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  • Curriculum by Design

    Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core

    by Mary Thomas Crane, David Quigley, Andy Boynton, Allison Adair, Lynne Anderson, Robert Bartlett, William Bole, Toby Bottorf0, John Butler1, Daniel Callahan2, Hanne Eisenfeld3, Thomas Epstein4, Brian Gareau5, Tara Gareau6, Elizabeth Graver7, Stacy Grooters8, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles9, Gregory Kalscheur0, Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace1, Prasannan Parthasarathi2, Brian Robinette3, Juliet Schor4, Sylvia Sellers-García5, Elizabeth H. Shlala6, Min Hyoung Song7, Jenna Tonn8, Holly VandeWall9, Dunwei Wang0 ...
    This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Organic Futures

    Struggling for Sustainability on the Small Farm

    by Connor J. Fitzmaurice, Brian Gareau ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    An exploration of the lived experience of small-scale organic farmers in New England that unpacks how they balance their ideals with economic realitiesIn recent years, the popularity of organically grown produce has exploded. In 2014, organic fruits and vegetables accounted for 12% of all produce sales in the United States, with $39 billion in consumer sales reported for 2015. As a federally ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Locavore's Dilemma

    In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet

    by Pierre Desrochers, Hiroko Shimizu ...
    A new generation of food activists has come to believe that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.But after a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Meat Racket

    The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

    by Christopher Leonard ...
    An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables & Herbs for Market

    Site & Crop Selection * Planting, Care & Harvesting * Business Basics

    by Keith Stewart ...
    Keith Stewart covers everything you need to know to successfully grow and market your own organic vegetables and herbs. Offering expert tips on choosing a growing site, soil fertility, companion planting, irrigation, organic farming techniques, dealing with pests, and harvesting, Stewart also helps you design a business plan, manage employees, and find niche markets for your produce. ... Read more

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  • Australia's Role in Feeding the World

    The Future of Australian Agriculture

    Edited by Blagrove, Hundloe, Ditton ...
    Earth's human population currently exceeds 7 billion, and by the year 2050 our planet will have at least two billion more mouths to feed. When faced with providing food for so many people, the idea is often advanced that Australia will become the 'food bowl' of Asia. Australia currently grows enough food to feed about three times its population and agricultural exports are important to our economy ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Land of Plenty

    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    by Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    **Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?**Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

    Preparing Australian Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for the Future

    Edited by Chris Stokes, Mark Howden ...
    Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change. More than 30 authors have contributed to this book, which moves beyond describing the causes and consequences of climate change to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Food & Freedom

    How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy

    by Carlo Petrini ...
    Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world, the movement has created a powerful force for change.The essential argument of this book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Controlling Invertebrate Pests in Agriculture

    by Jessica Page, Paul Horne ...
    Controlling Invertebrate Pests in Agriculture discusses the principles of pest management and relates this to historical methods as well as current and future directions. It describes current practice, the concept of agricultural ecosystems, the role of pesticides and cultural control options. A separate chapter covers biological control and the different ways in which this may be implemented. The ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Globalisation and Agricultural Landscapes

    Change Patterns and Policy trends in Developed Countries

    Edited by Jørgen Primdahl, Simon Swaffield ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology
    Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global issues, and are converging under the dynamics of globalisation. Combining landscape ecological research and an examination of relevant public policy, this book investigates the dynamic relationship between agricultural landscapes ... Read more

    $56.99 USD