An Agricultural Testament
By: Albert Howard
4.08
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
"Since the Industrial Revolution the processes of growth have been speeded up to produce the food a…
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1. The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
By: Peter Tompkins , Christopher Bird
4.00
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Exploring the world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest discoveries of … read more
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- ecology
- gardening
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"Vogel makes the prediction, which he stresses is as yet far from established fact, that since living things all have a high water content, the vitality of a person must be in some way related to the …"-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
"Asked to sum up the importance of his research with plants, Vogel replied: "So much of the ills and suffering in life comes from our inability to release stresses and forces within us. When a person …"-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
"Singh then experimented on a vast number of species, such as com mon asters, petunias, cosmos, and white spider lilies, along with such economic plants as onions, sesame, radishes, sweet potatoes, a…"-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
"Thomas A. Edison told his associates that "Carver is worth a fortune" and backed up his statement by offering to employ the black chemist at an astronomically high salary. Carver turned down the offe…"-Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
2. The Idiot
By: Elif Batuman
3.66
Format: 423 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself… read more
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"For a while now, I have been conscious of a tension in my relationship with you,"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"For the first time in my life, I couldn't think of anything I particularly wanted to study or to do. I still had the old idea of being a writer, but that was being, not doing. It didn't say what you …"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
"Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the…"-Elif Batuman, The Idiot
3. All New Square Foot Gardening
By: Mel Bartholomew
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening? Sure, there are ten new feat… read more
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- gardening
- food
- nonfiction
- agriculture
4. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- ecology
- agriculture
- philosophy
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- nonfiction
- environment
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
5. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
By: Barry Estabrook
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
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- agriculture
- food
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- environment
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6. Grit
By: Angela Duckworth
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more
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- nonfiction
7. You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
By: Joel Salatin
3.45
Format: 94 pages,
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- gardening
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8. Cutting for Stone
By: Abraham Verghese
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimac… read more
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9. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
By: Joel Salatin
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THI… read more
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10. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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11. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
By: Ernst F. Schumacher
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom." --Newsweek One the 100 mo… read more
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12. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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13. The Poisonwood Bible
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more
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14. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
By: David R. Montgomery
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporti… read more
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15. The Lacuna
By: Barbara Kingsolver
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… read more
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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- environment
- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
17. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
By: Gabe Brown
4.46
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more
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18. The Night Watchman
By: Louise Erdrich
4.10
Format: 464 pages, ebook
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more
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"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
19. Spinning Silver
By: Naomi Novik
4.19
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into a glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between… read more
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"He is mine, too."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
"Because my demon told me to"-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
"Four years! My heart was glad as birds."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
"She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
20. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
By: Sarah Langford
4.41
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more
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- sustainability
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21. An Agricultural Testament
By: Albert Howard
4.08
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
"Since the Industrial Revolution the processes of growth have been speeded up to produce the food a… read more
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- food
- environment
- science
22. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production (Mit Press)
By: Vaclav Smil
4.15
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer. The industrial synthesis of ammonia fr… read more
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- food
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- environment
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