Frerick, Austin
Summary: "Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2024
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Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANHauter, Wenonah.
Summary: Through meticulous research, Hauter presents a shocking account of how agricultural policy has been hijacked by lobbyists, driving out independent farmers and food processors in favor of the likes of Cargill, Tyson, Kraft, and ConAgra. She demonstrates how the impacts ripple far and wide, from economic stagnation in rural communities at home, to famines in poor countries overseas. In the end,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 HAUCharles, Daniel.
Summary: "The food we eat is being transformed before our eyes. Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers--from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven tampering with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.5233 CHAGilles, Renae.
Summary: "Readers will learn about the impacts of agriculture on the environment through colorful and clear graphics, such as maps, charts, and infographics. Book also includes a glossary, index, suggested books and websites, and a bibliography"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Envi Info GillesSummary: This companion book to the sequel of 2008's award-winning documentary Food, Inc. examines the latest remarkable developments to reverse our dysfunctional food system through the efforts of brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Summary: An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry with a shocking, in-depth report every American should hear. Important, timely, and explosive, an unvarnished portrait of the food industry that now dominates America's heartland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 338.7 LEOPreston, Brent
Summary: After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres and a rundown farmhouse and set out to build a real farm, one that would sustain their family, nourish their community, heal their environment, and turn a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2018
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Summary: "One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREY, SARAH FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREY FREHvistendahl, Mara
Summary: "A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three neatlydressed Asian men at a cornfield that had been leased by Monsanto to grow corn from patented hybrids. What began as a routine inquiry into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 HVIMannaert, Wauter
Summary: "Yasmina isn't like the other kids in her city. She might be an oddball, but no one can deny that Yasmina has a flair for food. All she needs to whip up a gourmet meal is a recipe from her cookbook and fresh vegetables from the community garden. But everything changes when the garden is bulldozed and replaced with a strange new crop of potatoes. Her neighbors can't get enough of these spuds!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MANSchapiro, Mark
Summary: "Ten thousand years after humans figured out how to stop wandering and plant crops, veteran investigative journalist Mark Schapiro plunges into the struggle already underway for control of seeds, the ground-zero ingredient for our food. Three quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 had become extinct by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance, Schapiro takes us onto the frontlines of a struggle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hot Books, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 SCHKostigen, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 KOSSchou, Nick.
Summary: "Drawing on unparalleled access to sources ranging from doctors and lawyers to lobbyists, cannabis club owners, outlaw cultivators, and industry entrepreneurs, The Weed Runners is both journalistic expose and adventure story. The book's title refers to those who run the vast network fueling the ongoing nationwide explosion of medical marijuana. Focusing on an incredibly dynamic three-year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.29 SCHSummary: Clock in to The Office for even more inappropriate remarks, uncomfortable silences, and petty behavior. Join Michael Scott, the clueless boss of the Scranton Branch of Dunder Mifflin who 'manages' to create unending comical drama despite his best intentions. Trusty and loyal assistant-to-the-regional manager Dwight Schrute continues to uphold the office honor and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Of 5Marzluff, John M.
Summary: An ornithologist's personal look at farming practices that finds practical solutions for sustainable food production compatible with bird and wildlife conservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.55 MARBrown, Gabe
Summary: "Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown, in an effort to simply survive, began experimenting with new practices he'd learned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2018
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Summary: "Part memoir, part how-to manual, The Bumpy Road paints a vivid picture of life on the farm during the Great Depression. The author, recounting stories from his boyhood, brings to life the everyday trials and tribulations of his family and neighbors as they struggle to survive under daunting economic conditions. The hard work they put in was a given (to them), and their solutions to everyday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Bend Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VEIT VEIMcCallum, Jamie K.
Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 MCCMann, Charles C.
Summary: Charles Mann chronicles the Age of Exploration and its consequences. Here, he looks at how the European presence affected the Americas, China, and Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909.4 MANMichigan State University
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 MICDiMicco, Dan.
Summary: "American manufacturing is on life support--at least, that's what most people think. The exodus of jobs to China and other foreign markets is irreversible, and anything that is built here requires specialized skills the average worker couldn't hope to gain. Not so, says Dan DiMicco, chairman and former CEO of Nucor, America's largest steel company. He not only revived a major US manufacturing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 DIMMichigan State University
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University 2007