First Books imprint: 72 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book looks back on forty years of writings from the Oakland-based Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. The book highlights the breadth and depth of the organization’s published works, addressing issues such as hunger, international...
Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Atlanta
Including Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee Counties
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Brand new edition for 2014! First Books, publisher of the bestselling Newcomer's Handbook® relocation series, is excited to announce publication of the fifth edition of the Newcomer's Handbook® for Moving to and Living in Atlanta: Including Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee Counties. This...
Food Movements Unite!
Strategies to Transform Our Food System
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems The present corporate food regime dominating the planet’s food systems is environmentally destructive, financially volatile and socially unjust. Though the regime’s contributions to the planet’s four-fold food-fuel-finance and climate...
by Stacy Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Since 2001, when she launched Stacy Blackman Consulting, Stacy Blackman has helped clients gain admission to every top business school in the world. Stacy has been profiled in several publications, including Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, and the Wall Street Journal. Since his graduation from the Harvard...
by Monique Vescia
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Extensively updated and revised for 2012, this 466-page new edition maintains its strong focus on Seattle proper, but expands greatly its coverage of the surrounding area.From Ballard to Beacon Hill, this Newcomers Handbook® provides readers with the most up-to-date information on housing styles and...
Grabbing Power
The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Grabbing Power explores the history of agribusiness and land conflicts in Northern Honduras focusing on the Aguán Valley, where peasant movements battle large palm oil producers for the right to land. In the wake of a military coup that overthrew Honduran president Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, rural...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate...
Breakfast Of Biodiversity
The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The continuing devastation of the world’s tropical rain forest affects us all-spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment’s resiliency. Millions of worried people around the world want to do whatever it takes to save the forest that is left.But halting rain forest...
Unfinished Puzzle
Cuban Agriculture: The Challenges, Lessons & Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cuba is widely recognized for its social achievements including health care, education, social security, subsidized food and other benefits and opportunities, despite well-meaning, or sometimes not so well-meaning, international criticisms. For more than 50 years, this Caribbean island has defended and...
by Natalie Holder-Winfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Have you ever felt excluded from the inner workings of an organization because you were the only person with a particular characteristic? Have any of the people in your organization ever felt excluded? The answer may surprise you. In various contexts, employees in the minority--whether based on race,...
Food Rebellions
Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record...
Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Los Angeles
ncluding Santa Monica, Pasadena, Orange County, and the San Fernando Valley
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Moving to Los Angeles has never been easier! Revised and updated, the fifth edition includes sections on Finding a Place to Live, Moving and Storage, Money Matters, Getting Settled, Helpful Services, Childcare and Education, Shopping for the Home, Cultural Life, Sports and Recreation, Greenspace and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Agroecology is our best option for creating an agrifood system capable of nurturing people, societies, and the planet. But it is still not widespread. Fertile Ground offers nine case studies, authored by agroecologists from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe, that demonstrate...
Black Holes
The Weird Science of the Most Mysterious Objects in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In 2015 two powerful telescopes detected something physicists had been seeking for more than one hundred years—gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. This announcement thrilled the scientific community. Since the eighteenth century, astronomers have predicted the existence of...