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Food & Agriculture Books

Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food
by Nicola Temple
Review
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
by Mark Lynas
Review
The Psychobiotic Revolution
by Scott C Anderson, John F. Cryan Ph.D, and Ted Dinan M.D. Ph.D
Review
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
by Richard Mabey
Review
Triumph of Seeds
by Thor Hanson
Review
Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
by Matthew Smith
Review
Sustainability: A History
by Jeremy L. Caradonna
Review
Marine Community Ecology and Conservation
by Mark D. Bertness, John F. Bruno, Brian R. Silliman, and John J. Stachowicz
Review
Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
by Anthony D. Barnosky
Review
Big Ratchet
by Ruth DeFries
Review
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
by Philip Lymbery
Review
Proof: The Science of Booze
by Adam Rogers
Review
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
by Courtney White
Review
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
by Kristin Ohlson
Review
Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
by Peter Crane
Review
The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
by Sandra Markle
Review
Breaking New Ground: A Personal History
by Lester R Brown
Review
The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era
by Hans Langeveld, Johan Sanders, and Marieke Meeusen
The Kingdom of Fungi
by Jens H. Petersen
Review
Fungal Biology in the Origin and Emergence of Life
by David Moore
Review
Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet
by Sarah Elton
Review
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
by John Grant
Review
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Robert Paarlberg
Review
Seeds: Time Capsules of Life
by Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler
Review
Biotechnology for Beginners
by Reinhard Renneberg
Review
Diapause in Aquatic Invertebrates: Theory and Human Use
by Victor R. Alekseev, Bart De Stasio, and John J. Gilbert
Review
What a Plant Knows
by Daniel Chamovitz
Review

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