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  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  A Year of Food Life

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the... (more)
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  The Omnivore's Dilemma

  A Natural History of Four Meals

  by Michael Pollan

  The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers,... (more)
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  The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved

  Inside America's Underground Food Movements

  by Sandor Ellix Katz

  The handbook for cultural resistance for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities,... (more)
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  Farm City

  The Education of an Urban Farmer

  by Novella Carpenter

  Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm Novella Carpenter loves cities—the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can’t shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents’ disastrous mistakes, yet... (more)
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  The Conscious Kitchen

  The New Way to Buy and Cook Food to Protect the Earth, Improve Your Health, and Eat Deliciously

  by Alexandra Zissu

  Your everyday food choices can change the world— and make meals taste better than ever   For anyone who has read The Omnivore’s Dilemma or seen Food, Inc. and longs to effect easy green changes when it comes to the food they buy, cook, and eat, The Conscious Kitchen is an invaluable resource filled with real world, practical solutions.   Alexandra Zissu walks readers through every kitchen-related... (more)
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  The Art of Simple Food

  Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution

  by Kelsie Kerr, Patricia Curtan, Fritz Streiff, Alice Waters

  Perhaps more responsible than anyone for the revolution in the way we eat, cook, and think about food, Alice Waters has “single-handedly changed the American palate” according to the New York Times . Her simple but inventive dishes focus on a passion for flavor and a reverence for locally produced, seasonal foods. With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great... (more)
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  The Locavore's Handbook

  The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget

  by Leda Meredith

  These days, nearly everyone wants to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make it seem like an unattainable goal.  The Locavore's Handbook: A Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget is here to help! With practical, down-to-earth advice, Leda Meredith guides readers through the process of incorporating locally grown foods into their meals. In a concise book designed for... (more)
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  The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living

  by Mark Boyle

  Imagine a year without spending even a dime. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that. Following his own strict rules, Mark learned ingenious ways to eliminate his bills and flourish for free. Encountering seasonal foods, solar panels, skill-swapping schemes, cuttlefish toothpaste, and a cash-free Christmas, Boyle puts the fun into frugality and offers some great tips for economical (and environmentally... (more)
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  Bespoke : the handbuilt bicycle

  by Julie Lasky, Michael Maharam, Sacha White

  The publication presents the designs of six internationally renowned bicycle builders whose embrace of the tradition of working in metal brings striking innovation to their craft. Through their manipulation of steel, aluminum and titanium, the builders of Bespoke produce racing bicycles that speed champion athletes to victory, mountain and cyclocross bicycles built to negotiate vertiginous terrain, urban bicycles... (more)
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  Freakonomics: Book 2

  Super Freakonomics

  Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

  by Steven D. Levitt

  Steven D. Levitt is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the recipient of the John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the most influential economist under the age of forty.
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  Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town

  by Douglas Gayeton

  SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define the Slow Food movement and pays tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of vibrant characters, whose shared culture revolves around the everyday pleasure of growing, preparing, and eating food. With an anecdotal charm reminiscent of Peter Mayle’s A Year in... (more)
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  Locavore

  by Sarah Elton

  "Ravenous for energy, vulnerable to climate change, and chronically unstable, today's globalized system of industrial agriculture is heading towards crisis. But Sarah Elton shows us another path. In this personal, passionate, yet deeply informed and carefully balanced book, we learn how Canadians in every walk of life are finding new ways to produce the food we eat--ways that are humane, fair, technologically... (more)
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  In Defense of Food

  An Eater's Manifesto

  by Michael Pollan

  What to eat, what not to eat and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed... (more)
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  The Long Emergency

  Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

  by James Howard Kunstler

  James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much debate, stimulating discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels. Now in paperback, with a new afterword, The Long Emergency is set to reach an even larger... (more)