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America’s Food : What You Don’t Know About What You Eat

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Harvey BlattPublication Details
BookMIT Press2008Description
We don’t think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket’s produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. After taking us on a tour of the American food system?not only the basic food groups but soil, grain farming, organic food, genetically modified food, food processing, and diet?Blatt reminds us that we aren’t powerless. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD9005 .B628 2008 AVAILABLE
The Day Of The Black Blizzard

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by Candice Ransom ; illustrations by Laurie HardenPublication Details
BookMillbrook Press2009Description
Ten-year-old Orry Jenkins is sick and tired of the dust. Instead of rainstorms, they get dust storms. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 978.032 R212d 2009 c.3 AVAILABLE
World Poverty Issues

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Marilyn M. Watkins, editorPublication Details
BookNova Science Publishers2008Description
Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. This new volume concentrates on world poverty issues including their alleviation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC79.P6 W668 2008 AVAILABLE
The Virtues Of Ignorance : Complexity, Sustainability, And The Limits Of Knowledge

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edited by Bill Vitek and Wes JacksonPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Kentucky2008Description
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) S494.5.P485 V57 2008 AVAILABLE
Global Maya : Work And Ideology In Rural Guatemala

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Liliana R. GoldínPublication Details
BookUniversity of Arizona Press2009Description
Further, she shows that as rural people take ondiverse economic activities, they also reinterpret their views on such mattersas accumulation, cooperation, competition, division of labor, and communitysolidarity.Global Maya explores global processes in local terms, revealing the interplayof traditional values, household economics, and the inescapable conditions ofdemographic growth, a shrinking land base, and a global economy always lookingfor cheap labor. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1435.3.E27 G66 2009 ON HOLDSHELF
Journey To Planet Earth. Season One. Land Of Plenty, Land Of Want
Chocolate In Mesoamerica : A Cultural History Of Cacao

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edited by Cameron L. McNeil ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. ChasePublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Florida2006Links
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From the botanical structure and chemical makeup of Theobroma cacao and methods of identifying it in the archaeological record, to the importance of cacao during the Classic period in Mesoamerica, to the impact of European arrival on the production and use of cacao, to contemporary uses in the Americas, this volume provides a richly informed account of the history and cultural significance of chocolate. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1435.3.F7 C46 2006 AVAILABLE
Rethinking Agriculture : Archaeological And Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives

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edited by Tim Denham, José Iriarte and Luc VrydaghsPublication Details
BookLeft Coast Press2007Links
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Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its ?own terms? Contributions to this volume rethink agriculture, whether in terms of existing regional chronologies, in terms of techniques employed, or in terms of the concepts that frame our interpretations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CC79.5.P5 R48 2007 DUE 05-08-10
Citizenship Papers

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Wendell BerryPublication Details
BookShoemaker & Hoard2003Links
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Citizenship Papers collects twenty new essays, from celebrations of exemplary lives to critiques of the American experience, including ?A Citizen?s Response [to the new National Security Strategy]??a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD1761 .B468 2003 AVAILABLE
African American Environmental Thought : Foundations

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Kimberly K. SmithPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Kansas2007Links
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In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns. It also offers a new way to conceptualize black politics by bringing into view its environmental dimension, as well as a normative environmental theory grounded in pragmatism and aimed at identifying the social conditions for environmental virtue. African American Environmental Thought enriches our understanding of black politics and environmental history, and of environmental theory in general. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.6 .S63 2007 AVAILABLE
British Atlantic, American Frontier : Spaces Of Power In Early Modern British America

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Stephen J. Hornsby ; with cartography by Michael J. HermannPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of New England2005Links
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Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier offers a geographical perspective on the development of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E40.5 .H67 2005 AVAILABLE
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