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The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating
The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating

"The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspiracy theories, and old wives' tales. This irreverent and intelligent expose brings sanity and good sense to one of life's great pleasures." ―Steven Pinker, author of Angels of Our Better Nature

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City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11
City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11

The World Trade Center’s destruction unleashed one of the gravest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Now, former NY Times Ground Zero reporter Anthony DePalma presents a full accounting of the disaster that followed 9/11. He separates myths from reality…reveals decisions that destroyed...

Frommer's Caribbean 2011 (Frommer's Complete)
Frommer's Caribbean 2011 (Frommer's Complete)

In the Caribbean, you can hike through national parks and scuba dive along underwater mountains. But if your idea of the perfect island vacation is to plunk yourself down on the sands with a frosted drink in hand, you can do that, too. Whetheryou want a veranda with a view of the sea or a plantation house set in a field of sugar...

Smart Is the New Rich: If You Can't Afford It, Put It Down
Smart Is the New Rich: If You Can't Afford It, Put It Down

A practical way to think about money today

Author and CNN veteran money correspondent Christine Romans believes we should live by three qualifiers: living within our means, living with less debt, and being less vulnerable. While some may say this is old-fashioned, today it's hard to argue with Romans' view.

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Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition
Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition

Beginning Fedora Desktop: Fedora 20 Edition is a complete guide to using the Fedora 20 Desktop Linux release as your daily driver for multimedia, productivity, social networking, the GNOME 3 desktop, administrative tasks, and more. Author and Linux expert Richard Petersen delves into the operating system as a whole and offers you a...

The Little Book on CoffeeScript
The Little Book on CoffeeScript

This concise book shows JavaScript developers how to build superb web applications with CoffeeScript, the remarkable language that’s gaining considerable interest. Through example code, this guide demonstrates how CoffeeScript abstracts JavaScript, providing syntactical sugar and preventing many common errors. You’ll...

The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption

The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour—so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant...

Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms (Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease)
Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms (Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease)

Diabetes has long been recognized as a disease of high blood sugar, and there has been a continuous search of the exact reason for its development and effective treatment. In 2005, the World Health Organization had estimated that more than 180 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes mellitus and indicated that this figure is likely to...

Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again
Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again

From the doctor whose “extraordinary practice is at the vanguard of a revolutionary way to deliver medical care” (O, The Oprah Magazine), an easy program to restore energy and health.

Do you feel unusually exhausted?
Do you have trouble sleeping?
Does your digestion bother you?
Do
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Waste Recycling Technologies for Nanomaterials Manufacturing (Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)
Waste Recycling Technologies for Nanomaterials Manufacturing (Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)
This book discusses the recent advances in the wastes recycling technologies to provide low-cost and alternative ways for nanomaterials production. It shows how carbon nanomaterials can be synthesized from different waste sources such as banana fibers, argan (Argania spinosa) seed shells, corn grains, camellia oleifera shell, sugar cane...
Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South Asia)
Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South Asia)
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his...
Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science
Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science
More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee might be swayed. In such inviting circumstances, the mob moved into boxing in the 1930s and profited by corrupting a sport ripe for...
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