. It is the unwritten story of a people. Between the vast Indian and Pacific oceans lies a realm of extraordinary natural abundance: the Malay Archipelago, known widely as the Nusantara. These islands of Southeast Asia have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963185Author Albert HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)...

This demonization of the overweight by the media and politicians is unrelenting. Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's award-winning health editor, argues it's time we understood the complex reality of what makes us fat. Speaking to behavioral scientists and...

This demonization of the overweight by the media and politicians is unrelenting. Sarah Boseley, the Guardian's award-winning health editor, argues it's time we understood the complex reality of what makes us fat. Speaking to behavioral scientists and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786148035500Author Dima SroujiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint KaphPublisher Kaph

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553459418Author Benjamin LorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal welfare issues 'from farm to fork'. Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the...