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Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Flawed, but worthwhile
- De Ary Shalizi en 12-28-17
De: Tom Standage
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Organic Manifesto
- How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
- De: Maria Rodale, Eric Scholsser - foreword
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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those in power must read and work upon it.
- De Jaktip en 12-20-17
De: Maria Rodale, y otros
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Tobacco
- A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- De: Iain Gately
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Tobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely - a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting until a pro-smoking ending
- De Kelli en 12-25-20
De: Iain Gately
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Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
- An American Heritage
- De: Michael R. Veach
- Narrado por: Travis
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Its history stretches back almost to the founding of the nation and includes many colorful characters, both well known and obscure, from the hatchet-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation to George Garvin Brown, who in 1872 created Old Forester, the first bourbon to be sold only by the bottle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nice review
- De Joseph C Wood en 04-28-23
De: Michael R. Veach
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Coffee
- A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry
- De: Robert W. Thurston, Jonathan Morris, Shawn Steiman
- Narrado por: Dan Kassis
- Duración: 18 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee's history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today. They discuss, for example, the impact of globalization; the many definitions of organic, direct trade, and fair trade; the health of female farmers; the relationships among shade, birds, and coffee; roasting as an art and a science; and where profits are made in the commodity chain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything you need to know about coffee
- De FW1978 en 11-03-18
De: Robert W. Thurston, y otros
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Citizen Coke
- The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
- De: Bartow J. Elmore
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Outsourcing and a trim corporate profile enabled Coke to scale up production of a low-price beverage and realize huge profits. But the costs shed by Coke have fallen on the public at large. Coke now uses an annual 79 billion gallons of water, an increasingly precious global resource, and its reliance on corn syrup has helped fuel our obesity crisis. Bartow J. Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly Recommend
- De Laura en 02-22-20
De: Bartow J. Elmore
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How to Smoke Pot (Properly)
- A Highbrow Guide to Getting High
- De: David Bienenstock
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Once literally demonized as "the Devil's lettuce" and linked to all manner of deviant behavior by the establishment's shameless antimarijuana propaganda campaigns, Cannabis sativa has lately been enjoying a long-overdue Renaissance. So now that the squares at long last seem ready to rethink pot's place in polite society, how, exactly, can members of this vibrant, innovative, life-affirming culture proudly and properly emerge from the underground - without forgetting our roots or losing our cool?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Alejandro en 04-25-16
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The Vertical Farm
- Feeding the World in the 21st Century
- De: Dickson Despommier
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. The vertical farm has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Brainstorming - Not reality
- De Texas Community Project en 01-25-11
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Poison Spring
- The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
- De: E. G. Vallianatos, McKay Jenkins
- Narrado por: Michael McConnahie
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Frightening Wake Up Call!
- De Exec. Chef 'Special K' en 07-02-14
De: E. G. Vallianatos, y otros
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Sweetness and Power
- The Place of Sugar in Modern History
- De: Sidney W. Mintz
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar and reveals how closely interwoven sugar's origins are as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies, with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dated but still worthwhile
- De Acteon en 11-14-19
De: Sidney W. Mintz
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Bushido: The Samurai Code of Honor
- The Truth About Japanese Samurai Wisdom
- De: James Walker
- Narrado por: Coby Allen
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Experience the fantastic world of the highly-skilled Japanese samurai, and learn the code, or Bushido, that these men followed to live up to honor and loyalty, and discover how you can apply the eight virtues to improve your life in the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is such an awesome book !!!
- De Snyder Kenneth en 05-30-18
De: James Walker
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Paper
- Paging Through History
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has formed the foundation of civilizations, promoting revolutions and restoring stability.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable
- De Vicki en 02-16-17
De: Mark Kurlansky
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- De: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- De Jana en 04-24-20
De: Thom Hartmann, y otros
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Millennium
- From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed over a Thousand Years
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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In Millennium, best-selling historian Ian Mortimer takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of the last 10 centuries of Western history. It is a journey into a past vividly brought to life and bursting with ideas, that pits one century against another in his quest to measure which century saw the greatest change. We journey from a time when there was a fair chance of your village being burned to the ground by invaders - and dried human dung was a recommended cure for cancer - to a world in which explorers sailed into the unknown and civilizations came into conflict.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad ending - literally
- De John Gordon en 12-14-16
De: Ian Mortimer
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American Slavery, American Freedom
- De: Edmund S. Morgan
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Explaining the great American contradiction
- De Roger en 09-16-14
De: Edmund S. Morgan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Brief History of the Hemp Plant
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Hemp, it's not just about the MJ
Clinger Does a bang up job discussing what hemp is, and how it tried to become a major industry but ultimately failed. He doesa great start to finish wrap up in less than 20 minutes so this would be great as a quickframework for a students paper or report, or to just help you understand how hemp evolved into various products and the variety of uses it has. Robinson works well with Clinger's prose, and I could listen to him do a full report on this topic without getting bored. He does a fine job.
Even though I did receive a promo code for this review it in no way influenced my considerations of the material, and in fact, inspired me to be more honest. In fact, getting a code generally makes me harsher as a reviewer as I am more often concerned what someone like mewill decide based on my review.
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- Gustavo Mendoza
- 12-12-18
Waste!
Useless information. Just tried to sell supplement products. There was probably 1 minute of history on hemp.
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- Db Cali
- 06-21-18
Terrible
Don’t waste your money! Check out how long this is and note the content and speaker
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- Paul J. Gelardi
- 09-04-15
Long ad
Interesting but very little info beyond a few factoids. More time spent telling you to buy product from author than on benefits of hemp
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