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Food Programme: 13 Foods that Shape Our World

How Our Hunger has Changed the Past, Present and Future

AvAlex Renton

E-bok

Engelska, 2022

165 kr

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Vital stories for hungry minds.In the first official book from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Food Programme, award-winning writer Alex Renton tells the stories of 13 key staples such as spice, oil, cocoa, bread and tomatoes, exploring their history, evolution and how our ever-growing hunger for them continues to alter our world. Look at food in a new light - as a weapon, an art form, a tool of revolution, but also a bringer of pure happiness.Discover a kaleidoscope of fascinating facts and curiosities, including the forgotten joys of lard, the secret to perfect chips and how our love of pepper led to piracy.

Stiff Upper Lip

Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

AvAlex Renton

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

44 kr

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''A brave and necessary book'' GUARDIAN''Shocking, gripping and sobering'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and paedophile teachers are just some of the features of this elite education, and, while some children loved boarding school, others now admit to suffering life-altering psychological damage. Stiff Upper Lip exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world.Award-winning investigative journalist Alex Renton went to three traditional boarding schools. Drawing on those experiences, and the vivid testimony of hundreds of former pupils, he has put together a compelling history, important to anyone wondering what shaped the people who run Britain in the twenty-first century.

Stiff Upper Lip

Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

AvAlex Renton

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

138 kr

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'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and paedophile teachers are just some of the features of this elite education, and, while some children loved boarding school, others now admit to suffering life-altering psychological damage. Stiff Upper Lip exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world.Award-winning investigative journalist Alex Renton went to three traditional boarding schools. Drawing on those experiences, and the vivid testimony of hundreds of former pupils, he has put together a compelling history, important to anyone wondering what shaped the people who run Britain in the twenty-first century.

Renton, A: Blood Legacy

AvAlex Renton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

249 kr

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Blood Legacy

Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery

AvAlex Renton

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

132 kr

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Blood Legacy explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed to the descendants of the slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved. He also asks, crucially, how the former - himself among them - can begin to make reparations for the past.

13 alimentos que han cambiado nuestro mundo

AvAlex Renton

E-bok

Spanska, 2024

110 kr

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Historias vitales para mentes hambrientas.El prestigioso periodista y escritor británico Alex Renton nos habla de trece alimentos fundamentales como las especias, el aceite, el cacao, el pan y los tomates, mientras explora su rica historia y su evolución, y nos cuenta cómo nuestra hambre insaciable por cada uno de ellos sigue alterando el mundo. Gracias a este libro, verás la comida con otros ojos: como un arma, una forma de arte, una herramienta para la revolución, pero también como fuente de pura felicidad.Descubre un caleidoscopio de hechos y curiosidades fascinantes, incluidos los placeres olvidados de la manteca, el secreto de la patata frita perfecta y cómo el amor por la pimienta condujo a la piratería.Descubre las historias sorprendentes detrás de 13 alimentos cotidianos que han moldeado el mundo.Explora la conexión entre comida, política y economía, y cómo influyen en la sociedad.Una mirada crítica a la industria alimentaria y a sus implicaciones en nuestra salud y en la del planeta.Una historia ágil y amena de la alimentación desde los orígenes de cada producto hasta nuestros días.

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Food Programme: 13 Foods that Shape Our World

Stiff Upper Lip

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Renton, A: Blood Legacy

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