Week of February 23, 2009

News Item: For many college students, coffee is the quintessential morning beverage of choice (or the mail afternoon and evening drink, if it’s finals week) . It’s easy to brew, easy to buy (thanks to the many java establishments on campus), and recent studies have shown that coffee may even help lower the risk of stroke. Just how popular is coffee in academic library holdings? See below….

Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
By Daniel Jaffee. U of California Press, 2007
Call Number: HD9199. D442 J34 2007 or available online through NetLibrary

Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification (DVD)
Directed by John De Graaf. Bullfrog Films, 2006
Call Number: HF1413 .B89 2006 (Media Center)

Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras
By Catherine M. Tucker. Springer, 2008
Call Number: HD9199 .H6 T93 2008

Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America
By Jeffery M. Paige. Harvard UP, 1997
Call Number: HD9199 .C82 P35 1997

Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, and the Brain
Edited by Astrid Nehlig. CRC Press, 2004
Call Number: QP801 .C24 C64 2004

Coffee with Pleasure: Just Java and World Trade
By Laure Waridel. Black Rose Books, 2002
Call Number: HD9199 .M62 W37 2002

Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America
Edited by Christopher M. Bacon. MIT Press, 2008
Available online through NetLibrary

The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
By Stewart Lee Allen. Ballantine Books, 2003
Call Number: TX415 .A454 2003

Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica
By Peter Luetchford. Pluto Press, 2008
Call Number: HD9199 .C82 L84 2008

Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice
By Gavin Fridell. U of Toronto Press, 2007
Call Number: HD9199 .D442 F75 2007

The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989
Edited by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Steve Topik. Cambridge UP, 2003
Call Number: HD9195 .A3512 G58 2003 or available online through NetLibrary

Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain
By John M. Talbot. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
Call Number: HD9199 .A2 T35 2004

Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers
By Maria Elena Martinez-Torres. Ohio U Center for International Studies, 2006
Call Number: HD9199 .M63 C475 2006

The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse
By Brian Cowan. Yale UP, 2005
Call Number: TX908 .C65 2005 or online through NetLibrary

The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary
By Joseph A. Michelli. McGraw-Hill, 2007
Call Number: HD9199 .U54 S736 2007

Tales from the Global Economy: The Cappuccino Trail
Directed by Jeremy Newson. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002
Call Number: HF1418.5 .T3222 2002

The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World’s Most Popular Drug
By Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K. Bealer. Routledge, 2001
Call Number: QP801 .C24 W45 2001