Taste, Memory traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who rediscover culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to experience and savor. In Taste, Memory author David Buchanan explores questions fundamental to the future of food and farming. How can we strike a balance between preserving the past, maintaining valuable agricultural and culinary traditions, and looking ahead to breed new plants? What place does a cantankerous old pear or too-delicate strawberry deserve in our gardens, farms, and markets? To what extent should growers value efficiency and uniformity over matters of taste, ecology, or regional identity? While living in Washington State in the early nineties, Buchanan learned about the heritage food movement and began growing fruit trees, grains, and vegetables. After moving home to New England, however, he left behind his plant collection and for several years stopped gardening. In 2005, inspired by the revival of interest in regional food and culinary traditions, Buchanan borrowed a few rows of growing space at a farm near his home in Portland, Maine, where he resumed collecting. By 2012 he had expanded to two acres, started a nursery and small business, and discovered creative ways to preserve rare foods. In Taste, Memory Buchanan shares stories of slightly obsessive urban gardeners, preservationists, environmentalists, farmers, and passionate cooks, and weaves anecdotes of his personal journey with profiles of leaders in the movement to defend agricultural biodiversity. Taste, Memory begins and ends with a simple premise: that a healthy food system depends on matching diverse plants and animals to the demands of land and climate. In this sense of place lies the true meaning of local food.
Trained journalist David Buchanan takes us along on his decade-long investigation of male victimization and male vulnerability. Along the way, Buchanan has a crafted a fine book that will appeal to researchers and academics who study gender issues, human rights activists, along with laypeople interested in such topics. It is a must read for anyone who enjoys a riveting read written by a writer at the height of his creative powers.
In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as instances of modern discourse reflective of community concerns and methods that were transatlantic in scope. Following on revolutionary events at home and abroad, the unique combination of history and romance initiated by Walter Scott’s Waverley (1814) furthered interest in the transition to and depiction of the nation-state. Established and lesser-known novelists reinterpreted the genre to describe the impact of modernization and to propose coping mechanisms, according to interests and circumstances. Besides analysis of the chronotopic representation of modernity within and between national contexts, Buchanan considers how remediation enabled diverse communities to encounter popular historical novels in upmarket and downmarket forms over the course of the century. He pays attention to the way communication practices are embedded within and constitutive of the social lives of readers, and more specifically, to how cultural producers adapted the historical novel to dynamic communication situations. In these ways, Acts of Modernity investigates how the historical novel was repeatedly reinvented to effectively communicate the consequences of modernity as problem-solutions of relevance to people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Drug dealing is a dangerous business, and being the head of a drug ring is impossibly dangerous. Red Dog, a secretive one-dealer drug ring, operates on the West Coast, where he is nothing but a shadow. Red Dog is at his best when it comes to surviving. He makes the big bucks and manages to live through the week. At least until he crosses paths with Con Meehan. This novel will have you running on adrenaline with Red Dog, as he becomes a walking “Wanted” poster...
When Callie Fisk won the drawing for the gold-mining trip to Alaska, she overruled her father's objections, saying she would be going with the Lord's protection--it was the Church's drawing, after all. But, in fact, what protection Callie got upon arrival in the Alaska Territory came from a notorious highwayman.
`Many books on management are sanitized, cleanly technical accounts of the unreality of managerial life and work. Politics hardly feature. This book tells it like it is: it dishes the dirt, gets low-down, into the funky and fascinating politics of organizational life′ - Stewart Clegg, Aston Business School and University of Technology, Sydney Combining a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change, this book provides an exceptional resource to students of change management, and organizational behaviour. Buchanan and Badham show how the change agent who is not politically skilled will fail, and that it is necessary to be able and willing to intervene in the political processes of the organization. This revised edition includes a range of excellent new material and features, including: - a new chapter on gender in approaches to organization politics - a full range of teaching materials including case studies, incident reports, self-assessments, and more - Each chapter recommends a feature film (or DVD) to illustrate aspects of organization politics - fresh research evidence - recent literature on the nature of entrepreneurial politics; - a model of political expertise, and how that can be developed This lively and engaging book is key to MBA and other Masters degree candidates taking courses in change management, and organizational behaviour. It will also be valuable for practising managers on tailored executive programmes in organization politics.
Based on a true story, " Time For A Change," is a Street thriller taking you on trip around the Bay Area. After being acquitted on a murder case, he feels the need to change his ways, but only after trying the streets again, This Time ending up on the other side of the gun. Shot 12 times, David makes a full recovery and finds love and a new way of living. Yet he will learn there is no good way to do wrong. This novel will have you on the edge of you seats from murder, sex, drugs and a loving marriage. Welcome to the world where the good dies young and the only color that matters is green.
Veteran author James David Buchanan is back with this harrowing tale of suspense and aerial acrobatics featuring two men who perhaps never should have worked together in the first place. Casey Moon and Max Muldoon steal back airplanes. Everyone loves Max, no one loves Casey. Casey is cheap, devious, fussy, suspicious, and bad-tempered. He professes to hate Max, who is charming, educated, handsome, easy-going, adventurous, a risk-taker and claims to like Casey. Business has not been good for Moon & Muldoon, so when a gorgeous woman named Diane comes along with a cockamamie story about her divorced husband stealing her plane and child and taking them to an island in the Bahamas, paranoid Casey knows better, but romantic Max falls for it (and her). Casey, Max, and Diana all get caught in the middle of violent robbers, the mob, and a gun battle. If they want to survive, it will take more than Max's charm and Casey's flying skills to pull them out of this tropical fire. James Buchanan lives in the Los Angeles, California area.
Organization politics can be seen as a game in which players compete for different kinds of territory such as status, power, and influence. In Power, Politics and Organizational Change, David Buchanan and Richard Badham ask: What’s the relevance of politics to change and innovation? What kind of game is this? What, if any, are the rules? How is the game played? What ethical issues arise? Should one play this game to win, and if so, how? How can you develop political expertise? The third edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. This includes discussion of current trends heightening the importance of developing political will and skill in a post-truth era, the rise of ‘new power’, the role of ‘BS busting’, the power of storytelling, and the politics of speaking up.
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