Hope's Edge follows the author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in world hunger, sometimes one village at a time. Thirty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé started a revolution in the way Americans think about food and hunger. Now Frances and her daughter, Anna, pick...(展开全部)

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America , beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a ...(展开全部)

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a be...(展开全部)

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a be...(展开全部)

React.js was born to bring the PHP style work flow to client side applications. React.js has a narrow scope, and it is concerned with only updating the DOM and responding to events. React.js is not a Model-View-Controller framework; it is actually the V in MVC. This narrow scope gives you the freedom to incorporate React into a wide variety of systems. In this book we cover all...(展开全部)

Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these "exoplanets" discovered so far. The detection of these worlds has only been possible in the last decade, with the number of discoveries increasing enormously over the ...(展开全部)

In his midtwenties, Dave Asprey was a successful Silicon Valley multimillionaire. He also weighed 300 pounds, despite the fact that he was doing what doctors recommended: eating 1,800 calories a day and working out 90 minutes a day, six times a week. When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower, Asprey turned to the same hackin...(展开全部)

This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginab...(展开全部)

吃，應該是一種享受，也該和自己的生命共享。本書所提供的資訊，可為你飲食的喜悅翻開新的一頁，也因此改善了健康，為您帶來更深的喜樂。 成千項嚴謹的現代研究報告指出，傳統宣傳三餐需要「肉、蛋與乳製品」的理論是錯的；而且還造成今天一般人多量攝食，以致心臟病、癌症、骨質疏鬆症及其他現代流行病的橫行。 因此，一旦你改變飲食習慣，和生命最深的生態原則相感應，你會得到「大解脫」；你會變成更替別人著想，逐漸成為世上精神覺醒並身體力行的一名成員。 近幾十年來，人們為供應肉類、乳製口及蛋類而飼養的動物，是在何等悲慘的環境中長大，而且，為了維持這些動物的生命，只好使用愈來愈多的化學藥品；荷爾蒙、殺蟲劑和抗生素等等，這些都存在肉類、乳製品和蛋裏，使得今天真正販賣毒品的毒販，不必在街上銷售，因為他們控制了今日人類食物生產的工廠或農場。