Dan Koeppel
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating exploration of the banana, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit. The banana: convenient, cheap, tasty - a reliable, if plain, family favorite. Or so the average consumer might think. Koeppel debunks the myth of the ordinary banana, revealing its many mysteries and uncovering its shockingly endangered...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about bikes and what an amazing tool for change they can be. BIKES VS. CARS highlights conflicts in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"Gertten has put in the time to capture how these cities' unique scenarios unfold to mount a compelling case against the powerful automotive industry, oil and construction." - Martin Tsai, **The Los Angeles Times***...
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