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Explores how modern food manufacturers have hijacked the brains of millions by turning our meals into perfectly engineered portions of fat, salt and sugar, turning us into addicts in the process. With a focus on the problems in the UK and Europe, this title lays out a plan and tools for reclaiming control over our cravings.

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Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. This is the revised, updated edition in which Damian Thompson tackles subjects such as the millennium dome and the millennium bug;

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This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, socially conscious lyrics and a new authenticity.

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A lively and engaging read, The English Breakfast explores the history of England's culinary masterpiece from its early form, via its heyday in the Victorian and Edward eras through to the modern day all-day-breakfasts in a tin.

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Focuses on popular American entertainment. This book covers six forms of entertainment: vaudeville, recorded sound, radio, movies, television, and spectator sports. It is intended for students and general readers interested in the development and history of one of the largest and most lucrative industries.

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Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges.

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Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges.

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Offers an informative look at the popularity of the Renaissance in 19th- and 20th-century America. This book explores the kinship that modern Americans feel with the period and the concept, and how they admire its creativity, beauty, and elegance. It also shows how Americans have embraced the 16th century as a model of culture and sophistication.

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The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the schizophrenic split theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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Presents a 'Flaneur's eye view' of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafes and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. This book provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in 'le vieux Paris'.

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Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance.

In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.

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Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.

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This indispensable reader maps a comprehensive and global study of food through key sources in folklore, unpacked with expert commentary and student-focused learning features.

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This indispensable reader maps a comprehensive and global study of food through key sources in folklore, unpacked with expert commentary and student-focused learning features.

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With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest amongst scholars and the public, the need for a comprehensive collection of primary texts is urgent. This is the definitive reader, spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the present.

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With the proliferation of food history courses and avid interest amongst scholars and the public, the need for a comprehensive collection of primary texts is urgent. This is the definitive reader, spanning the globe from classical antiquity to the present.