Peter Laufer: 9 books
Organic
A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly...
Dangerous World of Butterflies
The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer's adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, museum...
Organic
A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly...
Elusive State of Jefferson
A Journey through the 51st State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson. Yreka, California, home of the secession movement, was named the temporary state capital. Local proponents,...
Dreaming in Turtle
A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
A fascinating exploration into the world of turtles across the globe; Laufer charts the lore, love, and peril to a beloved species.
Dreaming in Turtle is a compelling story of a stalwart animal prized from prehistory through to today—an animal threatened by human greed, pragmatism, and rationalization....
The Business Shrink - The Disgruntled Employee
Manage Challenging Staff Without Losing Your Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Do your employees plan exit strategies around the water cooler?
Are your office hallways filled with nasty gossip?
Is your productivity shrinking and your profits dissolving?
As a manager, every day you're faced with disgruntled employees. Now Peter Morris, host of the popular...
Forbidden Creatures
Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
by François Ladame, Jean-Jacques Rassial, Bernard Penot
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Cette monographie, réunissant un certain nombre de contributions de référence, déjà publiées dans des numéros de la revue Adolescence aujourd'hui épuisés, rend compte d'une approche psychopathologique et psychanalytique du processus adolescent: le pubertaire provoque un effet de rupture concernant...
by Scott Madry, Peter Martinez, Rene Laufer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book details key trends involving the recent formation of scores of companies that build and launch small satellites or provide key components for small satellite constellations. The applications and usage are quite diverse and include student experiments, serious scientific experimentation,...