Good Reads

October 24, 2007

NEW READINGS on Food, Cookbooks & Culture



Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on the food industry
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways
The international politics of genetically modified food : diplomacy, trade and law
Safe trip to Eden : 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown
Agroecology in action : extending alternative agriculture through social networks
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Food biotechnology in ethical perspective
Evolution of the human diet : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable
Medieval cuisine of the Islamic world : a concise history with 174 recipes
Curry : a tale of cooks and conquerors
Food in world history
Food in the ancient world
Organic, inc. : natural foods and how they grew
Two for the road : our love affair with American food
Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
The hundred-year lie : how food and medicine are destroying your health
The end of food
Alcohol : a social and cultural history
Food, film and culture : a genre study
Crunchy Cons
Voracious children : who eats whom in children's literature
The way we eat : why our food choices matter
Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food
Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America
Worlds of food : place, power, and provenance in the food chain
Eating in Eden : food and American utopias
Ethical markets : growing the green economy
The revolution will not be microwaved : inside America's underground food movements
Everyone eats : understanding food and culture
The classical cookbook
Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote
Recipes for reading: community cookbooks, stories, histories
Cooking the Gullah way, morning, noon, and night
Around the Roman table : with more than 150 original recipes
Fields of plenty : a farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it
A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances
Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories (online)
The American cookbook : a history
The women in God's kitchen : cooking, eating, and spiritual writing
Food in colonial and federal America
From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food

August 23, 2007

NEW READINGS on Academia


Knowledge monopolies : the academisation of society
Privilege and diversity in the academy
Technology and diversity in higher education: new challenges
The American faculty : the restructuring of academic work and careers
Higher ground : ethics and leadership in the modern university
Engaging departments : moving faculty culture from private to public, individual to collective focus for the common good
Planning effective instruction : diversity responsive methods and management
Rights and wrongs in the college classroom : ethical issues in postsecondary teaching
Black women in the ivory tower, 1850-1954 : an intellectual history
Indoctrination U. : the left's war against academic freedom
Universities in the age of corporate science : the UC Berkeley-Novartis controversy
Assessing organizational performance in higher education
The art and politics of academic governance : relations among boards, presidents, and faculty
American educational history : school, society, and the common good
Searching for higher education leadership : advice for candidates and search committees
Diversity across the curriculum : a guide for faculty in higher education
To restore American democracy : political education and the modern university
Erotic mentoring : women's transformations in the university
Enhancing scholarly work on teaching and learning : professional literature that makes a difference
Creating a new kind of university : institutionalizing community-university engagement
Our underachieving colleges : a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more
College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now
The handbook of blended learning : global perspectives, local designs
Academic freedom at the dawn of a new century : how terrorism, governments, and culture wars impact free speech
The spirit of service : exploring faith, service, and social justice in higher education
Excellence without a soul : how a great university forgot education
What's happening to public higher education?
Instructing and mentoring the African American college student : strategies for success in higher education
Advancing campus efficiencies : a companion for campus leaders in the digital era
The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges


See Also:
The Chronicle of Higher Education

July 30, 2007

NEW READINGS on Happiness

Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy
The architecture of happiness
A brief history of happiness
Renewing American culture : the pursuit of happiness
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The nature of happiness
Happiness: a history
Happiness: lessons from a new science
Happiness: the science behind your smile
Happiness : personhood, community, purpose
Journal of Happiness Studies
Plato on pleasure and the good life
The art of happiness at work
The psychology of happiness
Happiness and benevolence
The science of happiness : how our brains make us happy--and what we can do to get happier
The happiness hypothesis : finding modern truth in ancient wisdom
Stumbling on happiness
Search catalog for more...

online:
The Happiness Formula (BBC)
World Database of Happiness
"Pleasure" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"Is Happiness All in Your Head" (Talk of the Nation)

May 08, 2007

NEW READINGS on Bird Songs

On the web:
The Language of Song: An Interview with Donald Kroodsma (Scientific American)
Birds sing in their sleep (BBC News)
Listen to nature: the language of birds (British Library)

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