Author: Black Hare Press
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
An inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.The Monster by Alannah K. PearsonAll Ye Faithful by Alexander NachajRon by Andrew KurtzThomas J. Rosenbud's Lifetime Retirement Cruise by Andrew M. SeddonSerpents and Toads by Carina BissettHere a Cake, There a Cake by Chisto HealyThe Bingles by D.J. EltonAt the Festival by D.R. RobichaudCheesecake of the Month by Dawn DeBraalWelcome to Helios by Denise RuttanIn the Shade of Shadows by Eric FomleyBasic Instinct by J.W. GarrettA Piece of Cake by Jacqueline Moran MeyerA Killer Brunch Special by Jamie ZaccariaHunger Pangs by Jess ChuaRadical Therapy by Jodi JensenThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by K.B. ElijahI Am Mine by Kelly MatsuuraTeddy's Little Secret by Laurence SullivanHave a Doughnut Sir by Luis Manuel TorresActions and Consequences by Lyndsey Ellis-HollowayTongue Tied by Maggie D. BraceFatt Hee and the Hungry Ghosts by Mike RaderDemon Love by Nick PetrouNew You by Nicola CurrieCurses and S#!t by Patrick WintersThe Enormous Appetite by Rachel GinsburgPayment Upfront by Rich RurshellThe Little White Pill by Stephen HerczegFor A Good Cause by Tim MendeesThe Artist by Victor NandiYou've Got Good Taste by Wondra VanianDeath by the Blob of Me by Ximena Escobar
Gluttony
Author: Black Hare Press
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
An inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.The Monster by Alannah K. PearsonAll Ye Faithful by Alexander NachajRon by Andrew KurtzThomas J. Rosenbud's Lifetime Retirement Cruise by Andrew M. SeddonSerpents and Toads by Carina BissettHere a Cake, There a Cake by Chisto HealyThe Bingles by D.J. EltonAt the Festival by D.R. RobichaudCheesecake of the Month by Dawn DeBraalWelcome to Helios by Denise RuttanIn the Shade of Shadows by Eric FomleyBasic Instinct by J.W. GarrettA Piece of Cake by Jacqueline Moran MeyerA Killer Brunch Special by Jamie ZaccariaHunger Pangs by Jess ChuaRadical Therapy by Jodi JensenThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by K.B. ElijahI Am Mine by Kelly MatsuuraTeddy's Little Secret by Laurence SullivanHave a Doughnut Sir by Luis Manuel TorresActions and Consequences by Lyndsey Ellis-HollowayTongue Tied by Maggie D. BraceFatt Hee and the Hungry Ghosts by Mike RaderDemon Love by Nick PetrouNew You by Nicola CurrieCurses and S#!t by Patrick WintersThe Enormous Appetite by Rachel GinsburgPayment Upfront by Rich RurshellThe Little White Pill by Stephen HerczegFor A Good Cause by Tim MendeesThe Artist by Victor NandiYou've Got Good Taste by Wondra VanianDeath by the Blob of Me by Ximena Escobar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
An inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.The Monster by Alannah K. PearsonAll Ye Faithful by Alexander NachajRon by Andrew KurtzThomas J. Rosenbud's Lifetime Retirement Cruise by Andrew M. SeddonSerpents and Toads by Carina BissettHere a Cake, There a Cake by Chisto HealyThe Bingles by D.J. EltonAt the Festival by D.R. RobichaudCheesecake of the Month by Dawn DeBraalWelcome to Helios by Denise RuttanIn the Shade of Shadows by Eric FomleyBasic Instinct by J.W. GarrettA Piece of Cake by Jacqueline Moran MeyerA Killer Brunch Special by Jamie ZaccariaHunger Pangs by Jess ChuaRadical Therapy by Jodi JensenThe Very Hungry Caterpillar by K.B. ElijahI Am Mine by Kelly MatsuuraTeddy's Little Secret by Laurence SullivanHave a Doughnut Sir by Luis Manuel TorresActions and Consequences by Lyndsey Ellis-HollowayTongue Tied by Maggie D. BraceFatt Hee and the Hungry Ghosts by Mike RaderDemon Love by Nick PetrouNew You by Nicola CurrieCurses and S#!t by Patrick WintersThe Enormous Appetite by Rachel GinsburgPayment Upfront by Rich RurshellThe Little White Pill by Stephen HerczegFor A Good Cause by Tim MendeesThe Artist by Victor NandiYou've Got Good Taste by Wondra VanianDeath by the Blob of Me by Ximena Escobar
Take Back Your Temple Member Guide
Author: Kimberly Y. Taylor
Publisher: Wellspring Omnimedia
ISBN: 9780979005442
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Want to start a Christian weight loss program at your church? The Take Back Your Temple Member Guide gives your support group the wisdom they need to reach their ideal weight and maintain it for life. Includes Christian health scriptures for motivation, delicious recipes, and a survival plan for handling common weight loss barriers like emotional eating, bottomless food pits, and more.
