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Heroes Cry Too: A WWII Ranger Tells His Story of Love and War
Warren Evans
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"Heroes Cry Too," a first-person dialogue, is the story of Captain Warren Evans - a WWII 1st Battalion Ranger. It is a tale of determination and fortitude describing a poor South Dakota boy's struggle to feed his family and just stay alive. It is a story of love between a young soldier and the love-of-his-life, Frances Wheeler - a love that would survive three years of separation and months of not knowing. It is a war epic, battle after battle laden with close calls for the hero while others die around him. And finally, it is the remarkable reliving of a seasoned soldier's capture and the surprising prison days that followed, his daring escape, recapture, and then the giant emotional effort to survive the brutal treatment his captor's unleashed on him. Read "Heroes Cry Too" and experience the sacrifices given so freely by Evans and a group of America's finest sons - the WWII Rangers!
Customer Reviews:
Not what I expected.......2006-12-01
I have no doubt that Warren "Bing" Evans is a true hero, but I didn't find his story of love nor war was adequately told. The details on each were very superficial and weak. I credit the authors with this, not the man they wrote about. Unfortunate.
A Gentleman Warrior.......2003-02-09
Events occur in the course of ones life that lead us on paths that we do not anticipate or choose. Heroes Cry Too is a tale of a young man who excelled in the service to his country in World War II as one of the first US Army Rangers. Warren Evans started life in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Raised by his mother, Warren was forced to grow up quickly, earning an income to supplement the families finances. Finding his way, often on his own, Warren ended up at South Dakota State on a football scholarship. To earn additional spending money, he joined the National Guard. On December 7, 1941, everything changed. Whether it was academics, athletics or work commitments, Warren was driven to excel at what ever task was in front of him. This lead him to be the best of the best in the Army, the Rangers. It also lead him into unimaginable peril and anguish.
The recounting of Warren Evan's life is the tale of a ever humble unassuming man, who through the worst of human experiences remained loyal to his God, his country and his love, Francis. I have known Warren all of my life and I can say that you will never meet a more humble, gentle, generous man.
Reading this book will lead you to be even more grateful for the sacrifices of those men who paid dearly for our freedoms.
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In a new preface to this special edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, Francois Jacob recalls the events that brought him to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1960's and taught him much about phage biology and the informal ways of American science. Throughout his book, Jacob demonstrates a scientist's eye for detail and a poet's instinct for the inner life, as he tells of a privileged Parisian boyhood, young love, heroism in war, and the fascination of life at the edge of scientific discovery.
Customer Reviews:
Perhaps one of the most significant books in my life.......2001-10-20
I got a copy of this book long time ago and still remember almost as if happens yesterday. The positive effects of this book have in my life are unforgetable. Actually one of the reasons I decided to became a scientist was because the way Francois Jacob found his way in hard times. The book details his experiences during the second world war and after. In these days, we are in a new century and it seems that we haven't learn much about peace and respect and we have quite similar hard time as Francois Jacob describes. However, I totally believes that this book will be a positive hit for all students in Jr college and high schools and for sure will encourage the scientist of the future to take over this activity. The future of those that identify themselfs with Francois Jacob's life will be significant as time advance.
a surprisingly gripping story.......2000-06-22
Even though I am a molecular biologist, I began reading The Statue Within with a bit of prejudice that it would be good for me but not necessarily interesting. I figured it would be beneficial to learn more detail about the work of one of the founders of my field. Boy was I surprised! What I got instead was the examination of a complex and vivid personality, a life filled with great flux, confusion, but most of all, a passion for knowledge. Dr. Jacob started off as a reluctant medical student, went to England to escape the Nazi takeover of Paris, signed up with DeGaulle's unofficial French army and served as a medic in a messy, confusing war. Afterward he returned to Paris and his medical studies, but, lacking direction, found himself in the midst of new and interesting biological research about genetics. Fascinated and obsessed, he pestered and cajoled his way into a top laboratory at the Pasteur Institute and began to experiment. His work of course was fundamental to the understanding of the mechanical functioning of genetics, and he went on to win the Nobel. But the beauty of the book is that it isn't about the glory and accolades - it is about the thirst for knowledge and the collaborative bonds that form between bright minds. It is very good for a scientist to be reminded of the essential nature of curiosity and the trial and defense of ones hypotheses. I will be reading this one for the rest of my career!
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The Statue Within: An Autobiography
Francois Jacob
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In a major update of the book that helped to launch the women's health movement, Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century updates the classic with chapters on such issues as online health resources, AIDS, and managed care. At the same time, it expands its appeal by addressing the concerns of an increasingly diverse readership, from lesbians to women of color, from women with disabilities to women of all age groups.
Yet the book, by the nonprofit Boston Women's Health Book Collective, remains true to the spirit of those empowering discussions women were first having in the 1960s and 1970s about their bodies: "As the millennium approaches, our original goals for this book remain as important as ever: to fit as much information about women's health between the covers of this book as we can, providing women with tools to enable all of us to take charge of our health and lives; to support women and men who work for progressive change; and to work to create a just society in which good health is not a luxury or a privilege but a human right."
By updating and continuing to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health, this edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health. It remains a valuable resource for women of all ages and backgrounds.
Book Description
The essential resource on women's health and sexuality comes of age in this newly revised and updated edition of a long-loved classic.
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations. In these pages, women will find new information, resources (including web sites!), and personal support for the decisions that will shape their health -- and their lives -- from living a healthy life, to relationships and sexuality, to child-bearing, growing older, dealing with the medical system, and organizing for change. This is a book for women of all generations to use, to rely on, and to share with others.
Customer Reviews:
A Must Have book.......2007-02-17
The 1984 and 1998 editions are lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs (including an iconic one by Tee A. Corinne of a disabled person making love in a wheel chair). This is the kind of book you can flip thorough and start reading on any page and find something of interest.
They even have their own internet site containing information about this book and related books. Truly a wealth of information and a treasure to have found. I just got this book and wished I'd had it in my teens, twenties, thirties, but thankfully now in my 40's I do.
Now after reading the reviews for the 2005 edition I am going to get that new. The 2005 edition is the 8th edition and in 35 years has never gone out of print. The subjects in the 2005 edition cover every issue that a woman can encounter -
Taking Care of Ourselves
Relationships and Sexuality
Sexual Health
Reproductive Choices
Child-Bearing
Growing Older
Medical Problems and Procedures
Knowledge is Power
From the publisher's website - 1969 Twelve women meet during a women's liberation conference in Boston. At a workshop on "women and their bodies," they talk about their own experiences with doctors and share their knowledge about their bodies. The discussions at the conference are so provocative and fulfilling that the following summer, each woman researches a health topic close to her heart. They decide to put their knowledge into an accessible form that can be shared with others and that can serve as a model for women who want to learn about themselves, communicate their findings with doctors, and challenge the medical establishment to change and improve the care that women receive.
1970 A 193-page course booklet on stapled newsprint entitled Women and Their Bodies is published by New England Free Press.
1971 The authors change the name of the book to Our Bodies, Ourselves, to emphasize women taking full ownership of our bodies. Republished by New England Free Press, the book puts women's health in a radically new political and social context and quickly becomes an underground success. It sells 250,000 copies, mainly by word-of-mouth.
1973 Simon & Schuster publishes the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
1976 A revised and updated version of Our Bodies, Ourselves is published. A national bestseller, it is recognized by the American Library Association's Young Adult Service Division as one of the best books of the decade.
1979 An update of Our Bodies, Ourselves is published and becomes a bestseller.
1984 A revised version of the original classic, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, is published.
1992 The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: Updated and Expanded for the 90s is published.
1998 Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century is published.
If you liked this book. . ........2004-12-03
When You Think You're Falling Apart, by Dr. Kathleen Wilson was loaded with current information I could use about myself. I think it will be as important as Our Body Ourselves in teaching women how their bodies work, how to keep themselves healthy, how to reduce stress, and how to manage in the medical system.
Great introduction to women's health.......2004-10-22
I stumbled across a copy of this book at my local book swap today, and I must admit I can't put it down. Over the years, through various acquaintances and media, I've heard the wonders preached about Our Bodies, Ourselves, and so I thought I'd give it a go.
Our Bodies, Ourselves is a bare bones, easy to read guide to all facets of women's health, including reproduction, fitness, mental health, fertility, sexuality - even holistic medicine. It also features selections on overcoming abuse and how to tell your family about your sexual orientation - advice that is absolutely essential to many women today dealing with these issues.
One of my favorite features of this book was the personal commentaries. Every page features a small selection, about a paragraph long, written by a woman who has experienced the topic you're reading about. By reading these women's individual struggles and experiences, it helps one to feel that women's struggles and issues are universal, and that no woman is isolated.
This book has been so successful with women throughout the past thirty years because of the indispensible information it provides. A copy of this book should be on every woman's shelf.
A great woman's health book for any age of women!.......2004-07-31
A great woman's health book for any age of women! (And men too!) - I have to say this is one of the best woman's health books that I've read and it's a must read for all women out there. I got this as a gift from my sister and was a little intimidate, yet enthused by the length. I am an avid reader but having so much school work seems to keep me from reading as much "pleaser reading" as I would like. After finishing this book I have found that I've came back to it again and again for questions and facts. This is one of the best books of it genre out there in my opinion, not only for women but for men also. I think that it should be required reading or at least reference in junior high, highschool, and any health class for that matter. If you've been thinking of picking this one up, I encourage you!
Bravo! a classic women's health book.......2004-04-26
"Our Bodies, Ourselves" is a classic in its own right -rather ironic for a book that's on the cutting edge of health politics. Sister, if you can't buy this, find a decent library and in any case having read it, you'll be better informed about both your body and your society.
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Essential resource on Women's Health and Sexuality.......2007-02-18
This 1998 edition is lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs (including an iconic one by Tee A. Corinne of a disabled person making love in a wheel chair). This is the kind of book you can flip thorough and start reading on any page and find something of interest.
They even have their own internet site containing information about this book and related books. Truly a wealth of information and a treasure to have found. I just got this book and wished I'd had it in my teens, twenties, thirties, but thankfully now in my 40's I do.
Now after reading the reviews for the 2005 edition I am going to get that new. The 2005 edition is the 8th edition and in 35 years has never gone out of print. The subjects in the 2005 edition cover every issue that a woman can encounter -
Taking Care of Ourselves
Relationships and Sexuality
Sexual Health
Reproductive Choices
Child-Bearing
Growing Older
Medical Problems and Procedures
Knowledge is Power
From the publisher's website - 1969 Twelve women meet during a women's liberation conference in Boston. At a workshop on "women and their bodies," they talk about their own experiences with doctors and share their knowledge about their bodies. The discussions at the conference are so provocative and fulfilling that the following summer, each woman researches a health topic close to her heart. They decide to put their knowledge into an accessible form that can be shared with others and that can serve as a model for women who want to learn about themselves, communicate their findings with doctors, and challenge the medical establishment to change and improve the care that women receive.
1970 A 193-page course booklet on stapled newsprint entitled Women and Their Bodies is published by New England Free Press.
1971 The authors change the name of the book to Our Bodies, Ourselves, to emphasize women taking full ownership of our bodies. Republished by New England Free Press, the book puts women's health in a radically new political and social context and quickly becomes an underground success. It sells 250,000 copies, mainly by word-of-mouth.
1973 Simon & Schuster publishes the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
1976 A revised and updated version of Our Bodies, Ourselves is published. A national bestseller, it is recognized by the American Library Association's Young Adult Service Division as one of the best books of the decade.
1979 An update of Our Bodies, Ourselves is published and becomes a bestseller.
1984 A revised version of the original classic, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, is published.
1992 The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: Updated and Expanded for the 90s is published.
1998 Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century is published.
Amazon.com
Three decades ago, information about women's health was hoarded by physicians and doled out sparingly to their female patients. Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published in 1969, helped change that situation. The latest edition runs 752 pages and covers a stunning range of territory about women's physical beings: fitness (this section includes a reminder that overweight women have a right to not exercise), reproductive health, aging, sexuality, and childbirth. It also includes thick chapters on relationships and information about mental-health issues, including psychotherapy. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves is the straightest-talking, most comprehensive book about women's health on the market.
