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Feeding Britain

Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them

by Tim Lang ...

Series series Pelican Books
How does Britain get its food?Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass ... Read more

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How does Britain get its food?Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass
... Read more

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Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society

Integrating health, environment and society

by Tim Lang, David Barling, Martin Caraher ...

For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing availability, and ... Read more

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For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing availability, and
... Read more
Food Wars

The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets

by Tim Lang, Michael Heasman ...

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy.The key theme of the importance of integrating human and environmental ... Read more

$62.99 USD

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy.The key theme of the importance of integrating human and environmental
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Age of Magic

A Dark Fairytale Fantasy Story

by Tim Vee ...

Narrated by Magnus Lang ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Sphinx's Tear
Unabridged

7 hours 28 min

A young peasant woman's mundane existence is upended by a mysterious traveller, thrusting her into a perilous world of secret family ties, dark magic, deadly beasts, intrigue, pirates, and thrilling adventure—where light and dark forces clash in a battle for power and revenge.Age of Magic is a dark fairytale fantasy set in a magical world.What people are saying about Age of Magic..."This dark ... Read more

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A young peasant woman's mundane existence is upended by a mysterious traveller, thrusting her into a perilous world of secret family ties, dark magic, deadly beasts, intrigue, pirates, and thrilling adventure—where light and dark forces clash in a battle for power and revenge.Age of Magic is a dark fairytale fantasy set in a magical world.What people are saying about Age of Magic..."This dark
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The Seed Detective

Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables

by Adam Alexander ...

Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.Named BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme "Book of the Year"2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of AchievementShortlisted for the Garden Media Guild’s Garden Book of the Year Award 2023Longlisted for The Art of Eating Prize 2023"[This book] is a clar... ... Read more

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Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.Named BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme "Book of the Year"2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of AchievementShortlisted for the Garden Media Guild’s Garden Book of the Year Award 2023Longlisted for The Art of Eating Prize 2023"[This book] is a clar...
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Feeding Britain

Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them

by Tim Lang ...

Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

Unabridged

12 hours 53 min

Brought to you by Penguin.How does Britain get its food?Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.How does Britain get its food?Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains
... Read more

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Sustainable Diets

How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System

by Pamela Mason, Tim Lang ...

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the ... Read more

$80.99 USD

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.This book explores what is meant by sustainable diets and why this has to be the goal for the
... Read more
Ecological Public Health

Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

by Geof Rayner, Tim Lang ...

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits ... Read more

$80.99 USD

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits
... Read more
The Unmanageable Consumer

by Yiannis Gabriel, Tim Lang ...

‘The Unmanageable Consumer has long been one of my favorite books in the sociology of consumption. This long overdue third edition has updated and revised the basic argument in many ways. Most importantly, it now offers a new chapter on the consumer as worker or, more generally, the prosumer. Assign it to your classes (I have…and will again) and read it for your edification.’ - George Ritzer, ... Read more

$96.29 USD

‘The Unmanageable Consumer has long been one of my favorite books in the sociology of consumption. This long overdue third edition has updated and revised the basic argument in many ways. Most importantly, it now offers a new chapter on the consumer as worker or, more generally, the prosumer. Assign it to your classes (I have…and will again) and read it for your edification.’ - George Ritzer,
... Read more
Breast Imaging

13th International Workshop, IWDM 2016, Malmö, Sweden, June 19-22, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Anders Tingberg, Kristina Lång, Pontus Timberg ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Breast Imaging, IWDM 2016, held in Malmö, Sweden, in June 2016.The 35 revised full papers and 50 revised poster papers presented together with 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on screening; CAD; mammography, tomosynthesis, and ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Breast Imaging, IWDM 2016, held in Malmö, Sweden, in June 2016.The 35 revised full papers and 50 revised poster papers presented together with 6 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on screening; CAD; mammography, tomosynthesis, and
... Read more
Mobilize Food!

Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today

by Eleanor Boyle ...

Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel that crisis—producing significant greenhouse gases—can we muster the vision to produce and consume food differently? Transforming food systems to meet a threat has been done before, as revealed in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. The book recounts ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Faced with a climate crisis, can people commit to action? Faced with evidence that our agriculture and our diets fuel that crisis—producing significant greenhouse gases—can we muster the vision to produce and consume food differently? Transforming food systems to meet a threat has been done before, as revealed in Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today. The book recounts
... Read more

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Who Owns England?

How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole ...

Narrated by Malk Williams ...

Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is PoliticsWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is PoliticsWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once
... Read more

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