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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 | : Rachel Eagen |
| Publisher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780778724834 |
Explains the history of bananas, where they are grown, how they are harvested, and the different varieties. Provides a history of the world's largest herb, discussing the trade, cultivation, and consumption of bananas, as well as describing the environmental impact resulting from monoculture.
| Author | : Rich Cohen |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2012-06-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0374299277 |
When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was gangly and penniless. When he died in New Orleans 69 years later, he was among the richest men in the world. He conquered the United Fruit Company, and is a symbol of the best and worst of the United States.
| Author | : Mike Berners-Lee |
| Publisher | : Greystone Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1553658329 |
Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking. The book puts our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, the Iraq war) as well as the small (email, ironing, a glass of beer). And it covers the range from birth (the carbon footprint of having a child) to death (the carbon impact of cremation). Packed full of surprises — a plastic bag has the smallest footprint of any item listed, while a block of cheese is bad news — the book continuously informs, delights, and engages the reader. Solidly researched and referenced, the easily digestible figures, statistics, charts, and graphs (including a section on the carbon footprint of various foods) will encourage discussion and help people to make up their own minds about their consumer choices.
| Author | : Peter Chapman |
| Publisher | : Canongate Books |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2022-12-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1838859764 |
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.
| Author | : John Charles Robinson |
| Publisher | : CABI |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1845937384 |
Bananas and plantains are major fruit crops in the tropics and subtropics, making a vital contribution to the economies of many countries. In the last 15 years, substantial changes have occurred in banana production, among them the increased importance of fungal and viral diseases and their serious impact on Cavendish export cultivars, smallholder plantains and cooking bananas. Changes in production systems such as protected greenhouse cultivation, organic, fair-trade and integrated cultivation and their respective certification schemes have also become prominent. This book provides an accessi.
| Author | : Virginia Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2014-01-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1588344126 |
Before 1880 most Americans had never seen a banana. By 1910 bananas were so common that streets were littered with their peels. Today Americans eat on average nearly seventy-five per year. More than a staple of the American diet, bananas have gained a secure place in the nation's culture and folklore. They have been recommended as the secret to longevity, the perfect food for infants, and the cure for warts, headaches, and stage fright. Essential to the cereal bowl and the pratfall, they remain a mainstay of jokes, songs, and wordplay even after a century of rapid change. Covering every aspect of the banana in American culture, from its beginnings as luxury food to its reputation in the 1910s as the “poor man's” fruit to its role today as a healthy, easy-to-carry snack, Bananas provides an insightful look at a fruit with appeal.
| Author | : Aaron Blabey |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2019-07-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 133849712X |
Find out what piranhas eat -- and don't eat! -- in this new, irresistibly funny picture book from Aaron Blabey, the bestselling creator of Pig the Pug! Everyone knows that piranhas don't eat bananas -- except for Brian. This little fish loves to munch not only on bananas, but on fruit of all kinds! Brian's piranha friends think he's crazy. Piranhas don't eat bananas -- their sharp teeth are for eating meat! And there's a scrumptious pair of feet dangling in the water nearby...Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's hysterical text and unforgettably wacky illustrations, Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas is a hilarious story about trying new things -- no matter how strange they seem!
| Author | : Philip Keep Reynolds |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 39 |
| Release | : 1931 |
| Genre | : Bananas |
| ISBN | : |