Publisher: Wellspring Omnimedia
ISBN: 9780979005442
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Want to start a Christian weight loss program at your church? The Take Back Your Temple Member Guide gives your support group the wisdom they need to reach their ideal weight and maintain it for life. Includes Christian health scriptures for motivation, delicious recipes, and a survival plan for handling common weight loss barriers like emotional eating, bottomless food pits, and more.
The United States of Excess
Author: Robert Paarlberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199922632
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of. Is it possible that America is hard-wired to consume too much food and fuel? Unfortunately, yes, says Robert Paarlberg in The United States of Excess. America's excess is driven in each case by its distinct endowment of material and demographic resources, its unusually weak national political institutions, and a unique political culture that celebrates both individual freedoms over social responsibility, and free markets over governmental authority. America's over-consumption is shown to be over-determined. Because of these powerful underlying circumstances, America's strongest policy response, both to climate change and obesity, will be adaptation rather than mitigation. As the damaging consequences of climate change become manifest, America will not impose adequate measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, attempting instead to protect itself from storms and sea-level rise through costly infrastructure upgrades. In response to the damaging health consequences of obesity, America will opt for medical interventions and physical accommodations, rather than the policy measures that would be needed to induce better diets or more exercise. These adaptation responses will generate serious equity problems, both at home and abroad. Responding to obesity with medical interventions will fall short for those in America most prone to obesity - racial minorities and the poor - since these groups have never enjoyed adequate access to quality health care. Responding to climate change by building more resilient infrastructures at home, while allowing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to continue their increase, will impose greater climate disruption on poor tropical countries, which are far less capable of self-protection. Awareness of these inequities must be the starting point toward altering America's current path.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199922632
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of. Is it possible that America is hard-wired to consume too much food and fuel? Unfortunately, yes, says Robert Paarlberg in The United States of Excess. America's excess is driven in each case by its distinct endowment of material and demographic resources, its unusually weak national political institutions, and a unique political culture that celebrates both individual freedoms over social responsibility, and free markets over governmental authority. America's over-consumption is shown to be over-determined. Because of these powerful underlying circumstances, America's strongest policy response, both to climate change and obesity, will be adaptation rather than mitigation. As the damaging consequences of climate change become manifest, America will not impose adequate measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, attempting instead to protect itself from storms and sea-level rise through costly infrastructure upgrades. In response to the damaging health consequences of obesity, America will opt for medical interventions and physical accommodations, rather than the policy measures that would be needed to induce better diets or more exercise. These adaptation responses will generate serious equity problems, both at home and abroad. Responding to obesity with medical interventions will fall short for those in America most prone to obesity - racial minorities and the poor - since these groups have never enjoyed adequate access to quality health care. Responding to climate change by building more resilient infrastructures at home, while allowing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to continue their increase, will impose greater climate disruption on poor tropical countries, which are far less capable of self-protection. Awareness of these inequities must be the starting point toward altering America's current path.
