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Book Synopsis Empty Pleasures by : Carolyn Thomas de la Peña
Download or read book Empty Pleasures written by Carolyn Thomas de la Peña and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Empty Pleasures, a rich and rewarding read, makes the tools of cultural analysis available to a wide range of readers. De la Pena's argument, that artificial sweeteners provide consumers with a way to exercise `indulgent restraint,' will surely re-energi
Book Synopsis Empty Pleasures by : Carolyn de la Peña
Download or read book Empty Pleasures written by Carolyn de la Peña and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early diet-plan entrepreneurs built menus and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by artificial sweeteners. NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have enjoyed enormous success by promising that Americans, especially women, can "have their cake and eat it too," but Empty Pleasures argues that these "sweet cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable eating habits and that the promises of artificial sweeteners are ultimately too good to be true.
Book Synopsis Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader by : David Sterritt
Download or read book Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader written by David Sterritt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex & Money written by Paul David Tripp and published by Crossway Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex and money can easily captivate our minds and steal our worship. Paul Tripp directs readers to the liberating power of the gospel and offers real-world advice for fighting sexual and financial idolatry.
Download or read book Small Pleasures written by Clare Chambers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett—an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. "With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details."--The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It’s a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape. That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys, including Gretchen’s gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life. Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their lives…with unimaginable consequences. Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.
Download or read book The Empty Chair written by Bruce Wagner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound and heart-wrenching work of spiritual storytelling from the internationally acclaimed author of Dead Stars Celebrated for his “up-to-the-nanosecond insider’s knowledge of the L.A. scene” (The Washington Post), Bruce Wagner takes his storytelling in a radically new direction with two linked novellas. In First Guru, a gay Buddhist living in Big Sur achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child’s suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to a fictional Wagner by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, these stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit.
Download or read book Desperate Measures written by Frank Kozik and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Kozic is one of the leading rock artists of his generation. His work has graced hundreds of posters, flyers and album covers, and his originals are held by some of the foremost collectors of contemporary rock art. His posters are colourfully ironic admixtures of pop permutations.
Book Synopsis Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by : Timothy Aubry
Download or read book Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures written by Timothy Aubry and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies’ embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature’s role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature’s formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible, even complicit with the iniquities of the social order. This suspicion of aesthetics became the default posture within literary scholarship, a means of establishing the rigor of one’s thought and the purity of one’s political commitments. Yet as Timothy Aubry explains, aesthetic pleasure never fully disappeared from the academy. It simply went underground. From New Criticism to the digital humanities, Aubry recasts aesthetics as the complicated, morally ambiguous, embattled yet resilient protagonist in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first–century literary studies. He argues that academic critics never stopped asserting preferences for certain texts, rhetorical strategies, or intellectual responses. Rather than serving as the enemy of formalism and aesthetics, political criticism enabled scholars to promote heightened experiences of perceptual acuity and complexity while adjudicating which formal strategies are best designed to bolster these experiences. Political criticism, in other words, did not eradicate but served covertly to nurture reading practices aimed at achieving aesthetic satisfaction. Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures shows that literary studies’ break with midcentury formalism was not as clean as it once appeared. Today, when so many scholars are advocating renewed attention to textual surfaces and aesthetic experiences, Aubry’s work illuminates the surprisingly vast common ground between the formalists and the schools of criticism that succeeded them.
Download or read book Examined Life written by Robert Nozick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.
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Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife.-v. 2. Æsop, pt. I-II. The pilgrim. The false friend. The country house.-v. 3.The confederacy. The mistake. A journey to London. The provok'd husband.-v. 4. The preface. Introduction. The letters by : Sir John Vanbrugh
Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife.-v. 2. Æsop, pt. I-II. The pilgrim. The false friend. The country house.-v. 3.The confederacy. The mistake. A journey to London. The provok'd husband.-v. 4. The preface. Introduction. The letters written by Sir John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir John Vanbrugh by : John Vanbrugh
Download or read book Sir John Vanbrugh written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife by : John Vanbrugh
Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok'd wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The relapse, or, Virtue in danger. Aesop. The provok'd wife by : John Vanbrugh
Download or read book The relapse, or, Virtue in danger. Aesop. The provok'd wife written by John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok's wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife by : Sir John Vanbrugh
Download or read book The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh: Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronological list of events in Vanbrugh's life. List of editions. Main authorities. The relapse. The provok's wife. A short vindication of The relapse and The provok'd wife written by Sir John Vanbrugh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
