Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System
By: Raj Patel
3.88
Format: None pages,
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, …
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1. The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
By: Robert H. Lustig
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."--David Perlmutter,… read more
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- politics
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- health
2. 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
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"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
3. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture)
By: Marion Nestle
3.94
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food doll… read more
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- history
- health
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- food
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- economics
4. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
By: Barry Estabrook
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
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- environment
5. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
6. Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System
By: Raj Patel
3.88
Format: None pages,
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, … read more
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7. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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8. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
By: Michael Moss
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500… read more
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9. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
By: Carlos Castaneda
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Decades ago the University of California Press published a remarkable manuscript by an anthropology… read more
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10. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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11. Waterlily
By: Ella Cara Deloria , Raymond J. Demallie
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
This novel of the Dakota Sioux written by Sioux ethnologist Deloria takes protagonist Waterlily thr… read more
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12. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
By: Michael Pollan
3.89
Format: 266 pages,
Michael Pollan's last book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the Amer… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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16. Por qué las mujeres salvarán el planeta
By: Various
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
¿El empoderamiento de las mujeres puede transformar las posibilidades de conseguir la sostenibilida… read more
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17. Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
By: Daniel Quinn
4.01
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search f… read more
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"With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer"-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."-Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
18. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
19. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
20. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
21. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
By: Mark Bittman
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h… read more
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"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with W…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became …"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
"Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least nea…"-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
