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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals $5.95 A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us–whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed–he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is… |
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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type $5.53 The literacy rate in Farmer Brown’s barn goes up considerably once his cows find an old typewriter and begin typing. To the harassed farmer’s dismay, his communicative cows quickly become contentious: Dear Farmer Brown, The barn is very cold at night. We’d like some electric blankets. Sincerely, The Cows When he refuses to comply with their demands, the cows take action. Farmer Br… |
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Lonesome Dove $4.38 Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic s… |
