Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“ruth macdonald”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ruth macdonald”
Skip side bar filters

  • Understanding Food Systems

    Agriculture, Food Science, and Nutrition in the United States

    by Ruth MacDonald, Cheryll Reitmeier ...
    Understanding Food Systems: Agriculture, Food Science, and Nutrition in the United States explores the complex and evolving system from which the United States gets its food. From farm, to home, and everything in-between, the authors use a scientific perspective that explains the fundamentals of agricultural production, food science, and human nutrition that will guide readers through the issues ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Retail and Community

    Business, Charity and the End of Empire

    by Nadia Awal, Jessica Field, Triona Fitton, Majorie Gehrhardt, Jenny Gilbert, Nick Gray, Harshad Keval, Ruth MacDonald, Ian Mitchell, Massimiliano Papini ...
    Retail has never existed in a vacuum.This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Food Revolution, 10th Anniversary Edition

    How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 25th Anniversary Edition (Deep Nutrition Book, Diet for a New America)

    by John Robbins ...
    The Saving Power of the Plant-Based DietA revolution in food-politics. When John Robbins released an early version of this book in 1987, he took the first steps in launching the food revolution. His viewpoint and insight on the harms of America’s eating habits was a wake-up call for many. By bringing to our attention fundamental issues in our eating habits, such as our dependence on animal ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance

    Edited by John Punter ...
    Are Britain’s cities attractive places in which to live, work and play? Asking that question, this is a critical review of how the design dimension of the Urban Renaissance strategy was developed and applied, based on expert academic assessments of progress in Britain’s thirteen largest cities. The case studies are preceded by a dissection of New Labour’s renaissance agenda, and concluded by a ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Food Fix

    How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

    by Dr. Mark Hyman, MD ...
    Series Book 9 - The Dr. Mark Hyman Library
    An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cultural Quarters

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Simon Roodhouse ...
    The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters and the importance of historical buildings. This definitive text provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion of urban design and planning. Drawing on several case studies (from Bolton, Birmingham, Ireland and Vienna) ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Ravenous

    How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

    by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis ...
    WINNER OF THE ANDR****É SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2024THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector'Ravenous is a truly important book ... we need a food revolution to ensure children don't go hungry, eat right, and reach their potential' Tom KerridgeThe food system... ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Feed the World

    The History and Future of Food

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planetWe have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

    by Steve Tiesdell, David Adams ...
    Series Book 50 - Real Estate Issues
    Urban design enables better places to be created for people and is thus seen in Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process as a place-making activity, rather than the application of architectural aesthetics. Urban design policy can change the 'decision environment' of developers, financiers, designers and other actors in the real estate development process to make them take place-making ... Read more

    $109.00 USD

  • British Fashion Design

    Rag Trade or Image Industry?

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Education plc

    Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide

    How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It

    Edited by Karl Weber, Participant ...
    Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a terrific movie -- it's an important movie." Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD