Bitter Harvest

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781668008713

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Author : Ann Cooper,Lisa M. Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135269555

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Bitter Harvest by Ann Cooper,Lisa M. Holmes Pdf

The history of food is not as straightforward as it may seem. Food isn't just food. It is ritual, tradition and memory. So begins Ann Cooper's groundbreaking new book on the history of sustenance. Cooper, a renowned chef and graduate of New York's famed Culinary Institute of America, expertly guides us from the roots of agriculture in North America through the profound changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, all the way up to the present day, offering analyses of recent controversies such as Europe's campaign against Frankenstein food and the genetic engineering of plants and animals in the United States. Throughout, Cooper takes both a macro and micro approach, examining the effect politics, technology, war, international trade and agribusiness have had on the world's food supply, as well as the changing social patterns which have made a family meal at the table almost a relic of the past. Did you know? · 80% of chicken has salmonella. · By the year 2010, 95 percent of items bought at the grocery store may be consumed within 20 minutes of getting them home. · Cancer researchers believe that over one third of all future cancers will be diet-related -- roughly the same proportion now attributable to smoking. Passionate, political, informed and engaging, Bitter Harvest is filled with fascinating facts and anecdotes. Cooper offers a comprehensive analysis of the issue of sustainability, arguing persuasively why we must begin to change everything from the way food is shipped to the basic components of our diets. Touching on virtually every aspect of the food culture, Bitter Harvest is a vibrant example of the emergence of the chef as a political voice to be reckoned with. A food manifesto for the new millennium, it is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our planet. You will never look at your dinner plate in quite the same way again.

Author : Matthew J. Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521653959

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Bitter Harvest by Matthew J. Dickinson Pdf

This book outlines Franklin Roosevelt's White House staff organization.

Author : Tom Lansford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351962865

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A Bitter Harvest by Tom Lansford Pdf

The 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States formed part of the larger legacy of American interaction in Afghanistan. From the end of World War II onward, American foreign policy had a significant impact on the conflicts that marked the twentieth century history of this troubled land. The role of the United States was magnified by the violence of the ongoing internal ethnic struggles and the external machinations of the superpower Cold War rivalry. In line with the aims of the series, this valuable new book: · presents a historical overview of the causes and legacy of Afghanistan's internal conflict · explores the role and influence of the actors involved, including the various ethnic and religious groups and external powers such as the United States and the Soviet Union · provides the framework for a broader exploration of US policy toward Afghanistan A Bitter Harvest concludes with an assessment of US policy and policy recommendations.

Author : James Corcoran
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0140098747

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Bitter Harvest by James Corcoran Pdf

Gordon Kahl was a hard-working farmer and a God-fearing patriot. He was also an outspoken leading member of the ultra-right-wing Posse Comitatus, and when marshals came to arrest him for violating probation, Kahl, with his son, killed three men and became a fugitive from justice. Bitter Harvest captures the intense drama of Kahl's flight across the Midwest, and reveals how a violent right wing, born of despair, nurtured hatred, racism, and terrorism.

Author : Cletus E. Daniel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520047222

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Bitter Harvest, a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 by Cletus E. Daniel Pdf

Author : Lisi Krall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438489926

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Bitter Harvest by Lisi Krall Pdf

Humans are in danger of crossing a divide where their foothold on an earth once abundant in self-willed otherness is slipping away. This is apparent with the sixth mass extinction, climate change, and the many breaches of planetary boundaries. Bitter Harvest brings clarity to this moment in history through a focus on economic order, how it comes to be what it is, and the way it structures the relationship between humans and Earth. An unusual synergy of disciplines (evolutionary biology, history, economic systems analysis, anthropology, and deep ecology) are tapped to fully explore the emergence of an economic system that contextualized a duality between humans and Earth. Conversations that focus on capitalism and the industrial revolution are subsumed under the longer arc of history and the system change that began with the cultivation of annual grains. Bitter Harvest engenders a more critical conversation about the complexity of the human relationship to Earth and the challenge of altering the economic trajectory that began with agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Author : Ann Cooper,Lisa M. Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135269487

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Bitter Harvest by Ann Cooper,Lisa M. Holmes Pdf

The history of food is not as straightforward as it may seem. Food isn't just food. It is ritual, tradition and memory. So begins Ann Cooper's groundbreaking new book on the history of sustenance. Cooper, a renowned chef and graduate of New York's famed Culinary Institute of America, expertly guides us from the roots of agriculture in North America through the profound changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, all the way up to the present day, offering analyses of recent controversies such as Europe's campaign against Frankenstein food and the genetic engineering of plants and animals in the United States. Throughout, Cooper takes both a macro and micro approach, examining the effect politics, technology, war, international trade and agribusiness have had on the world's food supply, as well as the changing social patterns which have made a family meal at the table almost a relic of the past. Did you know? · 80% of chicken has salmonella. · By the year 2010, 95 percent of items bought at the grocery store may be consumed within 20 minutes of getting them home. · Cancer researchers believe that over one third of all future cancers will be diet-related -- roughly the same proportion now attributable to smoking. Passionate, political, informed and engaging, Bitter Harvest is filled with fascinating facts and anecdotes. Cooper offers a comprehensive analysis of the issue of sustainability, arguing persuasively why we must begin to change everything from the way food is shipped to the basic components of our diets. Touching on virtually every aspect of the food culture, Bitter Harvest is a vibrant example of the emergence of the chef as a political voice to be reckoned with. A food manifesto for the new millennium, it is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our planet. You will never look at your dinner plate in quite the same way again.

Author : John Hayman
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603063715

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Bitter Harvest traces the development of Richmond Flowers, a colorful politician who began his career as a segregationist but who, as attorney general of Alabama, fought bitterly against Governor George Wallace in trying to support the Constitution. In the process, he sacrificed his political career. Flowers was elected attorney general in 1962. A likable story-teller who had served in the state senate, Flowers came into office promising like his fellow politicians to send the Yankees a message. He did not seem the stuff of which heroes (or martyrs) are made. But faced with the choice of upholding the law or of taking the popular course, he chose to uphold the law. Events thereafter made him a central figure in the most violent years of the civil rights revolution. The book sets this story against the background of the white South's war against civil rights, a savage contest motivated by hatred and fear. It advances the thesis that during this period, Alabama suffered a fundamental failure in leadership which determined the state's response to the demand for social change.Alabama's leaders encouraged lawlessness with their statements and actions. They took the state down a self-destructive course which has had lasting and damaging consequences.

Author : Frederic Halbert,Sandra Halbert
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015071207487

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Bitter Harvest by Frederic Halbert,Sandra Halbert Pdf

Author : Kim Knox
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426897047

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Bitter Harvest by Kim Knox Pdf

It's 2050, and humans are an endangered species. Lieutenant Robert Sutton has survived the collapse of civilization by luck, his wits, and a chance mutation that makes him immune to the nano-virus that has wiped out millions. Now, his compound of survivors is surrounded by the infected, who are driven by the need to spread the contagion through sex. It is only a matter of time before they attack. So when Sutton is assigned to interrogate a prisoner who claims to have overcome the infection, he immediately suspects a trap... Nicholas Rider may have survived the virus, but he's a changed man, ruled by his desires. But his need for Sutton is different. Rider craves an end to his overwhelming needs, and Sutton could be the man to do it. Secure in his belief that he's invulnerable, Sutton can't understand or resist his intense attraction to his prisoner. Will Rider be his downfall—or his savior? 30,000 words

Author : Ian Douglas Smith
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : 9781857826043

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Bitter Harvest by Ian Douglas Smith Pdf

For more than a decade, Ian Smith served as Rhodesia's Prime Minister during the era of white minority rule. Following his death in 2007, he is still a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions. To some he is anbsp;leader whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labor government of Britain in the 1960s. To others he is a demon best known for stating "I don't believe in black majority rule ever, not in a thousand years," for staunchly opposing Britain's insistence that majority rule be implemented before the nation’s independence, and for imprisoning the leadershipnbsp;of the newly emergednbsp;black nationalist movement.nbsp;In this revealing autobiography, Smith tells his own side of the story and reveals how he sought to keep Rhodesia on a path to full democracy during the West's decolonization of Africa. He tells the remarkable story behind the signing of the country’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence and addresses the excesses of power that the current president, Robert Mugabe, has used to create the virtual dictatorship which exists in Zimbabwe today. This is a revealing and prescient historical document from a controversial figure charting the rise and fall of a once-great nation.

Author : Peter Yeldham
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857966452

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A Bitter Harvest by Peter Yeldham Pdf

Senator William Patterson, wealthy and influential, hides a scandal form his past that could ruin him. Stefan Muller, a young penniless immigrant, seeks a promised new life in a land that does not welcome him. When the senator's cherished daughter Elizabeth falls in love with the impoverished Stefan, it creates a family conflict that threatens to destroy them. From a tumultuous and vibrant Sydney to the lyrical landscape of the Barossa Valley, A Bitter Harvest is an epic saga of prejudice, political turmoil and lasting love from one of Australia's favourite storytellers.

