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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
No full textFrom the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1041/thumbnail.jp
Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
No full textIn this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1039/thumbnail.jp
Kurlansky, Mark. 2004.
Get PDFEste texto puede considerarse como una recopilación descriptiva de los acontecimientos más importantes que se presentaron en 1968 y que lo convirtieron en “el año que conmocionó al mundo”. El autor es el escritor y periodista Mark Kurlansky, y no tiene la intención de que este libro sea considerado como un texto de historia. Muy seguramente un historiador de oficio tampoco lo calificaría como tal: carece de orden metodológico, no hay marco teórico ni conceptual y es un texto en el que abunda ..
Bugs in Danger: Our Vanishing Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles
No full text“The disappearance of a few prominent insects could lead to the complete unraveling of life on Earth.” This is only one of the dire warnings that punctuate several chapters in a text that is accessible, informational, and often humorous. Using Darwin’s theories and the assumption that every species must prioritize its own promulgation or perish, the author suggests, among other things, that humans may have created their own decline by emphasizing individual life choices over species survival... -- Kirkus Reviewshttps://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1578/thumbnail.jp
A World Without Paper? Not a Chance.
No full textThe Georgia Southern College of Arts and Humanities hosted author Mark Kurlansky as part of the Mark Finlay Lecture Series.
Kurlansky is a journalist and historian and has authored over thirty books. He will discuss his latest work, Paper: Paging Through History, about the history of paper and the roll of technology in modern society.
The lecture was open to the public and took place on Wednesday March 2, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Armstrong Campus as part of the annual lecture series funded by the family and friends of the late Mark Finlay, a History professor on the Armstrong Campus who passed away in 2013.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/finlay-lectures/1005/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food: Before the National Highway System, before Chain Restaurants, and before Frozen Food, when the Nation\u27s Food was Seasonal
No full textIn the throes of the Great Depression, a make-work initiative for authors-called America Eats -was created by the WPA to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local Americans. Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt and Cod, unearths this forgotten literary treasure, chronicling a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food or grocery superstores. Kurlansky brings together the WPA contributions-featuring New York automats and Georgia Coca-Cola parties, Maine lobsters and Montana beaver tails-and brilliantly showcases them with authentic recipes, anecdotes, and photographs.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1048/thumbnail.jp
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
No full textIn what he says is the most important piece of environmental writing in his long and award-winning career, Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod, The Big Oyster, 1968, and Milk, among many others, employs his signature multi-century storytelling and compelling attention to detail to chronicle the harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle of salmon. During his research Kurlansky traveled widely and observed salmon and those who both pursue and protect them in the Pacific and the Atlantic, in Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Japan, and even the robust but not as frequently visited Kamchatka Peninsula. This world tour reveals an eras-long history of man’s misdirected attempts to manipulate salmon and its environments for his own benefit and gain, whether for entertainment or to harvest food.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1577/thumbnail.jp
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
No full textBefore New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Author Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, Gotham\u27s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city\u27s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight, from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America\u27s environmentalist movement, here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant\u27s peg leg and Robert Fulton\u27s Folly ; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico\u27s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; and even Diamond Jim Brady.--From publisher description.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1051/thumbnail.jp
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