destruction controlling degradation post-socialist

books:

23 reviews
Noel Riley Fitch

Anchor, 1999

Julia, Julia, Julia !
I recently read "My Life In France" about Julia Child's years in France, her marraige and learning to cook in Paris and the many years of writing her first cookbook. It was so interesting I wanted to know about her and ordered this book. Although there is some repetition it is keeping me thoroughly entertained. I am more than half way through it and keep trying to find time each day to read ...

Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America ...
Kelly Alexander, Cynthia Harris

Gotham, 2008

The rollicking biography of Clementine Paddleford: “a go- anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of stories. . . . matched as a regional-food pioneer only by James Beard.” (R. W. Apple , Jr., The New York Times ) In Hometown Appetites , an award-winning food writer and a leading university archivist come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer ...

Zen and the Birds of Appetite.

14 reviews
Thomas Merton

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968

A little book with lots of meaning.
There is something refreshing about this little book. The title will seem a bit misleading - if expecting to find an account of Zen per se - minus the Christian based reflections of the author. However, Merton is known well enough - and these essays show him at his best. The dialogue between D.T. Suzuki and Thomas Merton is fruitful. Christianity and Buddhism have often been presented as ...

Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher

6 reviews
Joan Reardon

North Point Press, 2005

A Cautionary Tale of Never Growing Up
I, too, was greatly impressed by MFK Fisher's books - they had everything -- an appreciation of food, wine, travel, writing, husbands, lovers, children and always money. Yet, my appreciation of these tales, I think, reveal a retarded adolescence on my part. Reardon's biography is well written, very informative, and considerate. It is the work of someone who is grown, mature. MFK Fisher ...

Appetite for Detention

6 reviews
Sloane Tanen

Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, 2008

Bitter with Backpacks (and so brilliantly funny!)
Sloane Tanen has done it again. This time she's brought her humor and incisive wit to high school. I was hooked from the first page: Professional Highlights: $135 Juicy Couture Handbag: $240 Knowing you're the prettiest girl in high school: priceless. Great for teens. Great for adults. Buy a few and give them as gifts.

Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (Body, Commodity, Text)

1 review
Judith Farquhar

Duke University Press, 2002

What does China taste like?
Farquhar has written a very good book in Appetites. Drawing from conversations, anecdotes, advertising, and--above all--novels, Farquhar is somehow able to convincingly trace a changing subjectivity in China. Never grandiose in her claims, Farquahar addresses this fact: China is changing rapidly, and with its political and economic realignments Chinese personhood is changing too. Careful never ...

Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

16 reviews
Michele Simon

Nation Books, 2006

A great resource for those who want to protect themselves and their families
This book will teach you how to spot the PR, how to not be fooled, and how to organize, for example, to improve school food. The government and large corporations have a lot of big bucks at stake. They do not care about your health. They care about profits. This is true in all business. So you, the consumer, must learn what is hype (PR) and what is real. You need to protect yourself and your ...

Appetites: Why Women Want

19 reviews
Caroline Knapp

Counterpoint, 2004

One More in the Name of Love
Alice Walker once wrote, "Art unfailingly reflects its creator's heart. Art . . . comes from a heart open to all the possible paths there might be to a healthier tomorrow." Caroline Knapp's artistry was in writing and publishing her internal dialogues. This book appears to reveal her heart, a heart that was open to considering new and different possible paths to a healthier tomorrow. She may ...

Healing Your Appetite, Healing Your Life

5 reviews
Doreen Virtue

Hay House, 2005

Healing your appetite, Healing your life
I was happy to come across Doreen Virtue Ph.D. This tape expains the truth that we must start with the inside to affect the outside. This author speaks with compassion and easy direct explanations. Most do not realize that we use food as a drug to dull sensations and feelings in the body. I felt empowered after listening to this tape. I believe this is the first step to weight loss, the ...

The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How to Listen to Your Body And Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, & Obsession ...

10 reviews
Linda W. Craighead

New Harbinger Publications, 2006

This book is ground-breaking
It seems easy to say "Eat when you are moderately hungry and stop eating when you are moderately full." Well, then why don't we all eat that way? Because many of us often eat "recreationally" (my word). I know that my eating often has less to do with hunger and more to do with what time it is, what yummy thing is in front of me, how bored I am, or how emotionally stressed I am. With Americans' ...

