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  • A Revolution in Eating

    How the Quest for Food Shaped America

    de James E. McWilliams ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table Perspectives on Culinary History
    A colorful, spirited tour of culinary attitudes, tastes, and techniques throughout colonial America.Confronted by unfamiliar animals, plants, and landscapes, settlers in the colonies and West Indies found new ways to produce food. Integrating their British and European tastes with the demands and bounty of the rugged American environment, early Americans developed a range of regional cuisines. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Just Food

    Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly

    de James E. McWilliams ...
    We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you?Just Food does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation. For instance, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford

    de James McWilliams ...
    Finalist, 2026 Pulitzer Prize (Biography)Kirkus Reviews - Best of 2025, Nonfiction"The full-throated biography fans have been yearning for.”**—**Kirkus Starred Review, April 2025"McWilliams does a remarkable job connecting Stanford’s poetry with his personal life, particularly his lifelong friendship with Irv Broughton, owner of a sm... ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • American Pests

    The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT

    de James McWilliams ...
    The world of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators to employing the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man, Americans have fought to eradicate the "bugs" they have learned to hate.Inspired by the still-revolutionary theories of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, James E. McWilliams argues for a more harmonious and rational ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Suicide Battalion

    de J.L. McWilliams, R. James Steel ...
    Narrado por Graham Rowat ...

    Completo

    7 hora 49 minutos

    The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet, it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 per cent, were either killed ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Eating Promiscuously

    Adventures in the Future of Food

    de James McWilliams ...
    A bold and bracing argument for the complete reimagining of the human diet by the critically acclaimed author of Just FoodThe human practice of farming food has failed. There are 7,500 known varieties of domesticated apples; we regularly eat about five. Seventy–five percent of the world's food derives from five animals and twelve plants. Factory farmed meat is a major source of greenhouse gas ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Urban God Talk

    Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality

    de Darrell Wesley, Sharon Lauricalla, James W. Perkinson, Harry Nii Koney Odamtten, Dawn-Marie Gibson, Angela M. Nelson, Tim Huffman, Weldon Merrial McWilliams IV, Michael D. Royster, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Amira De La Garza, Shanesha R.F. Brooks Tatum, VaNatta S. Ford, Erika D. Gault ...
    Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning, hip hop has had a profound spirituality and advocates religious views—and while not orthodox ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Quasi-linear Theory for Surface Wave-Current Interactions

    de James C. McWilliams ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book introduces a mathematical theory for the interaction of oceanic surface gravity waves and oceanic currents. This theory is formulated using the quasi-linear approximation for a uniform density fluid with a free surface and it provides wave-averaged expressions for the wave amplitudes and for the dynamical evolution of the currents. The surface gravity wave–current interaction theory is a ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Pasture

    How Two Cattle Inspired a National Debate about Eating Animals

    de McWilliams, James ...
    On October 1, 2012, Green Mountain College in Vermont announced that it was going to slaughter its longtime oxen team Bill and Lou and, according to its mission of food sustainability, serve them as hamburger in the school's cafeteria. What ensued was more explosive and far-reaching than anyone could have predicted. Immediately animal advocates entered the fray, sanctuaries offering to take the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Africana Social Stratification

    An Interdisciplinary Study of Economics, Policy, and Labor

    de Drew Brown, LaTasha Chaffin, Devon Lee, Gregory Price, Maurice Mangum, Marcia Walker-McWilliams, James Stewart, Brittany Slatton, Anthony D. Greene, Jason E. Shelton, James L. Conyers Jr.1, Robert E. Weems Jr.2, Rita Kiki Edozie3 ...
    This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a reference, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Modern Savage

    Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals

    de James McWilliams ...
    Just Food author James McWilliams's exploration of the "compassionate carnivore" movement and the paradox of humanity's relationship with animals.In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement. Although animal ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Pecan

    A History of America's Native Nut

    de James McWilliams ...
    "This excellent and charming story describes a tree that endured numerous hardships to become not only a staple of Southern cuisine but an American treasure." — Library JournalWhat would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don't know the fascinating story of how native pecan trees fed Americans for thousands of years ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus