Anthologies: general

There is never a dull phrase in Arthur Saltzman's OBLIGATIO01 General/trade OF THE HARP, his fourth book of essays.

Joseph-Sabin Raymond est l'auteur d'Entretiens sur l'éloquence et la littérature qu'il compose vers 1833 et qui, depuis lors, étaient restés inédits.

Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters.

ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era.

A reader for intermediate students of ancient Greek, introducing three of ancient Greece''s most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles.

The 'memsahibs' of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film.

A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Foods and Dietary Supplements in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease in Older Adults focuses on the ways in which food and dietary supplements affect the major health problems of aging adults.

While innovation can be defined in many ways, the author sees it as a process.

Year on year, countries across the world continue to see an increase in life expectancy, largely attributed to the impact of modern medicine and disease eradication.

This text comprehensively covers the nutritional and medical management and prevention of kidney stones.

Het Informatorium voor voeding en diëtetiek is een systematisch naslagwerk met alles wat men moet weten op het gebied van voeding en diëtetiek.

Food safety awareness is at an all time high, new and emerging threats to the food supply are being recognized, and consumers are eating more and more meals prepared outside of the home.

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before 1865.

This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry.

Multicultural Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics is the must have practical resource for dietitians, nutritionists and students working with both well settled but also recently migrated ethnic groups.

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task.

On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (b.

Bone research in recent years has generated much new knowledge, in large measure because of the broad public health implications of osteoporosis and related bone disorders.

In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss' 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time.

Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Paian jingqi by Ling Mengchu (15801644), originally published in 1628.

For half a century, David Stick has been writing books about the fragile chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast known as the Outer Banks.

Although Cicero's Phillipics are his most mature speeches, they have received little attention as works of oratory.

Conversations with Sterling Plumpp is the first collection of interviews with the renowned poet of Home/Bass and other much-admired works.

Nearly 800 million people in the world do not have enough to eat.

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is recognized as a crucial signaling molecule that mediates physiological and biochemical processes in plants, regulating various development and stress responses.

Of the many dietary factors associated with inflammation and oxidative stress, a specific group are food-derived pro-inflammatory and pro-oxidant compounds, so-called advanced glycation end products (AGEs).

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy.

In the Western mind, Afghanistan has come to mean many things in recent decades, most of them bad.

This book presents the background and context of an urban health issue, research findings, and recommendations for policy/decision-makers and action-takers.

Childhood obesity has become a central concern in many countries and a range of policies have been implemented or proposed to address it.

You can't escape the ageing process but you can slow it down.

COMPANION VOLUME TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE FAT FLUSH PLANThe popular weight-loss program now has a companion cookbook"e;(Ann Louise Gittleman's) rundown of the therapeutic and culinary benefits of her favorite 25 cooking herbs makes a perfect introduction to her popular nutritional philosophy.

Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment A concise and engaging overview of endocrine disruption phenomena that brings complex concepts within the reach of non-specialists For most of the last decade, the science of endocrine disruption has evolved with more definitive evidence of its damaging potential to health and environment.

During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases to those due to chronic diseases.

Advances in Macrofungi: Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnology discusses the diversity and ecology of edible, toxic, medicinal and mycorrhizal macrofungi; the impact of ectomycorrhizal fungi in terrestrial ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal complex in Boreal forests and commercial application of Pseudotsuga in silviculture; the nutritional evaluation and cultivation of edible wild mushrooms; the diversity of novel metabolites of macrofungi useful in food, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries; mushrooms as tool for eco-friendly synthesis of nanoparticles and proteomics of edible and medicinal mushrooms.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.

Asia is the world's most populous region and has the highest per capita number of older people in the world.

Animal products are good source of disposable income for many small farmers in developing countries.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention, Second Edition investigates the benefits of nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention using an organizational style that will provide easy-access to information that supports identifying treatment options and the development of symptom-specific functional foods.

Jay Parini (b.

Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history.

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X.

This book presents studies of the main conditions that affect health and well-being of old people.

Bring the otherworldly mystery of spiritual reality down to earth.