The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition - Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of five books: Second Nature , A Place of My Own , The Botany of Desire , which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestellers, The Omnivore's Dilemma , and In Defense of Food . A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine , Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.