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Now the subject of a film by Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser's explosive bestseller Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World tells the story of our love affair with fast food. Britain eats more fast food than any other ...

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"e;Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours."e;-Los Angeles TimesIn 2001, Fast Food Nation was p...

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The "New York Times" bestseller that blew the lid off the fast food industry--exposing how they've malled our landscapes, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism a...

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**The documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.** The documentary w...

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Den glömda historien om mänsklighetens farligaste uppfinning Med sovjetunionens fall försvann inte bara en av världens, dåvarande två stormakter. Även mänsklighetens rädsla för kärnvapenkrig tycktes borta. Men vapnen fanns och finns kvar. I "...

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The story of fast food is to a large extent the story of post-war America. In a perverse way, it is also the story of Britain since the deregulation of our food and labour markets in the early 1980s. Schossler's account takes in the whole of this ...

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Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a hist...

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Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour lab...

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Chew On This should be on every teenager's essential reading list. Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what go...

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From famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes Command and Control a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weaponsA groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and t...

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From the author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness: and Other Tales from the American Underground follows the money to uncover made the country rich: porn, pot and exploitation.In three linked essays, Eric Schlosser uncovers how ...

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'Sitting not far below my feet, there was a thermonuclear warhead about twenty times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, all set and ready to go. The only sound was the sound of the wind.'Seventy years after the bombing of Hirosh...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Read by the award-winning narrator Scott Brick....

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Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the apalling odds against which immigrants and other working people ...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe jaw-dropping expose on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich...

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Kids love fast food. And the fast food industry definitely loves kids. It couldnt survive without them. Did you know that the biggest toy company in the world is McDonalds? Its true. In fact, one out of every three toys given to a child in the Uni...

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The bestselling author of "Fast Food Nation" turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on society, exposing three American mainstays--pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.

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In this "New York Times" bestseller, Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") and Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry, offering a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. This paperback edition inclu...

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In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; ...

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"e;When you work in restaurants you think the industry is everything, It's being outside, talking to people, serving people. You feel like you're part of something good. People mostly go out to eat for good stuff-proposals, weddings, birthdays...

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"e;An indictment of our modern agricultural system . . . in the tradition of the best muckraking journalism"e; from the three-time James Beard Award-winner (The Washington Post).In Tomatoland, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook ...

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In a world increasingly dominated by fast food, The Pleasures of Slow Food celebrates heritage recipes, artisan traditions, and the rapid evolution of a movement to make good food a part of everyday life. Slow Food is defined by how its made: if i...

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Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now, with Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the ...

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The Prince's Speech is a stirring, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful call to action from one of the world's leading proponents of sustainable farming practices, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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An inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring.For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Kn...

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Auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben wagt eine Gruppe junger Mexikaner die gefährliche Flucht über die Grenze in die USA. Dort leben sie als illegale Einwanderer und arbeiten unter schwierigsten Bedingungen für eine Fleischfabrik...

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SMAKEN OCH DOFTEN på din hamburgare och dina pommes frites tillverkas kemiskt på särskilda smakfabriker. En enda hamburgare kan innehålla kött från tiotals olika kor. I Snabbmatslandet granskar Eric Schlosser sakligt och ingående den minst sagt tv...

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Den glömda historien om mänsklighetens farligaste uppfinning Med sovjetunionens fall försvann inte bara en av världens, dåvarande två stormakter. Även mänsklighetens rädsla för kärnvapenkrig tycktes borta. Men vapnen fanns och finns kvar. I "Bombe...

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