The End of Food - Softcover

Paul Roberts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747588813 ISBN 13: 9780747588818

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. He has written about resource economics and politics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Rolling Stone, and lectures frequently on business and environmental issues. He lives in Washington State.

From AudioFile:

Paul Roberts critiques the current system of food production, both domestic and international, and it is a scary world. Roberts shows how seemingly disparate problemsfirst-world obesity, third-world hunger, food-borne pathogens, rising fuel costs, pollution, and climate changeare connected and are logical responses to an unsustainable large-scale, hyperefficient food system. William Dufris employs an energetic and lively manner to hold the listener's interest while maintaining a note of matter-of-factness that adds to the grimness and peril. He is adept at delivering the mix of seriousness and astonishment clearly intended by Roberts. Dufris's pacing is also entirely appropriate for material that is often complex. A faster pace could leave the listener behind; a slower one could dull the impact of the material. A.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747588813
• ISBN 13: 9780747588818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390