Animal, Vegetable, Junk"Epic and engrossing." The New York Times Book Review From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanitys appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it alland how a better future is within reach. The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influenceof arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it

So many decisions: for starters

Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over

and dark humor

headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon

From tackling and detaining an arsonist

and the restaurants and people along the way

From the bestselling author of One Child comes the story of three of former special education teacher Torey Hayden’s most extraordinary challenges

Where The 50th Law tells readers “fear nothing and you shall succeed

we will navigate our way through finding confidence

but they share one undeniable bond: their spouses are all out on the trail during a hotly contested election season

” —Damon Young

A magnificent job of presenting the hard evidence for what spiritual masters have been telling us for centuries