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  • Places of Pain
    Hariz Halilovich
    Honorable Mention 2013 PROSE Awards, Archaeology and Anthropology section'Scholars of transnational migration and diaspora will find in this book a compelling exploration of the day-to-day practices of translocalism. What is most valuable in Halilovich’s approach is that it encourages analysis of both homogeneous national and religious groups and heterogeneous multiethnic colle...
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    44,37 €

  • Foods that Changed History
    Christopher Cumo
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    159,69 €

  • Racial Spoils from Native Soils
    Arthur Scarritt
    This book explains how one man swindled his Andean village twice. The first time he extorted everyone’s wealth and disappeared, leaving the village in shambles. The village slowly recovered through the unlikely means of converting to Evangelical religions, and therein reestablished trust and the ability to work together. The new religion also kept villagers from exacting violen...
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    125,34 €

  • The Lost Art of Feeding Kids
    Jeannie Marshall
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    16,00 €

  • Agriculture and Economic Growth
    Bruce F. Johnston / Bruce FJohnston / Hiromitsu Kaneda / Kazushi Ohkawa
    This book contains updated versions of a set of papers presented at the International Conference on Agriculture and Economic Development-A Symposium on Japan’s Experience which was held in Tokyo, July, 1967. These papers make a comprehensive reappraisal of Japan’s agricultural development and its relevance to economic growth over the last 100 years. They emphasize long-term stu...
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    104,41 €

  • Work Horse Handbook
    Lynn R Miller
    Classic authoritative text which serves as an operator’s manual for work horse and mule application on farms, in the woods and in the carriage trade. From selection care and feeding of draft horses and mules, through harness, harnessing, hitching and driving, this volume, continually published since 1980 has served to help increase the number of practicing teamsters world wide....
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    52,57 €

  • Rice
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    143,20 €

  • Re-Orienting Cuisine
    Kim Kwang Ok
    '[The book] is very informative, and introduces material that might lead to very interesting debates in culture and foodways, as well as in the classroom.' · Merry White, Boston University'This book is unique in that it covers Eurasia as a system, linking East Asia to Europe in an interesting and creative ways.' · James L. Watson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityFoods...
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    184,01 €

  • Dispossession
    Pete Daniel
    Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers’ fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at th...
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    50,80 €

  • Hydroponics For Beginners
    Erin Morrow
    Hydroponic gardening is a method for growing plant material for consumption primarily, but can also be used for an aesthetic garden if desired. It has a high yield potential with not as much effort required as compared to traditional gardening, but the initial setup of the system as a whole does require a higher initial investment. ...
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    11,13 €

  • Just One Backyard
    John G. Zahina-Ramos
    Winner of Writers Digest's 1st Place Award for Self-Published Nonfiction (e-book, 2015), Just One Backyard: One Man’s Search for Food Sustainability is an entertaining and enlightening tale of how Dr. Zahina-Ramos turned his urban residential backyard into a study to measure the many benefits of urban agriculture. This is no dry lecture based on puffed-up rhetoric. Rather, ...
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    21,84 €

  • Eating Together
    Gaik Cheng Khoo / Jean Duruz
    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' neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the way...
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    120,67 €

  • On the Importance of Small Farms in Michigan
    Wendy Lockwood Banka
    In 2014 the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) requested comments on proposed changes to an obscure document called the Site Selection GAAMP. By the deadline two weeks later MDARD had received nearly 700 responses, with hundreds more to follow after the deadline passed. This is a book of excerpts from 121 of those public comments, which tell the ...
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    13,15 €

  • Food in the Air and Space
    Richard Foss
    In the history of cooking, there has been no more challenging environment than those craft in which humans took to the skies. The tale begins with meals aboard balloons and zeppelins, where cooking was accomplished below explosive bags of hydrogen, ending with space station dinners that were cooked thousands of miles below.This book is the first to chart that history worldwide,...
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    59,94 €

  • Manuscript Recipe Books as Archaeological Objects
    Madeline Shanahan
    During the mid- to late seventeenth century, women in Irish houses from elite backgrounds started to collect recipes, which they recorded in domestic manuscripts. While these manuscripts were made elsewhere at an earlier date, they were an almost entirely new arrival to Ireland in this period, and their sudden proliferation said much about changes taking place in society at lar...
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    132,08 €

