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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Tim Stark
Broadway, 2008
Eat Local, Read Global
Heirloom: Notes From an Accidental Tomato Farmer is the bestselling book at my local coffeehouse in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. It is the only book for sale at the Uptown. The author is a farmer who grows the vegetables they use in their savory soups and salads. Last week, ...
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial, 2005
highest approval
received the book quicker than expected. the book was in excellent condition. I highly recommend this seller
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Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
David Blume
International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, 2007
This books helps strip away the myths of history.
This book delves into the kind of information that could help us avoid making the same mistakes over and over. If it can help create awareness of how susceptible the public is to being flim-flammed by the Oil Industry experts and its sycophants imbedded throughout the ...
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Tomorrow's Technology and You, Complete (8th Edition)
George Beekman, Mike Quinn
Prentice Hall, 2007
Well suited for use as a text in courses called "Introduction to microcomputers"
It has been a few years since I taught a college course that could be described by the phrase, "Introduction to microcomputers", and I am not sure when I will do so again. Nevertheless, I still occasionally examine books looking for a really good one that could be used ...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...
Harper Perennial, 2008
Inspiring!
I found this story fascinating and inspiring! I originally listened to this book as a download but had to buy a hard copy to loan out because I keep recommending it. If you are interested in learning more about the local food movement, sustainable farming/gardening, ...
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Technology in Action, Introductory (5th Edition) (Go!)
Alan Evans, Mary Ann Poatsy, ...
Prentice Hall, 2008
Needed it for class
Needed it for class and it suited my needs. Only complaint is I couldn't sell it back to my college's bookstore because it was the complete version versus the standard student copy. The only difference is it has extra information/chapters in the back. The entire ...
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Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses
Ricki Carroll
Storey Publishing, LLC, 2002
Home Cheese Making
As a novice at making cheese this book has given me the confidence I needed to give it a try. My daughter and I had a wonderful Saturday afternoon making Mozerella and Ricotta cheeses. The book is great.
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Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (Second Revised Edition)
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Dover Publications, 1999
Happy to recover recipe
I did find some loss recipes that I used over 40 years ago. My family missed eating them and they were delighted when I sent them some of the canned food. I discovered that I will need to can more because what I sent didn't last them two weeks. I sent them all 2 pints ...
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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to ...
Rodale Books, 1996
Excellent reference for "natural" pest control!
Living in the tropics, I have had frequent failures starting up my organic garden due to pests taking it over. This year I have used some tips and "natural pesticide" recipies from this book with great success. It has also helped me identify "good" versus "bad" ...
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Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible
Jorge Cervantes
Van Patten Publishing, 2006
Amazing book!
If you want to know anything and everything about growing, this is your book. Seriously, this guy goes in depth to explain things without making it overly complicated.
It's simple, thorough, worth the buy.
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Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling and Production (2nd Edition)
Norman J. Ph.d Hyne
Pennwell Books, 2001
Great introduction to petroleum geology
I am a graduate geologist and I found this book ideal in my circumstances as an introduction before I got some petroleum work experience.It is very well written ,even a layperson could get a good appreciation for the wide encompassing subject matter.It is not aimed at ...
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The End of Food
Paul Roberts
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Not Malthus, Any More Than Climatologist Hansen is Chicken Little
I agree this is among the very best of this century's "Declinist Literature". Although the author covers a lot of problematic ground, from avian flu to bioengineering to obesity, what sticks with me the most is his urgent Cassandra alarm about the looming danger of ...
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Technology in Action, Complete (5th Edition) (Go!)
Alan Evans, Mary Ann Poatsy, ...
Prentice Hall, 2008
Fantastic Introduction to Computers
Technology in Action is a great book for college-level computer concepts classes. I have taught with Technology in Action at a community college for 4 years now. The book is written to engage today's students with a very useful question and answer format. I find my ...
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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Raj Patel
Melville House, 2008
required reading
A very digestible read for the consumer that's liable to provoke dyspepsia in the bellies of food giants and governments alike.
In taking a moralistic view of starvation and obesity, our media, governments and many NGOs have condemned those suffering to more of the ...
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sidney W. Mintz
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986
Political Economy Canon; A Classic That Remade Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Sidney W. Mintz's Sweetness and Power situates economic analysis in consumption rather than production. The author believes that a producer's labor and exploitation is not enough to understand the exploitation of production. One must unpack the mythos of demand. ...
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