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  • The Rise of Obesity in Europe

    A Twentieth Century Food History

    by Derek J. Oddy ...
    Twentieth century Europe went through a dramatic transition from low income populations experiencing hunger and nutritionally inadequate diets, to the recent era of over-consumption and growing numbers of overweight and obese people. By examining the trends in food history from case studies across Europe, this book offers a historical context to explain how and why this transition has occurred and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Making of the Modern British Diet

    Edited by Derek Oddy, Derek Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Food and Diet
    Food is the physiological basis of man’s existence but is also an expression of a society’s culture and may play many roles other than physiological in terms of both personal and group relationships. Originally published in 1976, The Making of the Modern British Diet focusses on the role of food during industrialisation and urbanisation in Britain.Part One contains a series of commodity studies ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Diet and Health in Modern Britain

    Edited by Derek J. Oddy, Derek S. Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Food and Diet
    Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ameliorated. How was infant and child mortality reduced? How did family life go on in conditions where income ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Alain Drouard ...
    The industrialization of food preservation and processing has been a dramatic development across Europe during modern times. This book sets out its story from the beginning of the nineteenth century when preservation of food from one harvest to another was essential to prevent hunger and even famine. Population growth and urbanization depended upon a break out from the ’biological ancien regime’ ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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    Sounds Natural

    A BBC Radio 4 nature series

    by Derek Jones ...
    Narrated by Derek Jones, Brian Blessed, Bill Oddie, Spike Milligan, Bobby Charlton, Andrew Sachs, Bing Crosby ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 37 min

    Derek Jones meets celebrities with a love of wildlife in these 37 episodes from the classic nature-themed interview showBetween 1970 and 1980, broadcaster Derek Jones invited a host of famous names to chat about their enthusiasm for nature and their encounters with animals. Delving into the BBC Sound Archive to select some of their favourite natural history recordings, they reveal their hitherto ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Mobilize Food!

    Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today

    by Eleanor Boyle ...
    Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel that crisis—producing significant greenhouse gases—can we muster the vision to produce and consume food differently? Transforming food systems to meet a threat has been done before, as revealed in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. The book recounts ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Addicted to Food

    Understanding the global obesity epidemic

    by James Erlichmann ...
    Series series Guardian Shorts
    Obesity has hit epidemic levels. In the developed, and much of the developing word, it is now 'normal' to be overweight with a BMI of 25 or more. And the global population is getting fatter all the time as a powerful mix of cheap foods, social behaviours and commercial pressures drive us to the biscuit tin again and again and again.But this is not the worst of it.The sugars, salts and fats that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Food System

    by Geoff Tansey, Anthony Worsley ...
    Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests. In wealthy nations those interests can range from corporate survival and maintaining profitability in a market with limited demand, to promoting a healthy diet and ensuring food safety. For the poor, the emphasis is all too often on simply getting enough to eat. As information technology and biotechnology ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Consuming Geographies of Food

    Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity

    by Hillary J. Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
    The consumption and distribution of food, as well as its production, has become a major public policy issue over the past few decades; what we eat is no longer merely a private matter but carries significant externalities for wider society. Its increasing significance within the public arena implies a dissonance regarding the boundaries of food; where do we draw the line between food as private ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Panic on a Plate

    How Society Developed an Eating Disorder

    by Rob Lyons ...
    Series Book 2 - Societas
    Food in Britain today is more plentiful, more nutritious, more varied, and much more affordable than ever in our history. This is something to celebrate, and Rob Lyons does exactly that. In a series of short up-beat chapters he challenges head on the fashionable critics of so-called junk food and the "wacky world" of organic and locally-sourced food campaigners. They have created needless panic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rot

    An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

    by Padraic X. Scanlan ...
    A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster.“Vigorous and engaging.” —Fintan O’Toole, The New YorkerIn 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to ... Read more

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  • Ravenous

    How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

    by Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis ...
    WINNER OF THE ANDR****É SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2024THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector'Ravenous is a truly important book ... we need a food revolution to ensure children don't go hungry, eat right, and reach their potential' Tom KerridgeThe food system... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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