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Against The Grain
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
by Richard Manning
ISBN: 0865476225
ISBN-13: 9780865476226
Format: Hardcover
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"[C]ontroversial and prodigiously researched..."
-- Publishers Weekly
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 2004
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 240
Publisher's Notes
The author of Last Stand and Grassland argues that agriculture has enslaved humanity rather than set it free, revealing the limitations placed on humanity by the domestication of plants and animals.
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Manning, Richard
North Point Press: NY, 2004. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 9.25 x 6.2 with yellow & brown Dj protected by a Brodart cover. 232 pp. First Edition. First Printing. SIGNED by author on title page. Light wear on spine tips and corners of Dj. Tight binding. Clean & unmarked interior pp. ( more information)
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MANNING,RICHARD
NY: NORTH POINT PRESS, 2003 C-0000; BOX B-0151ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER ;NOTES; INDEX; BEIGEBOAARDS; BROWN SPINE; BLACKLETTERING;232 PAGES. NOT SIGNED. SECOND EDITION. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press. ( more information)
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