Popular Myths

Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status.

Rondalles contades a la vora del foc és una selecció de 7 de les moltes rondalles de la tradició popular catalana que van ser recollides de la literatura oral pròpia, i de les tradicions d'altres països, per diferents autors i en diferents moments als inicis del segle xx. Els textos seleccionats provenen de diverses publicacions de l'època i s'han actualitzat per tal d'apropar-los al públic infantil del segle XXI , sobretot a nivell de continguts i només en els casos en què l'argument ho requeria.

From farm-to-table restaurants and farmers markets, to support for fair trade and food sovereignty, movements for food-system change hold the promise for deeper transformations. Yet Americans continue to live the paradox of caring passionately about healthy eating while demanding the convenience of fast food. Rooted Resistance explores this fraught but promising food scene. This book wagers that socially responsible agrarian mythmaking should be a vital part of a food ethic of resistance if we are to rectify the destructive tendencies in our contemporary food system.