Consuming Fictions
Author: Gail Turley Houston
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809319534
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this remarkable study, Gail Turley Houston examines the rich interplay of consumption as alimental process, medical entity, psychological construct, and economic practice in order to explore Charles Dickens’s fictional representations of Victorian culture as he presents it in his novels. Drawing from medical, historical, economic, psychoanalytic, and biographical materials from the Victorian period, Houston anchors her work in the belief that if class and gender are fictional constructions, real people’s lives are affected in complex and coercive ways by such constructions. Proceeding chronologically, Houston traces particular patterns throughout ten of Dickens’s major novels: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Houston maintains that Victorian codes of behavior prescribed for gender and class regarding sexual and alimental appetites were so extreme and complicated that numerous consequent eating disorders and related diseases developed. Ideologies about consumption translated into medically defined consumptions, such as anorexia. Using anorexia and its etiology as representative of an underlying cultural dynamics of consumption, Houston examines anorexia as a deep structure of the Victorian period. Further, consumption as economic process is reflected in the expansion of individual material desires at the expense of the designated body politic. In other words, extravagant consumption occurs in society only if certain groups—usually consisting of lower-class men and women and, in Dickens’s novels, women in general—are severely limited in their consumption. To support her approach, Houston turns to Rita Felski’s Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, agreeing with Felski’s argument that it is necessary to recognize the complex dialectics that take place between the individual and society. Not only does culture construct human beings, but human beings also construct culture. Felski’s theory aids Houston in emphasizing that Dickens not only influenced but was also greatly influenced by the Victorian dynamics of consumption. In fact, Houston argues that while Dickens dismantles Victorian ideologies about class and hunger by demonstrating the unnaturalness of expecting one class to starve so that another might gluttonize, he nevertheless accepts and perpetuates the Victorian identification of woman as the self-sacrificing, always-nurturing "angel in the house" without need of nurture herself. This extraordinary book will appeal to literary scholars, as well as to scholars in the social sciences, history, humanistically oriented medicine, and women’s studies.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809319534
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this remarkable study, Gail Turley Houston examines the rich interplay of consumption as alimental process, medical entity, psychological construct, and economic practice in order to explore Charles Dickens’s fictional representations of Victorian culture as he presents it in his novels. Drawing from medical, historical, economic, psychoanalytic, and biographical materials from the Victorian period, Houston anchors her work in the belief that if class and gender are fictional constructions, real people’s lives are affected in complex and coercive ways by such constructions. Proceeding chronologically, Houston traces particular patterns throughout ten of Dickens’s major novels: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Houston maintains that Victorian codes of behavior prescribed for gender and class regarding sexual and alimental appetites were so extreme and complicated that numerous consequent eating disorders and related diseases developed. Ideologies about consumption translated into medically defined consumptions, such as anorexia. Using anorexia and its etiology as representative of an underlying cultural dynamics of consumption, Houston examines anorexia as a deep structure of the Victorian period. Further, consumption as economic process is reflected in the expansion of individual material desires at the expense of the designated body politic. In other words, extravagant consumption occurs in society only if certain groups—usually consisting of lower-class men and women and, in Dickens’s novels, women in general—are severely limited in their consumption. To support her approach, Houston turns to Rita Felski’s Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, agreeing with Felski’s argument that it is necessary to recognize the complex dialectics that take place between the individual and society. Not only does culture construct human beings, but human beings also construct culture. Felski’s theory aids Houston in emphasizing that Dickens not only influenced but was also greatly influenced by the Victorian dynamics of consumption. In fact, Houston argues that while Dickens dismantles Victorian ideologies about class and hunger by demonstrating the unnaturalness of expecting one class to starve so that another might gluttonize, he nevertheless accepts and perpetuates the Victorian identification of woman as the self-sacrificing, always-nurturing "angel in the house" without need of nurture herself. This extraordinary book will appeal to literary scholars, as well as to scholars in the social sciences, history, humanistically oriented medicine, and women’s studies.
