This Organic Life

This Organic Life
Author: Joan Dye Gussow
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2001
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1931498245

In this bestselling combination memoir, polemic, and gardening manual, Gussow discusses the joys and challenges of growing organic produce in her own New York garden. This work offers encouragement to urban and suburban gardeners who want to grow at least some of their own produce. 30 recipes.

The Life Organic

The Life Organic
Author: Erik Peterson
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2016-12-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 082298198X

As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century, two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living things contained a "vital spark," and mechanism, the idea that animals and humans differed from nonliving things only in their degree of complexity. Erik Peterson tells the forgotten story of the pursuit of a Third Way in biology, known by many names, including "the organic philosophy," which gave rise to C. H. Waddington's work in the subfield of epigenetics: an alternative to standard genetics and evolutionary biology that captured the attention of notable scientists from Francis Crick to Stephen Jay Gould. The Life Organic chronicles the influential biologists, mathematicians, philosophers, and biochemists from both sides of the Atlantic who formed Joseph Needham's Theoretical Biology Club, defined and refined Third-Way thinking through the 1930s, and laid the groundwork for some of the most cutting-edge achievements in biology today. By tracing the persistence of organicism into the twenty-first century, this book also raises significant questions about how we should model the development of the discipline of biology going forward.

The Organic Artist

The Organic Artist
Author: Nick Neddo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592539262

This is an art book which highlights the possibility of using natural, organic materials as art supplies and inspiration.

Organic Manifesto

Organic Manifesto
Author: Maria Rodale
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1605291587

Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now, with Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of 21st century farming. She examines the unholy alliances that have formed between the chemical companies that produce fertilizer and genetically altered seeds, the agricultural educational system that is virtually subsidized by those same companies, and the government agencies in thrall to powerful lobbyists, all of which perpetuate dangerous farming practices and deliberate misconceptions about organic farming and foods. Interviews with government officials, doctors, scientists, and farmers from coast to coast bolster her position that chemical-free farming may be the single most effective tool we have to protect our environment and, even more important, our health.

Life

Life
Author: Denise Gigante
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2009-05-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300155581

Gigante offers a way to read ostensibly difficult poetry and reflects on the natural-philosophical idea of organic form and the discipline of literary studies.