"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world. From the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations, to the middlemen and processors, to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about how the drink reached their hands, here is a commodity that ties the world together. This is a great little book that helps students apply anthropological concepts and theories to their everyday lives, learn how historical events and processes have shaped the modern world and the contexts of their lives, and how consumption decisions carry ramifications for our health, the environment, the reproduction of social inequality, and the possibility of supporting equity, sustainability and social justice.

Product Description: Coffee: Emerging Health Benefits and Disease Prevention presents a comprehensive overview of the recent scientific advances in the field. The book focuses on the following topics: coffee constituents; pro- and antioxidant properties of coffee constituents; bioavailability of coffee constituents; health benefits and disease prevention effects of coffee; and potential negative impacts on health...read more

Product Description: This book presents current research in the study of caffeine consumption and health. Topics discussed in this compilation include the neuroprotective effects of caffeine; how chronic caffeine improves cardiac recovery following hypoxia; the role of cytochrome P450 in caffeine-herb interactions; the effects of caffeine on attention and motor performance and hypertension; caffeine use in sports and caffeine consumption; and, changes in the function of dopaminergic transmission...read more

Reveals how this natural amphetamine wreaks havoc upon the body by increasing the risk of certain kinds of cancer, PMS, heart disease, and ulcers, and includes strategies for reducing caffeine intake and increasing energy

Product Description: Save the coffee planet! How? Why? We live in a world with an estimated population of 6 billion people from which 0, 6 billion, an impressive 10% of the world's population, is dependent on the coffee agriculture and industry for their living...read more

Product Description: Countless numbers of people turn to their cups of coffee in the mornings to get them going. Caffeine gives them that burst of energy and the mental edge they need to make the most of their day. Others use caffeine to boost sports performance and even as a weight-loss aid...read more

Product Description: This text provides a comprehensive introduction to current thinking on language acquisition. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the foundations of linguistic inquiry, the book covers the acquisition of specific aspects of language from birth to about age 6...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this volume, leading international investigators provide an objective view of the physiological and behavioural effects of coffee and its relationship to various diseases, including cancer. The book begins with a survey of coffee consumption and analyses of the composition of coffee, the metabolism of caffeine and other components of coffee, and the mechanism of action of caffeine...read more