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The Ethics of What We Eat

Why Our Food Choices Matter

By: Peter Singer,Jim Mason

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The Ethics of What We Eat

Why Our Food Choices Matter

By: Peter Singer,Jim Mason

Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was raised humanely. The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful, humane food choices. As they point out: You can be ethical without being fanatical.

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Rodale Books

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1605296074

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Piercing Time

Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012

By: Peter Sramek

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Piercing Time

Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012

By: Peter Sramek

Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary ‘rephotographs’ taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles Marville, who worked under Georges Haussmann, and corresponding photographs by Eugène Atget taken in the early twentieth century. Revisiting the sites of Marville’s photographs with a black cloth, tripod and view camera, Peter Sramek creates here a visually stunning book that investigates how urban development, the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city. The essays that run alongside these fascinating images discuss subjects such as the aesthetics of ruins and the documentation of the demolitions that preceded Haussmannization, as well as the different approaches taken by Marville and Atget to their work. The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians, extracts from Haussmann’s own writing and historical maps that allow for an intriguing look at the shifting city plan. Sure to be of interest to lovers of the city, be they Parisians or visitors, Piercing Time provides a unique snapshot of historical changes of the past 150 years. But it will also be of enduring value to scholars. The accurate cataloguing and high quality reproductions of the images make it a resource for a significant portion of the Marville collection in the Musée Carnavalet, and it will aid further research in urban history and change in Paris over the past century and a half. Photographers will be drawn to the book for its new thinking in relation to documentary methodologies.

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Intellect Books

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1783202270

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9781783202270

Battling Siki

A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

By: Peter Benson

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Battling Siki

A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

By: Peter Benson

Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610750594

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9781610750592

Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

By: Peter N. Miller

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Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

By: Peter N. Miller

Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the remarkable 70,000-page archive of this Provençal humanist and polymath, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century that was dominated by the sea: the ceaseless activity of merchants, customs officials, and ships’ captains at the center of Europe’s sprawling maritime networks. Peiresc’s Mediterranean World reconstructs the web of connections that linked the bustling port city of Marseille to destinations throughout the Western Mediterranean, North Africa, the Levant, and beyond. “Peter Miller’s reanimation of Peiresc, the master of the Mediterranean, is the best kind of case study. It not only makes us appreciate the range and richness of one man’s experience and the originality of his thought, but also suggests that he had many colleagues in his deepest and most imaginative inquiries. Most important, it gives us hope that their archives too will be opened up by scholars skillful and imaginative enough to make them speak to us.” —Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books

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Harvard University Press

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0674425774

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9780674425774

Peiresc's Orient

Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century

By: Peter N. Miller

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Peiresc's Orient

Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century

By: Peter N. Miller

The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this described the eastern and southern space in which the Greeks and Romans lived and strove. For Peiresc the Christian, this was the world of the Bible that impacted upon the Greeks and Romans. And for Peiresc of the Mediterranean (for he was born in Aix, spent much time in Marseille, and lived outside of the region for only 6 of his 57 years), this was the territory that his friends and colleagues sailed to, lived in and, usually, came back from. The convergence of these axes in the life of one man, and a man of singular intellectual power and charm whose vast personal paper arsenal had survived, makes this such a compelling project. The essays are arranged in a roughly chronological order. They follow the course of Peiresc’s own projects from his early encounter with the ancient Near East in Greek and Roman literature, through his engagement with Arabic to his deepening kowledge of rabbinic texts to the wider world of the new oriental studies of the seventeenth century which he helped create: Samaritan, Coptic and Ethiopic.

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373

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Routledge

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1351219693

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9781351219693

Font Technology

Methods and Tools

By: Peter Karow

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Font Technology

Methods and Tools

By: Peter Karow

Computers have changed typography and prepress as well as printing. Typefaces are manufactured by "digital punch cutters" with a PC, not any more by punch cutters. Typefaces are constructed an output by a new technolgy, the so-called fonttechnology. The book by Peter Karow covers the whole area of it. It offers various chapters about (among others) issues like intelligent font scaling, kerning, quality of type, legibility, and problems of different output devices. It is interesting to read about Gutenberg setting, the font market, optical scaling, and last but not least a "hand on" Kanjhi, the Chinese/Japanese Glyphs. Furthermore, Fonttechnology contains a number of valuable and instructive appendices. Almost everything one has to know about type and computers!

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642785050

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9783642785054

Looking at Atget

By: Peter Barberie,Eugène Atget

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Looking at Atget

By: Peter Barberie,Eugène Atget

A unique look at the work of one of the great photographers of the twentieth century, whose unequaled records of Paris inspired generations of photographers

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Yale University Press

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0300111371

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9780300111378

Peter Bush

A Life in Focus

By: Paul Thomas,Peter Bush

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Peter Bush

A Life in Focus

By: Paul Thomas,Peter Bush

The biography of the renowned photographer and personality

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459627806

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The Ethics of What We Eat

The Ethics of What We Eat

Piercing Time

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Battling Siki

Battling Siki

Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

Peiresc's Orient

Peiresc's Orient

Font Technology

Font Technology

Looking at Atget

Looking at Atget

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