Hunger: An Unnatural HistoryBasic Books, 2008 M08 1 - 272 páginas Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that transcends nature to shape the very of fabric of societies. In a fascinating survey of centuries of thought on hunger's unique power, she discovers an ability to adapt to it that is nothing short of miraculous. From the fasting saints of the early Christian church to activists like Mahatma Gandhi, generations have used hunger to make spiritual and political statements. Russell highlights these remarkable cases where hunger can inspire and even heal, but she also addresses the devastating impact of starvation on cultures around the world today. Written with consummate skill, a compassionate heart, and stocked with facts, figures, and fascinating lore, Hunger is an inspiring window on history and the human spirit. |
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... famine into our living rooms, and the bodies of starving women and children—especially children—had become familiar to us. In that time, too, we came to revere the hunger striker, cultural icons like Mahatma Gandhi, who used his hunger ...
... famine into our living rooms, and the bodies of starving women and children—especially children—had become familiar to us. In that time, too, we came to revere the hunger striker, cultural icons like Mahatma Gandhi, who used his hunger ...
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... famine, labeling folders Somalia and Ethiopia. A billion people in the world were hungry. Even children in America were hungry. My impetus did not seem to be about death, but birth. I was thirty years old and pregnant. A gate opened ...
... famine, labeling folders Somalia and Ethiopia. A billion people in the world were hungry. Even children in America were hungry. My impetus did not seem to be about death, but birth. I was thirty years old and pregnant. A gate opened ...
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... famine stories. I shut the gate. But I never turned the lock. A little hunger, scientists are beginning to say, is good for us. We would live longer and be healthier if we were hungrier. In animals, and probably in humans, reducing the ...
... famine stories. I shut the gate. But I never turned the lock. A little hunger, scientists are beginning to say, is good for us. We would live longer and be healthier if we were hungrier. In animals, and probably in humans, reducing the ...
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An Unnatural History Sharman Apt Russell. famine in the Ukraine and southwestern Russia. Four million died in the Bengal famine of 1943–44. The largest known famine killed over thirty million Chinese from 1958–62. Hunger is as intimate ...
An Unnatural History Sharman Apt Russell. famine in the Ukraine and southwestern Russia. Four million died in the Bengal famine of 1943–44. The largest known famine killed over thirty million Chinese from 1958–62. Hunger is as intimate ...
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