Book Reviews and Summaries

Herbs, Wildflowers, and Foraging

• The Wild Wisdom of Weeds by Katrina Blair
  
• Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants by Christopher Nyerges
  
• Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness by Rebecca Lerner
• Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail by Elizabeth Wenk

Cooking and Fermentation

• The Art of Fermentation by Sandok Katz
  
• Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz

Nutrition

• Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

Other Subjects

• The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba by Julia Cooke
  
• The New Peasantries by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
  
• Summary of Edmund Kazuso Oasa's The International Rice Research Institute and the Green Revolution: A Case Study on the Politics of Agricultural Research, University of Hawaii, 1981:
  
  • Part 1: The Role of Modern Technology
    
  • Part 2: Rockefeller Foundation History and the Decision to Form IRRI
    
  • Part 3: Founding and Staffing
    
  • Part 4: The Release of IR-8
    
  • Part 5: The First Decade
    
  • Part 6: Expansion in the 1970s
    
  • Part 7: Responding to its Critics
    
  • Part 8: IRRI Hires an Anthropologist
    
  • Part 9: Conclusion
• Foundations of International Agricultural Research: Science and Politics in Mexican Agriculture by Bruce H. Jennings:
  
  • Part 1: The Rockefeller Foundation in the Early 1900s
    
  • Part 2: The Rockefeller Foundation's Early Work in Mexico
    
  • Part 3: Mexican Agricultural Program, 1950-1960
• Summary of The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era by James K. Boyce: Part 1
• American Dreamer: A Life of Henry Wallace by John C. Culver and John Hyde
• Food Rebellions! by Eric Holt-Gimenez and Raj Patel (with contributions by Annie Shattuck
• Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis