ilość książek w kategorii: 2064
Food Media
ISBN: 9780857850522 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food Media charts the growth of this popular entertainment category and the emergence of celebrity chefs, such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray, and popular trends, such as foodies, food porn, and food fetishism. Food Media describes how the intersections between celebrity culture and food media have come to influence how many people think about feeding themselves and their families-- and how often that task is complicated when it need not be. The book examines how, under the threat of the obesity epidemic, some food stars have taken on new authority as social activists, while... Food Media charts the growth of this popular entertainment category and the emergence of celebrity chefs, such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray, and... |
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506,73 zł |
A Theory of Grocery Shopping: Food, Choice and Conflict
ISBN: 9780857851505 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food. The author provides insight into the contradictory messages... Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery ... |
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557,40 zł |
A Theory of Grocery Shopping
ISBN: 9780857851512 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food. The author provides insight into the contradictory messages... Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery ... |
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177,30 zł |
Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050
ISBN: 9780857851550 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people? What will be the impact of food shortages and high prices on areas in crisis such as sub-Sahara Africa? Where will future production growth come from? And how do we balance the need for environmental protection with sustainable agricultural production methods? This is the first text... By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy cos... |
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167,17 zł |
Beyond Alternative Food Networks: Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups
ISBN: 9780857852274 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism... |
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608,08 zł |
Beyond Alternative Food Networks: Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups
ISBN: 9780857852281 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism... |
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162,10 zł |
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution (Vegetarian, Vegan, Sustainable Diet, for Readers of the Ethics
ISBN: 9781573245753 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Internationally known vegan and bestselling author John Robbins has continued his observations and investigations into food politics and food-related issues of the day in his popular HuffingtonPost column, foodrevolution.org. No Happy Cows collects these recent observations along with never before published material for the first time in book form. Robbins shares his dispatches from the frontlines of the food revolution: From his undercover investigations of feed lots and slaughterhouses, to the rise of food contamination, the slave trade behind chocolate and coffee,... Internationally known vegan and bestselling author John Robbins has continued his observations and investigations into food politics and food-relat... |
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72,80 zł |
Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal
ISBN: 9781583672266 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The failures of free-market capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world s population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an exceptional collection of scholars from around the world to explore this frightening long-term trend in food production. While approaching the issue from many angles, the contributors to this... The failures of free-market capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human soci... |
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144,59 zł |
Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
ISBN: 9781610391023 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our food system is broken, and it s endangering what s most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In recent years, a host of books and films have compellingly documented the dangers. But advice on what to do about them largely begins and ends with the admonition to eat local or eat organic.
Longtime good food pioneer Oran Hesterman knows that we can t fix the broken system simply by changing what s on our own plates: the answer lies beyond the kitchen. In "Fair Food" he shares an inspiring and practical vision for changing not only what we eat,... Our food system is broken, and it s endangering what s most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In recent...
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68,67 zł |
Rebels for the Soil : The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement
ISBN: 9781844075973 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the rise of organic agriculture from a social movement perspective, comparing it with other environmental movements. It shows how the movement reflected social and political ideologies of the times, including the far-right in the 1940s and resistance to GM crops more recently.
This study examines the rise of organic agriculture from a social movement perspective, comparing it with other environmental movements. It shows how ...
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658,75 zł |
Food Studies
ISBN: 9781845206802 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title is a guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. Designed for the classroom as well as for the independent scholar, the book details the predominant research methods in the field, provides a series of interactive questions and templates to help guide a project, and includes suggestions for food-specific resources such as archives, libraries and reference works. Interviews with leading scholars in the field and discussions of how the study of food can enhance traditional methods are included. The book begins with overviews of food studies and research... This title is a guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. Designed for the classroom as well as for the independent scholar,... |
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557,40 zł |
Food Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods
ISBN: 9781845206819 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title is a guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. Designed for the classroom as well as for the independent scholar, the book details the predominant research methods in the field, provides a series of interactive questions and templates to help guide a project, and includes suggestions for food-specific resources such as archives, libraries and reference works. Interviews with leading scholars in the field and discussions of how the study of food can enhance traditional methods are included. The book begins with overviews of food studies and research... This title is a guide to doing research in the burgeoning field of food studies. Designed for the classroom as well as for the independent scholar,... |
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167,17 zł |
The Globalization of Food
ISBN: 9781845208202 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalization has become perhaps the most central--and one of the most contested--terms in the social sciences in the present day. If one wishes to understand the conditions in which different groups of people live today, it seems increasingly impossible to ignore the aspects of those conditions that are seen to be characterized, or influenced, by "global" forces, movements and phenomena. Regarding particular phenomena, no matter how apparently "local" or parochial in nature, as being located within "global" flows or systems or structures, seems today to be a very necessary component of... Globalization has become perhaps the most central--and one of the most contested--terms in the social sciences in the present day. If one wishes to... |
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177,30 zł |
Panic on a Plate: How Society Developed an Eating Disorder
ISBN: 9781845402167 / Angielski / Miękka / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The availability, range, cost and quality of food in Western societies have never been more favourable, yet food is also the focus of a great deal of anxiety. There are concerns that our current diets will mean we will get steadily fatter and more unhealthy while consuming 'junk food', with consequences for our quality of life, our children's behaviour and even the environment. This book challenges these ideas and places the food debate in a wider context. As the political imagination and the scope of social policy have narrowed, the focus on the personal and corporeal has filled this gap,... The availability, range, cost and quality of food in Western societies have never been more favourable, yet food is also the focus of a great deal ... |
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53,47 zł |
Writing Food History: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781847888099 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock after three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies? How have other disciplines - sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, science, art history - influenced writing on food history in terms of approach, methodology, controversies, and knowledge of past foodways? Essays by twelve prominent scholars provide a compendium of... The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock after... |
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557,40 zł |
Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places
ISBN: 9781847889034 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. On the other hand, in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture. How can something so universal also be so particular?
The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa. But they also plumb the shared... Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nut...
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506,73 zł |
Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places
ISBN: 9781847889041 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. On the other hand, in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture. How can something so universal also be so particular? The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa. But they also plumb the shared... Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete ... |
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162,10 zł |
Food
ISBN: 9781847889072 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating essays relating to food by anthropologists working in many parts of the world, exploring their experiences of hunger, pleasure, and disgust, and what they learned by eating with others. From the rich metaphors for social life drawn from eating and drinking in Latin America, to the experience of refugees subsisting on food aid, this book covers a wide range of contemporary issues in... Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter wit... |
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136,76 zł |
Food : Ethnographic Encounters
ISBN: 9781847889089 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating essays relating to food by anthropologists working in many parts of the world, exploring their experiences of hunger, pleasure, and disgust, and what they learned by eating with others. From the rich metaphors for social life drawn from eating and drinking in Latin America, to the experience of refugees subsisting on food aid, this book covers a wide range of contemporary issues in... Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social practices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first encounter wit... |
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506,73 zł |
Sustainable Intensification: Increasing Productivity in African Food and Agricultural Systems
ISBN: 9781849713320 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa. Through case studies, the authors examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future.
This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa. Through case studi...
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658,75 zł |