Browse Books: Social Science / Agriculture & Food

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Paperback) By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Paperback) By Michael Pollan $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey (Paperback) By James Rebanks $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat (Paperback) By Matt Siegel $19.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Paperback) By Michael Pollan $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book (Hardcover) By Mark Bittman $28.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto (Hardcover) By Alice Waters $26.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (Paperback) By Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture (Compiled by), Martha Hodgkins (Editor) $21.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Fruitful Labor: The Ecology, Economy, and Practice of a Family Farm (Paperback) By Mike Madison $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover) By Jonathan Safran Foer $25.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time (Hardcover) By Carol J. Adams, Virginia Messina $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (Paperback) By Ted Genoways $15.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now

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