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Book Hungry Ghosts

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  • Author : C J Barker
  • Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
  • Release : 2024-03-28
  • ISBN : 1835740685
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by C J Barker and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.

Book Secret Hunger

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  • Author : Satin Russell
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-05-21
  • ISBN : 9781512034745
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Secret Hunger written by Satin Russell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia, a cafe owner and cook, never regretted forsaking her dreams to finish raising her sisters after the death of their parents. Now grown, they've moved out of the house, leaving Olivia free to pick up where she left off - if she can find the courage to start over. Mason is a Boston police detective recuperating from a tragic incident that left his partner dead. All he wants is to heal and get back to the job of hunting the killer down. The last thing on his mind is romance. Despite their mutual attraction, finding love wasn't in either of their plans. But as their relationship heats up, events begin to happen that make Olivia realize she's drawn a far more sinister kind of attention. Suddenly, she finds herself fighting not only for her dreams, but for her very life."

Book This Hunger Is Secret

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  • Author : Julie Greene
  • Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1849912297
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book This Hunger Is Secret written by Julie Greene and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Hunger

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  • Author : Barry Unsworth
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2012-01-10
  • ISBN : 0307948447
  • Pages : 647 pages

Download or read book Sacred Hunger written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.

Book Hidden Hunger

Download or read book Hidden Hunger written by Aya Hirata Kimura and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields. This hidden hunger was presented as a scientific problem to be solved by "experts" and scientifically engineered smart foods rather than through local knowledge, which was deemed unscientific and, hence, irrelevant.In Hidden Hunger, Aya Hirata Kimura explores this recent emphasis on micronutrients and smart foods within the international development community and, in particular, how the voices of women were silenced despite their expertise in food purchasing and preparation. Kimura grounds her analysis in case studies of attempts to enrich and market three basic foods—rice, wheat flour, and baby food—in Indonesia. She shows the power of nutritionism and how its technical focus enhanced the power of corporations as a government partner while restricting public participation in the making of policy for public health and food. She also analyzes the role of advertising to promote fortified foodstuffs and traces the history of Golden Rice, a crop genetically engineered to alleviate vitamin A deficiencies. Situating the recent turn to smart food in Indonesia and elsewhere as part of a long history of technical attempts to solve the Third World food problem, Kimura deftly analyzes the intersection of scientific expertise, market forces, and gendered knowledge to illuminate how hidden hunger ultimately defined women as victims rather than as active agents.

Book Hidden Hunger

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  • Author : Hans Konrad Biesalski
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-01-18
  • ISBN : 3642339506
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Hidden Hunger written by Hans Konrad Biesalski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Hunger is an increasing problem even in developed countries, whose potential negative consequences on long-term health are often overlooked and underestimated. Chronic malnutrition is at the core of the global hunger challenge facing science, politics, and economics. In plain language and with moving examples, Hans K. Biesalski describes how hidden hunger affects human health long before malnutrition becomes obvious. Worldwide, over one third of deaths among children under 5 years of age is associated with malnutrition. As poverty is the main reason for hidden hunger, addressing this dire challenge requires long-term policies. Land grabbing and climate change seriously counteract a lot of efforts to overcome hidden hunger. This book is a highly impressive call to action. Investment in agriculture and in particular in small-scale farmers to improve subsistence farming are among the approaches suggested to reach a sustainable solution. The author is head of the department of biochemistry and nutrition and managing director of the Food Security Center at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He is a member of numerous advisory and expert groups for the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition.

Book Execution by Hunger  The Hidden Holocaust

Download or read book Execution by Hunger The Hidden Holocaust written by Miron Dolot and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian famine by one of the survivors relates the young Miron Dolot's day-to-day confrontation with despair and death—his helplessness as friends and family were arrested and abused—and his gradual realization, as he matured, of the absolute control the Soviets had over his life and the lives of his people. But it is also the story of personal dignity in the face of horror and humiliation. And it is an indictment of a chapter in the Soviet past that is still not acknowledged by Russian leaders.

Book The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone

Download or read book The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone written by Will Storr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part sinister fairy tale, part gothic horror, this debut novel pulls back the curtain on the celebrity chef’s kitchen, revealing a disturbing world of ambition and brutality. Killian Lone comes from a long line of gifted cooks stretching back to the 17th century, and he yearns to become a famous chef himself. When he starts an apprenticeship under Max Mann, the most famous chef in London, he looks set to continue the family tradition. But the reality of kitchen life is brutal. Even his fellow apprentice, Kathryn, who shows Killian uncharacteristic kindness, can’t stop him being sucked into the vicious and debauched world of 1980s fine dining; and gradually he is forced to surrender his dream. Then he discovers a dark family secret – the legacy of an ancestor who was burnt as a witch for creating food so delicious it was said to turn all who tasted it mad. Killian knows he can use this secret to achieve his ambitions and maybe, finally, to win Kathryn's affections. But is he willing to pay the price?

