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  • Food Fight

    From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

    by Stuart Gillespie ...
    "Scholarly, literate and deeply moving, this isn't just a good read, it's an essential reference for anyone hoping to understand the food system, why it's broken and how we might imagine fixing it."—Chris Van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed PeopleFood is life but our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose—to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • English Translation and Classical Reception

    Towards a New Literary History

    by Stuart Gillespie ...
    Series series Classical Receptions
    English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical ... Read more

    $100.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

    Edited by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture

    Arden Critical Companion

    Edited by Neil Rhodes, Stuart Gillespie ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Books

    A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources

    by Stuart Gillespie ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Food Fight

    From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

    by Stuart Gillespie ...
    Narrated by Stuart Gillespie ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Food is life, but our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose—to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent famine—it's now generating obesity and ill-health and driving the climate crisis. We need to transform it into one that can nourish all eight billion of us and the planet we live on. In Food Fight, Stuart Gillespie shares the insights he's gleaned over ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • How the World Eats

    A Global Food Philosophy

    by Julian Baggini ...
    From the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world—and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyle is ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

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  • Lethal But Legal

    Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    by Nicholas Freudenberg ...
    Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

    by Peter Brown ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613

    Edited by Andrew J. Power, Rory Loughnane ...
    In fourteen specially commissioned chapters by leading Shakespeare scholars from around the globe, Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 provides an essential reappraisal of the final phase of Shakespeare's writing life. Arranged for the first time in the best-established chronological sequence, Shakespeare's last seven extant plays are discussed in detail in dedicated chapters, from Pericles to the other ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Playbook

    How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World

    by Jennifer Jacquet ...
    **From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change.“Brilliantly subversive and witty. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist, this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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