Ethnoscience: Insights into Nutrition and Cultural Foundations, the first book in the series Culinary Synergies: Exploring Nutrition and Science in Gastronomy, a five-book exploration into food education, innovation, and preservation, encompasses everything from flavor chemistry and sensory science to the role of micro- and macronutrients in traditional and culturally specific diets.
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation.
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation.
Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been ';more, more, more' in terms of growth of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.
Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been ';more, more, more' in terms of growth of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.
In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing.
America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades.
This sharply argued book posits that urban revitalizationmaking better city living spaces from those that have been neglected due to racist city planning and divestmentis a code word for fraught, state-managed gentrification.
This social and cultural history of Argentinas long sixties argues that the nations younger generation was at the epicenter of a public struggle over democracy, authoritarianism, and revolution from the mid-twentieth century through the ruthless military dictatorship that seized power in 1976.
A stunning examination of how the United States became the incarceration capital of the world, from one of the country's leading experts on sentencing policy, race, and the criminal justice systemIn this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, former executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice reform organizations, offers the most up-to-date look available at three decades of prison expansion in America.
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another.
Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems.
In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru.
Colostrum Unveiled: The Human and Animal Benefits of Bovine Colostrum is emerging as a groundbreaking topic in the fields of health and nutrition, and this book provides a comprehensive exploration of its biological, nutritional, and clinical applications.
This social and cultural history of Argentinas long sixties argues that the nations younger generation was at the epicenter of a public struggle over democracy, authoritarianism, and revolution from the mid-twentieth century through the ruthless military dictatorship that seized power in 1976.
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another.
In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the regions cities.
Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the regions cities.
America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades.
In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing.
'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End'Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go' TOBI COVENTRY, author of He's the DevilLove can really eat you upAvni is done with the meaningless carousel of tame sex.
A new "e;bulldozer politics"e; has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic.
A new "e;bulldozer politics"e; has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic.
The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine and Family Planning, third edition provides essential practical information on the care of adolescent and reproductive age females and males.
Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with exclusion policies and deportation campaigns.
Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty-first-century financial capitalism.
A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to liveA Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial TimesShortlisted for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Non-FictionHu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated.
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the worlds cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodationa phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories.
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the worlds cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodationa phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories.
