Fair Food

Fair Food

Author: Oran B Hesterman

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1610392043

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A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with the admonition to "eat local or "eat organic." Fair Food is an enlightening and inspiring guide to changing not only what we eat, but how food is grown, packaged, delivered, marketed, and sold. Oran B. Hesterman shows how our system's dysfunctions are unintended consequences of our emphasis on efficiency, centralization, higher yields, profit, and convenience -- and defines the new principles, as well as the concrete steps, necessary to restructuring it. Along the way, he introduces people and organizations across the country who are already doing this work in a number of creative ways, from bringing fresh food to inner cities to fighting for farm workers' rights to putting cows back on the pastures where they belong. He provides a wealth of practical information for readers who want to get more involved.


Explaining Inequality

Explaining Inequality

Author: Maurizio Franzini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415703482

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Inequalities in incomes and wealth have increased in advanced countries, making our economies less dynamic, our societies more unjust and our political processes less democratic. As a result, reducing inequalities is now a major economic, social and political challenge. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the economics of inequality. Until recently economic inequality has been the object of limited research efforts, attracting only modest attention in the political arena; despite important advances in the knowledge of its dimensions, a convincing understanding of the mechanisms at its roots is still lacking. This book summarizes the topic and provides an interpretation of the mechanisms responsible for increased disparities. Building on this analysis the book argues for an integrated set of policies addressing the roots of inequalities in incomes and wealth Explaining Inequality will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners concerned with inequality, economic and public policy and political economy.


El Bronx Remembered

El Bronx Remembered

Author: Nicholasa Mohr

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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In a city called New York ... In a neighborhood called El Bronx ... The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star. A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future. A young boy must face the humiliation of wearing his uncle's orange roach-killer shoes to his high school graduation. In the South Bronx - or El Bronx, as it's known to the people who live there - anything can happen. A migrant "fresh off the boat" from Puerto Rico can be somebody on the mainland, pursue the American Dream ... and maybe even make it come true. Here are stories that capture the flavor and beat of El Bronx in its heyday, from 1946-1956. A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year Finalist, 1976 National Book Award for Children's Literature A Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies ( NCSS/CBC )


1940-60

1940-60

Author: Steve Parker

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780431121925

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Looks at innovations such as atomic fission, supersonic travel, space flight, electronic computers and the pocket radio.


24 Girls in 7 Days

24 Girls in 7 Days

Author: Alex Bradley

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781417700226

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After Jack Grammar's friends, Percy and Natalie, post a personal ad in the school newspaper for him, Jack ends up with only seven days to date all the responses before asking one special girl to the prom. An ALA Quick Pick


1970-90

1970-90

Author: Steve Parker

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780431122014

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Tells the story of the pioneers of innovations such as the space shuttle, home computers, robots, pocket calculators and communications satellites.