The Devil S Fruit

The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish—as in deadly, depressing, disabling, and toxic—problems requires intersecting ecosocial, emotional, ethnographic, and activist labors. Through her work as an activist medical anthropologist, she found the caring labors of engaged ethnography take on many forms that go in many different directions. Through chapters that examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships, Saxton critically and reflexively describes and analyzes the ways that engaged and activist ethnographic methods, frameworks, and ethics aligned and conflicted, and in various ways helped support still ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice in California. These are problems shared by other agricultural communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.

An investigation into what thrills us, what terrifies us, and what would make us travel ten thousand miles and evade the local authorities, The Devil's Picnic is a delicious and compelling expedition into the heart of vice and desire. Taras Grescoe is the author of two books, one of which, Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec, was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Award and was a national bestseller in Canada. His work appears in major publications all over the US, the UK and Canada. "Vivid and entertaining."-New York Times "[Grescoe] spends a year in seven countries, seeking out such delicacies as Epoisses cheese, which smells so bad it's said to have been banned from the Paris Metro; the author writes fondly that it makes 'Gorgonzola smell like Velveeta.'...He eats bulls' testicles in Madrid and visits an absinthe distillery in Switzerland. You feel hung over just reading the thing-guilty, implicated and strangely hungry."-Los Angeles Times Also available: HC ISBN: 1-58234-429-9 ISBN-13 978-1-58234-429-4 $24.95

The Devil's Fruit uses anthropology's tool kit to examine farmworkers' embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships in California's agricultural industry. Rather than stopping at description and critique, Saxton explores how activist ethnographic methods and ethics align, conflict, and support ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice.

Ms. Aurora Bourne would do anything to protect her students from harm … even if that means going up against the most powerful corporation on the planet. While getting her fourth grade classroom ready for Fall, Aurora begins to feel sick, and it’s more than back-to-school blues. Outside her windows next to the playground, strawberry fields have just been fumigated and pesticides are drifting into the classrooms, causing serious health issues for children and adults. When the teenage sister of a migrant student goes missing from the strawberry fields, it becomes clear that pesticide poisoning isn’t the only thing threatening the children’s safety, and Aurora begins to understand why farmworkers call strawberries Fruta del Diablo — the Fruit of the Devil. Aurora starts asking questions and gets caught in a web of gangs, drugs, trafficking, and high-level corporate crime. When a Catholic priest comes to her aid, she falls in love with him, complicating her life further. She has no idea he’s actually an ancient nature god out of Pacific Coast indigenous legends.

UNAUTHORIZED DECODING ONE PIECE: BEYOND THE SEAS Welcome to "One Piece: Beyond The Seas", a book that will immerse you in the exciting world of the "One Piece" series like never before. Become a true explorer of the seas alongside Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hats, as you unravel the mysteries, adventures and legacies that have made this series a pop culture legend. Discover why "One Piece: Beyond the Seas" is a must-have addition to any "One Piece" fan's library. Top 5 Book Themes: 1. Deep Exploration 2. Unforgettable Characters 3. Epic Adventures 4. Mysteries and Theories 5. The Legacy of "One Piece CONTENT (30 CHAPTERS) Introduction PART I: INTRODUCTION TO "ONE PIECE" Origins Of "One Piece The World Of Pirates In "One Piece" The Protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy Recruiting The Straw Hat Crew PART II: THE JOURNEY OF THE STRAW HATS Grand Line: The Dangerous World The Seven Seas And Ocean Currents Facing The Seven Sea Warriors The Adventures On The Sky Islands Nico Robin's Past And The Emptiness Of The Century PART III: "ONE PIECE" MYSTERIES AND LEGACIES The Enigma Of Gol D. Roger The World Government And The Navy The Revolution And The Fall Of Ohara The Yonko: Emperors Of The Sea The Story Of The Devil's Fruit PART IV: THE CHARACTERS OF "ONE PIECE" Roronoa Zoro: The Loyal Swordsman Nami: The Navigator-Cartographer Usopp: The Legend Maker Sanji: The Gallant Cook Tony Tony Chopper: The Reindeer Doctor PART V: THE WORLD OF "ONE PIECE" The Cities And Islands Of The Grand Line The Races And Creatures Of "One Piece" The Shichibukai: Pirates Under The Government Rival Gangs And The Great Straw Hat Fleet. PART VI: THE EPIC BATTLES OF "ONE PIECE" Battles Against The Devil Fruits Luffy Vs. The Yonko: Titanic Duels The Marineford War: The Breaking Point The Powers Of Conquest And Haki Observation PART VII: THE FUTURE OF "ONE PIECE" The Last Leg Of The Great Route Theories And Speculation About The Ending The Legacy Of "One Piece" In Popular Culture PHRASES

This affordably priced shopper's guide, derived from The Organic Cook's Bible (Wiley, 4/2006), gives consumers essential, easy-to-follow guidance on what makes organic food preferable and worth the extra money. The book is organized by food item (over 100 foods total in chapters on Vegetables; Fruits, Beans and Grains; Nuts and Seeds; Meat, Fish, Dairy and Eggs; and Kitchen Staples) in clear, easy-to-use entries, with at-a-glance_information on Season, Good Varieties, Nutritional Highlights, What to Look For, Storage and Preparation Tips, and Goes Well With (suggesting complementary flavors), followed by larger sections on a food's Organic Advantage (i.e., why to buy organic) and Uses, plus other informational tidbits. Accompanying the entries are 100 recipes showcasing the flavor and freshness of organic food. Further enhancing the book is a front section giving a detailed overview of organics, and an extensive Sources section in the back.

A historical account of the role of fruit in the modern world explores the machinations of multi-national corporations in distributing exotic fruits, the life of mass-produced fruits, and the author's experience with unusual varieties that are unavailable in America.

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.