Appetites

12 reviews
Geneen Roth

Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1996

Appetites by Geneen Roth
This book follows a series of books by Geneen Roth in which she addresses the connection between food and our emotions. Emotional eating or not eating is a way in which we manage our feelings. She is a wonderful writer who is able to clarify difficult issues by sharing autobiographical vignettes with humor and insight. She tells the story of how she overcame emotional eating. It's a book ...

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, Concise Revised ...
Richard P. Tucker

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Now in a concise edition created expressly for students and general readers, this widely hailed study traces the transformation of the tropics in modern times. Exploring the central role of the United States in the ongoing devastation of tropical lands, Richard Tucker highlights the unrelenting pressure caused by the demands of U.S. consumerism. The forced domestication of varied natural systems ultimately led to a devastating decline in ...

Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N' Roses

14 reviews
Danny Sugerman

St Martins Pr, 1992

The Days of Wine and Roses
Man this book is such a guilty pleasure for me. I love how Sugerman can weave Rimbaud/Baudelaire, William Blake, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll and Axl Rose. A lot of us were living on the nighttrain to the "Palace of Wisdom" back in 1989. That was my season in hell with GNFR as the soundtrack. Although Axl has revamped them as a karaoke group, it makes you wonder what might have been. Guns and ...

Appetite

12 reviews
Nigel Slater

Clarkson Potter, 2002

Master Class on Cooking for the Family. Buy It!
`Appetite' by the eminent English culinary writer, Nigel Slater is one of those rare cookbooks on whose every page you get a new insight into the craft of cooking. Nigel is to wunderkind Jamie Oliver what Tom Colicchio is to Emeril Lagasse on this side of the pond. And, Slater's publishers take every opportunity they can to trumpet Sir Jamie's blurb on Slater that `Nigel is a Genius' on Slater's ...

Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry

2 reviews
Warren James Belasco

Cornell University Press, 2006

We are what we eat!
I read this several years ago in an anthropology course and it was truly enlightening. It describes how elements of the counterculture in the 60's came to view the mass production of food as the fundamental basis of industrial economy. They sought to decentralize, communalize and humanize this massive "combine." Unfortunately, they were co-opted, by the giant corporations that today ...

Unruly Appetites: Erotica

7 reviews
Hanne Blank

Seal Press, 2003

Unruly erotica!
Unruly Appetites is one of the most tantalizing collections of erotic stories ever written. Hanne Blank's insatiable, provocative and explicit tales satisfied me from beginning to end - so to speak. I especially love the stories "Claudia" and "The Princess and the Tiger." Her writing is subtle and lyrical, making the erotic stories all the more alluring. You should read this book with your ...

Feeding Your Appetites: Take Control of What's Controlling You

2 reviews
Stephen Arterburn, Debra Cherry

Thomas Nelson, 2007

Trust Stephen Arterburn for sound advice and wisdom!
Another terrific volume by a serious and dedicated Christian counselor. I have enjoyed every book this man has ever written, this one is no exception. A must-read for sure!

Guns n' Roses: Appetite for Destruction (Bass Guitar)

6 reviews
Guns N' Roses

CHERRY LANE MUSIC COMP, 1989

the best in the world, ment for hard core fans like me.
i think this is the best book in the world, i didn't buy it, but one of my dad's friends gave it to me. I'm such a fan of GNR, it is not even funny, so i realy enjoyed the book, i can't single out any spot that i like the most, beacause all of it is great

Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction

20 reviews
Canter, Marc

Shoot Hip Press, 2007

Witness the Rise of Rock's Greatest Band!
This is a terrific book for anyone that's a fan of Guns N' Roses and likes to see how a band forms, gels and then shoots for the stars! It's an eyewitness account showing the band going from their baby-step days of hanging out and playing tiny flea boxes, to becoming mega-superstars and all the trappings that go with it. The pictures are AMAZING and capture the raw power and excitement that ...

Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite
Gordon Ramsay

Key Porter Books, 2009

What you are is what you eat—and everyone wants to be healthy and look their best. Gordon Ramsay—super-fit chef, marathon runner and high-energy television personality—is a great advertisement for eating well and staying in the peak of good health. He has put together over one hundred dishes that are completely in tune with the way we want to eat today packed with fresh, vital ingredients cooked in the most healthy way to ...

search for books
controlling, counterculture, degradation, destruction, post-socialist

Impressum / about us