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The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times

10 best books like The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times (Tristram Stuart): Silas Marner, The Book on the Bookshelf, The Edible Woman, Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction, Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, The Fur Person, If I Die in Juárez, The Very First Damned Thing, Randomize

Silas Marner
AuthorGeorge Eliot
George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner...
The Book on the Bookshelf
AuthorHenry Petroski
ISBN0375706399
"A fascinating history of two related common objects, impeccably documented and beautifully illustrated." —Civilization

Henry Petroski, "the poet laureate of technology" and author of the highly acclaimed The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things now sets his sights on perhaps...
The Edible Woman
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0385491069
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach......
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
AuthorTom Raabe
ISBN1555912400
A hilarious guide for book lovers that brings book addiction out of the closet.
Have you ever...
awakened, the morning after a book-buying spree, unable to remember how many you bought or how much you spent?
been reprimanded or fired for reading on the job?
purchased or rented...
Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak
AuthorA. Breeze Harper
ISBN1590561457
Sistah Vegan is a series of narratives, critical essays, poems, and reflections from a diverse community of North American black-identified vegans. Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism. By kicking junk-food habits, the more than thirty...
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
AuthorCharles Patterson
ISBN1930051999
The book examines the origins of human supremacy, describes the emergence of industrialized slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust. ETERNAL TREBLINKA describes disturbing parallels...
The Fur Person
AuthorMay Sarton
This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn
from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton’s own
cat. Prior to making the author’s acquaintance, he is a fiercely
independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of
his vagabond lifestyle, however, he concludes...
If I Die in Juárez
AuthorStella Pope Duarte
ISBN0816526672
From the red-light districts in Ciudad Juárez to remote villages hidden away in the mountains of Chihuahua comes a tale of one of the darkest crimes to be recorded in the history of humankind. If I Die in Juárez traces the lives of three young women—Evita, a street child; Petra, a maquiladora worker;...
The Very First Damned Thing
AuthorJodi Taylor
Ever wondered how it all began?

It’s two years since the final victory at the Battersea Barricades. The fighting might be finished, but for Dr Bairstow, just now setting up St Mary's, the struggle is only beginning.

How will he assemble his team?

From where will his funding...
Randomize
AuthorAndy Weir
In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number...
Emergency Skin
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others...
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