  • Portland
    Heather Arndt Anderson
    The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs - just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the decades before the remaining trees were scraped from the landscape, Portland’s wood was still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing...
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    62,38 €

  • Small Batch
    Suzanne Cope
    Artisanal foods are making a comeback as more and more people seek to stock their pantries, and their bellies, with handcrafted or locally grown and made foods. Specialty markets and sections at grocery stores are catering to this new desire for the special, the unique, the carefully made foods. Small Batch: Pickles, Cheese, Chocolate, Spirits and the Return of Artisanal Foods ...
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    58,58 €

  • Food on the Rails
    Jeri Quinzio
    In roughly one hundred years - from the 1870s to the 1970s - dining on trains began, soared to great heights, and then fell to earth. The founders of the first railroad companies cared more about hauling freight than feeding passengers. The only food available on trains in the mid-nineteenth century was whatever passengers brought aboard in their lunch baskets or managed to pic...
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    60,15 €

  • GMO Food
    David Newton
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    81,91 €

  • GOOD FOOD FOR ALL
    This book comprises a collection of essays which emanated from an important Australia China Council (ACC) sponsored event conducted in Wuhan, China in November 2013. Entitled Australia-China Food Knowledge Exchange', the scholarly focus was on the potential of the food sector in both countries and the growing need for 'Good food for all'. This event led many of the specialists ...
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    24,41 €

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Small Island Developing States
    Wayne Ganpat
    With the potential to impact weather patterns, agriculture, and habitability of certain regions, global warming is a topic of interest to environmentalists, scientists, as well as farmers around the world. The threat of food shortages and famine especially becomes a major concern as a result of recent climate shifts. Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Small Island De...
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    282,43 €

  • Food in Zones of Conflict
    The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources. Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to milita...
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    184,26 €

  • Barbecue
    Tim Miller
    Barbecue: A History examines barbecue’s history and place in American society using both historical and contemporary sources. The book examines all aspects of barbecue:·Outdoor grilling and traditional slow cooking ·Restaurant and home cooking·International forms of barbecue ·The specific foods involved in a barbecue·The concept of the barbecue as a gathering·Historical and con...
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    62,88 €

  • Every Bite Affects the World
    Catherine Verrall
    Every Bite Affects the World helps us be mindful of the connections between what we eat and the health of our bodies, as well as the health of the soil, water, climate, communities and farmers both here and far away. The book invites you to be part of the journey.'Combining original recipes, inspirational quotes, and reflections on our relationship with food and the land that p...
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    22,64 €

  • Every Bite Affects the World
    Catherine Verrall
    Every Bite Affects the World helps us be mindful of the connections between what we eat and the health of our bodies, as well as the health of the soil, water, climate, communities and farmers both here and far away. The book invites you to be part of the journey.'Combining original recipes, inspirational quotes, and reflections on our relationship with food and the land that p...
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    29,89 €

  • The Global Food System
    William Schanbacher
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    82,19 €

  • My Future Farmers of America (Ffa) Journal
    Speedy Publishing LLC
    An FFA journal is something that can be used by high school or college students to record work that is done while in the club. The information can then be turned in to the school in order to show achievements earned. It could help secure scholarships for college. Information can also be used to help grow gardens at the home of the student. When information is used, the student ...
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    9,84 €

  • Brunch
    Farha Bano Ternikar / Farha Ternikar
    When Americans think of brunch, they typically think of Sunday mornings swelling into early afternoons; mimosas and bloody Marys; eggs Benedict and coffee cake; bacon and bagels; family and friends. This book presents a modern history of brunch not only as a meal, but also as a cultural experience. Relying on diverse sources, from historic cookbooks to Twitter and television, B...
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    56,14 €

  • Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity
    Janet Page-Reeves
    Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women’s agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women creatively and strategically re-structure their own fields of action in relation to ...
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    163,28 €

  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food
    This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and robust theorizations that allow readers to grasp the complexity of this topic. ...
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    265,41 €


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