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Product Description: Reflecting a growing interest in consumption practices, and particularly relating to food, this cross disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on our (often taken for granted) domestic mealtimes. By unpacking the meal as a set of practices - acquisition, appropriation, appreciation and disposal - it shows the role of the market in such processes by looking at how consumers make sense of marketplace discourses, whether this is how brand discourses influence shopping habits, or how consumers interact with the various spaces of the market...read more
By Elizabeth Parsons (editor)

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9781138817685 | Routledge, April 4, 2016, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Reflecting a growing interest in consumption practices, and particularly relating to food, this cross disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on our (often taken for granted) domestic mealtimes.

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Product Description: Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life―restaurant dining―and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social habits have on our private desires and sense of identity...read more

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9780231167963 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 13, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances.

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9780231167970 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, September 22, 2015), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances.
9780312114329, titled "California Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, the Tough Guys" | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1985), cover price $11.95 | also contains California Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, the Tough Guys | About this edition: Examines the fiction of California authors and discusses the development of a California literary tradition

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By Don Willis (editor)

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9781137408365 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 19, 2015, cover price $100.00

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Product Description: Weizmann: Last Of The Patriarchs
By Richard R. Wilk (editor)

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9780399117183, titled "Weizmann: Last of the Patriarchs" | Book Sales, April 1, 1983, cover price $2.98 | also contains Weizmann: Last of the Patriarchs | About this edition: Weizmann: Last Of The Patriarchs
9780399116056, titled "Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein" | Bookthrift Co, March 1, 1978, cover price $6.98 | also contains Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein | About this edition: Reviews the legendary expatriate American writer, art collector, and saloniste, exploring her public and private endeavors, her relationships with family, friends, and fellow artists, and her impact on twentieth-century art and literature

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By Candice Lowe Swift (editor) and Richard Wilk (editor)

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9781629581262 | Left Coast Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $94.00

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9781629581279 | Left Coast Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $39.95

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A spiritual approach to the simple joys and wonders of a well-cooked meal, this 'philosophy of nourishment' helps readers appreciate the role that food plays in our lives, offering a more contemplative and joyous existence. Original.

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9789812874252 | Springer Verlag, August 11, 2015, cover price $259.00

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9780425163115, titled "The Zen of Food: A Philosophy of Nourishment" | Berkley Pub Group, May 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | also contains The Zen of Food: A Philosophy of Nourishment | About this edition: A spiritual approach to the simple joys and wonders of a well-cooked meal, this 'philosophy of nourishment' helps readers appreciate the role that food plays in our lives, offering a more contemplative and joyous existence.

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9780857855527 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 5, 2015, cover price $86.00

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9780857856647 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 5, 2015, cover price $29.95

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Used Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable.

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9780226228105, titled "Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes & Other Forgotten Foods" | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 14, 2015, cover price $26.00

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9780380763412, titled "Jack Nicholson: The Unauthorized Biography" | Avon Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $4.50 | also contains Jack Nicholson: The Unauthorized Biography | About this edition: Used Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing.

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9780520266452 | Univ of California Pr, November 21, 2013, cover price $39.95

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9780520286313 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, April 3, 2015), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements – including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty – consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency, cooperation, mutual aid, freedom, and responsibility...read more
By Christopher Rosin (editor)

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9781138788497 | Routledge, January 13, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives.

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Product Description: Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served...read more

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9781847889263 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 23, 2015, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Feast!

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9781847889256 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 23, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Feast!

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9781138015111 | 2 edition (Routledge, December 15, 2014), cover price $140.00
9780415965385 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 9, 2009), cover price $140.00

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9781138015128 | 2 edition (Routledge, December 15, 2014), cover price $43.95
9780415965378 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 2, 2009), cover price $35.95

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9780857852328, titled "Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 18, 2014, cover price $99.95

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9780857852335, titled "Food Waste: Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 18, 2014, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities...read more

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9780857854520 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 23, 2015, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050.

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9780857854537 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 23, 2015, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050.

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Product Description: The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict...read more
By Hugo Slim (foreword by)

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9781782384038 | Berghahn Books, September 30, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict.

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9781250019042, titled "But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!: Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry" | St Martins Pr, April 30, 2013, cover price $25.99

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9781250049032, titled "But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!: Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry" | Reprint edition (Griffin, June 10, 2014), cover price $14.99

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Product Description: A collection of essays that explore a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.
By Peter Stupples (editor)

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9781443854917 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, March 15, 2014, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays that explore a range of research topics relating to the representation of food in art and art in food, from iconography and allegory, through class and commensality, to kitchen architecture and haute cuisine.

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Product Description: This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. It is a socio-cultural/ linguistic study of how adults/ children organize their language and bodies to (1) accomplish rituals and performances of commensality (eating together) and food-related actions, (2) taste, describe, identify and assess food, and influence others’ preferences, (3) create and reinforce individual and group identities through past experiences and stories about food, and (4) socialize one another to food practices, affect, taste, gender and health norms...read more

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9789027256430 | John Benjamins Pub Co, January 10, 2014, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.

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Examines the fiction of California authors and discusses the development of a California literary tradition

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9781349064120, titled "California Writers: Jack London John Steinbeck the Tough Guys" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $99.00
9780312114329 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1985), cover price $11.95 | also contains Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity | About this edition: Examines the fiction of California authors and discusses the development of a California literary tradition

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Product Description: We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form meaningful and moral selves through both the consumption and production of material culture in leisure...read more

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9780857854216 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 5, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives.

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9780857854223 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 5, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives.

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