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Our Latest Reads


The New Glucose Revolution
The co-authors explain the glycaemic index as a practical way to understand how different carbohydrates affect blood sugar, energy, and appetite. The book encourages reader to choose smarter carbs rather than cutting them our altogether. It links everyday food choices to longer-term health, including diabetes risk and metabolic wellbeing.


The Seed Keeper
The book follows a Dakota woman as she reconnects with her family’s history, land, and inherited seed traditions. It is a novel about memory, displacement, and quiet politics or keeping seeds alive across generations.


Seeds of Resistance
This book is a wake-up call. Mark Schapiro uses vivid, unforgettable stories to show how seeds sit on the frontlines of our epic battle for healthy food. It is a story of power, policy, and the people fighting to keep food systems free.


H2O: A Biography of Water
This book explores water. Water is highly familiar, but it remains a deep scientific mystery. It refuses to obey the standard rules of liquids. The narrative traces water from the Big Bang to the formation of Earth's oceans. It explains why ice floats and why water is essential to life. The text covers its history, folklore, and cutting-edge physics.


WaterWorlds
Water as culture, memory, and survival - shaping both human life and the worlds we inhabit.


Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
The world wastes half its food while a billion people go hungry. Western waste contributes to massive deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Developing nations struggle with poor infrastructure and crop spoilage. Stuart investigates global profligacy and identifies innovative solutions. Waste offers a clear roadmap to fix the global food crisis


Artists’ CookBook
The Artists’ Cookbook , published by MoMA in 1977, is a rare glimpse into the kitchens of creative giants. It features recipes and conversations from 30 prominent artists.This book treats the kitchen as an extension of the studio. It shows that for these creators, cooking was another form of expression. It is a mix of culinary history and intimate biography.


Wild
In Wild: An Elemental Journey , Jay Griffiths explores how indigenous cultures maintain a symbiotic relationship with the natural world. Based on years of travel from the Amazon to the Arctic, she argues that true wildness is a state of deep, creative connection rather than unmanaged chaos. The writing rejects standard travel tropes, offering a gritty and direct look at societies that live as part of the earth rather than its owners. It serves as a pragmatic study of human be


The 15-Minute City
Carlos Moreno reminds us that a livable city isn’t just about transport or infrastructure. It’s a city where everything you need – including food – is 15 minutes from home. Neighbourhood markets. Food shops. Spaces where community gathers around food. Not anonymous supermarkets you can only reach by car. For Movimento Metropolitano, this is essential: food is the first element of urban quality of life. It’s democracy, culture, social connection. A 15-minute city is a city whe


The Culture Map
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer is a guide to understanding cultural differences in global business. It explains how communication styles and workplace hierarchies vary across cultures, often leading to misunderstandings. Meyer provides a framework to navigate these differences and offers practical advice for leaders to succeed in international environments.


DRUNK
Through case studies from history, neuroscience, and even fruit flies, the book shows that intoxication played a vital role in the rise of civilisation. It argues that without our love for alcohol, large-scale societies wouldn’t have been possible.


Where We Want to Live
Ryan Gravel argues that decades of urban sprawl have isolated our communities and created unsustainable traffic and health problems. He proposes that cities must remodel and augment their infrastructure to physically connect neighbourhoods and foster a healthier, more satisfying, and walkable way of life.
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