Average customer rating:
- The groceries we buy can help or harm our world.
|
Rain Forest in Your Kitchen: The Hidden Connection Between Extinction And Your Supermarket
Martin Teitel
Manufacturer: Island Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Cooking, Food & Wine
| Subjects
| Books
Household Hints
| How-to & Home Improvements
| Home & Garden
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Consumer Guides
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Zoology
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Zoology
| Biological Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Natural Resources
| Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Cookbooks
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Look Inside Outdoors & Nature Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
ASIN: 1559631538 |
Book Description
The biodiversity crisis - the extinction of thousands of species of plants and animals - is not just a faraway problem for scientists to solve. Instead, the crisis is as close as our backyards, our gardens, and our refrigerator shelves. This engaging, practical guide inspires average Americans to wield their consumer power in favor of protecting the world's plant and animal species.
Environmentalist activist Martin Teitel offers compelling evidence that by slightly modifying how we shop, eat, and garden, we can collectively influence the operating decisions of today's corporate agribusiness and help preserve our precious genetic resources. Teitel offers strategies so simple that they require no significant lifestyle change or expense.
Customer Reviews:
The groceries we buy can help or harm our world........1997-01-27
Did you know that biodiversity is a matter that affects the plant and vegetable kingdom? Once there were many different kinds of apples, now it seems there are only a few kinds grown in great numbers for mass consumption. Because consumers demand perfect looking produce, growers are encouraged to use pesticides and other artificial methods to make produce look appealing. This practice is ecologically dangerous. This is an informative and practical book, with suggestions about how the average shopper can turn the tide of the potentially harmful demand for non-diverse, uniformly and artificially appealling produce
Average customer rating:
|
Diversity of Life study guide
Edward O. Wilson
Manufacturer: R.S. Means Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Curricula
| Education
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Lesson Planning
| Education
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Nonfiction
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Professional
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Science
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
-
The Diversity of Life
ASIN: 0393964795 |
Average customer rating:
|
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life/Study Guide and Workbook
Cecie Starr
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0534210708 |
Average customer rating:
|
The Color of Racism: Understanding & Overcoming Discrimination
Sam B., III Pearson
Manufacturer: Transformax Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
America
| Race Relations
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Race Relations
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Social Groups
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Cultural
| Anthropology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Discrimination & Racism
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
African-American Studies
| Special Groups
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0965022005 |
From the Publisher
Discrimination is not about black and white, or male and female; it is about physical differences. And, our perceptions of these physical differences influence our attitudes. Hence, instead of trying to change our differences, we should strive to change our perceptions of these differences.
Some of the chapters of this extraordinary self-help book deal with developing a positive attitude, getting along with others, and becoming more successful in multicultural America, no matter what color you are.
Book Description
As more disease-causing genes become identified, an increasing number of people will seek accurate scientific information and counsel when making decisions about family planning and health care. While genetic counselors are trained extensively in scientific methods and counseling techniques, they must also prepare themselves for working with clients from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
In chapters that show professionals how to understand the behavior and decision making of people from diverse cultural and ethnic groups, genetics experts offer insights and information about people who belong to Latin American, African, Native American, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Jewish ethnic groups, as well as individuals within the deaf community. Each population overview (in many instances written by a member of the culture under consideration) includes the group's history, migrational patterns, religious beliefs, family structure, traditional medical practices, and incidence of genetic disease. Complete with guidelines for genetic screening and counseling, this enlightening handbook should be on the shelf of every geneticist, genetic counselor, cross-cultural counselor, genetics and health care professional, and professional-in-training.
"This is the only book I know of that discussesin depththe problems, solutions, and guidelines for cross-cultural and cross-ethnic genetic counseling in North America. Logical and effective in manner, this text is a substantial contribution to the field and will also be of interest to nurses, social workers, and other health workers involved in genetic counseling."-- James E. Bowman, M.D., University of Chicago
Average customer rating:
|
Theory of Generalized Inverses Over Commutative Rings (Algebra, Logic and Applications)
K.P.S. Bhaskara Rao
Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Algebra
| Pure Mathematics
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Matrices
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Algebra
| Pure Mathematics
| Mathematics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0415272483 |
Book Description
The theory of generalized inverses of real or complex matrices has been expertly developed and documented. But the generalized inverses of matrices over rings have received comprehensive treatment only recently. In this book, the author, who contributed to the research and development of the theory, explains his results. He explores regular elements in a ring, regular matrices over principal ideal rings, and regular matrices over commutative rings. Students, mathematicians working in g-inverses of matrices, along with algebraists, and control theorists will find new and indispensable data, presented with clarity and insight. This book is also well suited to graduate courses on g-inverses in algebra.
