Fierce Appetites
'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary Mantel Top 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas! Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three hap...
Anxious Appetites
Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer anxiety about food remain widespread. Anxious Appetites explores the causes of these present-day anxieties. Looking at fears over provenance and regulation in a world of lengthening supply chains and greater concentration of corporate power, Peter Jackson investigates how anxieties about food circulate and how they act as a channel for broader social issues. Drawing on case studies such as the 2013 horsemeat scandal and fears about the contamination of infant formula in China in 2008, he examines how and why these concerns emerge. Comparing survey results with ethnographic observation of consumer practice, he
Endless Appetites
How to understand the twenty-first century food crisis Since 2007, farm-product prices have rocketed and plunged, causing hunger, malnutrition, and social and political upheaval around the world. Endless Appetites explores how "food secur...
5 Appetites
A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 How is it that a baboon and a blob of slime mould instinctively know what to eat for optimal health, balancing their protein, fat and carb intake in perfect proportions? In new, groundbreaking research that is tra...
Unruly Appetites
This deftly written collection of twenty erotic tales is sure to titillate, intrigue and inspire. Editor of several successful erotica anthologies, Hanne Blank knows good sex, and this, her first book-length solo offering, demonstrates her conside...
Fierce Appetites
''Like nothing else you will read'' Hilary Mantel Top 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - t he perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas! Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All...
Excessive Appetites
This eagerly awaited new edition of Excessive Appetites will offeryou a complete and comprehensive revision of this classic text inthe field of addictions. Covering a wide variety of different forms of addiction fromalcohol, tobacco and other drug...
Carnal Appetites
In Carnal Appetites, Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex, and the impact of our modes of co...