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Non Fiction.......2007-09-03
A guide to the body and life for the female of the species. This is quite well done and informative, giving useful information and suggestions on health and reproductive life as well as other physiological and/or medical issues that are appropriate to women. This is definitely worth a read and worth having around.
Still A Must Have book.......2007-02-18
This 1998/1999 edition is lavishly illustrated with drawings and photographs (including an iconic one by Tee A. Corinne of a disabled person making love in a wheel chair). This is the kind of book you can flip thorough and start reading on any page and find something of interest.
They even have their own internet site containing information about this book and related books. Truly a wealth of information and a treasure to have found. I just got this book and wished I'd had it in my teens, twenties, thirties, but thankfully now in my 40's I do.
Now after reading the reviews for the 2005 edition I am going to get that new. The 2005 edition is the 8th edition and in 35 years has never gone out of print. The subjects in the 2005 edition cover every issue that a woman can encounter -
Taking Care of Ourselves
Relationships and Sexuality
Sexual Health
Reproductive Choices
Child-Bearing
Growing Older
Medical Problems and Procedures
Knowledge is Power
From the publisher's website - 1969 Twelve women meet during a women's liberation conference in Boston. At a workshop on "women and their bodies," they talk about their own experiences with doctors and share their knowledge about their bodies. The discussions at the conference are so provocative and fulfilling that the following summer, each woman researches a health topic close to her heart. They decide to put their knowledge into an accessible form that can be shared with others and that can serve as a model for women who want to learn about themselves, communicate their findings with doctors, and challenge the medical establishment to change and improve the care that women receive.
1970 A 193-page course booklet on stapled newsprint entitled Women and Their Bodies is published by New England Free Press.
1971 The authors change the name of the book to Our Bodies, Ourselves, to emphasize women taking full ownership of our bodies. Republished by New England Free Press, the book puts women's health in a radically new political and social context and quickly becomes an underground success. It sells 250,000 copies, mainly by word-of-mouth.
1973 Simon & Schuster publishes the first commercial edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
1976 A revised and updated version of Our Bodies, Ourselves is published. A national bestseller, it is recognized by the American Library Association's Young Adult Service Division as one of the best books of the decade.
1979 An update of Our Bodies, Ourselves is published and becomes a bestseller.
1984 A revised version of the original classic, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, is published.
1992 The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: Updated and Expanded for the 90s is published.
1998 Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century is published.
The Revision isn't an improvement if you're under 30.......2004-08-02
When this book came out in the 70's it was incredible. I loved it. It taught me so much about my own body!
Now that I'm looking to give that same resource to my children, I went straight for this book -- only to find that the revision has changed its focus toward menopause and politics and away from some of the basic stuff that I needed a good resource for when _I_ was 13, and my daughter needs now. I had hoped to use it as a backup/supplement to our "big talk", but am looking for a better alternative.
The new stuff would be fine, if it were ADDED to, instead of replacing some of the old stuff.
Women are people? Huh?.......2002-06-29
The authors write as if women are people, as if women are not all the same but in fact have a wide range of biological and behavioral variability, as if each woman is unique and, not only that, is entitled to living as she very well pleases. It's a disgrace. They show women naked who don't look like fashion models but could be just you or me. They write as if it's a good idea for women to be healthy in mind as well as in body. As if this wasn't enough, they go on to suggest that the quality of health care has anything to do with the medical establishment, that women should actually be informed correctly of the risks of medical procedures and alternatives available and, lo and behold, make the choice themselves, that the medical establishment is often not a wonderful haven for women who are poor or outside the cultural mainstream, as in for example when they are members of minority groups, that a woman's sex life and relationships may be influenced by power structures in the society she lives in, and other such far-fetched stuff. In reality, we all know that all women have 28-day periods, get menopausal at 48, are all heterossexual, are all white (most other books agree at least on this one point), are all fairly pretty, all get married, all want children, and that health has nothing to do with anything else in the world out there. No wonder one reader complained that this book, supposed to be about health, is also political. A disgrace indeed.
THE one book I would recommend to my colleagues and clients.......1999-05-13
If I could only recommend one book on women's health to my colleagues and clients, this would be it. Unlike other women's health books, this one recognizes that health and well-being is more than simply the presence or absence of illness or physical conditions. It's time that women learn about their bodies and health in the context of their lives and not just out of a medical textbook. I applaud the authors for their appreciation of women's diversity, both in bodies and lifestyles, and the personal uniqueness that each of us can learn to cherish. Every woman should have this book.
