Pamela C. Ronald
Autor de Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Pamela Ronald holds a bowl of rice and chopsticks.
Obras de Pamela C. Ronald
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1961
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- San Mateo, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- California, USA
- Educación
- Reed College (BA|Biology|1982)
Stanford University (MA|Biology|1984)
Uppsala University (MS|Biology|1985)
UC Berkeley (PhD|Biology|1990) - Ocupaciones
- plant biologist
author
professor - Relaciones
- Rosenthal, Robert (father)
Adamchak, Raoul (husband) - Organizaciones
- UC Davis
Joint BioEnergy Institute
Ronald Laboratory - Premios y honores
- Fullbright Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Davis Humanities Institute Fellow
USDA National Research Initiative Discovery Award (2008) (mostrar todos 11)
Science in Society Journalism Award (National Association of Science Writers in Society, 2009)
Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award
Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Agriculture and Food (2012)
Technology Benefiting Humanity (The Tech Award, 2012)
Breakthrough Fellow (2016)
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 113
- Popularidad
- #173,161
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 16
It also highlights some of the *cough* naivete about breeding practices, genetic and biological science, and risk-vs-harm psychology of all people; and it does this while acknowledging the valid fears re: seed ownership, economic and power concentration in the hands of a few companies, etc. that are too often ignored by those who are not anti-GMO.
So why only three stars? For me, it was too conversational... no. Too "nice"...? Not exactly. Too I'm-not-sure-what. The book includes several recipes interspersed throughout that are part of the scenery as stories about mornings getting ready for work, minor confrontations with in-laws, etc. are used to, in part, narrate the book. Perhaps I am just too jaded a city-slicker, but much of the conversations seems contrived in their retelling, and it kept poking me in the eyes, so to speak.… (más)