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UNINA9910786879803321 |
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Autore |
Nestle Marion |
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Food politics [[electronic resource] ] : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / / Marion Nestle ; foreword by Michael Pollan |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013 |
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1-78402-467-8 |
0-520-95506-4 |
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[Revised and expanded 10th anniversary ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (534 p.) |
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California studies in food and culture ; ; 3 |
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Food industry and trade - United States |
Food - Marketing - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
Nutrition policy - United States |
Food Industry |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-486) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction: The Food Industry and "Eat More" -- PART ONE. UNDERMINING DIETARY ADVICE -- PART TWO. WORKING THE SYSTEM -- PART THREE. EXPLOITING KIDS, CORRUPTING SCHOOLS -- PART FOUR. DEREGULATING DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS -- PART FIVE. INVENTING TECHNO-FOODS -- Conclusion: The Politics of Food Choice -- Afterword: Food Politics: Five Years Later and Beyond -- Appendix: Issues in Nutrition and Nutrition Research -- Notes -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Index |
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We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over--has a downside. Our over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to persuade people to eat more--more food, more often, and in larger portions--no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being. Like manufacturing cigarettes or building |
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weapons, making food is big business. Food companies in 2000 generated nearly 9 00 billion in sales. They have stakeholders to please, shareholders to satisfy, and government regulations to deal with. It is nevertheless shocking to learn precisely how food companies lobby officials, co-opt experts, and expand sales by marketing to children, members of minority groups, and people in developing countries. We learn that the food industry plays politics as well as or better than other industries, not least because so much of its activity takes place outside the public view. Editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, Nestle is uniquely qualified to lead us through the maze of food industry interests and influences. She vividly illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, schools pushing soft drinks, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights. When it comes to the mass production and consumption of food, strategic decisions are driven by economics--not science, not common sense, and certainly not health. No wonder most of us are thoroughly confused about what to eat to stay healthy.An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics will forever change the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. By explaining how much the food industry influences government nutrition policies and how cleverly it links its interests to those of nutrition experts, this path-breaking book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why. |
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UNINA9910822628003321 |
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Autore |
Török Borbála Zsuzsanna <1972-> |
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Exploring Transylvania : geographies of knowledge and entangled histories in a multiethnic province, 1790-1918 / / by Borbála Zsuzsanna Török |
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Leiden : , : Brill, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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National cultivation of culture, , 1876-5645 ; ; volume 10 |
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Learned institutions and societies - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century |
Learning and scholarship - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century |
Geography - Social aspects - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century |
Knowledge, Sociology of - Political aspects - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century |
Cultural pluralism - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century |
Nationalism - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century |
Transylvania (Romania) Intellectual life 19th century |
Transylvania (Romania) Relations |
Transylvania (Romania) Ethnic relations History 19th century |
Transylvania (Romania) Politics and government 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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List of geographical names in Transylvania -- Introduction: Nineteenth-century Transylvanian intellectual milieus; Science in the composite monarchy; Interlocking scientific cultures in the province -- Landeskunde, honismeret-Patriotic scholarship and vernacular languages -- The friends of progress in the Transylvanian age of reform -- The nationalization of Landeskunde and civic ethos after 1848 -- Uneven development during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867-1914) -- Conclusion: Geographies (and |
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temporalities) of polymath learning; What was Landeskunde?; The transformation of the republic of letters in the nation-state. |
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"Exploring Transylvania by Borbála Zsuzsanna Török reconstructs the fissured scholarly landscape in one of the most culturally heterogeneous regions of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author creates an original model of the structure and historical dynamics of an East-Central European province in the republic of letters by tracing the activities of learned societies engaged in the exploration of their fatherland and their connections to national academic centers outside Transylvania. Analyzing the entangled history of the local German, Hungarian, and Romanian scholarly cultures, the book demonstrates how a persisting politics of difference practiced by various political regimes over the long nineteenth century enhanced national hierarchies and endemic tensions both in the Transylvanian intellectual milieus and in scholarship itself"--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910437977003321 |
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Titolo |
Supersymmetric Gravity and Black Holes : Proceedings of the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on the Attractor Mechanism 2009 / / edited by Stefano Bellucci |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
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1-299-19757-4 |
3-642-31380-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (211 p.) |
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Springer Proceedings in Physics, , 1867-4941 ; ; 142 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Gravitation |
Elementary particles (Physics) |
Quantum field theory |
Mathematical physics |
Classical and Quantum Gravity |
Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory |
Mathematical Physics |
Mathematical Methods in Physics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Black Holes in Supergravity: Flow Equations and Duality -- Intersecting Attractors -- Extremality, Holography and Course Graining -- Issues on Black Holes in Four Dimensional Supergravity -- On the Classification of Two Center Orbits for Magical Black Holes. |
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This book is based upon lectures presented in the summer of 2009 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on Attractor Mechanism, directed by Stefano Bellucci. The symposium included such prestigious lecturers as S. Ferrara, G. Dall'Agata, J.F. Morales, J. Simón and M. Trigiante. All lectures were given at a pedagogical, introductory level, which is reflected in the specific "flavor" of this volume. The book also benefits from extensive discussions about, and the related reworking of, the various contributions. It is the fifth volume in a series of books on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black holes and the attractor mechanism. |
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