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Bird Silence Book Description: The poems in Matthew Roth's Bird Silence crackle with formal and imaginative energy. Roth explores topics as various as the death of a flock of Bohemian Waxwings, the etymology of the word "hearse," and the inner life of a mortician's instruments. In poems that marry the strange and the beautiful, Roth explores our desire for connection and consolation.
At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America. The soybean’s journey from one continent into the heart of another was by no means assured or predictable. In Asia, the soybean had been bred and cultivated into a nutritious staple food over the course of centuri...
Revised 2nd edition, with roughly twice as many pages and twice as many photos as the 1st edition of 2011. The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 235 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 253 photographs and illustrations - mostly color, Free of charge.
The world's first book-length biography of Charles Vancouver Piper. It is current, well documented, and well illustration with an extensive subject and geographical index. With 62 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 300 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 157 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 362 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 315 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 177 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.