The 6th edition of this well-established book bridges the gap between the scientific principles on which good nutrition is based and the day-to-day practice of 'healthy eating'. The basic chemical natures of the important food groups are outlined together with the changes which occur when food is cooked, processed and eaten. The relationship between good nutrition and good health is emphasised, with accurate and up-to-date information about this critically important subject. Although principally intended for students of food science and nutrition, catering and health subjects, it will be of interest and value to all those concerned about improving diet.

Food Science, Nutrition & Health, 6th Edition

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Cameron, Allan

Fox, Brian

Thrillers & Suspense

CRC-Press

Old Age and Other Essays

This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Amery, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times. Born in 1909, Bobbio has lived through the major events of the past century, and his experiences of Fascism, Communism and the Cold War lend his reflections a melancholy that distinguishes them from earlier eulogies on old age and death. Bobbio's conclusions are often sobering, yet his investigation into memory and mortality is written with both humour and emotion.    In the opening chapter, Bobbio reassesses the notion of progress from the perspective of an old man. Arguing for an understanding of historical change as the transfer between generations, Bobbio explains how the elderly are increasingly marginalized in contemporary society. Referring to the traditional idea of old age as the 'age of wisdom', Bobbio argues that our ever-accelerating technological progress has dramatically shifted the power of knowledge from old to young. This discussion of old age as a social problem is accompanied by a reflection on old age as a personal predicament. In his elegant and lucid prose, Bobbio confronts the facts of decrepitude and death. In taking stock of his life, he argues once again for the importance of democracy and human rights.   This is a beautifully written book that will be of great interest to the academic and general reader alike. Its intellectual content renders it of particular value to students in the fields of philosophy, politics and the social sciences.

Biographies & Memoirs

Bobbio, Norberto

Leaders & Notable People

Polity Pr

The Future of the Classical

Every era has invented a different idea of the 'classical' tocreate its own identity. Thus the 'classical' does not concern onlythe past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of thefuture. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in whichwe have related to our 'classical' past, starting with post-modernAmerican skyscrapers and working his way back through our culturalhistory to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves.Settis argues that this obsession with cultural decay, ruins and a'classical' past is specifically European and the product of acollective cultural trauma following the collapse of the RomanEmpire. This situation differed from that of the Aztec and Incaempires whose collapse was more sudden and more complete, and fromthe Chinese Empire which always enjoyed a high degree ofcontinuity. He demonstrates how the idea of the 'classical' haschanged over the centuries through an unrelenting decay of'classicism' and its equally unrelenting rebirth in an alteredform. In the Modern Era this emulation of the 'ancients' by the 'moderns'was accompanied by new trends: the increasing belief that theformer had now been surpassed by the latter, and an increasingpreference for the Greek over the Roman. These conflictinginterpretations were as much about the future as they were aboutthe past. No civilization can invent itself if it does not haveother societies in other times and other places to act asbenchmarks. Settis argues that we will be better equipped to mould newgenerations for the future once we understand that the 'classical'is not a dead culture we inherited and for which we can take nocredit, but something startling that has to be re-created every dayand is a powerful spur to understanding the 'other'.

Settis, Salvatore

Literature & Fiction

Polity

In this elegant book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to the 'classical' past. He argues that we will be better equipped for the future once we understand that the 'classical' is not a dead culture, but something startling that has to be re-created every day.

Allan Cameron's latest book about language, languages, writing and printing is the distillation of a lifetime of experiencing and dealing with these issues through a variety of jobs. For him, language is not simply the essence of what is to be human - it is a ""gift from history"" or part of an entity built up over centuries that governs our thinking and is implanted in our brains by society. He calls this entity the ""social mind"".

In Praise of the Garrulous

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Vagabound Voices Pub Ltd

Presbyopia: Selected Poems

Poetry

Vagabond Voices

Allan Cameron's intriguing novel is set in a near future where the predictions of the US theorist Francis Fukuyama have been taken to their logical conclusions. Fukuyama declared that, with the collapse of the USSR and the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism, history has come to an end. In Cameron's book, history has indeed been halted by decree and the citizens live in a permanent present of spurious consumer choice and endless material consumption, their bovine lives ruled by the embedding of Rational Consumer Implant Cards in their brains. A cardless underclass exists in the Fukuyama Theme Parks, vast squalid concentration camps on the outskirts of cities. At the pinnacle of this society sit those lucky individuals who, because of their dedicated pursuit of stupendous wealth, are awarded the Plutocratic Social Gratitude Award, popularly nicknamed the Berlusconi Bonus as it effectively puts the recipient beyond the law. The book takes the form of a confession by Adolphus Hibbert, a recent beneficiary of the Berlusconi Bonus, who is recruited by the sinister secret police officer Captain Younce to spy on dissident elements. Adolphus embarks on a dizzying journey among the clandestine opposition, in which he finds love, betrayal and violence; discovering terrifying truths about himself and his society.

The Berlusconi Bonus: The First Draft of Adolphus Hibbert's Confession

Humor & Satire

These short stories tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told in different keys, and some characters appear in more than one story. The subject matter also shifts from the social to the political, and the tone becomes increasingly pessimistic. An Algerian immigrant worker in Italy invents a novel way to redistribute wealth; a female academic finds the path to success to be less difficult than she expected; a high-flyer in the financial markets perceives the glories of a selfish existence; a dying writer considers how he abandoned relationships to follow his art; a dead man rejects the tediousness of heaven; a thug is haunted by his selfish instincts; an essayist pronounces, and an author kills off his character. The plot in one short story distinguishes it from all the others: ""A Dream of Justice"" is the scenario for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine, and examines how this might play out. This, it is suggested, is not just a ""least worst"" solution; it is also the only one in which people can go through the process of rediscovering their common humanity, albeit a process that is long and generational.

Can the Gods Cry?

Genre Fiction

This book deals with the origins of language to argue its centrality to humanity and the naturalness of bilingualism and multilingualism, but also examines how writing and printing built on that centrality to develop the ""social mind"" - the sum of knowledge within any given society. All the arguments are couched in a skeptical approach, and the author principally wants to initiate a debate rather than give a defining analysis of a complex subject. ""This self-described ""rant"" has some persuasive elements, especially in Cameron's discussion of the chances that Gaelic will survive in Scotland and his encouragement to raise children to be multilingual.""--Library Journal June 1, 2014

A work in three parts, which starts with aphorisms in "How Not to Be a Ruminant," shifts to essays in "Weights and Counterweights," and concludes with poetry in "By the Metre." Some arguments appear in more than one section, and include nationalism, class, free will, religion, literature, and the arts, but the theme of human relationships runs through the entire book.

Things Written Randomly in Doubt (Vagabonds)

Essays & Correspondence

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Food Science, Nutrition & Health, 6th Edition

Old Age and Other Essays

The Future of the Classical

The Future of the Classical

In Praise of the Garrulous

Presbyopia: Selected Poems

The Berlusconi Bonus: The First Draft of Adolphus Hibbert's Confession

Can the Gods Cry?

In Praise of the Garrulous

Things Written Randomly in Doubt (Vagabonds)