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• Word of the Year: 'Locavore'

  - 2007-11-12

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Christian Purdy of the Oxford University Press, +1-212- 726-6032, Christian.purdy@oup.com 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the YearNEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Are you passing up store-bought bananas for apples from the farmers market? Can you shake the hand that picked your carrots? If youre...

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• NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

  - 2004-05-01

  Change AgentsHow to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein. Take a look at some social entrepreneurs-obsessive, mostly unknown folks who work quietly but move and shake with big ideas for creating social change. Stories of these ndomitable activists securing elec- tricity for...

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• Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of the Conquest.(Book Review)

  - 2004-03-01

  Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of the Conquest. THOMAS M. WHITMORE and B. L. TURNER II. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. xviii + 311 pp., figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. ...

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• Blame winter for the vanishing sparrows - Zoology - Brief Article

  - 2002-09-07

  Changes in winter farming practices may help explain a puzzling drop in number of rural house sparrows in southern England, says a University of Oxford research team. The birds once flocked around farms in such numbers that "sparrow clubs" could earn bounties for delivering heads, explains David G. Hole...

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• OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Aphrodisiac foods? -- New fo food encyclopaedia says NO.

  - 1999-10-18

  M2 PRESSWIRE-18 October 1999-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Aphrodisiac foods? -- New food encyclopaedia says NO C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:141099 The book the food world has been awaiting for over 20 years - The Oxford Companion to Food - is to be...

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• The Myth of Adam Smith

  - 1999-01-01

  By Salim Rashid. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp. X, 227. $80.00. For every economist who has ever idolized Adam Smith or wished they could be more like him, Salim Rashid's The Myth of Adam Smith is the valuable antidote. Rashid is unusual among economists in that he really...

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• OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Is there an 'ideal' diet? Does it change for those with stomach disorders?

  - 1998-12-22

  M2 PRESSWIRE-22 December 1998-OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Is there an 'ideal' diet? Does it change for those with stomach disorders? Does it change as we age? C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:181298 * Good Food for Bad Stomachs Henry D. Janowitz,...

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• British Colonial Rule and the Resistance of the Malay Peasantry, 1900-1957. (book reviews)

  - 1997-09-01

  In the above book, Nonini has adopted the humanist and historicist Marxist approach to interpret resistance of Malay peasants to British colonial rule. Like other works on the subaltern society, such as the well-written Weapons of the Weak by James Scott (1985) published by Yale University...

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