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Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
ISBN: 9780807872741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and...
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first hist...
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205,89 zł |
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Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies
ISBN: 9780801886515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This special issue of American Quarterly asks powerful and poignant questions about technology and its effects on our bodies, minds, families, economies, armies, and academies. Technology is an entry point for American studies scholars to find new and creative ways to think through social and cultural problems. The essays in this collection provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways scholars of culture use the study of technology to examine the flows, conflicts, tensions, and hazards of American culture. Re-reading the narrative of U.S. technology, the contributors... This special issue of American Quarterly asks powerful and poignant questions about technology and its effects on our bodies, minds, familie... |
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117,39 zł |
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The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
ISBN: 9780814719831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public's rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and -quack- physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as... Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exp... |
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129,62 zł |
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The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American
ISBN: 9780814719534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exploration, mental resources on energy exploitation, and monetary resources on energy acquisition. A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the public's rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and -quack- physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as... Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous physical resources on energy exp... |
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363,09 zł |
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