Agriculture & Food

Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence. But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap, there is a world of power struggles and political maneuvering over its most important ingredient: cocoa. In this incisive book, Kristy Leissle reveals how cocoa,...

Ellen Ruppel Shell's Slippery Beast is a fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creature-the eel-a thrilling saga of true crime, natural history, travel, and big business. What is it about eels? Depending on who you ask, they are a pest, a...

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A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America's dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different. In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists...

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...

Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and one of the world's most successful city food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat for Food Security was founded in 1993, malnutrition in Belo...

'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...

Look. Swirl. Sniff. Taste. Savour. Whether you're tasting a refreshing white or an aromatic red, these well-known steps are the only proper way to take the first sip of wine. How did wine surpass all other beverages to achieve global domination? In...

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...

After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this...

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes. Even scientists still seem to be arguing about what causes obesity, so what hope is there for the rest of...

In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explores concepts such as gentrification, class antagonism,...

Reader-friendly and engaging, SMALL ANIMAL CARE AND MANAGEMENT, Fourth Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the care and husbandry of small animals. Through a logical flow of information, it introduces you to the basics of the small animal industry,...

From edible insects and lab-grown meat to industrial farming and freeganism, the future of food is the debate on everyone's lips. The need for change in our food systems-to secure a more sustainable, healthy and fair future-is recognized as a major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316227933Author J. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown Spark

This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns. For thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in...

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured meat...

Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of terroir, and its transnational deployment in China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. It demystifies the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195055906Author R. RamakumarFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 978gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 162mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561552Author Alice WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Whether grainy or smooth, spicy or sweet, Dijon, American or English, mustard accompanies our food and flavours our life around the globe. It has been a source of pleasure, health and myth from ancient times to the present day, its tiny seed a symbol of...

The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788650021Author Lucy GlastenFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Zoodoo PublishingPublisher Zoodoo PublishingWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Ethicist Singer and co-author Mason ("Animal Factories") document corporate deception, widespread waste and desensitization to inhumane practices in this consideration of ethical eating. The authors examine three families' grocery-buying habits and the...

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been...

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...

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...

A powerful movement is happening in farming today-farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that's meant learning her tribe's history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it's meant preserving forest...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101990599Author Daniel StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062394033Author Matt GouldingFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Harper Wave/Anthony BourdainPublisher Harper Wave/Anthony BourdainWeight(grams) 839g

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...

'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.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 2015. Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780375713965Author Sven BeckertFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint...

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

How can we learn from previous food production mistakes and pave a way for producing sustainable, nutritious, local meat? The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalised food system and highlighted the desperate need for local and...

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

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,...

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 9781947534087Author Bruce PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm