- Il topic è vuoto.
-
Post
-
-
Against the Grain
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by Richard ManningAgainst the Grain • Click Here
- Author: Richard Manning
- Genres: history, food, agriculture, science, anthropology, environment, historical, sustainability, nutrition
- Language: english
- Format: paperback, 240 pages
- Release date: February 1, 2005
- ISBN: 9780865477131 (0865477132)
- Publisher: North Point Press
About The Book
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.
The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature’s. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil’s bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet’s.
MOBI book Against the Grain download for iPhone. Paperback Against the Grain by Richard Manning on Booktopia. TXT ebook Against the Grain buy cheap. EPUB Against the Grain Richard Manning read online on PC on Bookshop. MP3 book Against the Grain download.
Hardcover ebook Against the Grain Richard Manning read Mac on Amazon. Online ebook Against the Grain buy on Book Depository. Hardback book Against the Grain by Richard Manning for iOS. PDF Against the Grain download. FB2 book Against the Grain by Richard Manning buy Android on Audible.
-
