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| Author | : Dan Koeppel |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781594630385 |
"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
| Author | : James Wiley |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0803216378 |
The Banana demystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of such major players as the European Union and the World Trade Organization. It also analyzes the forces driving today's economy, such as the competitiveness imperative, diversification processes, and niche market strategies. Its final chapter suggests how the outcome of the recent banana war will affect bananas and trade in other commodities sectors as well.
| Author | : Lorna Piatti-Farnell |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2016-04-15 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 1780236069 |
Sweet but starchy, soft but toothsome—and so easy to peel they just beg to be devoured—bananas are one of our favorite foods, found everywhere from gas station counters to Michelin star restaurants. Yet for as versatile and ubiquitous as this fruit is today, its history is a turbulent one, entangled in colonial domination, capitalist exploitation, sexual politics, and even horrific violence. Delving into the banana’s past, this book traces the complex circumstances of global modernity that perfectly aligned to grant us, often at tremendous costs, a treat we all now take for granted. Beginning with the banana’s origins in New Guinea, Lorna Piatti-Farnell follows its pathways to South East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, binding together a millennium of history into one digestible bunch. Focusing especially on the banana’s recent past, she shows how it rose from a regional staple to a global commodity, on par with coffee and sugar. She examines the ways it has been advertised, sold, and incorporated into popular culture, moving from nineteenth-century medical manuals to cookbooks, songs, slapstick comedy, and problematic figures like Miss Chiquita. Wide-ranging but pocket-sized, Banana is a culinary and cultural account of a peculiar little fruit that is at once the icon of exoticism and one of the most familiar foods we eat.
| Author | : Michelle Robinson |
| Publisher | : Scholastic UK |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2020-01-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0702301140 |
A fantastically funny book about loving what makes you YOU! When Banana is thrown into the 'reject' bin with the other mis-shapen fruit and veg, he decides that enough is enough - he may be a little bit bruised but that doesn't mean he's any less brilliant! So be proud of your bumps! Because going bad can sometimes be very, very good.
| Author | : P. P. Wong |
| Publisher | : Legends Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2018-06 |
| Genre | : Chinese fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781787198562 |
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, strange Uncle Ho and Hollywood actress Auntie Mei. Her only friend is Jay - a mixed raced Jamaican boy with a passion for classical music. . Then Xing Li's life takes an even harsher turn: the school bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour. Her happy childhood becomes a distant memory as her new life is infiltrated with the harsh reality of being an ethnic minority. Consumed by secrets, violence and confusing family relations, Xing Li tries to find hope wherever she can. In order to find her own identity, she must first discover what it means to be both Chinese and British. PP Wong has delivered a unique and realistic young adult drama that is bursting with original content style and emotion. What Reviewers and Readers Say: 'PP Wong has blazed a trail for future British Chinese novelists ... bursting with original and exciting flavours, ' The Independent 'A moving and optimistic debut about orphaned siblings coping with a new strict home and racial bullying, ' The Guardian 'Life of a Banana is so refreshingly distinct. Read it, and you will soon find yourself wanting more, ' Daily Mail 'Impeccably observed, often hilarious, and deeply moving... pitch-perfect, ' David Henry Hwang
| Author | : Alexandra Tylee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Imagination |
| ISBN | : 1776570332 |
A boy's-eye-view of the everyday brings alive all the wonder and oddity of the world inside our own heads.
| Author | : Jennifer Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-07-23 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780689859519 |
Everyday street signs act as deadpan captions for the slapstick happenings in this ingenious picture book that is hilariously told in street signs. Go! The sign says: “Put litter in its place.” But someone isn’t paying attention. He drops a banana peel on the ground—and a series of comical slips, spills, and falls are set hilariously into motion. First the grocer, then the painter, next the bicycle messenger, and then—oh, no—not the baby in the carriage! An entire town turned upside down, all by a banana peel! Caldecott Medalist David Small and award-winning author Jennifer Armstrong have created a roller-coaster ride of a picture book told in rhyming street signs that will tickle and delight readers from beginning to end, over and over again.
| Author | : Steve Striffler |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2003-11-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780822331964 |
DIVThe history of banana cultivation and its huge impact on Latin American, history, politics, and culture./div
| Author | : Lester D. Langley |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2014-04-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081314597X |
Ambitious entrepreneurs, isthmian politicians, and mercenaries who dramatically altered Central America's political culture, economies, and even its traditional social values populate this lively story of a generation of North and Central Americans and their roles in the transformation of Central America from the late nineteenth century until the onset of the Depression. The Banana Men is a study of modernization, its benefits, and its often frightful costs. The colorful characters in this study are fascinating, if not always admirable. Sam "the Banana Man" Zemurray, a Bessarabian Jewish immigrant, made a fortune in Honduran bananas after he got into the business of "revolutin," and his exploits are now legendary. His hired mercenary Lee Christmas, a bellicose Mississippian, made a reputation in Honduras as a man who could use a weapon. The supporting cast includes Minor Keith, a railroad builder and banana baron; Manuel Bonilla, the Honduran mulatto whose cause Zemurray subsidized; and Jose Santos Zelaya, who ruled Nicaragua from 1893 to 1910. The political and social turmoil of the modern Central America cannot be understood without reference to the fifty-year epoch in which the United States imposed its political and economic influence on vulnerable Central American societies. The predicament of Central Americans today, as isthmian peoples know, is rooted in their past, and North Americans have had a great deal to do with the shaping of their history, for better or worse.
