Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how au...(展开全部)

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists: Ken Binmore Philippa Foot Harry Frankfurt Allan Gibbard Daniel Kahneman Frances...(展开全部)

How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another? What makes one orgasm different from another? Who will be the winner in the geneti...(展开全部)

哈洛德·马基，世界知名的食物化学和烹饪权威，先后在加州理工学院和耶鲁大学攻读物理学和英国文学。 《食物与厨艺》系列丛书于1984年首度出版，被《时代》杂志誉为“小巨作”； 2004年完成第二版修订，增补了2/3的内容，同年被国际专业厨师学会（IACP）及餐饮界权威詹姆士·比尔基金会（James Beard Foundation）评选为最佳食物类参考用书； 2005年，美国美食杂志Bon Appétit 推举哈洛德·马基为年度美食作家； 2008年，哈洛德·马基名列《时代》杂志的世界百大影响人物。 哈洛德·马基的其他著作包括The World Book Encyclopedia、Nature、Food&Wine、Fine Cooking。他目前还担任《纽约时报》的专栏作家。 哈洛德·马基的文章常见于《科学》期刊、《世界百科全书》《纽约时报》。 他在美国...(展开全部)

作者:(美)加里·保罗·纳卜汉 译者:秋凉 加里·保罗·纳卜汉是一位享有国际声誉的自然作家，长期致力于保护生物多样性与社会文化多样性。包括《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》在内的许多著名杂志都评价他为本地化饮食运动的先驱，并认为他在保护社区文化与食物多样性方面做出了创造性的贡献。作为亚利桑那大学西南中心凯洛格讲座教授，纳卜汉长期在美国与墨西哥边境从事建立可持续食物生态系统的研究。他也是最早提出通过饮食治疗来控制糖尿病的学者。纳卜汉同时拥有一个小型农场，用于实践自己关于可持续食物生态系统的理论。纳卜汉著述颇丰，多部作品被翻译成阿拉伯语、西班牙语、意大利语、法语、韩语、日语等多国文字在世界范围内传播，并获得了麦克阿瑟天才奖、兰南文学奖等多项大奖。秋凉，本名季星，毕业于上海交通大学医学院，现任上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院产前诊断实验室主任，上海市儿科医学研究所细...(展开全部)

Review “Here at last is a comprehensive, thoroughly absorbing reader on contemporary culinary tastes and techniques. No student of food, globalization, or political economy can afford to overlook this valuable collection.” Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley “A fascinating collection of essays that ranges from everyday food consumption to the global politics of ...(展开全部)

According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov—librarian, religious philosopher, and progenitor of Russian cosmism—our ethical obligation to use reason and knowledge to care for the sick extends to curing the dead of their terminal status. The dead must be brought back to life using means of advanced technology—resurrected not as souls in heaven, but in materi...(展开全部)

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America. Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six. This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cove...(展开全部)