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Food Politics

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:30:31 +0000

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition (California Studies in Food and Culture) Revised and Expanded Edition by Marion Nestle (Author) An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today’s food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winning book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.

Coastal Ecology – Bodega Head

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:20:46 +0000

Mighty Opposites : Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:38:08 +0000

Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety by Robert Grudin explores the theme of contrariety—opposites and contradictions—in Shakespeare’s works within the broader context of Renaissance thought. The book analyzes how Shakespeare employs opposing ideas and tensions to enrich his characters, plots, and themes, reflecting the intellectual and cultural dynamics of the Renaissance era. Grudin’s study offers a nuanced understanding of Shakespeare’s artistry through the lens of Renaissance dialectics and philosophical contrasts.

Hitler : The Fuhrer and the People

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:10:43 +0000

Professor Stern seeks to expose the roots of the Hitler myth. He performs thoroughly and brilliantly the examination that Kenneth Burke saw as a crying need on the brink of World War II. The questions Professor Stern asks are fundamental and still of the first importance in our own society. How could a predominantly sober, hardworking, and well-educated nation be persuaded to follow Hitler and his inhuman and destructuve program? What was the source of his immense popularity? Why were his public utterances so powerfully persuasive? What were the shared assumptions behind The Final Solution, Operation Barbarossa, The Night of the Long Knives? Professor Stern has done a pioneering study of the rhetoric of Nazism, a rhetoric that coupled words and action. He examines the speeches, writings, and conversations of Hitler and places them in the context of traditional beliefs of the society into which Hitler, the ideal outsider, made his way. With terrifying logic his career emerges as the creation of a man who translated the private sphere of sentiment into the public sphere of political action, the will to power into a weapon of mass hypnosis.

Early Russian Literature

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:12:49 +0000

by Fennell, John; Stokes, Antony

The State of the Language

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:12:45 +0000

by Christopher Ricks (Editor), Leonard Michaels (Editor) Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing, wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. The language is in rude health, wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate. The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of standard English and correctness. The bad language that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized?or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized? Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s.

ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age

Mon, 20 May 2024 10:01:29 +0000

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism–to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank explains the Rise of the West in world economic and demographic terms that relate it in a single historical sweep to the decline of the East around 1800. European states, he says, used the silver extracted from the American colonies to buy entry into an expanding Asian market that already flourished in the global economy. Resorting to import substitution and export promotion in the world market, they became Newly Industrializing Economies and tipped the global economic balance to the West. That is precisely what East Asia is doing today, Frank points out, to recover its traditional dominance. As a result, the center of the world economy is once again moving to the Middle Kingdom of China. Anyone interested in Asia, in world systems and world economic and social history, in international relations, and in comparative area studies, will have to take into account Frank’s exciting reassessment of our global economic past and future.

Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor,

Wed, 15 May 2024 18:08:35 +0000

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life—and death—in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience studying diseases in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world’s poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. A thoughtful memoir with passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are mirrored in pathology, plague, disease and death.

The poems of the Pearl manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:01:31 +0000

Cassiodorus

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:33:18 +0000

Cassiodorus – statesman, historian, philologist, theologian, monk and founder of monasteries, and educational theorist of the sixth century A.D. – stood at the crossroads between antiquity and the middle ages. Despite the variety and sophistication of his works and his importance to many specialized disciplines, no serious effort has been made in three hundred years to set forth what is known about his life and works as a whole. Professor O’Donnell’s book undertakes to remedy this deficiency in the belief that knowledge of the whole will be of value in itself and will also greatly facilitate further serious study of the many facets of Cassiodorus’ life and works.