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Book Weighing Up Australian Values

Download or read book Weighing Up Australian Values written by Brian Howe and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk, and discusses new directions in social policy to anticipate and help people address risk.

Book Weighing In

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Guthman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-10-06
  • ISBN : 0520266242
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Weighing In written by Julie Guthman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bold, compelling challenge to conventional thinking about obesity and its fixes, Weighing In is one of the most important books on food politics to hit the shelves in a long time." —Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History "Weighing In is filled with counterintuitive surprises that should make us skeptics of all kinds of food -- whether local, fast, slow, junk or health -- but also gives us the practical tools to effectively scrutinize the stale buffet of popularly-accepted health wisdom before we digest it." —Paul Robbins, professor of Geography and Development, University of Arizona "If you liked Michael Pollan, this should be your next read. Guthman gives us the research behind the questions we should be asking, but, falling all over ourselves in the rush to consensus, we have overlooked. A self-described Berkeley foodie, Guthman takes on the self-satisfaction of the alternative food movement and places it in rich context, drawing on research in health, economics, labor, agriculture, sociology, and politics. This marvelous, surprising book is a true game-changer in our national conversation about food and justice." —Anna Kirkland, author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood “This groundbreaking book calls into question the ubiquitous claim that ‘good food’ will solve the social and health dilemmas of today. Combining political economic analysis, cultural critique, and clear explanation of scientific discoveries, the author challenges our deeply held convictions about society, food, bodies, and environments.” —Becky Mansfield, editor of Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations "Step back from that farmer's market -- Guthman shows us that good foods and good eating are not enough. By questioning the fuzzy facts on obesity, the impact of environment, and capitalism's relentless push to consume, Weighing In challenges us to think harder, and better, about what it really takes to be healthy in the modern age." —Carolyn de la Peña, author of Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweetener from Saccharin to Splenda

Book Weighing Goods

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Broome
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 111945123X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Weighing Goods written by John Broome and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism. Topics considered include the nature of teleological ethics, the foundations of decision theory, the value of equality and the moral significance of a person's continuing identity through time.

Book Gleanings in Bee Culture

Download or read book Gleanings in Bee Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Weighing Reasons

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  • Author : Errol Lord
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 0199315205
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Weighing Reasons written by Errol Lord and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology. A major attraction of normative reasons is that they have weight or strength. Reasons are particular considerations that count in favor of actions or attitudes to some degree. This feature is attractive to theorists who want to explain more complex normative phenomena in terms of a notion that is weighted. This volume aims to provide the beginnings for a theory of weight. The fourteen new essays fall into three groups. One set of essays addresses questions about the nature of weight. Topics include the relations between reasons and conditions and modifiers, between reasons and other weighted notions such as commitments, and different models of the interaction of reasons. A second set of essays addresses substantive questions: questions about weight relevant to value-first, desire-first, evidence-first and other normative research programs. A third set of essays applies issues in the theory of weight to broader ethical debates. The book thus not only makes novel contributions to debates in ethics and epistemology about the nature of normative reasons and their weight, it also makes a strong case for the theoretical fruitfulness of the ideology of normative reasons.

Book Railway World

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1054 pages

Download or read book Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Elephant in the Room

Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).

Book Board of Trade Journal of Tariff and Trade Notices

Download or read book Board of Trade Journal of Tariff and Trade Notices written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Commerce Weekly

Download or read book Foreign Commerce Weekly written by United States. Department of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Weighing and Measurement

Download or read book Weighing and Measurement written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Weighing and Reasoning

Download or read book Weighing and Reasoning written by Iwao Hirose and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Broome has made major contributions to, and radical innovations in, contemporary moral philosophy. His research combines the formal method of economics with philosophical analysis. Broome's works stretch over formal axiology, decision theory, philosophy of economics, population axiology, the value of life, the ethics of climate change, the nature of rationality, and practical and theoretical reasoning. Weighing and Reasoning brings together fifteen original essays from leading philosophers who have been influenced by the work and thought of John Broome. It aims to offer a comprehensive evaluation of Broome's wide-ranging and far-reaching philosophical works over the past thirty years. The volume comprises two parts. The first part is focused on Broome's work on the theory of value, as exemplified in his books Weighing Goods, Weighing Lives, Economics out of Economics, and Climate Matters. The second part is focused on his work on practical and theoretical reasoning, which culminated in his Rationality through Reasoning. This volume also includes a piece by Broome on his intellectual history to date.

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trade Agreement Between the United States and Mexico

Download or read book Trade Agreement Between the United States and Mexico written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclop  dia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A High Stiffness Electromagnetic Weighing System

Download or read book A High Stiffness Electromagnetic Weighing System written by Hiram Gene Slottow and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada

Download or read book Report of the Minister of Agriculture for the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colombian Trade Review

Download or read book The Colombian Trade Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: