Book salt fat sugar6/30/2023 ![]() Are you ready for the truth about what’s in your shopping basket? Show Less Product Details ![]() He unearths marketing campaigns designed – in a technique adapted from the tobacco industry – to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products, and reveals how the makers of processed foods have chosen, time and again, to increase consumption and profits, while gambling with our health. He takes us inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the ‘bliss point’ of sugary drinks. Read more investigative reporter Michael Moss exposes the practices of some of the most recognisable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century. These three simple ingredients are used by the major food companies to achieve the greatest allure for the lowest possible cost. In the UK over 60 per cent of adults and 30 per cent of children are overweight, while the United States remains the most obese country in the world. In Mexico, the obesity rate has tripled in the past three decades. The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In China, for the first time, the people who weigh too much now outnumber those who weigh too little. This title exposes the practices of some of the recognisable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century. ![]() ![]() In China, for the first time, the people who weigh too much now outnumber those who weigh too little. Description for Salt, Sugar, Fat Paperback. ![]()
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The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins6/30/2023 ![]() Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates’ most mysterious resident. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. ![]() The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. ![]() Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. January 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads PickĪ delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. ![]() One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN “Compulsively readable.a gothic thriller laced with arsenic.” –– EW Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller ![]() Swimming in the dark book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Prior to starting university they meet at an agricultural camp while serving their compulsory labour requirement for the country and embark on a passionate affair while reading James Baldwin's “Giovanni's Room”. ![]() ![]() Tomasz Jedrowski takes an interesting approach in his debut novel “Swimming in the Dark” which depicts two young men over the course of the summer of 1980 in Soviet-governed Poland. I think a couple of novels such as Sebastian Barry's “Days Without End” and Patrick Gale's “A Place Called Winter” manage to faithfully represent the past while also offering an uplifting message of hope. It can be so discouraging as a reader because, while I don't want to diminish the painful reality and struggle of homosexuals throughout the ages, I also want to believe there are stories from history where same sex couples could enjoy the same opportunities for both swoon-worthy passion and heartbreak that heterosexual couples possess. Given the many past and current instances of homosexuals being persecuted in almost every culture around the world there are few opportunities to plausibly invent examples of such relationships which aren't entirely secretive or don't end in betrayal/exposure/death. ![]() It's a big challenge for a modern author to write a historical gay love story that don't end in tragedy. ![]() Hate by tate james6/30/2023 ![]() These have covered everything from his own net worth to his views on gender dynamics. ![]() Since his rise to prominence following a six-day stint as a contestant on the UK version of Big Brother, Tate has given viewers a plethora of notable sound bites. However, much of his subject matter is controversial and offensive. ![]() It regularly attains millions of views from like-minded people. The former kickboxing world champion’s content is widely shared on the internet via YouTube, TikTok and other social media platforms. This list has been compiled for reference purposes only.Īndrew Tate has shot to fame over the last year thanks to his brand of male-targeted ‘self-help’. ![]() Downtime Bros and its editors do not endorse, agree with, or support these Andrew Tate quotes or views. ![]() By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño6/30/2023 ![]() “Farewell”-where the hopeful cleric is privileged to glimpse native poet Pablo Neruda “reciting verses to the moon,” and even converse with the great man. Father Lacroix’s hurtling memories begin with a lengthy account of his weekend visit, as a young seminarian, to the estate of eminent (and probably homosexual) critic Gonzalez Lamarca, a.k.a. It consists of a nightlong deathbed monologue, presented in a single run-on paragraph, as spoken by Sebastién Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean Jesuit priest also well known as a poet and literary critic. ![]() Moral weakness and political collusion are the subtly developed themes of this terse 2000 novel, a first US publication for the late, great Chilean author (1953–2003). ![]() |