Average customer rating:
|
Matrices over Commutative Rings (Pure and Applied Mathematics (Marcel Dekker))
William C. Brown
Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Algebra
| Pure Mathematics
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Matrices
| Mathematics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Applied
| Mathematics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0824787552 |
Book Description
One of the finest American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, James Schuyler was at the same time a remarkable novelist. Alfred and Guinevere are two children who have been sent by their parents to spend the summer at their grandmother's house in the country. There they puzzle over their parents' absence and their relatives' habits, play games and pranks, make friends and fall out with them, spat and make up. Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention. The reader discovers that beneath the book's apparently guileless surface lies a very sophisticated awareness of the complicated ways in which words work to define the often perilous boundaries between fantasy and reality, innocence and knowledge.
Customer Reviews:
beauty and poignancy.......2002-02-07
Out of print for nearly 50 years, New York Review Books has happily reprinted this slim, charming, nearly forgotten classic by Schuyler, best known as a poet. Told entirely through the dialogue, letters, and diary entries of two very precocious children -- Alfred and Guinevere, sent to live in the country with their uncle and grandmother for reasons not entirely clear to them -- Schuyler brilliantly and hilariously portrays their attempts to piece together the larger, enigmatic adult world around them. Beneath the book's apparently guileless surface, there also lies a sophisticated awareness of the complicated ways in which words work to define the boundaries between fantasy and reality, innocence and knowledge. Thoroughly delightful, Alfred and Guinevere will move you with both beauty and poignancy.
A funny, minor treasure.......2001-01-26
Schuyler is best remembered (with Kenneth Koch, John Ashberry, and Frank O'Hara) as one of the "New York" school of poets. This slim little novel, however, shows that his talents in prose have been underappreciated. ALFRED AND GUINEVERE is a hilarious little story--told entirely through dialogue, letters, and Guinevere's diary--of two very precocious children sent to live in the country with their uncle and grandmother for reasons initially unclear to them. Their attempts to piece together the larger adult world (which may comprise adultery, death, disappointment, and loneliness) are very funny and poignant, and though Alfred and Guienevere often get on each others' nerves their mutual devotion still rings quite true. This is a fast read, and its high quality may still not justify the exorbitant cover price. (NYRB has been charging too much for its editions, which are beautiful and spectacularly chosen, but often run to novella-length rather than to full novel-length). But I was glad I had bought--and read--this little-known jewel.
Product Description
J.H Fowler's Prefatory Note from the original 1930 edition:
"Annotated editions of the Idylls have already appeared in the "English Classics" Series, but I believe this to be the first commentary upon the "Idylls of the King" as a whole.
In making it I have had the advantage of being able to use, through the kindness of the publishers, Lord Tennyson's own notes, and the notes of his son, and also the commentaries of the late Professor G.C. Macaulay upon several of the Idylls.
I have kept the notes within the smallest compass that seemed consistent with the aim of giving all reasonable help in the elucidation of difficulties. Perhaps the feature that will be found most useful is one which occupies very little space - the cross references by which the student of any on Idyll can quickly find passages in the other Idylls which throw light on Tennyson's conception of such characters as Gwain and Modred. To help the student to build up his own notion from a comparison of passages seems better than supplying him with ready-made characters in an Introduction."
The text contains: Editors notes, Introdustion, The text, Notes on the Text, Index to the First Lines and an index the Songs. Originally published in 1930, with reprints in 1952, 1958, and 1962.
Average customer rating:
|
The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Poetry
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
| ( T )
| Authors, A-Z
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 1421213230
Release Date: 2000-06-02 |
Book Description
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, and New York.
Average customer rating:
|
Guinevere
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Manufacturer: George Routledge and sons, 416, Broome Street
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
British
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
| 18th Century
| 19th Century
| 20th Century
| Classics
| Contemporary
| General
| Historical
| Humor
| Letters & Correspondence
| Middle
| Old
| Poetry
| Renaissance
| Shakespeare
| Short Stories
ASIN: B0008A1I8K |
Books:
- Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning (Dover Books on Architecture)
- The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
- The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years
- The Essential Atlas of Biology
- The Evolution of Homo Erectus: Comparative Anatomical Studies of an Extinct Human Species
- The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson (Mississippi Art Series)
- The Human Fossil Record, Brain Endocasts: The Paleoneurological Evidence, Volume 3
- The Leucocyte Antigen: Facts Book (Factsbook)
- The Mycota: A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research, Volume IX: Fungal Associations (The Mycota)
- The New York Times Book of the Brain: Revised and Expanded
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- P.G. Wodehouse : Five Complete Novels
- Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Qu
- What Time is this Place
- Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids
- ART OF POCAHONTAS, THE
- Fiance & Marriage Visas: A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
- Catworld: A Feline Encyclopedia
- Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels
- 6,000 Years of Housing, Revised and Expanded Edition
- Myxobacteria Ii
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (with BiologyNOW-Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING, iLrn, InfoTrac® Printed Access Card)
Laboratory Manual for General Biology
Laboratory Manual for Starr/Taggart's Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, 9th and Starr's Biology: Concepts and Applications
Photo Atlas for Biology
A Photographic Atlas for the Biology Laboratory 5th edition
