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  • Artists and the Practice of Agriculture

    Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960

    by Silvia Bottinelli ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, growing edible and medicinal plants, and interacting with non-human collaborators. In the hands of contemporary artists, farming and foraging become forms of visual and material language that convey personal and political meanings.This book provides a ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Dr. Sharon Hecker, Silvia Bottinelli ...
    Series series Material Culture of Art and Design
    Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art is the first edited volume to critically examine uses of lead as both material and cultural signifier in modern and contemporary art. The book analyzes the work of a diverse group of artists working in Europe, the Middle East, and North America, and takes into account the ways in which gender, race, and class can affect the cultural perception of lead.Bringing ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Taste of Art

    Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices

    Edited by Silvia Bottinelli, Margherita d’Ayala Valva ...
    Series series Food and Foodways
    The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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  • Slow Food Nation

    Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

    by Carlo Petrini ...
    Translated by Clara Furlan, Jonathan Hunt ...
    By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Human Ecology

    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Politics of the Pantry

    Stories, Food, and Social Change

    by Michael Mikulak ...
    "What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways.These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, alternative food gurus such as Michael Pollan, and numerous other popular ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design

    by Kingston Heath ...
    Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international case studies, it examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of tactics to achieve ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • The Green Braid

    Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    Edited by Kim Tanzer, Rafael Longoria ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Palm Oil

    The Grease of Empire

    by Max Haiven ...
    Series series Vagabonds
    It’s in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil, found in half of supermarket products, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir.From its origins in West Africa to today’s Southeast Asian palm oil superpowers, Haiven’s sweeping, experimental narrative takes us on a global journey ... Read more

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  • How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

    by John Thackara ...
    A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware designAre there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed ... Read more

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  • Through the Lens of Anthropology

    An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition

    by Robert Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González, Stacey L. Camp ...
    Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolution, biology, archaeology, history, language, and culture. The third edition remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-color ... Read more

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