<p>A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers, in a chronicle that documents cotton's domestication some 5,500 years ago, its key role in the colonization of the New World, and its post-Industrial Revolution part in transforming communities, prompting innovations, and promoting slavery. 40,000 first printing.</p>

Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map

History

Stephen Yafa

Americas

Viking Adult

No topic in nutrition is more controversial than wheat. While megaselling books suggest that wheat may be the new asbestos, Stephen Yafa finds that it has been wrongly demonized. His revealing book sets the record straight, looking at the botany of the wheat plant we've hijacked for our own use, the science of nutrition and digestion, the effects of mass production on our health, and questions about gluten and fiber. He tours commercial factories that mass produce bread as well as artisan bakeries, from a Woodstock-like kneading conference to nutrition labs to a boutique bakery and pasta maker's workshop in Brooklyn-- all to point us toward a better, richer diet.

Grain of Truth: The Real Case for and against Wheat and Gluten

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

Gildan Audio and Blackstone Audio

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