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      • Trusted Partner
        October 2020

        Simple Food!

        Anti the Food Frenzy in Our Minds

        by Thomas A. Vilgis

        This book follows a unique path in the ubiquitous food debate: it leads us on the trail of the origins of our food culture, from the Neolithic period to the present day. Thomas A. Vilgis has compiled a guide that combines scientific with cultural or sociological aspects. How did Stone Age man poach food? Which cereal varieties were cultivated first? What is the mysterious umami flavour all about? The cultural historical excursion gets interactive with plenty of recipes for those curious to test Kimchi with birch leaves or red cabbage in their dessert.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        Religion, regulation, consumption

        by John Lever, Johan Fischer

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        2020

        Interactions between Medicines and Food

        by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich and Dr. Julia Podlogar

        Interactions between medicines and foodstuffs may be just as clinically relevant as interactions between individual drugs. A single meal contains several hundred potentially interacting compounds that, in an individual patient, may be the deciding factor as to whether a treatment is successful or not. The resulting, sometimes serious risks are not known to most patients – nor to many physicians and pharmacists. This practical handbook enables anyone interested in applied pharmacotherapy to keep abreast of the complex field of drug interactions. The authors – proven experts in clinical pharmacology and pharmaconutrition – describe the most important interactions and give concrete recommendations for action. Tables and overviews permit fast access to potentially problematic combinations. This completely updated edition now also includes information about fruit juices and curcumin as well as a new chapter on food interactions in oncology.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        July 2018

        Qualities of food

        by Mark Harvey, Stan Metcalfe, Andrew McMeekin, Mark Harvey, Alan Warde

        In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2011

        Bourgeois consumption

        Food, space and identity in London and Paris, 1850–1914

        by Rachel Rich

        Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. Forgoing the traditional food history territory of recipes and ingredients in favor of how people ate in different circles, Bourgeois Consumption explores the role of real and imagined meals in shaping Victorian lives. The perception of the middle classes as rigid and upright, found in the extensive pages of their etiquette books, is contrasted with a more flexible and spontaneous bourgeoisie, gleaned from the pages of their own colorful memoirs, diaries and letters, leading us on a lively journey into eating spaces, mealtimes, manners, and social interactions between diners. Further, contrasting Paris with London reveals some of the ways each city shaped its inhabitants but, more surprisingly, throws up a range of similarities that suggest the middle classes were, in fact, a transnational class. Rachel Rich's work will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the history of food, consumption and leisure, as well as to a broader audience curious about how the Victorian middle classes distinguished themselves through daily life and manners. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        October 2020

        The Eco-Balance on the Plate

        How What We Eat Can Protect the Climate

        by Dr. Malte Rubach

        How much CO₂ is emitted by one serving of spaghetti bolognese? About 1.5 kilograms! This example shows what the meat industry and food logistics mean for the eco-balance of our food. But is it enough to switch to meat-free and dairy-free alternatives or local specialities? Dr. Malte Rubach takes a closer look and reviews our food regime and its impact on our climate. We live in a society influenced by technology and the rising consumption of resources. Rubach argues for a sensible attitude to food and shows what we can still eat with a clear conscience.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        I Refuse to Condemn

        by Asim Qureshi

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        Children's & YA

        Wild Claws (3). A Target for the Sharks

        by Max Held/ Timo Grubing

        While diving offshore, Logan, Charlotte and Jack discover a shipwreck. Very interesting – but extremely dangerous. Because while the friends are examining it, they are attacked by a shark! Then more and more sharks approach and circle the wreck, as if they are watching over it. What lies inside the sunken ship, and what secret is being concealed by the underwater explorer Thornton, who is staying as a guest at the Wild Claws sanctuary? When Logan dives again, the sharks attack and Logan is trapped in the wreck. His air supply is running short, and time is racing by. Can Jack and Charlotte rescue him in time?

