Agricultural Urbanism: Handbook for Building Sustainable Food Systems in 21st Century Cities
by Janine de la Salle and Mark Holland (Editors)
Awareness of the significant challenges our food supply system faces in the 21st century is growing rapidly. Agricultural Urbanism, rooted in a sustainable food systems approach and written by leaders in the planning and design fields, outlines a powerful strategy for understanding and taking action on the full-scope of sustainable food system opportunities in cities and how we can build them. The book takes sustainable food systems far beyond the community garden and the buying of local food, into strategies for supporting local food processing, wholesale and marketing, education and training programs, as well as celebrating and creating a culture around food, at the same time as ensuring access to healthy food for all. The concept of agricultural urbanism has been declared as the next big movement for New Urbanism in the 21st century as we all grapple with how to make our cities not only more sustainable, but also great places in which to live. This book outlines key strategies to create amazingly magnetic agriculture and food precincts that are unique and special community places where food can be celebrated year-round.
2010
ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN
US $24.95/ CAN $27.95
200 pages, paperback
100 photographs and illustrations
20 tables and diagrams
ISBN 978-0981243429
Zombie Factory: Culture, Stress & Sudden Death
by Michael Korovkin and Peter Stephenson
In Zombie Factory people, and even a few animals, are seen experiencing highly distressing situations. The patterns of these stressful experiences can turn them into Zombie-like creatures who have great difficulty changing their lives. The authors argue that this also puts them at risk of developing heart attacks, seizures or strokes and suddenly dying. Readers of the book get to ‘listen in’ on people from around the world telling some truly harrowing stories. The story-tellers come from many walks of life: top-level executives, arctic hunters, spies, academics, policemen, and refugees, among others. The compelling stories they describe of sudden deaths suggest that it is not the amount of stress people are under, but the patterns of its application which turns it into a killer. Part of the lethal pattern is the kind and length of breaks from work that people often take. Those who have adapted to very high levels of stress can be at great risk if they take time out for the wrong length of time and do not maintain a level of adaptive response. Short breaks are usually good, and long sabbaticals are fine too–but many average vacations could turn out to be quite risky. The book is designed to help the reader re-think how they understand and experience stress in their lives by telling very provocative stories.
2010
SOCIAL SCIENCE/HEALTH
US $19.95/CAN $ 21.95
175 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0981243412
High Arctic Extreme Science: Environmental Research From the Trans-Ellesmere Island Ski Expedition
by Robert L. France
The 1990 Trans-Ellesmere Island Ski Expedition was the first human-powered, non-Inuit, lengthwise crossing of one the of the largest islands in the High Arctic. From 1992 to 1998, expedition member and scientist, Dr. Robert L. France, published more than a dozen ground-breaking articles in international journals based on expedition research concerning chemical contamination, wildlife distribution and behavior, and garbage littering. These studies, in addition to other, previously unpublished research findings and many photographs from the expedition, are collected here under a single cover for the first time. This work recalls a time when polar expeditions were equal parts both adventure and academic discovery.
2010 Scriptorium/Palimpsest Press
SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
US $24.95/CAN $27.95
167 pages, paperback
52 b & w photographs
22 tables and graphs
5 maps
ISBN 978-0981243405
Destination Mutable
by John H.Baillie
Written during a five-year period of life-threatening illness, this collection of 85 poems by John H. Baillie covers a remarkable range of subjects but always manages to return to thoughts of friendship and nature. Begun as a meditation on mortality, the work gradually changes course and begins to reexamine the world with a new acuity that eschews self-pity and insists on being alert and alive.