Authors:Paul Farmer, Haun Saussy,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: series, public, anthropology, california, reader, poor, paul, farmer, partner
Number of Pages: 680
Published: 2010-04-21
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0520257138
ISBN-13: 9780520257139

For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients--and worked to address the root causes of their disease--in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere in the developing world. In 1987, with several colleagues, he founded Partners In Health to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Throughout his career, Farmer has written eloq

Author: Farmer John Peterson
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Keywords: dirt, vegetables, real, cookbook, john, farmer
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-04-19
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1423600142
ISBN-13: 9781423600145

Join the real food revolution with a true pioneer in the Community Supported Agriculture movement-Farmer John Peterson and his farm, Angelic Organics. Angelic Organics is a leader in community supported gardening and biodynamics, helping to connect people with their food, their farmers, and healthful living.

Authors:Paul Farmer,  Paul Farmer, Amartya Se,
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: california, poor, series, public, anthropology, war, new, power, health, human, rights, pathologies
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 2004-11-22
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0520243269
ISBN-13: 9780520243262

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world’s poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violenc

Authors:J. R. R. Tolkien, Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: farmer, giles, worminghall, king, little, kingdom, count, lord, ham, rise, wonderful, adventures, tame
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0618009361
ISBN-13: 9780618009367

The editors of the best-selling rediscovered Tolkien novel Roverandom present an expanded fiftieth anniversary edition of Tolkien’s beloved classic Farmer Giles of Ham, complete with a map, the original story outline, the original first-edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes, and the author’s notes for an unpublished sequel. Farmer Giles of Ham is a light-hearted satire for readers of all ages that tells the tale of a reluctant hero who must save his village from a dragon. It is a small gem of a tale that grows more delightful with each rereading.

Author: Marion CunninghamFannie Farmer Cookbook Corporati
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: anniversary, cookbook, farmer, fannie
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 1996-09-09
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0679450815
ISBN-13: 9780679450818

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of a great American classic, the 13th edition with a new introduction by the author.

Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: eye
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0140376410
ISBN-13: 9780140376418

In Zimbabwe in the year 2194, General Matsika calls in Africa’s most unusual detectives--the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm--to find his missing children. By the author of Do You Know Me. Reprint. K. AB.

Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: farmer
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1980-10-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385282281
ISBN-13: 9780385282284