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14 produkter
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2014
209 kr
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Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, which is the key to our economy, environment and civilization, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators and pirates.
Ninety Percent of Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Av Rose George
E-bok, 2013
182 kr
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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer …
Every Last Fish
A Deep Dive into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
Av Rose George
Inbunden, 2025
208 kr
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Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first time in history, humans are eating more farmed fish than wild, and our fish consumption is predicted …
Bodyology
The Curious Science of Our Bodies
Av Rose George, Rhodri Marsden m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
186 kr
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Ever wondered what it’s like to be hit by lightning or to lose your sense of smell? Heard about the woman saved by bee stings — or the window cleaner who survived a 400ft fall?Originally written for the Wellcome charity, 16 stories by leading science writers explore the mysteries of the human body. …
The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2014
285 kr
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Nine Pints
A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2019
321 kr
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Every Last Fish
A Deep Dive into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first time in history, humans are eating more farmed fish than wild, and our fish consumption is predicted …
Every Last Fish
What Fish Do for Us and What We Do to Them
Av Rose George
Inbunden, 2025
219 kr
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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKCold-blooded, slippery, wet and strange: fish can be hard to think of as fellow animals and easier to consider as food. But what do we know of these creatures on our plates, and what do we know of how they got there? In Every Last Fish, Rose George takes us inside the …
Every Last Fish
A Deep Dive into the World of Fishes and Fishing
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2026
123 kr
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Cold-blooded, slippery, wet and strange: fish can be hard to think of as fellow animals and easier to consider as food. But what do we know of these creatures on our plates, and what do we know of how they got there? In Every Last Fish, Rose George takes us inside the vast legal industries that …
Deep Sea and Foreign Going
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2014
134 kr
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An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping.'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does' Melanie McGrath, …
Nine Pints
A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2019
154 kr
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Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation; in …
Big Necessity
Adventures In The World Of Human Waste
Av Rose George
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
101 kr
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Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, hidden by euphemism, shit is rarely out in the open in 'civilized' society, but the world of waste - and the people who deal with it, work with it and in it - is a rich one.This book takes us underground to the sewers of New York and London and …
