1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910130881403321

Titolo

Coffee : philosophy for everyone : grounds for debate / / Fritz Allhoff [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-40807-4

9786613408075

1-4443-9337-5

1-4443-9336-7

1-4443-9338-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

Philosophy for everyone

Disciplina

641.3373

Soggetti

Coffee - Philosophy

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.

Nota di contenuto

COFFEE - PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYONE: Grounds for Debate; CONTENTS; Foreword; Editors' Introduction; PART 1 THE FIRST CUP: COFFEE AND METAPHYSICS; 1 Coffee: Black Puddle Water or Panacea?; 2 The Necessary Ground of Being; 3 The Unexamined Cup Is Not Worth Drinking; 4 Samsara in a Coffee Cup: Self, Suffering, and the Karma of Waking Up; 5 The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness; PART 2 GROUNDS FOR DEBATE: COFFEE CULTURE; 6 Sage Advice from Ben's Mom, or: The Value of the Coffeehouse; 7 The Coffeehouse as a Public Sphere: Brewing Social Change

8 Café Noir: Anxiety, Existence, and the Coffeehouse9 The Philosopher's Brew; PART 3 THE WONDERFUL AROMA OF BEAN: COFFEE AESTHETICS; 10 Three Cups: The Anatomy of a Wasted Afternoon; 11 Is Starbucks Really Better than Red Brand X?; 12 The Flavor of Choice: Neoliberalism and the Espresso Aesthetic; 13 Starbucks and the Third Wave; 14 How Good the Coffee Can Be: An Interview with Stumptown's Matt Lounsbury; PART 4 TO ROAST OR NOT TO ROAST: THE ETHICS OF COFFEE; 15 More than 27 Cents a Day: The Direct Trade (R)evolution

16 Higher, Faster, Stronger, Buzzed: Caffeine as a Performance-



Enhancing Drug17 Green Coffee, Green Consumers - Green Philosophy?; 18 Coffee and the Good Life: The Bean and the Golden Mean; How to Make it in Hollywood by Writing an Afterword!; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee.Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just how good coffee can beCaffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade, the metaphysics of coffee and the centrality of the coffee house to the public sphereIncludes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at Gillies Coffee Company

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001699239707536

Autore

Murray, John

Titolo

L'oceano : nozioni generali sulla scienza del mare / John Murray ; traduzione e note di Eugenio Morreale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Sonzogno, 1924

Descrizione fisica

214 p. : ill. ; 18 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Morreale, Eugenio

Disciplina

551.46

Soggetti

Oceani

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910156326003321

Autore

Tanaka H

Titolo

Dialysis Therapy in the 1990's : : International Symposium, Osaka, October 1989 / /  editor, H. Tanaka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel : , : S. Karger, , 1990

ISBN

9783318033465

3318033464

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII + 116 pages) : :   35 figures, 27 tables

Collana

Contributions to Nephrology, , 1662-2782 ; ; Vol.82

Altri autori (Persone)

TanakaHiroshi <1950->

Disciplina

617.4/61059

Soggetti

Nephrology

Hematology

Pharmacology

Urology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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