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The Taste of Water

Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage

By: Christy Spackman

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The Taste of Water

Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage

By: Christy Spackman

The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the twentieth century. It asks how dramatic changes in municipal water treatment have altered consumers’ awareness of the environment their water comes from. Through examination of the development of sensory expertise in the United States and France over the twentieth century, this unique history uncovers the foundational role palatability has played in shaping Western water treatment processes. By focusing on the relationship between taste and the environment, Christy Spackman shows how efforts to erase unwanted tastes and smells have transformed water into a highly industrialized food product divorced from the natural environment. The Taste of Water invites readers to question their own assumptions about what water does and should naturally taste like while exposing them to the invisible—but substantial—sensory labor involved in creating tap water.

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Univ of California Press

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0520393554

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Double-Team! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

By: Christy Webster

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Double-Team! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

By: Christy Webster

When the villains start to multiply, Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are forced to split up. Will two teams be better than one? Boys ages 7 to 9 will thrill to this action-packed Step into Reading level 4 reader.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0385374348

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9780385374347

The Taste of Water

Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage

By: Christy Spackman

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The Taste of Water

Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage

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Degenerative Realism

Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

By: Christy Wampole

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Degenerative Realism

Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France

By: Christy Wampole

A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.” She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age’s confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today’s reactionary revival.

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Columbia University Press

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0231546033

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9780231546034

Book's by Christy Spackman

The Taste of Water

The Taste of Water

Double-Team! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Double-Team! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

The Taste of Water

The Taste of Water

Degenerative Realism

Degenerative Realism

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