Author : Ann Gimpel
Publisher : Ann Gimpel Books LLC
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bitter Harvest Series by Ann Gimpel Pdf

1200 pages of spellbinding dystopian urban fantasy. In a world with few choices, evil runs rampant and none of the old rules apply. What began as an exploratory mission to see if anything is left on Earth turns sour fast. A Vampire attack, a possessed priest, and a gateway to Hell mean fallout from the spell gone bad that pinned everyone in South America is far from finished. Retreat is tempting, but nowhere is safe. Evil is leaching in from somewhere. If they can’t find the breach, they’re finished. Deceived Vampires aren’t supposed to feel anything beyond hunger and bloodlust, but Viktor still feels a whole lot. He hates what he’s become, but there’s no escape. Not from the dying city smothering him, or from his maker, an arrogant tyrant who demands absolute loyalty. Twisted The sea is the only life Juan’s ever known—not counting the decade he spent as a Vampire. Those years gave him a healthy aversion for anything supernatural, but he’s a shifter now. It’s way better than being one of the undead, but he still doesn’t trust magic. Paired up with Aura to teach him, he falls and falls hard, but she spurns his advances. Abandoned Recco misses his cozy lab and well-organized veterinary clinic, but ten years as a Vampire stripped him of any illusions. Life is done handing him everything he wants. He could rail against fate—which never bought him much—or suck it up and keep going. Defeating the Cataclysm broke Vampirism’s hold on him, though. Even better, it threw Zoe square in his path and kicked open the door for him to bond with a wolf. PRAISE FOR THE BITTER HARVEST SERIES: “I am a huge fan of this author's work having read quite a few of her different series of books and I was so surprised by how different this book is from her other series, surprised and blown away by how amazing it was and how much I adored this book!!!!” Goodreads Review “What a cool new world and an awesome story. A spell gone wrong and a cataclysm has hit, trapping the people, shifters, and vampires in Ushuaia. The vampires are at the top of the food chain and everything is dying.” Goodreads Review “Just my kind of story. The sea, a ship, someone named Viktor to make the story fantastic. He just wants to get back to a life on the sea even though it’s tough. Obviously, it’s not going to be easy. Not to be missed. The audio book has a narrator that has you listening until the end.” Goodreads Review “Entertaining and I loved the premise! It's been awhile since I've read a vampire book, and I really enjoyed Ann Gimpel's storytelling.” Goodreads Review Fans of the following books and series are known to enjoy this post-apocalyptic, urban fantasy series: a kingdom of exiles a shade of vampire academy of magic dragon's gift accidentally in love attack by magic dragon's gift awakening dragon born in fire burning tower call of the dragon choose love covert fae crime of magic dragon's gift crimes against magic dark stranger the dream darkness bound dragons of the darkblood secret society druid enforcer ghostwater goddesss choice golden age greyriver shifters hotbloods hour of darkness house of darken iron and magic jinn's dominion junkyard druid Kate Daniels’ Magic Series master of magic dragon's gift natural mage natural witch obsidian son raised in fire rogues of magic shadow keeper shadow kissed space knight 4 twisted fate unchained undercover magic dragon's gift war god's mantle wheel of time wild hunger Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this post-apocalyptic urban fantasy series: ac cobble angela j ford anne marsh bella forrest brett battles charlaine harris christie golden christine Feehan Elizabeth hunter eve langlais hazel hunter heather graham i t lucas ilona andrews isa hunt j b turner j s scott j s striker jessica drake jessica shattuck jeannine frost kate quinn kf breene kristin harmel kristina weaver lana hartley lara adrian linsey hall lisa daniels lj shen louisa morgan mandy m. roth meg ripley michelle m. pillow mina carter milly taiden nalini singh nina levine nora roberts patricia briggs robert jordan shannon mayer shayne silvers suzanne wright terry bolryder terry goodkind t.s. joyce victoria danann Yasmine Galenorn Keywords related to this post-apocalyptic, epic fantasy series: Shifter romance, Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Books, Epic Urban Fantasy series, Werewolves and Shifters, Vampires, Animals & Nature, Popular Series, Paranormal Fantasy Books, Top Rated Books, Tricks, Fantasy Omnibus, Spells & Charms, Romance Books, Backcountry, Fantasy Romance Books, Essential Reads, Epic Fantasy, Omnibus Bundle, Paranormal Romance Series, Adventure Books, Mythology and Folklore, Top Rated Fantasy Collection With Shapeshifters, Fantasy Bundle, Heroine, Supernatural and Occult, Sword And Sorcery, Shifter Romance, Fantasy Stories, Shifter Series, Fantasy, Shifter Omnibus, Best Rated Omnibus, Omnibus Collection, Paranormal Romance Books, Magical Adventures.

Author : Michael R. Hicks
Publisher : Michael R. Hicks
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984673087

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Bitter Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 2) by Michael R. Hicks Pdf

A year after the Sutter Buttes incident. Jack Dawson and Naomi Perrault, having failed to find the elusive bag of lethal New Horizons seed, are fired and the secret agency established under President Curtis to study the harvesters is shut down. Little do they know that an unforeseen horror is about to erupt across the globe, one they may not be able to stop...