Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
7 best books like Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Vandana Shiva): A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It, A History of Western Philosophy, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch, The Problems of Philosophy
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloane Crosley is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
From despoiling...
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it's an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan...
A History of Western Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671201581 |
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
| Author | Susan Burton |
| ISBN | 1620972123 |
One woman’s remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery—and recognition as a leading figure in the national justice reform movement
Susan Burton’s world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van on their street in South Los Angeles. Consumed by...
Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch
| Author | Sophie Passmann |
| ISBN | 3462052462 |
»Beweis erbracht: Unbestechlichen Feminismus gibt es auch in lustig. Sogar in sehr lustig! Großartig!« Anne Will.
Sophie Passmann ist Feministin und so gar nicht einverstanden mit der Plattitüde, der alte weiße Mann sei an allem schuld. Sie will wissen, was hinter diesem Klischeebild...
The Problems of Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 1421903679 |
Plato, in the Symposium, was perhaps the first person to consider the question of the "unliked review". If a review never receives any votes, can it truly be said to exist? This problem has tormented many of the world's greatest philosophers. Bishop Berkeley's famous answer is that God reads and likes...