      • Trusted Partner
        March 1995

        Piet Mondrian - Komposition mit Rot, Gelb und Blau

        Eine Kunst-Monographie von Thorsten Scheer und Anja Thomas-Netik. Mit Abbildungen und einer farbigen Klapptafel

        by Anja Thomas-Netik, Thorsten Scheer

      • Trusted Partner
        October 2024

        Renunciation and Freedom

        Survivial in the future

        by Jean-Pierre Wils

        The situation in our society is precarious. The ecological shocks are omnipresent. The mere continuation of our lifestyles fixated on expansion and self-development has long since reached its limits. As if intoxicated by ourselves, we consume our world voraciously and without restraint. We need moderation and frugality that lead us out of the ecological and social dead ends and hold both the individual and Politics to account. We are by no means powerless and are perfectly capable of leading a life that offers prospects for a humane future. However, our idea of freedom needs urgent correction. For this endeavour to succeed, we need the courage to face reality and the willingness, in a spirit of solidarity, to say goodbye to a false life and join the alliance of renunciation and freedom. Then we will be free – differently and better.

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        The Arts
        April 2025

        Studio Electrophonique

        The Sheffield space age, from The Human League to Pulp

        by Jamie Taylor

        The amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain's most beloved bands. The Sheffield space age began in 1961, when local mechanic Ken Patten won a tape-recording competition by recreating the sound of a rocket launch using a pencil and a bicycle pump. In the decades that followed, the makeshift home studio he constructed became the launch pad for a group of young musicians who would shape the futuristic sound of 1980s pop. The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and others made their early recordings with Ken, whose DIY ethic was the perfect fit for a city facing industrial decline but teeming with ideas. Studio Electrophonique tells the story of a generation seeking new frontiers in music, using everything they could lay their hands on - from science fiction novels to glam rock, Dada art and cheap electronics - to get there. Drawing on original interviews with Jarvis Cocker, Martyn Ware, Mark White and others, it brings to light a world of humour, charm, creativity and unfounded yet undaunted self-belief.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2011

        The Food Companions

        Cinema and consumption in wartime Britain, 1939–45

        by Richard Farmer, Jeffrey Richards

        The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films. Combining archival research, detailed film analysis, and the extensive use of contemporary documents and resources, this book is the first to fully address the extensive propaganda work of the Ministry of Food both inside and outside the cinema. It also explores the tensions contained in images of communal dining, investigating the role that food played in Gainsborough's narratives of excess and identifying and analysing a cycle of black-market feature films. Lively and illuminating, The food companions will be welcomed by film scholars, historians, students, and anyone who has ever wondered about the important contribution that tea made during the war to shaping ideas of Britishness. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2009

        Food, risk and politics

        Scare, scandal and crisis - insights into the risk politics of food safety

        by Ed Randall

        This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis. The book skilfully weaves together the many different threads of food safety and risk politics and offers a particularly rewarding read for academics and students in the fields of politics and media studies. It will also appeal to scholars from other disciplines, particularly social psychology and the food sciences. The book is a lively and exceptionally readable account of food safety and risk politics that will engage policy makers and the general reader. It promises to help us all manage food safety issues more intelligently and successfully. ;

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        The Arts
        November 2023

        Colouring the Caribbean

        Race and the art of Agostino Brunias

        by Mia L. Bagneris

        Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. The book offers provocative new insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of his paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.

