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Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

By: Hugh Howard

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: October 2006

Seller ID: 109491

ISBN: 1582344558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

When Thomas Jefferson was born, there were few high-style buildings in America, but in a lifetime full of political accomplishments, he also became the father of America's new architecture, enabling the Neoclassical to become the de facto national style for public and private buildings. However, in a strange lapse of historical memory, Jefferson's accomplishments were almost entirely forgotten by the time Kimball arrived on the scene almost a century later."Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson" is a moment-by-moment narrative of the men who created the profession of architecture in America, and F...
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Elements of Agriculture (Rural Text-Book Series)

By: G. F. Warren; L. H. Bailey [Editor]

Price: $7.98

Publisher: The Macmillan Company, London: January 1914

Seller ID: 263885

ISBN: B003LTZ4QM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up

By: Daphne Miller M.D.

Price: $6.98

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: March 2016

Seller ID: 263846

ISBN: 0062103156

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In Farmacology, practicing family physician and renowned nutrition explorer Daphne Miller brings us beyond the simple concept of "food as medicine" and introduces us to the critical idea that it's the farm where that food is grown that offers us the real medicine.By venturing out of her clinic and spending time on seven family farms, Miller uncovers all the aspects of farming--from seed choice to soil management--that have a direct and powerful impact on our health. Bridging the traditional divide between agriculture and medicine, Miller shares lessons learned from inspiring farmers and ...
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Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World's Food Crises (The Ingenuity Project)

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: House of Anansi Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 260449

ISBN: 0887841864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

As humanity enters the 21st century, globalization and modernization promise to make for more consumption of grains, beef, and fish than ever before. The 2 billion inhabitants of India and China are set to purchase at unprecedented levels, and sub-Saharan Africa will need to overcome its many torturous famines. What kinds of fixes can ensure the stability of the food supply throughout the 21st century and beyond? "Feeding the Future provides pragmatic, learned solutions to the issues that loom large. Nine chapters, each penned by a different expert, examine issues ranging from food safety to t...
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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution

By: Jennifer Cockrall-King

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Prometheus: February 2012

Seller ID: 263832

ISBN: 1616144580

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands--and in our cities. When you're standing in the midst of a supermarket, it's hard to imagine that you're looking at a failing industrial food system. The abundance all around you looks impressive but is really a facade. In fact, there's just a three-day supply of food available for any given city due to complex, just-in-time international supply chains. The system is not only vulnerable, given the reality of food scares, international crises, terrorist attacks, economic upheavals, and natural disaster...
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Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future

By: N/A

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: March 2017

Seller ID: 263829

ISBN: 1616895306

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru

By: Thomas Spear

Price: $5.98

Publisher: University of California Press: April 1997

Seller ID: 222324

ISBN: 0520206193

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is the first extended study of one of the most historically and culturally interesting regions of Tanzania in East Africa. "Mountain Farmers" is a detailed comparative history of two ethnic groups who share one mountain home--the Meru are traditionally farmers; the Arusha cattle-herders related to the Maasai. Thomas Spear's engaging study, based on recent archival and field research, ranges across several centuries of political and economic history, comparing the responses of these very different peoples to the settlement of Mount Meru, to colonial conquest, and to increasing land shortag...
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The Future of Family Farms: Practical Farmers' Legacy Letters Project

By: N/A

Price: $18.98

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press: September 2016

Seller ID: 263847

ISBN: 1609384539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New