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BenBella Books Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and
Book Synopsis"Hungry is an excellent text about people’s methods of adapting to modern life; it encompasses psychology, generational identities, and marketing in its considerations of contemporary society.”—Foreword ReviewsWe wait in lines around the block for scoops of cookie dough. We photograph every meal. We visit selfie performance spaces and leave lucrative jobs to become farmers and craft brewers. Why? What are we really hungry for? In Hungry, Eve Turow-Paul provides a guided tour through the stranger corners of today's global food and lifestyle culture. How are 21st-century innovations and pressures are redefining people's needs and desires? How does "foodie" culture, along with other lifestyle trends, provide an answer to our rising rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and depression? Weaving together evolutionary psychology and sociology with captivating investigative reporting from around the world, Turow-Paul reveals the modern hungers—physical, spiritual, and emotional—that are driving today's top trends: • The connection between the "death" of the cereal industry and access to work email on our smartphones • How posting images of our dinners on social media both fulfills and feeds our hunger for human connection in an increasingly isolated world • The ways "diet tribes" and boutique fitness gyms substitute for organized religion • How access to round-the-clock news relates to the blowback against GMO foods • Wellness retreats, astrology, plant parenthood, and other methods of easing modern anxiety • Why "eating local" might be the key to solving not just climate change, but our current global sense of disconnection From gluten-free and Paleo diets to meal kit subscriptions, and from mukbang broadcast jockeys to craft beer, Hungry deepens our understanding of why we do what we do, and helps us find greater purpose and joy in today's technology-altered world.Trade Review"With substance, style, and a keen eye for data, Eve Turow-Paul uses food to illuminate the psychology of an entire generation. Hungry is a deeply insightful book that also happens to be more delicious than dessert." —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness and professor of psychology at Harvard "Turow-Paul combines great story-telling with a hard look at many trends and beliefs that are not based on facts. She artfully explains why they pull us in anyway, the psychological needs they fill, and how we can bring order and sanity to one of the most fraught topics today: food." —Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of The Organized MindTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction I. ControlChapter 1: Transparency & AnxietyChapter 2: Delivery & DistractionChapter 3: Diets & Order II. BelongingChapter 4: Influencers & LonelinessChapter 5: “Likes” & Self-EsteemChapter 6: Diets & IdentityChapter 7: Shared Experiences & Relatedness III. PurposeChapter 8: DIY & EudaimoniaChapter 9: Nature & Well-BeingConclusion AcknowledgmentsEndnotesAbout the Author
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Media Lab Books Your Best Digital Life
Book SynopsisWhile technology has undoubtedly made our lives easier, it''s also allowed us to develop bad digital habits along the way. Unfortunately, the same tech tools that make life so much easier are also competing for our attention - all the time - and we're giving it to them. The result? We're becoming less productive by fueling our tendency towards procrastination and reinforcing how disconnected we feel from ourselves, our loved ones and reality. In this vein, Your Best Digital Life shows readers how to stop, reevaluate and take control of their digital lives. It presents a new approach to digital wellbeing based on the authors' MORE methodology (Mobilize. Observe. Reflect. Experiment.) Drawing on the latest research on mindfulness, psychology and neuroscience, this guide will show readers how to put this method into action and allow them to adopt a flexible, forgiving, and realistic approach to using technology. The book will comprise approximately 10 chapters, all covering different aspects of digital wellbeing with first person stories and scientific factoids woven throughout, plus exercises for the reader to put the techniques into action. Your Best Digital Life will empower readers by providing them with relevant, practical, novel techniques and guidance to create lasting change in their relationship to technology ultimately helping them live less stressful, more productive, happier lives.
£14.39
Crown Publishing Group (NY) Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
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Amalion Publishing Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au
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Palgrave Macmillan The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture
Book Synopsis1. Queen Questions and Tiara Truths.- 2. The Campus Queen in Context.- 3. The Girl.- 4. The Group.- 5. The Genre.- 6. Reimagining Royalty.