Customer Reviews:
...and the enemy is us..........2006-08-27
I got the 25th anniversary edition, dated 1998, for 25 cents or so at my local library. What I read was mildly interesting but not enlightening. I got a bit infuriated when, researching 'anorexia', I saw two entries which basically said: 'Minimize the effects of stress by eating well, exercising, meditating, having foot rubs and long warm baths and taking (maybe 10 minutes?) to put things in perspective to get a grip. With 'friends' like these, who needs...??? Whatever happened to 'throw the bum out'? Tell your parents to fudge themselves. Why not spend the next 10, 20, even 30 YEARS getting a grip?? I'm not even sure I'm going to bother with the chapter I was initially interested in: 'Working Toward Mutuality. Our Relationships with Men.'
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Does it matter where our food comes from? Do we, our communities, and the planet do better if we choose food grown by local sources we trust? Exploring these and other questions of dietary and spiritual subsistence, Gary Paul Nabhan's Coming Home to Eat presents a compelling case for eating from our "foodshed."
Nabhan, a subsistence hunter, ethnobiologist, and activist devoted to recovering lost food traditions, gave himself a task: to spend a year trying to eat foods grown, fished, or gathered within 250 miles of his Arizona home. His book, both personal document and political screed, details this experiment from the moment Nabhan purges his kitchen of canned and other processed foods ("If this year could resolve anything for me, perhaps it would rid me of the desire to ever again buy any packaged food that boasted of its homemade flavor....") to a final food-gathering pilgrimage. That journey underscores Nabhan's conviction that we have too easily believed "the vacuous nutritional promises of the industrialized food that has sold our health down the river." In fact, the book encompasses an ongoing pilgrimage, during which Nabhan explores, for example, the near loss of saguaro cactus fruit as a dietary staple due to saguaro's use for "local color" in shopping malls, golf courses, and retirement centers. Readers, converted, skeptical, or just curious, will find Nabhan's book a source of many simple and stirring truths. "Until we stop craving to be somewhere else and someone else other than the animals whose very cells are constituted from the place on earth we love the most," he writes, "then there is little reason to care about the fate of native foods, family farms, or healthy landscapes and communities." But care we must, as the book shows so enlighteningly. --Arthur Boehm
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Issuing a "profound and engaging...passionate call to us to re-think our food industry" (Jim Harrison, author of The Raw and the Cooked), Gary Paul Nabhan reminds us that eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience—it is an act of deep cultural and environmental significance.
Embodying "a perspective...at once ecological, economic, humanistic, and spiritual" (Los Angeles Times), Nabhan has dedicated his life to raising awareness about food—as an avid gardener, as an ethnobotanist preserving seed diversity, and as an activist devoted to recovering native food traditions in the Southwest. This "inspired and eloquently detailed account" (Rick Bayless, Chefs Collaborative) tells of his year-long mission to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his home. "A good book for gardeners to read this winter" (New York Times), Nabhan's work "weav[es] together the traditions of Thoreau and M. F. K. Fisher [in] a soul food treatise for our time" (Peter Hoffman, Chefs Collaborative).
Customer Reviews:
Great topic--but why so much Spam?.......2007-08-15
I completely honor the impulse behind this book and believe in the importance of eating local. I also applaud Nabhan for thinking and writing about these issues before so many others (yet I'm also happy for the influx of recent local eating books and articles from Pollan, Kingsolver, McKibben, Alisa Smith & JB Mackinnon, and the blog by "No Impact Man"). Some scenes are powerful: eating ripe peaches, the short Thanksgiving section, reconnecting with family. The history and science sections are good too.
What surprised me, though, is that it seemed like throughout much of the book, Nabhan was in his Blazer, on a plane, or somewhere nowhere near home. Although he carried his fried grasshoppers and tortillas with him, I was longing to read more about the actual practices of growing and preparing local food (there is, however, plenty on roadkill). What surprised me more: the continual references to Spam, especially in relation to the sunset:
"As a Spam-colored sunset blanketed the western sky, the sweat on my back chilled" (40).
