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UNINA9910966736903321 |
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Autore |
Smith Andrew F. |
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Titolo |
Potato : a global history / / Andrew F. Smith |
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London : , : Reaktion Books, , 2013 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 |
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9786613589019 |
9781280493782 |
128049378X |
9781861899972 |
1861899971 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (144 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Food - History |
Potatoes |
Food and society |
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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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Introduction 1. The Wild and Domesticated Potato 2. The Potato Diaspora 3. The European Potato Famine 4. The Culinary Potato 5. The Commercial Potato 6. The Cultural Potato 7. The Global Potato Today and Tomorrow Recipes References Select Bibliography Websites and Associations Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index |
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From its obscure pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Potato, esteemed culinary historian Andrew F. Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed - and continues to change - the world. First domesticated by prehistoric people in the Andes, the potato has since been adopted by cultures all over the globe. After its discovery by Europeans, governments and monarchs encouraged the people to farm it because it was so nutritious and easy to grow, but its new position as the staple of the poor meant mass starvation in nineteenth-century Ireland when potato blight wiped |
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out the crops. The potato was also adopted by cooks in India and in China, which is now the world's largest potato producer. Despite its popularity, in this era of both fast food and health consciousness, the potato is now suffering negative publicity for the very quality for which it was lauded by our forefathers: being a good source of carbohydrate. But is it fair to blame the humble spud for our habit of covering it with butter or sour cream or deep-frying it in oil? Potato is a captivating account of the history, economy, politics and gastronomy behind this beloved tuber. Like a well-dressed baked potato, this book will both comfort and satisfy the reader. |
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UNINA9910954184203321 |
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Titolo |
Continuum thermomechanics : the art and science of modelling material behaviour / / edited by Gerard A. Maugin, Raymonde Drouot, and Francois Sidoroff |
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Dordrecht ; ; Boston, : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000 |
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1-280-20498-2 |
9786610204984 |
0-306-46946-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2002.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Solid mechanics and its applications ; ; v. 76 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GermainPaul <1920-> |
MauginG. A <1944-> (Gerard A.) |
DrouotRaymonde |
SidoroffFrancois |
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Thermodynamics |
Continuum mechanics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Double diffusive aspects of the convection in moist-saturated air -- Application of the theory of Cosserat media to the elasto-plastic behaviour of polycrystals -- From Clausius to finite anelasticity, via Bridgman, Eckart and Ziegler -- On viscous fluid flow near a moving |
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crack tip -- Elastoviscoplasticity with aging in aluminium alloys -- The application of the irreversible thermodynamics to the development of constitutive equations -- On micromechanics of martensitic transformation in SMA and TRIP steels -- Modelling of coupled effects of damage by microcracking and friction in closed cracks -- Structural plastic microbuckling and compressive strength of long-fibre composite materials -- A new method of optimisation for composite structures -- Material evolution in plasticity and growth -- Thermoelasticity of second-grade media -- The power of the interior forces in solid mechanics -- A continuum damage model in stress corrosion -- Modelling Wetting Behaviour -- Thermodynamics and phenomenology -- On the thermomechanical modelling of shape memory alloys -- Thermo-Mechanical Modelling of Nematic Polymers -- Multiscale thermomechanical approaches to SMA behaviour -- Regularization of flutter ill-posedness in fluid-saturated porous media -- A 3D-Numerical Thermomechanical Approach for Materials Cutting -- From Clausius-Duhem and Drucker-Ilyushin inequalities to standard materials -- Constitutive relations involving internal variables based on a micromechanical analysis -- Adiabatic shear banding as an example of viscoplastic flow instability -- On the evaluation of damping in a structure with viscoelastic components -- Standard dissipative systems and stability analysis -- Enriched damage models for continuum failure analyses -- Constitutive laws, relaxation thermodynamics and Lagrange-formalism -- Second-gradient theory: Application to Cahn-Hilliard fluids -- Thermodynamics and duality in finite elastoplasticity -- Thermodynamical description of running discontinuities. |
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Contributed by world-renowned specialists on the occasion of Paul Germain's 80th birthday, this unique book reflects the foundational works and the intellectual influence of this author. It presents the realm of modern thermomechanics with its extraordinary wealth of applications to the behaviour of materials, whether solid or fluid. The thirty-one contributions follow an easygoing autobiographical sketch by Paul Germain, and highlight the power and richness of a methodological approach to the phenomenology of many materials. This approach combines harmoniously thermodynamics and continuum theory in order to provide exploitable, thermodynamically admissible models of a large variety of behaviours and phenomena, including those of diffusion, thermoelasticity, viscoplasticity, relaxation, hysteresis, wetting, shape-memory effects, growth, phase transitions, stability, fracture, shocks, machining of materials, microstructured solids, complex fluids, etc. Especially aimed at graduate students, researchers, and engineers in mechanical engineering and materials science, this book also presents the state of the art in an active field of research and opens new horizons in other scientific fields, such as applied mathematics and applied physics, because of the intellectual satisfaction and remarkable efficiency provided by the advocated approach. |
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