From fast food to slow food to quiet food

Celebrating food and asking us to experience the magic of preparing it, this title introduces us to the possibility of making cooking and eating into an exquisite meditative occasion - an antidote to our fast food culture.

Major changes have been occurring almost unnoticed in staple value chains in Asia. The Quiet Revolution in Staple Food Value Chains documents and explains the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the consumer in Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of China, and India. The changes noted are the rapid rise of supermarkets, modern cold storage facilities, large rice mills, and commercialized small farmers using input-intensive, mechanized technologies. These changes affect food security in ways that are highly relevant for policymakers across Asia—the rise of supermarkets provides cheaper staples, more direct relations in the chains combined with branding have increased traceability, and the rise of cold storage has brought higher incomes for potato farmers and all-season access for potato consumers. The book also joins two debates that have long been separate and parallel—food industry and agribusiness development and market competitiveness—with the food security and poverty alleviation agend

Best friends Pip and Pop live in a peapod, but sometimes it can get a little too cosy - especially because they are so different! Pip loves to sing, while Pop won't stop snoring. How are they ever going to work out how to live together? From award-winning author Gabrielle Tozer and illustrator Sue deGennaro comes the perfect book about friendship and learning how to get along. Ages 3+

This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale. Climate change has intensified the need for communities to find creative and meaningful ways to address the sustainability of their environments. The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary people. This includes critical engagement with the ways in which novel social practices and partnerships emerge between people, organisations, institutions, governance arrangements and eco-systems. The book successfully highlights the transformative power of socially innovative activities and initiatives in response to the climate crisis; and critically explores how different individuals and groups undertake climate action as ‘quiet activism’ – the embodied acts of collective disruption, subversion, creativity and care at the local scale.

Has Mr. Wrong Ever Felt So Right? When Kitty first encounters a buck-naked Fred, his clumsy attempts at flirting set off alarm bells. Sure, he's cute in a maddening way, clearly single, and brimming with wild ideas for reckless fun. But he's not her type...right? As Kitty's world unravels with her beloved Nanna's declining health, Fred unexpectedly tags along. Slowly, an endearing new side of Fred emerges, making Kitty question everything. Is this frustrating man's talent for trouble just a ruse hiding a loyal heart? Thrown together by crisis, Kitty finds her defences crumbling as Fred's antics charm her in ways she never saw coming. But with so much at stake, trusting in love—and Fred—feels riskier than ever. Will Fred prove to be the secret ingredient to rebuilding Kitty's recipe for a brighter future? Or is she setting herself up to be burned again by a man she barely knows? Kitty's about to find out in a journey of laughter, tears, and tender revelations that will have you flipping pages to uncover whether two unlikely hearts can beat as one when it matters most.

Bee quiet draws upon current environmental conditions and illustrates what may happen if we stay in comfortable complacency, collectively doing very little to change our destructive treatment of the environment.