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Ingredients

The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us

By: George Zaidan

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Ingredients

The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us

By: George Zaidan

When it comes to chemicals and our bodies, there are no simple answers. Thanks to George Zaidan, there are beautifully clear, elegant, accurate explanations. And they're funny. Zaidan has accomplished something I would not have thought possible. He has written an entertaining book about chemistry. Thank you, George, for this much-needed breakwater against the tide of misinformation that sloshes onto our screens." —Mary Roach, author of Stiff Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. George Zaidan reveals what will kill you, what won’t, and why—explained with high-octane hilarity, hysterical hijinks, and other things that don’t begin with the letter H. INGREDIENTS offers the perspective of a chemist on the stuff we eat, drink, inhale, and smear on ourselves. Apart from the burning question of whether you should eat those Cheetos, Zaidan explores a range of topics. Here’s a helpful guide: Stuff in this book: - How bad is processed food? How sure are we? - Is sunscreen safe? Should you use it? - Is coffee good or bad for you? - What’s your disease horoscope? - What is that public pool smell made of? - What happens when you overdose on fentanyl in the sun? - What do cassava plants and Soviet spies have in common? - When will you die? Stuff in other books: - Your carbon footprint - Food sustainability - GMOs - CEO pay - Science funding - Politics - Football - Baseball - Any kind of ball, really Zaidan, an MIT-trained chemist who cohosted CNBC’s hit Make Me a Millionaire Inventor and wrote and voiced several TED-Ed viral videos, makes chemistry more fun than Hogwarts as he reveals exactly what science can (and can’t) tell us about the packaged ingredients sold to us every day. Sugar, spinach, formaldehyde, cyanide, the ingredients of life and death, and how we know if something is good or bad for us—as well as the genius of aphids and their butts—are all discussed in exquisite detail at breakneck speed.

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Penguin

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1524744298

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Ingredients

The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods

By: George Zaidan

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Ingredients

The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods

By: George Zaidan

Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. Hand sanitiser. George Zaidan reveals the weird science behind everyday items that may or may not kill you, depending on whom you ask. If you want easy answers, this book is not for you. But if you’re curious which health studies to trust, what dense scientific jargon really means, and how to make better choices when it comes to food and health – dive right in! Zaidan makes chemistry more fun than potions class as he reveals exactly what science can (and can’t) tell us about the packaged ingredients we buy in the supermarket. He demystifies the ingredients of life and death – and explains how we know whether something is good or bad for you – in exquisite, hilarious detail at breakneck speed. PRAISE FOR INGREDIENTS 'If you ever thought that chemistry might be really interesting (it is), but your eyes glazed over in high school chem class, this is the book for you. George Zaidan will keep you laughing out loud as he shares the wonders of our most useful, practical science, with brilliant analogies that even an 11-year old can understand.' Daniel J. Levitin, author of Successful Aging and This is Your Brain on Music 'If you crossed Bill Nye with Stephen Colbert, you'd get George Zaidan. Ingredients is a masterful piece of science writing.' Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive 'Ingredients lifts the film from our eyes with humour and reassurance.' Hank Green, author of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing 'At last, a book on nutrition that tries to make you understand how little we know instead of offering blanket prognostications. If instead of a simple solution, you want a guide to how to think about health, this is it.' Zach and Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times best-selling authors of Soonish 'Ingredients, is everything that should lead you to expect: funny, edgy, fascinating, dismaying, reassuring, and overall just incredibly smart.' Deborah Blum, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Poison Squad 'You should buy Ingredients because it teaches you how to think better - like a smart, informed, and wickedly funny scientist.' Sam Kean, author of The Disappearing Spoon 'Omfg this book is FABULOUS! It's hilarious, insightful, sassy, and reassuring. A delightful roller-coaster of science communication.' Kallie Moore, Co-host of PBS Eons

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Prelude Books

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0715653989

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Ingredients

The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us

By: George Zaidan

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The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us

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Rise of Colleges

By: George Makdisi

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Rise of Colleges

By: George Makdisi

Makdisi's important work traces the development and organisational structure of learning institutions in Islam, and reassesses scholarship on the origins and growth of the Madrasa.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474470645

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9781474470643

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

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The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

Agriculture is one of the most politically powerful sectors in Japanese national politics. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the political power of Japanese farmers. This definitive text analyses the organisational and electoral bais of farmers' political power, including the role of agricultural interest groups, the mobilisation of the farm vote and links between farmers and politicians in the Diet. Agrarian power has helped to produce the distinctly pro-rural, anti-urban bias of postwar Japanese governments, resulting in a general neglect of urban consumer interests and sustained opposition to market opening for farm products. This book represents a major study of Japanese agricultural organisations in their multifarious roles as interest groups, agents of agricultural administration, electoral resource providers and mammouth business groups. It describes the policy issues that engage farmers' concerns and identifies the agricultural commodities that carry the greatest political significance.

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Routledge

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1134594402

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9781134594405

Power and Pork

A Japanese Political Life

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

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Power and Pork

A Japanese Political Life

By: Aurelia George Mulgan

Aims to tell the 'inside story' of a Japanese politician - Matsuoka Toshikatsu - one of the more controversial members of Japan's national Diet, and who's behaviour has been the subject of much speculation and commentary in the media.