"At dusk they [mechanized dairy farms] took on a sickly greenish cast, the color of modly Spam" (158).
". . . each afternoon until the sun went down, gaudy as a thin slice of Spam" (276).
Why so much Spam? He buys a can of Spam in another odd section of the book where he spends $50 on a strange combination of food for a brunch that he and his partner, Laurie, don't eat. In another section, he throws a bunch of food in the compost bin because it uses cactuses in the advertising but doesn't contain cactus juice. I was puzzled by the waste. Why not eat the food and not buy it again? (Or in the supermarket venture, why not buy foods suitable for a decent brunch?)
In terms of the time in the Blazer and the time away from home, I understand that Nabhan's work and activism demand travel--and sometimes you see "home" more clearly when you're away from it. But I can't think of any reason for all the Spam.
A Great Book For Anyone.......2006-10-13
Coming Home to Eat is easy to read, enjoyable, and packed full of interesting details on a myriad of topics. This is the type of book you can give to almost anyone, and they will enjoy reading it. I'm a biologist with a background in conservation, and I really enjoyed reading about the natural history of many of the plants and animals in the book. I've given the book to two other people, and they both loved it, but for completely different reasons. One enjoyed all the detailed descriptions of cooking and meals; while the other was more interested by the social and economic aspects of the book. The author does a great job of weaving together several fairly disparate topics into a very entertaining narrative.
Follow One Man's Intense One Year Journey to Eat Locally.......2006-08-30
This book was, simply put, a joy to read, a veritable cauldron of ideas explored and fleshed out for the reader. It may be because I lived for 8+ years in the same general areas as Nabhan that I can get a feel for what he is talking about more easily, but more likely than not, it is not that which endears Coming Home to Eat is that Coming Home is more of a philosophy than anything else and Nabhan's enthusiasm is certainly catching, though some of his methods and ways are not for everyone (eating road-kill for instance).
This book is really an intimate look at one man's passion for eating as locally as possible, a goal I have long thought of as a grand ideal but more and more, it is something I would very much like to do and while I don't have a great deal of knowledge about where exactly to start...reading Coming Home has really given my ideas wings. Nabhan certainly brings to the fore wide ranging topics, touching on the "health" of our food supply, genetically altered seeds, ect...and really brings home the interconnectivity of the local, regional, national and global food chains. What this book doesn't cover in depth, one can certainly get by reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Pollan and I can honestly say, having read both, I am a better person for it.
I plan to buy a copy of this for my permanent library and would heartily recommend it to anyone! It's well written and while one gets the sense that Nabhan is on a personal crusade, it's not preachy or elitist in any way. It almost reads like a novel and I would caution that Coming Home to Eat does NOT provide any type of resource for eating locally (as in a formula for doing so), but it DOES provide inspiration and some very cool laugh out loud moments. A+!!
A Life-Changing Book.......2006-01-08
Quite simply, Gary Nabhan's Coming Home to Eat is one of the best books I've ever read, and one of the most important. I know of nothing else like it.
Nabhan's writing is engaging and moving, even poetic at times. He deals with the most serious of issues-the degradation of our environment, lifestyle, and health by the greed and power of giant corporations-with a deft use of humor.
The book skillfully interweaves his personal experiences in seeking local-grown or foraged foods with compelling analyses of how modern agriculture and marketing is destroying healthy traditional ways of life.
He ties together politics, ecology, anthropology, economics, history, and spirituality, using the stories of his family and his Native American friends and neighbors. Although there is much anger and sadness in the book, there's also much hope as well for a revival of traditional ways of feeding our bodies, our spirits, and our communities,
I'm grocery-shopping and eating differently since I've read Coming Home to Eat, and it's extraordinarily satisfying when I know what I've putting into my body, and where it came from..
I read a lot of nonfiction books, and many are informative and well-written. But this was the first one that impelled me to write an Amazon review.
Eating locally ain't easy.......2005-04-18
The premise is interesting--eating mainly foods grown locally. It's hard to know where our food comes from. But the book makes the case that learning more about where our food comes from is important. That we should carefully consider how our choices affect the environment and the economy. Not written in a way that makes you captivates you--but interesting all the same.
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