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“sarah e worth”

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  • Taste

    A Philosophy of Food

    by Professor Sarah E. Worth ...
    An examination of the philosophical aspects of eating and tasting food. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • In Defense of Reading

    by Sarah E. Worth ...
    Why should we read? We assume that reading is good for us, but often we cannot articulate exactly what it does for us. In this fascinating book, Sarah Worth addresses from a philosophical perspective the many ways in which reading benefits us morally, socially, and cognitively.Worth leads her readers through the subtle questions of the ways in which we understand fiction, nonfiction, and the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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  • How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Engaging, evocative. . . . [Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling.”—NPRWhy is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

    by Tom Vanderbilt ...
    From the bestselling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us.Everyone knows his or her favourite colour, the foods we most enjoy, and which season of The Sopranos deserves the most stars on Netflix. But what does it really mean when we like something? How do we decide what's good? Is it something ... Read more

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  • Eaten Back to Life

    by Jonah Campbell ...
    In this series of thoughtful essays and stink-eyed observations, Jonah Campbell explores food and drink in the modern world, from pig heads and whisky to fine wine and French gastronomy, Nigella Lawson to David Cronenberg, with a trail of potato chips and stale chocolate bars along the way. In the tradition of writers like M. F. K. Fisher and David Foster Wallace, Eaten Back to Life renders in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • What Love Is

    And What It Could Be

    by Carrie Jenkins ...
    A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questionsWhat is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

    by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Hard-Core Romance

    Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society

    by Eva Illouz ...
    From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James's lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fashion

    A Philosophy

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Donatella Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci: fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we’re buying a new pair of jeans, reading Vogue, or watching the latest episode of America*’*s Next Top Model. Lars Svendsen dives into this world in Fashion: A Philosophy, exploring the myths, ideas, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Sad Love

    Romance and the Search for Meaning

    by Carrie Jenkins ...
    As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Eating in Theory

    by Annemarie Mol ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Food Is Culture

    by Massimo Montanari ...
    Translated by Albert Sonnenfeld ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food—its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption—represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers were determined by a culture of economics (availability) and medicine (digestibility and nutrition) that led to the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD