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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken
Powells.com Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp
Powells.com Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my...
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
by Paul Hawken
Publisher Comments One of the world's most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity. Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist...
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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
by Raj Patel Publisher Comments "One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice." Naomi Klein, author of No Logoand The Shock Doctrine Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese-both...
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Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (06 Edition)
by Katz Publisher Comments An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles...
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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments Hope's Edge follows the author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in world hunger, sometimes one village at a time. Thirty years ago, Frances...
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
by Alisa Smith Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a...
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
by Marion Nestle Publisher Comments In an informed, even-handed and accessible way, the author demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food safety no longer...
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon
Publisher Comments The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a...
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Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
by Duff Wilson Publisher Comments I see soil in a new light, and I wonder about my own lawn and garden. What have I sprinkled on my backyard? Is somebody using my home, my food, to recycle toxic waste? It seems unbelievable, outlandish -- but what if it's true? A riveting exposÉ...
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Int
by Steve Ettlinger Publisher Comments A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in dozens of common packaged foods, using the Twinkie label as a guide Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he often reads the ingredients label...
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Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions
by Gary Nabhan
Publisher Comments Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions describes a treasure trove of regional plants and species — some at risk, others recovering. We hope that it can serve as both a reference guide and a historical inventory of species that were once abundant...
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Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us
by Christopher Cook Synopsis This absorbing study looks at the dangers of American food production, including exposure of food to food-borne pathogens, pesticides, and much more....
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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded
by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En and Joan Dye Gussow Publisher Comments In Sharing the Harvest, the authors lay out the basic tenets of CSA, provide useful information for both farmers and consumers on starting and running a successful community farm project, and describe hundreds of useful strategies that have worked (or...
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Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
by Pamela Ronald Publisher Comments By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of...
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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Blythe Lappe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-419) and index....
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Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
by Catherine Friend Publisher Comments For most of her life, Catherine Friend was a carnivore who preferred not to consider where the meat on her plate came from—beef didn’t have a face, chicken didn’t have a personality, and pork certainly shouldn’t have feelings. But...
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Int
by Steve Ettlinger Publisher Comments A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in most common packaged foods Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he didnat have a clue as to what most of the ingredients on the labels mean. So...
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Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to Science
by J C Waterlow Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue over the next thirty years when the world population is projected to exceed eight billion? This book...
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