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)

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。

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。

迈可·麦斯特森（Michael Masterson）是一位成功的企业家，他经营过的企业涉及多个行业领域，零售、批发、广告等等，四十年的创业努力让他拥有过亿的资产。同时，他还是一位成功学家。多年来他一直在为别人讲课，传授创业、投资、理财等

当今，已经没有什么事儿会比吃什么喝什么还让美国人焦虑的问题了。鸡蛋是最好的蛋白质吗，或者是胆固醇炸弹吗？红酒对我的心脏有益还是对我的肝脏有害？农药、添加剂和食物生产过程会杀死我吗？在这里，食物历史学家哈维·莱文斯坦(Harvey Levenstein) 给出了很少见和受欢迎的建议：不必担心！ 在本书中，莱文斯坦揭露了产生和利用这些忧虑的人和利益方如何导致相当一部分美国人在陈述自己选择食品时的恐惧已经压倒了快乐。他讲述了一些卓越科学家曾警告人们食物含有致命细菌和毒物的故事，以及他们的继承者如何指责在食品加工的过程中剥夺了哪些重要的维生素和矿物质。这些人包括诺贝尔奖获得者梅契尼科夫(Eli Metchnikoff)，他认为酸奶将杀死在人们肠子里威胁生命的细菌，而使人活到140岁。埃尔默·科勒姆(Elmer McCollum)是维生素的发现者，他警告说如何...(展开全部)

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works. Debunking the great myths of the body, and systematically explaining why dieting is cou...(展开全部)

About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental, and ethical reasons not to waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, or food insecurity. Together, this food waste accounts for about eight percent of the ...(展开全部)

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates— not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough re...(展开全部)

Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has...(展开全部)

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realiz...(展开全部)