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Camas Davis was at an unhappy crossroads. A longtime magazine editor, she had left New York City to pursue a simpler life in her home state of Oregon, with the man she wanted to marry, and taken an appealing job at a Portland magazine. But neither job nor man delivered on her dreams, and in the...

Scrutinizing house dust and air samples with a microscope, indoor-air-quality expert Jeffrey C. May has spent his career helping people identify what's causing their chronic health problems. In this thoroughly revised edition of My House Is Killing Me! Jeff and Connie May draw on the dramatic personal stories of their clients' suffering and relief to help listeners understand the links between environmental factors and human health.

Fed up of friends claiming to care about the provenance of their food, Louise Gray decides to follow the argument to its logical extreme. Starting small, Louise shucks oysters and catches fish. Gradually she gets to know countrymen and women who teach her how to shoot pigeons and rabbits. As she begins to reconnect with nature and her own upbringing in the countryside, Louise starts to question modern attitudes to the meat we eat.

Mit seiner Philosophie des Kochens hat Joskowitz ein einfühlsames Buch über die Stellung der Menschen in der Natur geschrieben. Der Philosoph und Koch betrachtet die Küche als Mittelpunkt des menschlichen Lebens. Er begibt sich auf eine Reise zu den Anfängen der menschlichen Kultur, zeigt, welche individuellen wie gesellschaftlichen Kräfte dem Kochen innewohnen und geht den Fragen nach: Wo kommen wir her? Wie haben wir damals gekocht? Wie kochen wir jetzt und wie wird es in der Zukunft sein?