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  • Resetting the Table

    Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    A bold, science-based corrective to the groundswell of misinformation about food and how it's produced, examining in detail local and organic food, food companies, nutrition labeling, ethical treatment of animals, environmental impact, and every other aspect from farm to tableConsumers want to know more about their food--including the farm from which it came, the chemicals used in its production, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
    Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape. The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The United States of Excess

    Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Starved for Science

    How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Listen to a short interview with Robert PaarlbergHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneHeading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane tarmac narrows to rutted dirt, and the journey must continue on foot. The farmers you eventually meet are mostly women, hardworking but ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Food and Agriculture: What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Robert Paarlberg, F. Bailey Norwood, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo, Sarah Lancaster, Pascal A. Oltenacu ...
    In the conversation about the food we eat and where it comes from, this bundle, consisting of Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know and Agricultural and Food Controversies: What Everyone Needs to Know, tackles the questions that arise from conflicting opinions. Reflecting on the latest global food landscape and the most controversial issues in agriculture, these two books provide a wealth of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Resetting the Table

    Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    A bold, science-based corrective to the groundswell of misinformation about food and how it's produced, examining in detail local and organic food, food companies, nutrition labeling, ethical treatment of animals, environmental impact, and every other aspect from farm to tableConsumers want to know more about their food--including the farm from which it came, the chemicals used in its production, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    This authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape.The third edition of Food Politics has been updated to reflect the latest developments and research on today's global food landscape, including the realities of food markets, farm production methods, food manufacturing, and dietary health challenges. New material covers the rise of China in ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Historical Dictionary of Chinese Foreign Affairs

    by Professor Lawrence R. Sullivan ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    In an act of totally unnecessary and wanton destruction, British forces in China during the Second Opium War (1856-1860) looted and destroyed much of the Old Imperial Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) including three imperial gardens and hundreds of halls, pavilions, and temples stock full of ancient artwork, antiquities, and literary works. More than a hundred years later, President Xi Jinping (2013- ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    Animal Farm

    by George Orwell ...
    Narrated by Philip Battley ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    This classic novel by George Orwell follows a cast of disgruntled farm animals who bravely rebel against the cruel farmer who owns them.What begins as an idyllic new society built for the freedom and equality of all who walk on four legs quickly becomes a nightmare. The cleverest animals take on more and more control while the hard working common animals are manipulated into doing all the work. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks