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Eat This Book

A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

By: Ryan Nerz

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Eat This Book

A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

By: Ryan Nerz

A fascinating and gut-bustingly hilarious account of one man's journey into the insane world of competitive eating. Including shocking revelations about the history of the International Federation for Competitive Eating, the intricacies of individual contests and the controversial Belt of Fat theory, Nerz's travelogue-cum-history-cum-party journal and psychological study makes for reading as incredible as the loads of food his subjects (and himself) stuff down their gullets in a year's worth of nosh-fuelled madness.

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Macmillan

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0312339682

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9780312339685

Marijuanamerica

By: Alfred Ryan Nerz

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Marijuanamerica

By: Alfred Ryan Nerz

“A delightfully weird . . . journey that includes crazed pharmacists, a guy named Buddha Cheese, and an interstate road trip with a trunk full of pot.” —A. J. Jacobs, New York Times–bestselling author Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He’s also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America’s long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government, and visiting the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. But his journey took an unexpected turn and he found himself embedded with one of the largest growers and dealers on the West Coast. He quickly transformed into an underworld apprentice—surrounded by pit bulls, exotic drugs, beanbags full of cash, and trunks full of weed. But while struggling to navigate the eccentric characters and rampant paranoia of the black market, he maintained enough equanimity to explore a number of vital questions: Is marijuana hurting or helping us? How is it affecting our lungs, our brains, and our ambitions? Is it truly addictive, and if so, are too many of us dependent on it? Should we legalize it? Does he need to quit? As entertaining as it is illuminating, Marijuanamerica is one man’s attempt to humanize the myriad hot-button topics surrounding the nation’s obsession with weed, while learning something about himself along the way. “These wacky accounts rival T.C. Boyle’s fine novel Budding Prospects in showing the highly misguided paranoia that can be cured—or accentuated—by consumption of the marijuana plant’s sticky blossoms.” —Pasatiempo

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Abrams

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1613124708

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Eat This Book

A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

By: Ryan Nerz

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Eat This Book

A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

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Journalist Ryan Nerz spent a year penetrating the highest echelons of international competitive eating and Eat This Book is the fascinating and gut-bustingly hilarious account of his journey. Nerz gives us all the facts about the history of the IFOCE (Independent Federation of Competitive Eating)--from the story of a clever Nathan's promotion that began in 1916 on the corner of Surf and Stillwell in Coney Island to the intricacies of individual international competitions, the controversial Belt of Fat Theory and the corporate wars to control this exploding sport. He keeps the reader turning the pages as we are swept up in the lives of Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, "Cookie" Jarvis, "Hungry" Charles Hardy, and many other top gurgitators whose egos and secret agendas, hopes and dreams are revealed in dramatic detail. As Nerz goes on his own quest to become a top gurgitator, we become obsessed with him as he lies awake at night in physical pain from downing dozens of burgers and learning to chug gallons of water to expand his increasingly abused stomach. Sparing no one's appetite, Nerz reveals the training, game-day strategies and after-effects of competition in this delectably shocking banquet of gluttony and glory on the competitive eating circuit.

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400

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1466802324

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9781466802322

Marijuanamerica

By: Alfred Ryan Nerz

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By: Alfred Ryan Nerz

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Brandy

By: A. ryan Nerz

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Brandy

By: A. ryan Nerz

Scene: The Real Deal on Your Favorite Stars Brandy Her famous relative is: Whitney Houston OR Bo Diddley? Her company's name is: Brand-Nu OR Baby Baby, Inc.? Her favorite fast food is: White Castle OR McDonald's? Find out the REAL DEAL on Brandy

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Gallery Books

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0689825455

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Axis Diplomats in American Custody

The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945

By: Landon Alfriend Dunn,Timothy J. Ryan

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Axis Diplomats in American Custody

The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945

By: Landon Alfriend Dunn,Timothy J. Ryan

After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted they be treated as distinguished guests. As the war progressed, other Axis envoys were similarly detained. (The Japanese ambassador to Germany was captured by U.S. soldiers in Europe and held in a small hotel in rural Pennsylvania, while the War Department argued for treating him as a war criminal and the local population decried his luxurious accommodations.) Informants were recruited, attempts at espionage and escape were foiled, diplomats complained and squabbled endlessly, babies were born and townspeople made threats, while newspapers published outlandish exposes of wild parties. Based on government documents, the recollections of detainees and hotel staff and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to focus on the day-to-day lives of the nearly 1,000 detainees during their six-month confinement.

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208

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McFarland

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1476664862

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9781476664866

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

By: Casey Ryan Kelly

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Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

By: Casey Ryan Kelly

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines the growing popularity of food and travel television and its implications for how we understand the relationship between food, place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods, Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television, attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases global poverty, and contributes to myths of American exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of cultural difference and economic success.

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163

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Lexington Books

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1498544452

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9781498544450

Head Over Heels

By: Ryan A. Nerz

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Head Over Heels

By: Ryan A. Nerz

Columbus High's junior class is shaken up by the arrival of a new student from California.

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Spark Notes

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1411400828

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9781411400825

Digimon #02: Invasion of the Black Gears!

By: A. Ryan Nerz

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Digimon #02: Invasion of the Black Gears!

By: A. Ryan Nerz

Wow, is File Island strange! There are telephones that never ring, trolley cars with no passengers, and weirdest of all, there are these evil Black Gears that fly around and take over good Digimons, turning them into ferocious monsters who want to chomp on Matt, T.K., Mimi, and the rest of their human and Digimon pals for lunch! Lucky for everyone, all it takes is a little digivolve into forms powerful enough to take on the evil monsters. Sound too bizarre to be true? Well then, read this and see for yourself!

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HarperEntertainment

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0061071870

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9780061071874

Brandy

By: A. ryan Nerz

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Marijuanamerica

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Eat This Book

Eat This Book

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Marijuanamerica

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Axis Diplomats in American Custody

Axis Diplomats in American Custody

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization

Head Over Heels

Head Over Heels

Digimon #02: Invasion of the Black Gears!

Digimon #02: Invasion of the Black Gears!

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