Food & Agriculture Books

A Natural History of the Future
by Rob Dunn
Review
Toxic Legacy
by Stephanie Seneff
Review
The Secret History of Food
by Matt Siegel
Review
The Probiotic Planet
by Jamie Lorimer
Review
Grassroots Leviathan
by Ariel Ron
Review
Resetting the Table
by Robert Paarlberg
Review
The Secret History of Home Economics
by Danielle Dreilinger
Review
Finding the Mother Tree
by Suzanne Simard
Review
Hooked
by Michael Moss
Review
The Uncertainty Mindset
by Vaughn Tan
Review
Grand Transitions
by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil, Vaclav Smil
Review
Red Meat Republic
by Joshua Specht
Review
Blockchain Chicken Farm
by Xiaowei Wang
Review
Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them
by Tim Lang
Review
The Incredible Journey of Plants
by Stefano Mancuso
Review
Food or War
by Julian Cribb
Review
Cook, Taste, Learn: How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking
by Guy Crosby
Review
Wildly Successful Farming
by Brian DeVore
Review
Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry
by Julie Guthman
Review
Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet
by David Beerling
Review
Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
by Susan Hockfield
Review
We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review
The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
by Amanda Little
Review
The Way We Eat Now
by Bee Wilson
Review
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
by Lauren E. Oakes
Review
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
by Stefano Mancuso
Review
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth
by Charles Massy
Review
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food
by Jacy Reese
Review
The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
by Lee Van Der Voo
Review
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
by Marion Nestle
Review
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson
Review
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
by Deborah Blum
Review
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
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by Eugenia Cheng
Review
Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
by Matthew Smith
Review
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
by Richard C. Francis
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
Unnatural Selection: How We are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
by Emily Monosson
Review
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat
by John McQuaid
Review
Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects
by Scott Richard Shaw
Review
Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
by Anthony D. Barnosky
Review
Big Ratchet
by Ruth DeFries
Review
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald
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 Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
by Iain McCalman
Review
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
by Kristin Ohlson
Review
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History
by Richard J. King
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
Biomass-Based Biocomposites
by Vijay Kumar Thakur
Review
The Once and Future World: Nature as It Was, as It Is, as It Could Be
by J. B. MacKinnon
Review
The Biobased Economy: Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era
by Hans Langeveld, Johan Sanders, and Marieke Meeusen
Essentials in Modern HPLC Separations
by Serban Moldoveanu
Review
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
The Sea Inside
by Philip Hoare
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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