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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... millions, a book about hunger may seem out of place. But Sharman Apt Russell gives it a place with Hunger: An Unnatural History.” —The Associated Press “Offers an important history into the nature and culture of hunger.” —The Bookwatch ...
... millions, a book about hunger may seem out of place. But Sharman Apt Russell gives it a place with Hunger: An Unnatural History.” —The Associated Press “Offers an important history into the nature and culture of hunger.” —The Bookwatch ...
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... million people visited the site to see a man sit and do nothing. Some women held banners declaring their love and support. Others ran naked under the box. Some men said David Blaine was a hero. Some called him an idiot. On the street ...
... million people visited the site to see a man sit and do nothing. Some women held banners declaring their love and support. Others ran naked under the box. Some men said David Blaine was a hero. Some called him an idiot. On the street ...
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... million people and is still commemorated by monuments, websites, and recreated voyages of the “coffin ships” that brought Irish emigrants to North America. Seven million people died in 1919–21 from a famine in the Ukraine and ...
... million people and is still commemorated by monuments, websites, and recreated voyages of the “coffin ships” that brought Irish emigrants to North America. Seven million people died in 1919–21 from a famine in the Ukraine and ...
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... 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 as self. It is what I feel before lunch. It is how I think about my body, my breasts, my ...
... 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 as self. It is what I feel before lunch. It is how I think about my body, my breasts, my ...
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... millions of fingerlike projections that secrete mucus and split complex molecules into simpler ones. As the stomach empties its contents of food, its motions slow. The small intestine speeds up. More enzymes are sent in from the ...
... millions of fingerlike projections that secrete mucus and split complex molecules into simpler ones. As the stomach empties its contents of food, its motions slow. The small intestine speeds up. More enzymes are sent in from the ...
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