Glittering Vices
Author: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493422162
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Drawing on centuries of wisdom from the Christian ethical tradition, this book takes readers on a journey of self-examination, exploring why our hearts are captivated by glittery but false substitutes for true human goodness and happiness. The first edition sold 35,000 copies and was a C. S. Lewis Book Prize award winner. Now updated and revised throughout, the second edition includes a new chapter on grace and growth through the spiritual disciplines. Questions for discussion and study are included at the end of each chapter.
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493422162
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Drawing on centuries of wisdom from the Christian ethical tradition, this book takes readers on a journey of self-examination, exploring why our hearts are captivated by glittery but false substitutes for true human goodness and happiness. The first edition sold 35,000 copies and was a C. S. Lewis Book Prize award winner. Now updated and revised throughout, the second edition includes a new chapter on grace and growth through the spiritual disciplines. Questions for discussion and study are included at the end of each chapter.
Gluttony : The Seven Deadly Sins
Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199760688
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas about salvation and damnation, health and illness, life and death. Offering a lively smorgasbord that ranges from Augustine's Confessions and Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, to Petronius's Satyricon and Dante's Inferno, she shows that gluttony was in medieval times a deeply spiritual matter, but today we have transformed gluttony from a sin into an illness--it is the horrors of cholesterol and the perils of red meat that we demonize. Indeed, the modern take on gluttony is that we overeat out of compulsion, self-destructiveness, or to avoid intimacy and social contact. But gluttony, Prose reminds us, is also an affirmation of pleasure and of passion. She ends the book with a discussion of M.F.K. Fisher's idiosyncratic defense of one of the great heroes of gluttony, Diamond Jim Brady, whose stomach was six times normal size. "The broad, shiny face of the glutton," Prose writes, "has been--and continues to be--the mirror in which we see ourselves, our hopes and fears, our darkest dreams and deepest desires." Never have we delved more deeply into this mirror than in this insightful and stimulating book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199760688
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In America, notes acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, we are obsessed with food and diet. And what is this obsession with food except a struggle between sin and virtue, overeating and self-control--a struggle with the fierce temptations of gluttony. In Gluttony, Francine Prose serves up a marvelous banquet of witty and engaging observations on this most delicious of deadly sins. She traces how our notions of gluttony have evolved along with our ideas about salvation and damnation, health and illness, life and death. Offering a lively smorgasbord that ranges from Augustine's Confessions and Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, to Petronius's Satyricon and Dante's Inferno, she shows that gluttony was in medieval times a deeply spiritual matter, but today we have transformed gluttony from a sin into an illness--it is the horrors of cholesterol and the perils of red meat that we demonize. Indeed, the modern take on gluttony is that we overeat out of compulsion, self-destructiveness, or to avoid intimacy and social contact. But gluttony, Prose reminds us, is also an affirmation of pleasure and of passion. She ends the book with a discussion of M.F.K. Fisher's idiosyncratic defense of one of the great heroes of gluttony, Diamond Jim Brady, whose stomach was six times normal size. "The broad, shiny face of the glutton," Prose writes, "has been--and continues to be--the mirror in which we see ourselves, our hopes and fears, our darkest dreams and deepest desires." Never have we delved more deeply into this mirror than in this insightful and stimulating book.
