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Out There
Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside’s true gift is in chronicling misadventure. That’s the common thread among the stories found in Out There—those memorable tales that begin with the promise that, even if no one’s life is necessarily hanging in the balance, something may go horribly awry at any moment, and that documenting this misfortune will inevitably yield rich comedic material or a surprisingly poignant moment. Or sometimes both. Out There chronicles fringe athletes, fitness freaks, and others obsessed by ill-advised dreams. It takes us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go. What ties this collection together are the incredible voices of legendary Outside contributors such as David Quammen, Tim Cahill, Susan Orlean, Wells Tower, Christopher Solomon, Patrick Symmes, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Nick Paumgarten, and many others, who turn their subjects into literary gold and have helped to keep Outside in business for more than forty years.
The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism
This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse. A vegan practice may help mitigate crises such as climate change, global health challenges, and sharpening socioeconomic disparities, by ensuring both fairness in the treatment of animals and food justice for marginalized populations. How the message is spread is crucial for these aims. Vegan practices thus uncover tensions between individual dietary choices and social justice activism, between ego and eco, between human and animal, between capitalism and environmentalism, and within the larger universe of theoretical and practical ethics. The chapters apply rhetorical methodologies to understand vegan/vegetarian discourse, e...
Health Freaks
Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought "fad" diets--such as the notorious Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze--to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens. Drawing on novel archival sources and a wide variety of popular media, Weisse shows the lengths to which twentieth-century American dieters went to heal themselves outside the borders of orthodox medicine and the subsequent political and scientific backlash they received. Through colorful profiles of the leaders of four major diet movements, Health Freaks demonstrates that these diet gurus weren't shady snake oil salesmen preying on the vulnerable; rather, they were vocal champions for millions of frustrated Americans seeking longer, healthier lives.
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Many Mouths
"In 1968 Magnus Pyke argued that what "human communities choose to eat is only partly dependent on their physiological requirements, and even less on intellectual reasoning and a knowledge of what these physiological requirements are." Pyke, a nutritional scientist who had worked under the Chief Scientific Advisor to Britain's Ministry of Food during the Second World War, illustrated his point by recounting that in preparing the nation for war, military officials had demanded that land be allocated to grow gherkins. They had insisted, Pyke recalled, that the British soldier "could not fight without a proper supply of pickles to eat with his cold meat." The Ministry of War had apparently been...
Another Person’s Poison
To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. Another Person's Poison parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. For most of the twentieth century, food allergies were considered a fad or junk science. While many physicians and clinicians argued that certain foods could cause a range of chronic problems, from asthma and eczema to migraines and hyperactivity, others...
A Day in the Life of an American Worker [2 volumes]
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States. A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern "space age"—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States. Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories...
Bilder der Wandlung
In diesem Band werden acht Spielfilme untersucht, deren Hauptfiguren in kurzer Zeit, d.h. über wenige Wochen bis zu eineinhalb Jahren, einen grundlegenden charakterlichen Wandlungsprozess erleben. Es wird eine Palette typologischer, filmischer Gestaltungsmittel herausgearbeitet, die als Visualisierungsmuster für Prozesse des Scheiterns und der Reifung eingesetzt werden. Spezifische Gestaltungsweisen von z.B. Kostüm, Schauplätzen und Blickweisen der Kamera, aber auch in der narrativen Konstruktion, der Wissensgabe und Zeitdarstellung zählen zu den typologisierbaren Visualisierungselementen für charakterliche Wandlungsprozesse. Die zentralen Erkenntnisse dieser Studie eröffnen innovative Perspektiven auf filmische Gestaltung - sowohl für die Filmpraxis (Drehbuchautoren, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Szenografen, Produzenten u.a.) als auch für die Film- und Medienwissenschaft.
The Decade That Rocked
“I have read pretty much every rock 'n' roll biography there is worth reading, and you never know what to expect when you pick up a new book. Well, let me tell you Mark Weiss has raised the bar for rock 'n' roll books with The Decade That Rocked. Mark has always been at the top of his field, and the level of detail and quality put into this book is the ultimate testament to his rock n' roll photographic legacy.” – Sebastian Bach “Mark is the real deal. He may not play the guitar, but that camera is his guitar. He’s a rockstar.” – Gene Simmons "Mark’s energy, his creativity, his drive, his positive attitude and his enthusiasm that make him one of the legends of rock photograph...
Der weiße Stern
Band 2 der großen Auswanderersaga im Amerika des 19. Jahrhunderts von Bestseller-Autorin Iny Lorentz! Gisela und Walther hat es bei ihrer Flucht aus Preußen in die mexikanische Provinz Tejas (Texas) verschlagen. Gisela erwartet ihr erstes Kind, während ihr Mann bald schon Bekanntschaft mit den gefürchteten Komantschen macht. Als Gisela einen Sohn zur Welt bringt, erweist sich der friedliche Kontakt mit diesem Stamm als höchst hilfreich, denn Walther kann den Komantschen die junge Nizhoni abkaufen, die den kleinen Josef stillen soll. Die junge Indianerin fürchtet sich vor Walther, mit Gisela aber verbindet sie bald eine tiefe Freundschaft, die sich in vielen Schwierigkeiten bewährt. Al...