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Palgrave Macmillan Teenage Audiences and British Period Drama
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Palgrave Macmillan East and Southeast Asian Stereotypes in Western Comedy
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Walter de Gruyter Heidi Und Mehr
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de Gruyter Ästhetische Akte Der Weltordnung
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Kohlhammer Kritik Der Postkolonialen Vernunft: Hin Zu Einer
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Metalmorphosen: Die Unwahrscheinlichen Wandlungen
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Kulturgeschichte der DDR
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Schwabe Verlag GmbH Schreie
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S. Hirzel Verlag In Der Social Media Falle: Wie Wir Unsere
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Tectum Breaking. Popping. Locking.: Tanzformen Der
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Waxmann Verlag GmbH Beyond Style and Genre
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Transcript Verlag Mapping Black Europe – Monuments, Markers,
Book SynopsisBlack communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant societies, as their perspectives are excluded from traditional modes of marking public memory. For the first time in European history, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue - with first-hand knowledge of the eight European capitals in which they live. Highlighting existing monuments, memorials, and urban markers they discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and places relevant to Black European history, which continues to be obscured today.
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Transcript Verlag Interactive Documentary and NonFiction Media
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Iudicium Verlag Ambivalente Identität und Kultur
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Parkett Verlag,Switzerland Parkett 58: Sylvie Fleury, Jason Rhoades, James
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Parkett Verlag Parkett No. 60 Chuck Close, Diana Thater, Luc
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Spector Books Ten Cities: Clubbing in Africa and Europe, 1960 -
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Marta Press UG Das rächende Selbst
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Steidl Publishers Jin-me Yoon
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Divus Punk's Dead
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Damiani Toiletpaper Magazine 19
Book SynopsisToiletpaper is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010, Toiletpaper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.
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Damiani Sound Zero
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BIS Publishers B.V. Always be Yourself Unless You Can Be a Unicorn
Book SynopsisA guide to understanding some of what youngsters -referred to as Generation Y, Millennials, Digital Natives..- say, do and think.
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BIS Publishers B.V. The F***ing History of Swearing
Book SynopsisThis book is a bold and expressively designed treasure trove of information about the history of swearing. With its bold and expressive design, The F***ing History of Swearing is an outstanding visual feast. Swearing is and always has been regarded as undereducated, obscene, rude and profane in society. Yet despite your mum’s best efforts, cussing is mainstream. It’s even more than that, it’s an integrated part of our culture. The number of times we swear is huge. Most often it occurs naturally and you would have to force yourself not to swear. We don’t think twice about shouting the word ‘FUCK’ if we hurt ourselves or miss the bus in the morning. It just happens automatically and that’s where it gets interesting.
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New Heroes & Pioneers The Sketchbook of a Gentleman: Tuscany
Book SynopsisEdwards adventures now take him to Tuscany, Italy. Here we see our Gentleman traveling through the rolling Tuscan countryside experiencing mediaeval hill towns, beautiful landscapes and sumptuous food and Italian lifestyle. The aim of this project is to produce a series of small sketchbooks that give a real flavour of iconic places around the world through the eyes of Edward - our modern gentleman.
