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  • Transforming Conflict through Communication in Personal, Family, and Working Relationships

    Series series Peace and Conflict Studies
    A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns ... Leer más

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  • Homecomings

    Unsettling Paths of Return

    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson ... Leer más

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  • U.S. Food Policy

    Anthropology and Advocacy in the Public Interest

    Edición de Lisa Markowitz, John Brett ...
    Inequity of control over food systems is a particularly insidious form of injustice. Collectively, the contributors to this volume posit that this inequity is rooted in power asymmetries in the U.S. food system and codified through U.S. food policies. This process puts the public at risk in the U.S. and, via trade and foreign aid policies, in the Global South. Inequities are manifest in the ... Leer más

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    de Paul Roberts ...
    Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible ... Leer más

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  • Meatonomics

    How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much―and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter (Men Birthday Gift, for Readers of Comfortably Unaware)

    Stop Being Manipulated by the Animal Foods IndustryStop the meat industry from eating into your wallet. Few Americans are aware of the realities of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in ways we can hardly imagine. Though we only fork over a few dollars per pound of meat products at the grocery store, we end up paying much more than ... Leer más

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  • Lethal But Legal

    Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting ... Leer más

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  • Foodopoly

    The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

    "A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement ... Leer más

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  • Soda Politics

    Taking on Big Soda (And Winning)

    de Marion Nestle ...
    Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as "refreshing," "tasty," "crisp," and "the real thing," sodas also happen to be so well established to ... Leer más

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  • The Food System

    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 ... Leer más

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  • World Hunger

    10 Myths

    "The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food." — The Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century's authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing ... Leer más

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  • The Food Police

    A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate

    de Jayson Lusk ...
    A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food ... Leer más

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  • Sugar

    Series series Resources
    There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it.Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful analysis, Ben Richardson argues that the most compelling answers to this question can be found in the dynamics of global capitalism. Led ... Leer más

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