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July 2010		To Order Call (818) 528-4511
		Cook Food A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating By Lisa Jervis Paperback $12 This rousing call to action for healthy, conscious eating is an inspirational primer for those who want to move beyond packaged and processed food toward a more responsible and sustainable way of eating. This compendium by Lisa Jervis offers a straightforward overview of the political issues surrounding food, and a culinary toolkit to put healthy principles into practice. Instead of a rigid set of recipes to be replicated, this read offers tips for improvisation, creative thinking in the kitchen, practical suggestions for cooking on a budget, and quick and delicious vegan and vegetarian meal options for anyone who would like to eat fast, tasty, nutritious food every day.
		Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health By Marion Nestle Paperback $19.95   Food Politics absorbingly details how the food industry--through lobbying, advertising, and the co-opting of experts--influences our dietary choices to our detriment. Nutrition chair at New York University and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General Report, Nestle has served her time in the dietary trenches and offers an expos of the tactics used by the food industry to protect its economic interests and influence public opinion. She reveals how the industry promotes sales by resorting to lobbying, lawsuits, financial contributions, public relations, advertising, alliances, and philanthropy to influence Congress, federal agencies, and nutrition and health professionals.
		In Defense of Food An Eater's Manifesto By Michael Pollan Paperback $16.95 In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that the imposed diet causes. Pollan proposes a new spin on an age old answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. An alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
		Slow Food Nation Why our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair By Carlo Petrini Hardcover $22.50 In this comprehensive new read, Author Carlo Petrini, leader of the Slow Food movement, addresses the complex and interconnected issues of global food production and consumption. In his travels around the world as ambassador for Slow Food, Petrini has witnessed firsthand the many ways that native peoples are feeding themselves without making use of the harmful methods of the industrial complex. He relates the wisdom to be gleaned from local cultures in such varied places as Mongolia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, and Puglia. Amidst a food crisis, and stresses that it is critical that Americans look for insight from other cultures around the world and begin to build a new and better way of eating in our own communities.
		The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside Americas Underground Food Movement By Sandor Ellix Katz Paperback $20 In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.
		Viva Vegan! By Terry Hope Romero Paperback $18.95 As coauthor of the phenomenally successful cookbooks Veganomicon and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Terry Hope Romero has long been one of the most popular vegan chefs around. Now, in her first solo cookbook, Romero opens the world of Latin flavor to vegans and foodies alike. Viva Vegan! expands the palates of anyone looking for a way to add fresh, seasonal ingredients and authentic spice to their meals without relying on animal products. Complete with gorgeous color photos, Viva Vegan! is the ultimate guide to authentic and inspired new Latin cuisine.
		The End of Overeating Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite By David A. Kessler, MD Hardcover $25.95  Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry in the 90’s, presents groundbreaking research on overeating and explains how our bodies and minds are affected when we consume foods that contain excess amounts of sugar, fat, and salt. The End of Overeating explains for the first time why it is exceptionally difficult to resist certain foods and why it's so easy to overindulge. Dr. Kessler’s cutting edge investigation presents a controversial view into the industry that continues to feed our nation -from popular brand manufacturers to advertisers, chain restaurants and fast food franchises, and offers new insights and usefull tools to help us find an alternative.
		Water Wars Privitization, Pollution, and Profit By Vandana Shiva Paperback $15 Vandana Shiva exposes yet another corporate maneuver to convert a critical world resource into a profitable commodity. Using the global water trade as a lens, she highlights the destruction of the earth through damming, mining, and aqua farming, and the subsequent disenfranchisement of the world's poor using her remarkable knowledge of science and society to analyze the historical erosion of communal water rights. Shiva also celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in communities throughout history, and warns that water privatization threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide. She calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns like the one in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where citizens fought for and retained their water rights.
		Voices of a Peoples History Of the United States By Howard Zinn Paperback $ 21.95 "When I began work, five years ago, on what would become the present volume, Voices of a People's History of the United States, I wanted the voices of struggle, mostly absent from our history books, to be given the place they deserve. I wanted labor history, which has been the battleground, decade after decade, century after century, of an ongoing fight for human dignity, to come to the fore. And I wanted my readers to experience how at key moments in our history some of the bravest and most effective political acts were the sounds of the human voice itself…To omit or to minimize these voices of resistance is to create the idea that power only rests with those who have the guns, who possess the wealth, who own the newspapers and the television stations. I want to point out that people who seem to have no power, whether working people, people of color, or women—once they organize and protest and create movements—have a voice no government can suppress." -Author
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		The Codex Nuttall Edited by Zelia Nuttall $22.95 The only value-priced, full-color edition of the pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Features 88 color plates of kings, gods, heroes, temples, and more. New introduction.
		The Codex Borgia Edited by Gisele Diaz & Alan Rodgers $20.95 Paperback ` First publication of remarkable repainting of outstanding Mexican codex — priceless original is in Vatican Library — thought to have originated in the Cholula area, ca. 1400 AD. 76 large full-color plates show an astounding array of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures and abstract designs. A work of rare power and beauty. Introduction.
		Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico $14.95 Includes Cd-Rom "A rich source of inspiration." — San Francisco Examiner . Hundreds of symbols and designs, reproduced from the Aztec, Maya, Zapotec, and other early cultures, depict a host of striking images: plumed serpents, animals, flowers, demons, the human head, and other figures. Royalty-free motifs for artists, commercial designers, craftworkers, and hobbyists. 503 black-and-white designs.
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