1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910551696403321

Autore

D'Orlando, Elena

Titolo

La funzione arbitrale della Corte costituzionale tra stato centrale e governi periferici / Elena D'Orlando

ISBN

9788849127317

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396475303316

Autore

Bunyan John <1628-1688.>

Titolo

The strait gate, or, Great difficulty of going to Heaven [[electronic resource] ] : plainly proving by the Scriptures that not only the rude and profane, but many great professors will come short of that Kingdom / / by John Bunyan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Francis Smith, 1676

Descrizione fisica

[2], 52 p

Soggetti

Heaven

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955965603321

Autore

Pena Carolyn Thomas de la

Titolo

Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / / by Carolyn de la Pena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

979-88-9313-339-4

979-88-908834-3-8

1-4696-0495-7

0-8078-7967-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

664/.5

Soggetti

Nonnutritive sweeteners - History

Sweeteners - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

False scarlet : healthful sugar vs. adulterous saccharin in the early twentieth century -- Alchemic ally : women's creativity and control in saccharin and cyclamates -- Diet men : the food-pharma origins of artificially sweetened products -- Prosperity stomachs and prosperous women : diet entrepreneurs -- Saccharin rebels : the right to risky pleasure in 1977 -- Nutrasweet nation : profit, peril, and the promise of a free lunch -- Conclusion : Splenda, sugar, and what mother nature intended.

Sommario/riassunto

Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutica