Author: Pierre Dardot File Type: epub What is new about neoliberalism?Pierre Dardotand Christian Laval contendthat it is more than just a neweconomic paradigm -- it is asystem for transforming thehuman subject. Rather thana return to classic liberalism,or the restoration of a pure,unconstrained market,neoliberalism envisages themodern corporation as amodel for government,conjuring a future in whichsociety is nothing other thana web of market-basedrelations. Cutting through contemporarymisunderstandingsabout its genesis andprevalence, Dardot andLaval distil neoliberalismto its core meaning andexamine how it might bechallenged on new politicaland intellectual terms.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver File Type: mobi Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lifevowing that, for one year, theyd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth You are what you eat. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. Accomplished gardeners, the Kingsolver clan grow a large garden in southern Appalachia and spend summers putting food by, as the classic kitchen title goes. They make pickles, chutney and mozzarella they jar tomatoes, braid garlic and stuff turkey sausage. Nine-year-old Lily runs a heritage poultry business, selling eggs and meat. What they dont raise (lamb, beef, apples) comes from local farms. Come winter, they feast on root crops and canned goods, menus slouching toward asparagus. Along the way, the Kingsolver family, having given up industrial meat years before, abandons its vegetarian ways and discovers the pleasures of conscientious carnivory.This fieldlocal food and sustainable agricultureis crowded with books in increasingly predictable flavors the earnest manual, diary of an epicure, the environmental battle cry, the accidental gardener. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is all of these, and much smarter. Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level a well-paced narrative and the apparent ease of the beautiful prose makes the pages fly. Her tale is both classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny. Kingsolver is a moralist (the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners), but more often wry than pious. Another hazard of the genre is snobbery. You wont find it here. Seldom do paeans to heirloom tomatoes (which I grew up selling at farmers markets) include equal respect for outstanding modern hybrids like Early Girl.Kingsolver has the ear of a journalist and the accuracy of a naturalist. She makes short, neat work of complex topics whats risky about the vegan diet, why animals belong on ecologically sound farms, why bitterness in lettuce is good. Kingsolvers clue to help greenhorns remember whats in season is the best Ive seen. You trace the harvest by botanical development, from buds to fruits to roots. Kingsolver is not the first to note our national eating disorder and the injuries industrial agriculture wreaks, yet this practical vision of how we might eat instead is as fresh as just-picked sweet corn. The narrative is peppered with useful sidebars on industrial agriculture and ecology (by husband Steven Hopp) and recipes (by daughter Camille), as if to show that local foodin the growing, buying, cooking, eating and the tellingdemands teamwork. (May)Nina Planck is the author of Real Food What to Eat and Why (Bloomsbury USA, 2006). Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From School Library JournalAdultHigh SchoolThis book chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavoresthose who eat only locally grown foods. This first entailed a move away from their home in non-food-producing Tuscon to a family farm in Virginia, where they got right down to the business of growing and raising their own food and supporting local farmers. For teens who grew up on supermarket offerings, the notion not only of growing ones own produce but also of harvesting ones own poultry was as foreign as the concept that different foods relate to different seasons. While the volume begins as an environmental treatisethe oil consumption related to transporting foodstuffs around the world is enormousit ends, as the year ends, in a celebration of the food that physically nourishes even as the recipes and the memories of cooks and gardeners past nourish our hearts and souls. Although the book maintains that eating well is not a class issue, discussions of heirloom breeds and making cheese at home may strike some as high-flown however, those looking for healthful alternatives to processed foods will find inspiration to seek out farmers markets and to learn to cook and enjoy seasonal foods. Give this title to budding Martha Stewarts, green-leaning fans of Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale, 2006), and kids outraged by Eric Schlossers Fast Food Nation (Houghton, 2001).Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.