Book The Hunger Fix

Download or read book The Hunger Fix written by Pamela Peeke and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body’s built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure: Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship, and even the continued propagation of the human race are driven by this system. Unfortunately, so is the urge to overeat. In The Hunger Fix, Dr. Pam Peeke uses the latest neuroscience to explain how unhealthy food and behavioral "fixes" have gotten us ensnared in a vicious cycle of overeating and addiction. She even shows that dopamine rushes in the body work exactly the same way with food as with cocaine. Luckily, we are all capable of rewiring, and the very same dopamine-driven system can be used to reward us for healthful, exciting, and fulfilling activities. The Hunger Fix lays out a science-based, three-stage plan to break the addiction to false fixes and replace them with healthier actions. Fitness guides, meal plans, and recipes are constructed to bolster the growth of new neurons and stimulate the body’s reward system. Gradually, healthy fixes like meditating, going for a run, laughing, and learning a new language will replace the junk food, couch time, and other bad habits that leave us unhappy and overweight. Packed with practical tips, useful advice, and plenty of wit, wisdom, and inspiring stories of those who have successfully transformed their bodies, The Hunger Fix is a life-changing program for anyone (of any size) trapped by food obsession and the urge to overeat.

Book Skin Hunger

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  • Author : Kathleen Duey
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-09-30
  • ISBN : 0689840942
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Skin Hunger written by Kathleen Duey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a world where magic is outlawed, Sadima's special gift to speak to the animals binds her to two young men who are determined to restore magic to their poor village in order to save the people they love. Reprint.

Book Dark Hunger

Download or read book Dark Hunger written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juliette, a beautiful activist dedicated to freeing caged animals from a secret jungle lab, unwittingly releases Riordan, a caged, insatiable, and immortal Carpathian thirsting for revenge against his captors.

Book The Hunger

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  • Author : Joseph K Little
  • Publisher : 9739 Publishing LLC
  • Release : 2020-12-27
  • ISBN : 1949905004
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Hunger written by Joseph K Little and published by 9739 Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining urban fantasy and horror, The Hunger follows a young homeless girl, Charlotte, as she tries to survive 'life' in 1814's Paris. Charlotte quickly finds that starving on the streets of Paris is not the worst fate that could befall a young lady. Horror such she has never imagined lurks just below the city's streets. When she finally emerges from the catacombs, she is beaten, battered, and dead. With giant hooks still piercing her legs, Charlotte tries to blend in with those around her constantly in fear of being discovered as a ghoul, an ever-hungry monster. As she tries to 'live' a normal life on her own terms, she finds the task more and more difficult. Will she succeed at living on her own terms, or will she succumb to the constant whisperings of Hunger incarnate?

Book Cures for Hunger

Download or read book Cures for Hunger written by Deni Ellis Béchard and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his father abandons him as a child, the author, now grown, begins an obsession with his father's life of crime that nearly became his own undoing.

Book The Atrocity of Hunger

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  • Author : Helene J. Sinnreich
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-02-16
  • ISBN : 100911767X
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book The Atrocity of Hunger written by Helene J. Sinnreich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the Germans put the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland into ghettos which restricted their movement and, most crucially for their survival, access to food. The Germans saw the Jews as 'useless eaters,' and denied them sufficient food for survival. The hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. This book focuses on the Jews in the Łódź, Warsaw, and Kraków ghettos as they struggled to survive the deadly Nazi ghetto and, in particular, the genocidal famine conditions. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they attempted to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. In this book, Helene Sinnreich explores their story, drawing from diaries and first-hand accounts of the victims and survivors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Book Unending Hunger

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  • Author : Marisa Chenery
  • Publisher : Marisa Chenery
  • Release : 2017-08-07
  • ISBN : 1988659221
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Unending Hunger written by Marisa Chenery and published by Marisa Chenery. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three in the Ra's Chosen Series Reincarnated Hunger Unlike his fellow warriors, Kysen already had found his mate—the woman who’d stirred his blood like no other, but he’d been mortal at the time. When she’d died, he’d vowed to never love again. Cena is disappointed in men. Perhaps reading too many romance novels has done her in, but no man lives up to what she’s read…and dreamed. Foreseen Hunger Takan has hidden who he is for three thousand years, but the time for secrecy is coming to an end. He knows it, and more importantly, Ra knows it. Falon lost her love years ago to the bite of an undead and has spent her nights hunting the creatures ever since. She kisses Takan and discovers his fangs, and does what any warrior girl would do—she stabs him. Ra's Hunger After watching all his warriors find their mates, Ra wants nothing more than to find his. How hard could it be? He’s an Egyptian god, for crying out loud. Women should fall at his feet—and into his bed. Shanda doesn’t want a man right now. No way, no how. When a sexy stranger shows up at her museum, her sex-starved body doesn’t care. It wants him…posthaste. She might have a chance in hell of resisting him, if he’d only stop kissing her.

Book A Certain Hunger

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  • Author : Chelsea G. Summers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-07-07
  • ISBN : 9780571372324
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book A Certain Hunger written by Chelsea G. Summers and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunger

Download or read book Hunger written by Roxane Gay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.