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Book Title
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Title
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
ISBN-10
0865477132
EAN
9780865477131
ISBN
9780865477131
Genre
Science Nature & Math
Release Date
01/02/2005
Release Year
2005
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
140mm
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Item Height
211mm
Author
Richard Manning
Publisher
North Point Press
Item Width
140mm
Subject
Biology
Item Weight
220g
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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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.

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9780865477131
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Author
Richard Manning
Publication Name
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Biology
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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211mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
220g

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Richard Manning
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