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  • Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America
    Mark McWilliams
    Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity-the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the young republic-William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren by aligning the in...
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    141,67 €

  • Food and Social Media
    Signe Rousseau
    Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people’s lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion and branding. This entertaining narrative offers an historical account of the m...
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    56,21 €

  • Three World Cuisines
    Ken Albala
    The text begins with a comprehensive theory of cuisine in the introduction and moves to the parallel culinary histories of Italy, Mexico, and China: the independent domestication of crops in each, the social, political, and technological developments that gave rise to each cuisine, and cooking in both professional and home settings. It also compares the internal logic of the co...
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    207,68 €

  • Agri-environmental Decision-making of Chinese Farmers. Economic, social and cognitive determinants of farmers' nitrogen overuse in Shandong Province
    Daniela Böhm
    Over the past 30 years, China's intensive agricultural production and nitrogen overuse has led to significant environmental problems. Moreover, farmers face uncertainty regarding better technologies since they are risk-averse due to the experiences they have made in the past. Thus, the challenge to overcome is to implement well-grounded approaches that accomplish effective agri...
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    53,50 €

  • They Eat That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World
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    141,93 €

  • Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucat N
    Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz
    Mexicans recently celebrated UNESCO’s recognition of their cooking as an ’intangible cultural heritage of humanity,’ but who defines the boundaries of a cuisine? Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz’s vivid account of Yucatecan culinary nationalism offers a timely reminder of the hegemonic reach of Mexico’s national cuisine. He also employs valuable theoretical tools for analyzing the histo...
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    183,92 €

  • Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas
    Mark Winne
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    17,09 €

  • Farming that Brings Glory to God and Hope to the Hungry
    Craig Sorley
    With chronic hunger affecting millions, the world today needs to completely rethink its relationship to both agriculture and the environment. In honor to our Lord we as Christians should be leading by example in responding appropriately to a creation that groans and to a world where growing numbers of people struggle to find enough food. The purpose of this book is to put Go...
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    13,32 €

  • Valencians contra la Fil·loxera
    Joan C. Martín
    This is a study by one of Spain's leading wine writers of the devastating effect of phylloxera in his own region of Valencia. It explains how the late arrival of phylloxera to this part of Europe had a double impact. First, it provided an opportunity to export wines in bulk at high prices to France and other European countries whose vines had already been wiped out saw traditio...
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    30,96 €

  • From Agriculture to Agricology
    Dani W Nabudere
    Professor Dani Wadada Nabudere, a respected academic and educator from Uganda, dedicated his life to applying and spreading the notion of ‘community sites of knowledge’, which simply means using indigenous tools of knowledge to revitalise the lives of Africa’s people. He staunchly believed that the liberation of Africans depended largely on self-reliance, and that any dependenc...
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    49,87 €

  • Ancestral Appetites
    Kristen J. Gremillion / Kristen JGremillion
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    35,82 €

  • Liquid Bread
    This impressive volume based on an original interdisciplinary and cross-national approach to the study of beer and brewing . . . will not only make an important contribution to our knowledge of beer and brewing, but also of drinking cultures and historical change. It will be of interest to anthropologists, social scientists and the wider public. · Marion Demossier, University...
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    184,19 €

  • Agricultural Statistics 2010
    National Agricultural Statistics Svc / Rich Holcomb / U.S. Agriculture Department
    Prepared under the direction of Rich Holcomb. Contains reliable information on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Its tables of annual data covering a wide variety of facts in forms suited to most common use. 3 ...
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    42,88 €

  • The Green Foodprint
    Linda K Riebel
    Millions of people realize that their food choices can help-or hurt-the earth. They want to reduce their 'food footprint,' but with so many decisions to make (omnivore or vegetarian, organic or conventional, local or global), how is a busy person to navigate all the possibilities? The Green Foodprint: Food Choices for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet is a concise, easy-to-re...
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    11,66 €

  • All about Coffee (Second Edition)
    William H. Ukers / William HUkers
    2011 Reprint of the second edition (1935). Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly il...
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    59,56 €

  • Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
    Rolfe Cobleigh
    A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you’ll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You’ll learn about the farmer’s workshop and tools, running a grindstone, making a dumb waiter, making a cradle, how to clean a wel...
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    22,08 €

  • The Waste Products of Agriculture
    Albert Howard / Yeshwant Wad
    One of the earliest scientific works on all aspects of compost and manure. Still of value today, especially to those interested in organic agriculture. Howard is the author of the very influencial book 'An Agricultural Testament'. ...
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    8,67 €

  • Food Production and Distribution in the Confederacy, Excluding the Trans-Mississippi Department
    William Emons Cooper
    Who caused starvation and food riots in the Confederacy?/b>The Confederate Armies commandeering the Confederate railroads for military supplies and troops prevent food supplies from being distributed in the Confederacy. Thus leading to starvation and food riots by civilians in the Confederacy. ...
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    13,40 €

  • Scientific Queen Rearing
    G M Doolittle
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    21,56 €

  • Food Crises and the WTO
    Baris Karapinar / Christian Haberli
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    165,41 €

  • The Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization on National Food Security in Nigeria, 1970-2000
    Gbadebo Olusegun Odularu
    This study attempts to examine the impact of a trade decontrol policy on food output within the Nigerian macroeconomic context. In other words, the study relates trade liberalization to the national food security situation between 1970 and 2000, by employing descriptive statistics and error correction model (ECM) as the research methodologies.Regional and multilateral trade agr...
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    25,91 €

  • Bee Genetics and Breeding
    T E Rinderer
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    59,44 €

  • A New Vision for Iowa Food and Agriculture
    Francis Thicke
    Francis Thicke, PhD, is a scientist, an expert on sustainable agriculture, and a practicing dairy farmer. He is widely consulted for his clear explanations of the economic and ecological forces that are changing the way we produce food in the modern world. This book draws from his background as an organic dairy farmer, and as a soil scientist who has served at the U.S. Departme...
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    13,14 €

  • Another Boom for Amazonia?
    Jr. James W. Penn / JrJames WPenn
    This study examines the socioeconomic and environmental implications of the new camu camu industry in Peru. Camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) is a small tree native to wetlands of the Amazon basin. It is especially abundant in Peruvian Amazonia. The high vitamin-C content of the fruit has generated interest in exporting camu camu products from Amazonia to more-developed countries. Th...
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    42,53 €

  • Ursachen und Lösungsansätze für Akzeptanzprobleme von Großschutzgebieten am Beispiel von zwei Fallstudien im Nationalpark Harz und im Yosemite National Park.
    Eick von Ruschkowski
    Nationalparks und andere Großschutzgebiete sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil von Naturschutzstrategien. Obgleich sich diese Schutzgebiete allgemeiner Beliebtheit in der Bevölkerung erfreuen, stoßen sie bei den Menschen vor Ort nicht immer auf Akzeptanz. Befürchtete Verhaltenseinschränkungen oder ein Misstrauen gegenüber den Akteuren des Naturschutzes können Ursachen hierfür sein. ...
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    86,04 €

  • All about Coffee (Second Edition)
    William H. Ukers / William HUkers
    Reprint of the second edition (1935). The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated. ...
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    70,97 €

  • The Book Of Corn Cookery
    Mary L. Wade / Mary LWade
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,00 €

  • The Complete Grazier
    A Lincolnshire Grazier / Thomas Hartwell Horne
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    31,41 €

  • The Birds Of Durham And Vicinity
    Ned Dearborn
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,10 €

  • The Gentleman Farmer
    Henry Home
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,83 €


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