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ANU E Press

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1920942335

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9781920942335

Japan's Interventionist State

The Role of the MAFF

By: Aurelia George-Mulgan

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Japan's Interventionist State

The Role of the MAFF

By: Aurelia George-Mulgan

Japan's Interventionist State gives a detailed examination of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its role in promoting, protecting and preserving the regime of agricultural support and protection. This account is integral to the author's extended and multidimensional explanation for why Japan continues to provide high levels of assistance to its farmers and why it continues to block market access concessions in the WTO and other agricultural trade talks.

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Routledge

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1134279477

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Evaluating Evidence

A Positivist Approach to Reading Sources on Modern Japan

By: George Akita

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Evaluating Evidence

A Positivist Approach to Reading Sources on Modern Japan

By: George Akita

Evaluating Evidence is based on the grueling lessons learned by a senior scholar during three decades of tutoring by, and collaboration with, Japanese historians. George Akita persisted in the difficult task of reading documentary sources in Japanese, most written in calligraphic style (sôsho), out of the conviction of their centrality to the historian’s craft and his commitment to a positivist methodology to research and scholarship. He argues forcefully in this volume for an inductive process in which the scholar seeks out facts on a subject and, through observation and examination of an extensive body of data, is able to discern patterns until it is possible to formulate certain propositions. In his introduction, Akita relates how and why he decided to adopt a positivist approach and explains what he means by the term as it applies to humanistic studies. He enumerates the difficulties linked with reading primary sources in Japanese by looking at a variety of unpublished and published materials and identifying a major problem in reading published primary sources: the intervention of editors and compilers. He illustrates the pitfalls of such intervention by comparing the recently published seventeen-volume diary of Prime Minister Hara Takashi (1856–1921), a photo reproduction of the diary in Hara’s own hand, and an earlier published version. Using documents related to Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922), a figure of central importance in Japan’s post-Restoration political history, he demonstrates the use of published and transcribed primary sources to sustain, question, or strengthen some of the themes and approaches adopted by non-Japanese scholars working on modern Japanese history. He ends his inquiry with two "case studies," examining closely the methods of the highly acclaimed American historians John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824862422

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9780824862428

Minamata

Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

By: Timothy S. George

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Minamata

Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

By: Timothy S. George

Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the “Minamata Disease,” it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters, particularly the activities of grassroots movements and popular campaigns, to secure redress. Timothy S. George argues that Japan’s postwar democracy is ad hoc, fragile, and dependent on definition through citizen action and that the redress effort is exemplary of the great changes in the second and third postwar decades that redefined democracy in Japan.

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BRILL

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1684173477

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9781684173471

The Universal Geography. Earth and its Inhabitants

By: Ernest George Ravenstein,Augustus Henry Keane,Elisée Reclus

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The Universal Geography. Earth and its Inhabitants

By: Ernest George Ravenstein,Augustus Henry Keane,Elisée Reclus

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385505860

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9783385505865

Christians, Muslims, and Mary

A History

By: George-Tvrtkovi?, Rita

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Christians, Muslims, and Mary

A History

By: George-Tvrtkovi?, Rita

This book focuses on history, and the use of Mary as either a bridge or barrier between Islam and Christianity.

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Paulist Press

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1587686767

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Masking the Blow

The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art

By: Whitney Davis,George C and Helen N Pardee Professor of Art Historyancient Modern & Theory Whitney Davis,Whitney M. Davis

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Masking the Blow

The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art

By: Whitney Davis,George C and Helen N Pardee Professor of Art Historyancient Modern & Theory Whitney Davis,Whitney M. Davis

Moves the discipline of Egyptological art history to a higher plane. As a result, one can neither engage in the sterile process of motif hunting per se nor be content to regard these palettes in terms of previous definitions of 'stylistic analysis.' "--Robert S. Bianchi, Brooklyn Museum "Moves the discipline of Egyptological art history to a higher plane. As a result, one can neither engage in the sterile process of motif hunting per se nor be content to regard these palettes in terms of previous definitions of 'stylistic analysis.' "--Robert S. Bianchi, Brooklyn Museum

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Univ of California Press

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0520074882

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9780520074880

Myōe the Dreamkeeper

Fantasy and Knowledge in Kamakura Buddhism

By: George J. Tanabe, Jr.

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Myōe the Dreamkeeper

Fantasy and Knowledge in Kamakura Buddhism

By: George J. Tanabe, Jr.

In the Kamakura period, Myoe Shonin (1173-1232) was a leader of Nara Buddhists who sought to revitalize traditional Buddhism in Japan. In his teaching, Myoe specially emphasized the value of the visions that could be achieved through meditation; and in his practice, he kept and occasionally illustrated a diary of his own visions and significant night dreams. The autograph copy of this remarkable document still exists, although some pages have been scattered among collectors. George J. Tanabe, Jr., here presents in English the most comprehensive compilation of the diary in any language. Moreover, his study of Myoe's life and teachings provides both a context within which the diary can be understood and a view of the often doctrinally contentious world of Kamakura Buddhism.

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1684172950

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Ingredients

Ingredients

Ingredients

Ingredients

Rise of Colleges

Rise of Colleges

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

The Politics of Agriculture in Japan

Power and Pork

Power and Pork

Japan's Interventionist State

Japan's Interventionist State

Evaluating Evidence

Evaluating Evidence

Minamata

Minamata

The Universal Geography. Earth and its Inhabitants

The Universal Geography. Earth and its Inhabitants

Christians, Muslims, and Mary

Christians, Muslims, and Mary

Masking the Blow

Masking the Blow

Myōe the Dreamkeeper

Myōe the Dreamkeeper

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