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Pages: 392
Authors: Mark McWilliams
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford Symposium

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Contains essays on food and material culture presented at the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Food and the Self
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Isabelle de Solier
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern live
Food Waste
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: David M. Evans
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-23 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as
Objectifying China, Imagining America
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Caroline Frank
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is n
Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Craig Muldrew
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' d