This book is an ideal teaching manual for high school agriscience and consumer science programs, as well as for post-secondary food science courses. It is an excellent overview for anyone interested in attaining a basic understanding of food science.

There are few events in anyone’s life that rival the significance and the joy of childbirth. This new person you’re bringing into the world will become so important to you that you’ll do anything to nurture and protect him or her. Your interest in this book reflects your eagerness to form this unbreakable bond right from the start — to do all you can to help ensure a healthy pr...(展开全部)

There are few events in anyone’s life that rival the significance and the joy of childbirth. This new person you’re bringing into the world will become so important to you that you’ll do anything to nurture and protect him or her. Your interest in this book reflects your eagerness to form this unbreakable bond right from the start — to do all you can to help ensure a healthy pr...(展开全部)

The Pregnancy Encyclopedia is an engaging and accessible question-and-answer guide to some of the most commonly asked questions about pregnancy, packed with full-color photographs and illustrations. The Pregnancy Encyclopedia has answers to all your questions—including the ones you haven't even thought of yet. Top experts in the field offer encyclopedic coverage of the topics r...(展开全部)

《西尔斯怀孕百科》是一本孕育新生命的权威百科全书。书中按照怀孕的月份一步步展示了子宫内发生的神奇变化，总结了准妈妈应知的所有事项，包括：在宝宝成长的同时，你会经历生理和心理上的哪些变化；对于产科检查、分娩方式等疑虑的专业解答；怎样做一个快乐的怀孕上班族；从克服害喜到控制阵痛的各种实用妙招，等等。书中从始至终都传达了一个理念：怀孕是自然而美好的生理过程，只要掌握了相关知识，放松心情，就应该能拥有一次美好的怀孕与分娩经历！ America's foremost baby and childcare experts tell you what to expect, month by month, from conception through birth In this uniquely authoritative and comprehensive g...(展开全部)

Hailed as the “patron saint of farmers’ markets” by the Guardian and called one of the “great food activists” by Vanity Fair’s David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view “real food.” A vital and original contribution to the hot debate about what to eat and why, Real Food is a thoroughly researched rebuttal to dietary fads and a clarion call for the retu...(展开全部)

Italians love to talk about food. The aroma of a simmering ragú , the bouquet of a local wine, the remembrance of a past meal: Italians discuss these details as naturally as we talk about politics or sports, and often with the same flared tempers. In Why Italians Love to Talk About Food , Elena Kostioukovitch explores the phenomenon that first struck her as a newcomer to It...(展开全部)

This thought-provoking study makes an important contribution to the exploration of the relationship between medicine and culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, advice books for women, medico-social texts, literature and popular culture, Clare Hanson explores the changing ways in which pregnancy has been interpreted and understood over the last 2...(展开全部)

吉莉安•莱利，英国当代著名美食作家，知名食物史研究者，意大利美食的忠实拥趸。毕业于剑桥大学历史专业的她，某次去意大利公干时，却不可救药地爱上了当地美食，并从此矢志不渝。她已出版了多部关于美食和饮食文化史的著作。

马文・哈里斯是当代著名的人类学家，先后出版了二十多种专著，其中《文化唯物主义》和《文化的起源》等，在20世纪80年代均有了中译本。他的著述风格十分鲜明，观点独到，视野开阔，高深而又平易，雄辩而又详实。 马文・哈里斯的研究思路代表着学术发展的一种前沿方向，即从自然科学与人文社会科学的结合部上去探索，动用各种可能的学科资源去求解人与文化之谜。《好吃：食物与文化之谜》正是这种方法的极好例证。