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The Hostile Takeover of Childhood
by Susan Linn
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by Jonathan Bloom
Published Aug 2011
Read ReviewsAs more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements.
by Greg Critser
Published Jan 2004
Read ReviewsCritser's portrait of Fat America including forays into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but eloquent portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsReveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.
by Eric Schlosser
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsA groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.
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