Online digital copies of many textbooks are available from the CIA Library or through free Open Educational Resources. Links are provided on this page and/or in your course site in Moodle.
Editions may not match the textbook used in class, check with your instructor for further information.
If you have any questions about finding or accessing your textbook, please contact the reference librarian, Sonia Lisboa-Ochoa.
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Fiction and Non-Fiction Audiobooks
It reflects the interdisciplinary nature of this growing subject, making it an essential resource for students and scholars studying food, on courses as wide-ranging as history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.
Encyclopedia entries provide introductions and background information for a wide range of food science topics.
Open Educational Resources
free online ebooks
Chocolat: a Novel
by
Joanne Harris
Eating Culture : An Anthropological Guide to Food
by
Gillian Crowther
Entrepreneurial Small Business, 6th edition
by
Katz (Other)
Food Culture in Spain
by
F. Xavier Medina
Food Culture in Spain
by
F. Xavier Medina
Hamlet
by
William Shakespeare; edited by Barbara A. Mowat; Paul Werstine
The Haunting of Hill House
by
Shirley Jackson
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by
Joseph Campbell
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by
Tom Standage
The Hunger Games
by
Suzanne Collins
Principles of Financial Accounting (Chapters 1-17)
by
John J. Wild; Ken W. Shaw
Regeneration
by
Pat Barker
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
by
Peter Hedges
The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
by
Anne Bradstreet; John Harvard Ellis
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