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  • The Food Adventurers

    How Around-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat

    by Daniel E. Bender ...
    From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise-liner’s luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the around-the-world adventure. The book looks at what tourists ate on these adventures, as well as what they avoided, and what kinds of meals they described ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Animal Game

    Searching for Wildness at the American Zoo

    by Daniel E. Bender ...
    The spread of empires in the nineteenth century brought more than new territories and populations under Western sway. Animals were also swept up in the net of imperialism, as jungles and veldts became colonial ranches and plantations. A booming trade in animals turned many strange and dangerous species into prized commodities. Tigers from India, pythons from Malaya, and gorillas from the Congo ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Food Mobilities

    Making World Cuisines

    Edited by Daniel E. Bender, Simone Cinotto ...
    Series Book 1 - Culinaria
    Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian food in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sweatshop USA

    The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective

    Edited by Daniel E. Bender, Richard A. Greenwald ...
    For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Translating Molecules into Medicines

    Cross-Functional Integration at the Drug Discovery-Development Interface

    Edited by Shobha N. Bhattachar, John S. Morrison, Daniel R. Mudra, David M. Bender ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Tackling translational medicine with a focus on the drug discovery development-interface, this book integrates approaches and tactics from multiple disciplines, rather than just the pharmaceutical aspect of the field. The authors of each chapter address the paradox between the molecular understanding of diseases, drug discovery, and drug development. Laying out the detailed trends from various ... Read more

    $357.99 CAD

  • Making the Empire Work

    Labor and United States Imperialism

    Edited by Daniel E. Bender, Jana K. Lipman ...
    Series Book 13 - Culture, Labor, History
    Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Sex Chromosome Abnormalities And Human Behavior

    Psychological Studies

    by Daniel B Berch, Bruce G Bender ...
    This volume is based on a symposium, "Cognitive and Psychosocial Dysfunctions Associated with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities," presented at the 1986 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It contains reports from individual research groups and a psychological study. ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Gerda, the Brave Giraffe

    The Audiobook

    by Laura Hari, Marc Freund, Nicolai Tegeler ...
    Narrated by Jenny Löffler, Eva Habermann, Fabian Kluckert, Roman Shamov, Björn Landberg, Sinha Melina Gierke, Oliver Bender, Daniel Bandke, Nils Nellessen, Ian Wood, Matthias Unger, Melanie Hagen ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    Gerda, the Brave Giraffe is a kids story presented by Siemens Healthineers ... Read more

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  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Cod

    A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Edible Economics

    A Hungry Economist Explains the World

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    A creative and surprising exploration of economics through the lens of the food and global cuisine―from the bestselling author of Economics.For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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