Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
By: Mark Schapiro
4.10
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all…
Want to Read $ 14.99If you liked the environment plot in Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply by Mark Schapiro , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. Autobiography of a Yogi
By: Paramahansa Yogananda
4.24
Format: 503 pages, Paperback
This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures … read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"Who am I? The great inquiry indeed."-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
"Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo"-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
2. The Sense of Wonder
By: Rachel Carson , Charles Pratt , Nick Kelsh , Linda Lear
4.40
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
First published more than three decades ago, this reissue of Rachel Carson's award-winning classic … read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
- environment
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."-Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."-Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. "-Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
"For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask your…"-Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
3. The One-Straw Revolution
By: Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- agriculture
- gardening
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
4. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
By: J. Drew Lanham
4.23
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more
Want to Read $ 10.82Similar categories in J. Drew Lanham's The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
- environment
"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
5. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler
4.31
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. … read more
Want to Read $ 5.78Similar categories in Dalai Lama XIV's Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it."-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
"Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality"-Dalai Lama XIV, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
6. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in William Dalrymple's Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
7. 7 Secrets Of Vishnu
By: Devdutt Pattanaik
3.99
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
230 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)Authors NoteIt is significant that the stories of Vishnu rose to… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Devdutt Pattanaik's 7 Secrets Of Vishnu book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.78
Format: 377 pages,
Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Box… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
9. 7 Secrets of the Goddess (The 7 Secret Series, #4)
By: Devdutt Pattanaik
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Lakshmi massages Vishnus feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shivas chest. Is this female… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Devdutt Pattanaik's 7 Secrets of the Goddess (The 7 Secret Series, #4) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
10. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By: Ben Montgomery
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ben Montgomery's Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
11. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
pkhstn ykhsprys kh mwDw` dwrni tqsym hnd w pkhstn khy fsdt hyN. nwl pnjb khy ykh gnw mnwmjr khy grd… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
12. The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World
By: Michaela Chung
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Learn the tools to shed your mask of extroversion, develop your own magnetism, and reveal the true … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michaela Chung's The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
13. The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1)
By: Mark Greaney
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, m… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Mark Greaney's The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
14. Gardening Without Work
By: Ruth Stout
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
With this delightful book, you can garden with hardly any labor except planting and picking. The St… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ruth Stout's Gardening Without Work book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
15. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
16. E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5)
By: Sue Grafton
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone-… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sue Grafton's E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
17. The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
By: Ben Hewitt
3.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the past 3 years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of 3,000 residen… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ben Hewitt's The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
18. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
19. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
By: Cait Flanders
3.47
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the co… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Cait Flanders's The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"I wanted to be surrounded by those who valued living over working, Spending time outdoors over spending time online, and doing things for themselves over paying for every possible convenience"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"Stuff I purchased with every intention of using, but only because I told myself it would somehow help. I wasn't good enough, but this stuff would make me better. I wanted to read, wear, and do everyt…"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
"I couldn't ever blame them for trying to get me to shop with them or ship for myself or simply enjoy my money - this was a behavior many people learned and exhibited in all kinds of circumstances in …"-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
20. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.87
Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition
A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
21. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
22. Thin Places
By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
3.83
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Kerri ní Dochartaigh's Thin Places book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
- environment
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places
23. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
By: Anne Bogel
4.02
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more
Want to Read $ 10.64Similar categories in Anne Bogel's I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
24. The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
By: Tomihiko Morimi
3.55
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE* An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four pa… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Tomihiko Morimi's The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
"Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil."-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
"He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy."-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
"When your chance comes, don’t miss it. When it comes, you can’t go idly doing the same things you’ve always done. Be bold, and try seizing your chance by doing sometimes completely different. If you …"-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
25. To Have and to Hoax (The Regency Vows, #1)
By: Martha Waters
3.38
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Librarian Note: Older cover of B07THBFMMT. An estranged husband and wife in Regency England feig… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Martha Waters's To Have and to Hoax (The Regency Vows, #1) book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
"...that if you are going to insist on losing faith in someone the moment you see the slightest possibility that they have wronged you, then you are going to have a very frustrating life."-Martha Waters, To Have and to Hoax (The Regency Vows, #1)
26. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
By: Dean Jobb
3.62
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Dean Jobb's The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
27. Sirens & Muses
By: Antonia Angress
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Antonia Angress's Sirens & Muses book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses
28. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
By: Shane Parrish
4.08
Format: 216 pages, Audiobook
The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has d… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Shane Parrish's The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
"The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key h…"-Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
29. A History of British India
By: Hayden J. Bellenoit
3.98
Format: 24 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 11 mins No era is more pertinent to understanding how present-day India, Pakistan, and … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hayden J. Bellenoit's A History of British India book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
30. Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it
By: Martin Ford
4.09
Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition
Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2018 TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should Read Book … read more
Want to Read $ 13.29Similar categories in Martin Ford's Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- nonfiction
31. Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
By: Mark Schapiro
4.10
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
Sun. Soil. Water. Seed. These are the primordial ingredients for the most essential activity of all… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply book and Mark Schapiro's Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
- agriculture
- gardening
- food
- nonfiction
- environment
