The Life and Times of Corn

The Life and Times of Corn

Author:

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780618507511

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Facts and illustrations tell the story of corn, the giant of grains.


Anna's Corn

Anna's Corn

Author: Barbara Santucci

Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780802851192

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Anna is reluctant to plant the kernels of corn her grandpa has left her upon his death, until she realizes that the act will help her remember the times they listened to the music of the corn together.


Corn

Corn

Author: Gail Gibbons

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780823421695

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An introduction to the crop of corn, including its history, types, growth and harvesting cycles, and end products.


The Story of Corn

The Story of Corn

Author: Betty Harper Fussell

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780826335920

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In an authoritative, wise, and wholly original blend of social history, art, science, and anthropology, Fussell tells the story of corn in a narrative that is as uniquely hybrid as her subject. The great epic of this amazing grain makes clear that all the civilizations of the Western hemisphere have been built on corn. 250 photos and line drawings.


Corn Flakes with John Lennon

Corn Flakes with John Lennon

Author: Robert Hilburn

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 160529165X

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Robert Hilburn's storied career as a rock critic has allowed him a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of some of the most iconic figures of our time. He was the only music critic to visit Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash. He met John Lennon during his lost weekend period in Los Angeles and they became friends. Bob Dylan granted him his only interviews during his "born-again" period and the occasion of his 50th birthday. Michael Jackson invited Hilburn to watch cartoons with him in his bedroom. When Springsteen took to playing only old hits, Hilburn scolded him for turning his legendary concerts into oldies revues, and Springsteen changed his set list. In this totally unique account of the symbiotic relationship between critic and musical artist, Hilburn reflects on the ways in which he has changed and been changed by the subjects he’s covered; Bono weighs in with an introduction about how Hilburn’s criticism influenced and altered his own development as a musician. Corn Flakes with John Lennon is more than about one man’s adventures in rock and roll: It’s the gripping and untold story of how popular music reshapes the way we think about the world and helps to define the modern American character.


Corn Flakes for Dinner

Corn Flakes for Dinner

Author: Aidan Comerford

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2017-10-13

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0717180395

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What do you do when both of your daughters have been diagnosed with autism, your wife is depressed and your job has been made redundant? You become a comedian! After years of feeling like he was losing at life, Aidan Comerford was on top of the world. He had just stepped off stage after being crowned the winner of So You Think You're Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, joining previous winners such as Peter Kay, Dylan Moran and Tommy Tiernan. This was it! His big break. Back in Ireland, on the same day, at a remote country cottage near a lake, his daughter went missing . A funny, heartfelt and uplifting memoir about the challenges and adventures of parenting, and accepting that sometimes you have to have Corn Flakes for dinner.


The Story of Corn

The Story of Corn

Author: Robin Nelson

Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781728414379

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Low-level text and engaging photographs introduce young readers to sequential thinking.


The Corn Grows Ripe

The Corn Grows Ripe

Author: Dorothy Rhoads

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1993-06-01

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0140363130

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A Newbery Honor Book Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family? When Tigre’s father is badly injured in an accident, the family is thrown into turmoil. Who will plant and harvest the corn that they need to survive—and to please the Mayan gods? The neighbors have fields of their own to tend, and Tigre’s mother and grandmother cannot do it on their own. Twelve-year-old Tigre has never done a man’s work before. Can he shoulder the burden on his own, and take his father’s place? “A book of special artistic distinction, with its well-told story rich in Mayan folkway and custom and its boldly appropriate drawings.”—The Horn Book


The Corn Wolf

The Corn Wolf

Author: Michael Taussig

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-12-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 022631099X

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Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the “nervous system” approach to writing and truth that has characterized his trajectory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelling with theory, thickening spiraling analysis with ethnography and putting the study of so-called primitive societies back on the anthropological agenda as a way of better understanding the sacred in everyday life. The leading figure of these projects is the corn wolf, whom Wittgenstein used in his fierce polemic on Frazer’s Golden Bough. For just as the corn wolf slips through the magic of language in fields of danger and disaster, so we are emboldened to take on the widespread culture of academic—or what he deems “agribusiness”—writing, which strips ethnography from its capacity to surprise and connect with other worlds, whether peasant farmers in Colombia, Palestinians in Israel, protestors in Zuccotti Park, or eccentric yet fundamental aspects of our condition such as animism, humming, or the acceleration of time. A glance at the chapter titles—such as “The Stories Things Tell” or “Iconoclasm Dictionary”—along with his zany drawings, testifies to the resonant sensibility of these works, which lope like the corn wolf through the boundaries of writing and understanding.


The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Author: Michael Pollan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0143038583

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"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.