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How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
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by Dan Fagin
Published Apr 2015
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by Dana Goodyear
Published Nov 2014
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by George Packer
Published Mar 2014
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by Michael Pollan
Published Apr 2009
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by Barbara Kingsolver
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsBestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
by Jeff Goodell
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsAs oil prices increase, Coal has effectively become the default fuel for electricity generation in the twenty-first century. Goodell debunks the faulty assumptions underlying coal's revival and shatters the myth of cheap coal energy.
by Greg Critser
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsCritser's portrait of Fat America including forays into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but eloquent portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.
by Eric Schlosser
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsA groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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