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Victionary I KNOW KUNG FU: An Illustrated Tribute to Kung Fu
Book SynopsisInspired by classic kung fu flicks from the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong cult illustrator Rex Koo pays tribute to the heroes from his childhood in I KNOW KUNG FU– an artbook that celebrates the much-loved shows and stars that have made Chinese martial arts into the global pop-culture phenomenon that it is today. Drawing from four popular kung fu movies – “Once Upon a Time in China III”, “Shaolin Soccer”, “Kung Fu Hustle”, and “The Grandmaster” – Koo brings to life the legendary tales and titbits behind fan-favourite fighting techniques such as the “Golden Shield Iron Vest”, “Magic Power of Toad”, and “Tai Chi Fist” in his distinct, nuanced style. Readers can expect over 250 pages of compelling and characterful illustrations depicting featured moves and film stills, before learning more about the actors and producers that have made a mark on local and international kung fu cinema via a special section dedicated to these masters. This book is available in a vivid red or bright yellow; books are shipped to customers at random.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Good Ideas and Power Moves
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Why the Magic Matters
Book SynopsisAlexis Franzese is the Department Chair and an Associate Professor for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Elon University. Her research reflects her expertise in both sociology and psychology, and has been published in numerous journals that include International Journal of Scholarship on Teaching and Learning, Personality and Individual Differences, Sociology Compass, Aging and Mental Health, and others.Jill Peterfeso is the Eli Franklin Craven and Minnie Phipps Craven associate professor of religious studies at Guilford College. She is the author of Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wicked Witch of the West
Book SynopsisLona Bailey, PhD, is a distinguished researcher specializing in the Golden Age of Hollywood, renowned for her biographies including Uncredited: The Life and Career of Actress Virginia Gregg and Voice of Villainy: The Betty Lou Gerson Story among many others. With a PhD and a background as a former therapist, she is dedicated to illuminating the overlooked narratives of women in Hollywood. Her work has earned accolades such as being a finalist in the International Book Awards for Voice of Villainy and winning the Gold Medal Award in Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards Contest in 2023. Dr. Bailey is an Amazon bestselling author and has been featured in outlets like The Wolfe Den Show, Film Daily, and The Los Angeles Tribune. She resides in her home state, Tennessee.
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Insight Editions Harry Potter House Pride: Official Coloring Book Boxed Set
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Insight Editions Harry Potter Flip Pop Hermione Granger
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Insight Editions Harry Potter Sculpted Journal Slytherin
Book SynopsisThis collectible, hardcover journal has an eye-catching sculpted cover featuring intricate, Slytherin-themed artwork from the Harry Potter films.
£19.19
Oxford University Press Memes Monsters and the Digital Grotesque
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The University of Chicago Press Tomorrow Never Knows Rock and Psychedelics in the
Book SynopsisThis work takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered - as if it offered meaning and sustenance, not just escape and entertainment?Trade Review"[A] short, passionate study written from inside the history it tells." - Greil Marcus, salon; "Music historians and social historians understate the interrelations among drugs, rock and roll, and the sixties, in part because most are thoroughly daunted by them as writers and thinkers. Nick Bromell renders them like he's been there and understands them like he's thought long and hard about them afterward. Tomorrow Never Knows reads like the best journalistic criticism both stylistically and interpretively - it's vivid, credible, and original." - Robert Christgau; "Tomorrow Never Knows brings us closer to the heart of what we call the sixties than any other book I know." - Jon Wiener, The Nation; "Bromell is aware of the underside of drug use, but he makes a convincing case that... the Sixties produced a way of seeing the world that succeeding generations can learn from." - Rolling Stone
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Paris Blues
Book SynopsisThe Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene. This book provides an alternative history of African American music and musicians in France.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Globalizing American Studies
Book SynopsisThe discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. But now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? The authors offer a new standard for the field's transnational aspiration.
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The University of Chicago Press A Natural History of the New World The Ecology
Book SynopsisWhat are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball. Drawings on three years of firsthand observation of five Little Leagues, Fine describes how, through organized sport and its accompanying activities, boys learn to play, work, and generally be men.
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The University of Chicago Press Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a
Book SynopsisDrawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing, drinking, and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century.
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University of Chicago Press Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a
Book SynopsisDrawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing, drinking, and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Thug Life Race Gender and the Meaning of HipHop
Book SynopsisHip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and Djing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated break-dancing and graffiti. Focusing on the music's fans - young men, both black and white, this book offers an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people's daily lives.Trade Review"Thug Life is a finely developed and sophisticated analysis of the complex terrain that is hip-hop. Jeffries' interdisciplinary scope is impressive; in addition to cultural criticism, elements of sociology, cultural history, literary criticism, and culture industry analysis inform the book, making it a fascinating read on several levels." - S. Craig Watkins, University of Texas at Austin"
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