Nestle, Marion.
Summary: "Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed Food Politics, argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power--and not always in the public interest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 NESNestle, Marion.
Summary: Synopsis: How does the food industry influence what we eat and, therefore, our health? What are the food industry's marketing methods and what is its relationship to the political system? What can be said about its use of political power to achieve profit goals? A bold, unprecedented behind-the-scenes expose of one of America's biggest and most powerful industries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.85 NESNestle, Marion.
Summary: From publisher description: With What to Eat, this renowned nutritionist takes us on a guided tour of the supermarket, explaining the issues with verve and wit as well as a scientist's expertise and a food lover's experience. Today's supermarket is ground zero for the food industry, a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for sales with profits, not nutrition or health, in mind. Nestle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 NESSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESJenkins, Nancy Harmon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Spec JenkinsNestor, Basil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.412 NESNestor, James
Summary: "No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.192 NESNestor, James
Summary: Surveys the achievements of adventurous scientists, athletes and explorers to reveal how new understandings about deep-sea life, from telepathic coral to shark navigation, are expanding what is known about the natural world and the human mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.232 NESMardini, Yusra
Summary: Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARDINI, YUSRA MARMazzoni, Cristina
Contents: Learning to cook, eat, and read with Christian holy women -- How to bake wonder dough into miracle bread : Byzantine saints and Catherine of Genoa -- How to make cheese and how to eat love : Hildegard of Bingen with Hadewijch -- How to taste sugar and spice : the flavors of Elisabeth of Schönau -- How to bite with grace into forbidden fruits : apples, sweets, and Margaret Ebner -- How to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.082 MAZMarton, Kati.
Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MARThompson, Kester.
Summary: From Martinis and Manhattans to sparkling Bellinis and fruity, frozen daiquiris, this user-friendly collection of cocktail recipes will turn anyone into an outstanding bartender! Arranged by spirit type and filled with enticing photographs, it's the perfect introduction to the intimidating world of drink-making. Hundreds of fabulous concoctions are included, from traditional to trendy, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 THOMosconi, Lisa
Summary: "The first book to address cognitive enhancement and Alzheimer's prevention specifically in women--and to frame brain health as an essential component of Women's Health"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Peguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 MOSMosconi, Lisa
Summary: "Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia and brain fog. As a leading neuroscientist and women's brain health specialist, Dr. Lisa Mosconi unravels the mystery by revealing how menopause doesn't just impact the ovaries--but it's a hormonal show in which the brain takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade Paperbacks 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 MARNestler, Harold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1990
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 NestlMenconi, Lilia
Summary: Whether you're hiking red rock trails in the Valley of the Sun or relaxing in Scottsdale's resorts, take Arizona at your own speed with Moon Phoenix, Scottsdale & Sedona. Inside you'll find: Strategic, flexible itineraries like a luxurious desert getaway, a family road trip, and the 4-day best of the Valley of the Sun. Unique experiences and can't-miss sights: Explore the local art scene, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moon Travel 2023
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Summary: "From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potential. Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college. Her competitive method--run as hard as possible, all the time--brought her to the brink of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KASTOR, DEENA KASMarton, Kati.
Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MARMaryon, Herbert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 739.2 MARRector, Marilyn.
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.37745 RECBRETON, MARCOS
Summary: Examines the story of Latin baseball as seen through the eyes of Miguel Tejada, a promising young Dominican shortstop in the Oakland A's organization; and provides insight into the efforts of Latin ballplayers to succeed in America's professional sports arena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SIMON 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BRECastor, Helen
Summary: "In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015