Eating to Excess
Author: Susan E. Hill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313385076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today. People in the ancient western world made a distinction between being fat and being a glutton, even when they valued self-control and criticized excessive behavior. Examining many works of early western cultures, this book shows how ancient views both confirm and challenge our contemporary assumptions about fat bodies and gluttons. Eating to Excess: The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World explores the historical roots of the symbolic relationship between fatness, gluttony, and immorality in western culture. It includes chapters on Greek philosophy, medicine, and physiognomy; Greek and Roman popular culture; early Christianity; and the development of gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins. By examining ancient ideas about gluttony and fat bodies, the author offers new insight into what it means to be human in the western world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313385076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today. People in the ancient western world made a distinction between being fat and being a glutton, even when they valued self-control and criticized excessive behavior. Examining many works of early western cultures, this book shows how ancient views both confirm and challenge our contemporary assumptions about fat bodies and gluttons. Eating to Excess: The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World explores the historical roots of the symbolic relationship between fatness, gluttony, and immorality in western culture. It includes chapters on Greek philosophy, medicine, and physiognomy; Greek and Roman popular culture; early Christianity; and the development of gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins. By examining ancient ideas about gluttony and fat bodies, the author offers new insight into what it means to be human in the western world.
Signature Sins
Author: Michael Mangis
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083086864X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Finally--a safe place to talk about sin. The topic of sin in general has been safe for a while. But here, guided by psychologist Michael Mangis, we get specific by learning to know ourselves and our signature sins--the individual and specific patterns of sin in our life that affect our thoughts, actions and relationships. In these pages, the author empathetically and honestly reflects on the ways we manage our behavior to hide our sin and ignore the true poverty of our hearts. But until we deal with the root of our sin, we will be ruled and fooled by it, and miss the freedom Christ died to bring. Exploring common forms of sin and then discovering how our own temperament, culture, family and gender affect the way those sins manifest themselves in our lives will lead us to a place of real honesty with ourselves, God and others. But the book doesn't stop there; it also shows ways to combat our sin so that we can change our hearts, not just our behavior. Sin is serious and specific, and it doesn't go away on its own. But here is serious--and safe--help for facing sin and finding freedom in Christ.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083086864X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Finally--a safe place to talk about sin. The topic of sin in general has been safe for a while. But here, guided by psychologist Michael Mangis, we get specific by learning to know ourselves and our signature sins--the individual and specific patterns of sin in our life that affect our thoughts, actions and relationships. In these pages, the author empathetically and honestly reflects on the ways we manage our behavior to hide our sin and ignore the true poverty of our hearts. But until we deal with the root of our sin, we will be ruled and fooled by it, and miss the freedom Christ died to bring. Exploring common forms of sin and then discovering how our own temperament, culture, family and gender affect the way those sins manifest themselves in our lives will lead us to a place of real honesty with ourselves, God and others. But the book doesn't stop there; it also shows ways to combat our sin so that we can change our hearts, not just our behavior. Sin is serious and specific, and it doesn't go away on its own. But here is serious--and safe--help for facing sin and finding freedom in Christ.
Thoughts Matter
Author: Mary Margaret Funk
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814635253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: Thoughts matter: the practice of spiritual life. c1998.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814635253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: Thoughts matter: the practice of spiritual life. c1998.
The Book of Eating
Author: Adam Platt
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062293567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance—“a kind of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking”—he learned that “if you’re interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a good one." From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, “a professional glutton.”
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062293567
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung locations around the world, he developed an eclectic palate and a nuanced understanding of cultures and cuisines that led to some revelations which would prove important in his future career as a food critic. In Tokyo, for instance—“a kind of paradise for nose-to-tail cooking”—he learned that “if you’re interested in telling a story, a hair-raisingly bad meal is much better than a good one." From dim sum in Hong Kong to giant platters of Peking duck in Beijing, fresh-baked croissants in Paris and pierogi on the snowy streets of Moscow, Platt takes us around the world, re-tracing the steps of a unique, and lifelong, culinary education. Providing a glimpse into a life that has intertwined food and travel in exciting and unexpected ways, The Book of Eating is a delightful and sumptuous trip that is also the culinary coming-of-age of a voracious eater and his eventual ascension to become, as he puts it, “a professional glutton.”