Author : Joseph Graham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2021
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781551647760
Joseph Graham is a self-taught historian who homesteads an organic farm near Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. He is the author of Naming the Laurentians and has founded two heritage protection committees while working to bridge divides in the community.
Author : Richard P. Tucker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520220870
Yankee investors and plantation managers mobilized engineers, agronomists, and loggers to undertake what they called the "Conquest of the Tropics," claiming to bring civilization to benighted peoples and cultivation to unproductive nature. In competitive cooperation with local landed and political elites, they not only cleared natural forests but also displaced multicrop tribal and peasant lands with monocrop export plantations rooted in private property regimes.
Author : Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2000-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0375700870
A wrenchingly honest, eloquent memoir “about true nourishment that comes not from [eating] but from engaging on a spiritual path."—Los Angeles Times In this brave and perceptive account of compulsion and the healing process, Bullitt-Jonas describes a childhood darkened by the repressive shadows of her alcoholic father and her emotionally reclusive mother, whose demands for excellence, poise, and self-control drove Bullitt-Jonas to develop an insatiable hunger. What began with pilfering extra slices of bread at her parents' dinner table turned into binges with cream pies and pancakes, sometimes gaining as much as eleven pounds in four days. When the family urged her father into treatment, the author recognized her own addiction and embarked on the path to recovery by discovering the spiritual hunger beneath her craving for food.
Author : David J. Bissonnette
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2021-12-31
Category :
ISBN : 9780578319629
Author : David A. Kessler
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1605294578
Uncovers the influences that have conditioned people to overeat, explaining how combinations of fat, sugar, and sa
Author : Jean-Pierre Montmayeur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1420067761
Presents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste TransductionA bite of cheese, a few potato chips, a delectable piece of bacon - a small taste of high-fat foods often draws you back for more. But why are fatty foods so appealing? Why do we crave them? Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects covers the many factors responsible for the se
Author : Chris Ruen
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2012-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1935928996
Author : David A. Kessler, MD
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1551993716
With engineers working around the clock to figure out how to add "irresistibility" and "whoosh" to food, and the ever-expanding choices (and portions) available to us, it's no wonder we've become a culture on caloric overload. But with obesity rising at alarming rates, we're in desperate need of dietary intervention. In The End of Overeating, Dr. David A. Kessler, former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, takes an in-depth look at the ways in which we have been conditioned to overeat. Dr. Kessler presents a combination of fascinating anecdotes and newsworthy research—including interviews with physicians, psychologists, and neurologists—to understand how we became a culture addicted to the over-consumption of unhealthy foods. He also provides a controversial view inside the food industry, from popular processed food manufacturers to advertisers, chain restaurants, and fast food franchises. Kessler deconstructs the endless cycle of craving and consumption that the industry has created, and breaks down how our minds and bodies join in the conspiracy to make it all work. He concludes by offering us a common sense prescription for change, both in our selves and in our culture.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061935484
Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."
Author : Yahrah St. John
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488062994
Feel the drama and passion in the Dynasties: Seven Sins series! She’s just a friend but he craves so much more… His unbridled appetites could cost him everything. Ryan Hathaway isn’t about to let his friend marry the wrong guy—not when the right guy is him. But getting out of Jessie Acosta’s friend zone could destroy his plans to become Black Crescent’s CEO. He can’t afford to give in to the overwhelming temptation of wanting her. But with another man looming in Jessie’s life, Ryan can’t afford not to… Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite. One man’s betrayal can destroy generations. Fifteen years ago, a hedge-fund hotshot vanished with billions, leaving the high-powered families of Falling Brook changed forever. Now seven heirs, shaped by his betrayal, must reckon with the sins of the past. Passion may be their only path to redemption. Experience all Seven Sins! DYNASTIES: SEVEN SINS Book 1: Ruthless Pride by Naima Simone This CEO’s pride led him to give up his dreams for his family. Now he’s drawn to the woman who threatens everything… Book 2: Forbidden Lust by Karen Booth He’s always resisted his lust for his best friend’s sister—until they’re stranded together in paradise… Book 3: Insatiable Hunger by Yahrah St. John His unbridled appetite for his closest friend is unleashed when he believes she’s fallen for the wrong man… Book 4: Hidden Ambition by Jules Bennett Ambition has taken him far, but revenge could cost him his one chance at love… Book 5: Reckless Envy by Joss Wood When this shark in the boardroom meets the one woman he can’t have, envy takes over… Book 6: Untamed Passion by Cat Schield Will this black sheep’s self-destructive wrath flame out when he’s expecting an heir of his own? Book 7: Slow Burn by Janice Maynard If he’s really the idle playboy his family claims, will his inaction threaten a reunion with the woman who got away?
