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Salt Sugar Fat
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 28.00#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a Pulitzer Prize?winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back. In... more...
Salt, Sugar, Fat
Ebury Publishing 2013; US$ 26.69The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In China, for the first time, the people who weigh too much now outnumber those who weigh too little. In Mexico, the obesity rate has tripled in the past three decades. In the UK over 60 per cent of adults and 30 per cent of children are overweight, while the United States remains the most obese country in... more...
Salt Sugar Fat
McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 32.99From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential... more...
Radical Education and the Common School
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding... more...
Pressure Vessel Design Manual
Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 200.00Picking up where the success of the previous editions left off, this book is an accumulation of design procedures, methods, techniques, formulations, and data for use in the design of pressure vessels, their respective parts and equipment. It's written specifically for designers and engineers involved in designing and specifying or manufacturing of... more...
Nelson's Surgeon
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 44.99The death of Admiral Nelson on his flagship, the Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is the basis of a well-known story. This book focuses on William Beatty, the surgeon who attended Nelson in his last hours and was later to publicize the deathbed scene. It traces his life and career as a leading naval surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars and... more...
Advancing with the Army
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 149.99A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an established... more...
Synchronization
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 69.00Synchronization phenomena are abundant in science, nature, engineering and social life. Systems as diverse as clocks, singing crickets, cardiac pacemakers and applauding audiences exhibit a tendency to operate in synchrony. This comprehensive book describes the phenomena using both classical results and recent developments. more...
Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 67.00Through a series of personal essays by leading landscape ecologists, this book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology. The essays are informative and entertaining and span multiple spectrums, addressing theory and practice, science and application, conservation and utilization, and aquatic and terrestrial systems. more...
Key States, High Stakes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 24.95In this new edited volume, Charles S. Bullock III collects original contributions from top political scientists to evaluate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party's role in the 2010 midterm elections. Key States, High Stake s focuses on states where Republicans had the chance to pick up Senate seats, as well as examining GOP Senate primaries if they involved... more...
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