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Author | : William Leith |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-08-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0385672926 |
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“Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. I’m hungry most of the time.” William Leith began the eighties slim; by the end of that decade he had packed on an uncomfortable amount of weight. In the early nineties, he was slim again, but his weight began to creep up once more. On January 20th, 2003, he woke up on the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins. But what was meant to be a routine journalistic assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. From his many years as a journalist, Leith knows that being fat is something people find more difficult to talk about than nearly anything else. But in The Hungry Years he does precisely that. Leith uses his own pathological relationship with food as a starting point and reveals himself, driven to the kitchen first thing in the morning to inhale slice after slice of buttered toast, wracked by a physical and emotional need that only food can satisfy. He travels through fast food-scented airports and coffee shops as he explores the all-encompassing power of advertising and the unattainable notions of physical perfection that feed the multibillion dollar diet industry. Fat has been called a feminist issue: William Leith’s unblinking look at the physical consequences and psychological pain of being an overweight man charts fascinating new territory for everyone who has ever had a craving or counted a calorie. The Hungry Years is a story of food, fat, and addiction that is both funny and heartwrenching. I was sitting in a café on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 24th Street in Manhattan, holding a menu. I was overweight. In fact, I was fat. Like millions of other people, I had entered into a pathological relationship with food, and with my own body. For years I had desperately wanted to write about why this had happened — not just to me, but to all those other people as well. I knew it had a lot to do with food. But I also knew it was connected to all sorts of outside forces. If I could understand what had happened to me, I could tell people what had happened to them, too. Right there and then, I decided that I would do everything to discover why I had got fat. I would look at every angle. And then I would lose weight, and report back from the slim world. —Excerpt from The Hungry Years
Author | : T. H. Watkins |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2000-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780805065060 |
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Draws from oral histories, memoirs, local newspaper reports, and scholarly texts to tell the story of America's Great Depression in the words of people who lived through it.
Author | : Connie Brummel Crook |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780613461405 |
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Publisher | : Damiani Limited |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9788862085625 |
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The Hungry Years collects the early photographs taken by Pierson throughout the 1980s, which, since they were first editioned in 1990, have increasingly captured the attention of the art world. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson's work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour. Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson's work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as his models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian. Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession, and absence, Pierson's subject is ultimately, as he states, "hope."
Author | : Tom H. Watkins |
Publisher | : Henry Holt |
Total Pages | : 1010 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : New Deal, 1933-1939. |
ISBN | : 9780805009170 |
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Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal
Author | : Jessie Haas |
Publisher | : Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1635923832 |
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In this horse adventure perfect for fans of Black Beauty, a Connemara pony is pampered and beloved, then abused and neglected, until twelve-year-old Rae brings love to her again. Princess lives a charmed life of brown sugar cubes, crunchy apples, sweet grass, and adoration. But it is a lonely life; her elderly owner keeps Princess separate from other ponies so his show-ring champion will remain pristine. When Princess's owner has a stroke, she is thrust into the care of an unscrupulous trainer and his wife, who steal from the farm and leave. Abandoned to starve with other, tougher ponies, Princess is bereft of all hope. Meanwhile, a girl named Rae wants a pony more than anything and is striving to make her unrealistic dream a reality. Rae and Princess need each other, though neither realizes this when they eventually meet. Rae must learn to see beyond Princess's scars and Princess must learn to trust again in order for them both to find their own hidden strengths and a home in each other.
Author | : Eric Carle |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2016-11-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524739553 |
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The all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life? For the first time, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available in e-book format, perfect for storytime anywhere. As an added bonus, it includes read-aloud audio of Eric Carle reading his classic story. This fine audio production pairs perfectly with the classic story, and it makes for a fantastic new way to encounter this famous, famished caterpillar.
Author | : Jimmy Lane |
Publisher | : Discovery Press (WV) |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Boxers (Sports) |
ISBN | : 9780966724653 |
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Author | : Anissa Gray |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984802445 |
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“If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness.”—The Washington Post “A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on the origins and variations of addiction.”—The New York Times Book Review One of the most anticipated reads of 2019 from Vogue, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Essence, Bustle, HelloGiggles and Cosmo! “The Mothers meets An American Marriage” (HelloGiggles) in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials—as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest—but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband, Proctor, are arrested, and in a heartbeat the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace. The worst part is, not even her sisters are sure exactly what happened. As Althea awaits her fate, Lillian and Viola must come together in the house they grew up in to care for their sister’s teenage daughters. What unfolds is a stunning portrait of the heart and core of an American family in a story that is as page-turning as it is important.
Author | : Jan Slepian |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2001-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780439275989 |
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I want some shmancakes . . . and tickles . . . and feetloaf . . . and gollipops. Can you guess what this Hungry Thing really wants to eat?