Rowan Jacobsen
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Truffles attract dreamers, schemers, and sensualists. People spend years training dogs to find them underground. They plant forests of oaks and wait a decade for truffles to appear. They pay $3,000 a pound to possess them. They turn into quivering puddles in their presence. Jacobsen takes us into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, and muddy dogs to show us that there's more to truffles...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the significant 2007 and 2008 reductions in honeybee populations, identifying the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder to explain the link between bee pollination and industrial agriculture and predict dangerous reductions in food output.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage done to the Gulf every year by what one expert in the book calls "a 100-year catastrophe."Readers who believe they know the story will find their thinking changed by Rowan Jacobsen's surprising perspective: At the height of BP's dispersant...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A marine scientist, together with Rowan and a conservancy group interested in habitat restoration, suggests a possible blueprint for cleaning up our oceans by observing an isolated pocket of oysters living on the western side of Vancouver Island.
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Author Hobbs lost 200 pounds without the help of surgery, pills, point systems, or a trendy diet. Just as important, she kept the weight off. Her dramatic turnaround began with five decisions--personal, no-excuses commitments that kept her from losing sight of her goals. It worked for Chantel and it will work for you. Once you unconditionally change your mind your body will follow, and your life will never be the same. This book will show you: how...