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    Book Reviews

    When Wine Tastes Best 2015

    When Wine Tastes Best 2015

    Author: Matthias Thun
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Food & Drink / Biodynamics
    This companion volume is now in its third year and is based on the same biodynamic principles. It is now also available as an app…… Read More »
    Biodynamic, Organic and Natural Winemaking

    Biodynamic, Organic and Natural Winemaking

    Authors: Britt Karlsson, Per Karlsson
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Food & Drink / Agriculture
    Following Nicolas Joly's book on biodynamic wine a few years ago, this new book is a definitive and beautifully illustrated guide by two Swedes running…… Read More »
    Depolarising Food and Agriculture

    Depolarising Food and Agriculture

    Authors: Andrew Barkley, Paul W. Barkley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Agriculture / Food Systems
    Polarisations in agriculture are a reflection of the differences between mechanistic and holistic science: industrial vs. sustainable agriculture, conventional vs. organic production methods and global…… Read More »
    Global Food Security and Supply

    Global Food Security and Supply

    Author: Wayne Martindale
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Food & Environment
    The author of this book on global food supply chains works at the Sheffield Business School and is editor of an online magazine for food…… Read More »
    Successful Adaptation to Climate Change

    Successful Adaptation to Climate Change

    Authors: Maxwell T. Boykoff, Susanne C. Moser
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Science & Policy / Climate Change
    This major initiative is a collaboration between nearly 40 thinkers on linking science and policy in a rapidly changing world. It provides the necessary background…… Read More »
    Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education

    Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education

    Author: Matthias Barth
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Education / Sustainability
    Subtitled 'learning in an age of transformation', this book brings the challenge of sustainability firmly into the university sector where such ideas should be debated…… Read More »
    Sustainable Society

    Sustainable Society

    Author: Rudolf Isler
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Economics & Society
    Towards the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner devoted some serious thought to relationship between politics, economics and culture. His thinking on agriculture has been…… Read More »
    Sustainability – A History

    Sustainability – A History

    Author: Jeremy L. Caradonna
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environmental History / Sustainability
    The word sustainability has only become common currency over the last 25 years, but the idea goes back a lot further, as demonstrated in this…… Read More »
    The Anthropocene

    The Anthropocene

    Author: Christian Schwägerl
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment
    In 2000, Nobel prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen coined the geological term Anthropocene to describe our current era, succeeding the Holocene, as a period in which…… Read More »
    The Caveman Rules for Survival

    The Caveman Rules for Survival

    Author: Dawn C. Walton
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology/Neuroscience
    Most readers will be familiar with the triune brain and its implications for human behaviour. It is unfortunate that this basic information about our operating…… Read More »
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