      • Trusted Partner
        August 2003

        Rot – die Farbe der Liebe

        by Gisela Linder, Gisela Linder

        Rot, die sinnlichste aller Farben, inspirierte Dichter und Maler gleichermaßen: »Wir lieben die roten Lippen, die halb geöffnet sich uns darbieten. Rot ist unser irdischer Lebensstoff. Wir sind ganz und gar ausgekleidet mit ihm. Die rote Farbe ist uns … so nah, daß zwischen ihr und uns kein Raum zur Überlegung besteht. Sie ist die Farbe der reinen Gegenwart, unter ihrem Zeichen verständigen wir uns auf sprachlose Art«, schrieb Ernst Jünger, und Karoline von Günderode dichtete: »Du innig Rot, bis an den Tod soll meine Lieb dir gleichen.« In Bildern von Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol und vielen anderen wurde Rot zur dominierenden Farbe.Rot, das ist die Farbe der Liebe, und in leisen, romantischen Texten ist sie oft ein alles beherrschendes Motiv. Aber sie steht auch für die Verlockung, für Rauschhaftes. Beides, Liebe und Leidenschaft, wird durch die Farbe Rot symbolisiert, wie sie hier in Texten u.a. von Benn, Eichendorff und Celan und Bildern von Beckmann, Dalí und Chagall vorgestellt, gedeutet, sichtbar gemacht wird.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2014

        Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland

        Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922

        by Ian Miller

        Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845-1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book draws from the diverse methodological disciplines of medical history, history of science, cultural studies, Irish studies, gender studies and food studies. Making use of an impressive range of sources, it maps the pivotal role of food in the shaping of Irish society onto a political and social backdrop of famine, Land Wars, political turbulence, the First World War and the struggle for independence. It will be of interest to historians of medicine and science as well as historians of modern Irish social, economic, political and cultural history. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        February 2015

        Rot – Farbe der Liebe

        by Gisela Linder, Gisela Linder

        Rot, das ist die Farbe der Liebe, und in leisen, romantischen Texten ist sie oft ein alles beherrschendes Motiv. Aber sie auch die sinnlichste aller Farben, inspirierte Dichter und Maler gleichermaßen. Sie steht für die Verlockung, für Rauschhaftes. Beides, Liebe und Leidenschaft, wird durch die Farbe Rot symbolisiert, wie sie hier in Texten u. a. von Benn, Eichendorff und Celan und Bildern von Beckmann, Dalí und Chagall vorgestellt, gedeutet, sichtbar gemacht wird.

      • Trusted Partner
        August 2019

        Wild Claws (2). Der Biss des Alligators

        by Held, Max

        Wilde Tiere und gefährliche Abenteuer: Auf zu WILD CLAWS, der Wildtierstation in den Everglades! Ein Alligator im Swimmingpool oder eine riesige Python in den Sümpfen - bei Jack und Logan von der Wildtierstation Wild Claws kann das schon mal vorkommen, denn hier wartet jeden Tag ein tierisches Abenteuer auf die Freunde! Jack und Logan von der Wildtierstation Wild Claws machen eine schreckliche Entdeckung: Ein Alligator im Sumpf wurde getötet und aufgeschlitzt. Wer tut so etwas und sind auch andere Tiere in Gefahr? Mit ihrer Freundin Charlotte machen sich die zwei auf Spurensuche und geraten dabei gefährlichen Tierschmugglern in die Quere. Oder sind die Verbrecher hinter etwas ganz anderem her? Eine spannende Jagd durch die Sümpfe Floridas beginnt! Band 2 der neuen Actionreihe von Max Held rund um Abenteuer und wilde Tiere in den Sümpfen der Everglades. Die realistische und spannende Kinderbuchreihe ist besonders für Jungs ab 9 Jahren geeignet. Mit schwarz-weiß Illustrationen von Timo Grubing. Alle Bände der Reihe: Wild Claws. Im Auge der Python (1) Wild Claws. Der Biss des Alligators (2) Weitere Bände sind in Vorbereitung. Max Held wurde in Nairobi geboren. Schon immer interessierte er sich für Tiere, und so verbrachte er endlose Stunden mit der Beobachtung von Gorillas, Krokodilen und Jaguaren. Als Erwachsener arbeitete er in Nationalparks rund um die Welt, bevor er sich schließlich in Deutschland niederließ und damit begann, seine Abenteuer in Form von Kinderbüchern niederzuschreiben. Treue Begleiterin seit vielen Jahren ist seine Vogelspinne Elfriede.

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