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Food reformers tell Americans to slow down. Cook from scratch. Eat dinner together. But is it really that simple? Pressure Cooker brings readers into the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of mothers to uncover what it really takes to feed the modern family and what really needs to change to ensure a fair, healthy, and sustainable food system that nourishes everyone.

Angels of Efficiency traces the invention of film and the parallel rise of management consulting, telling the story of how these together brought about new forms of information visualization and visual management.

An exploration of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity, Multivocality focuses on transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, religious contexts, and found voices and lost ones.

Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design is a guidebook for students or beginning professionals for all aspects of landscape design. Different problems are offered to test one's knowledge and to help stimulate discussion among students or professionals in an office setting.

The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) takes readers on a tour of the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. The volume includes information on gun control pertaining to U.S. history, jurisprudence, cultural beliefs, political agendas, epidemiologcal data, criminology, law and regulation, and policy effectiveness.

In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know (R) series, ecologist and conservationist Mark Plotkin offers an overview of Amazonia, the largest and most important rainforest and ecosystem in the world.

In Divine Programming, author Charlotte E. Howell investigates the disconnect between dramatic television narratives of white Christianity and the religion they are meant to represent, focusing on key series including 7th Heaven, Friday Night Lights, Supernatural, Jane the Virgin, and Daredevil.

This book provides a brief, accessible overview of the Qur'an in question-and-answer format. Jane McAuliffe, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Qur'an, introduces readers to this important text by discussing its origins, structure, themes, interpretations, and what it has to say about a host of critical contemporary issues.

Celebrated film director Sergio Leone brings to mind spectacle, myth, and fable. But what about the political aspects of his films? This book offers a sophisticated portrait of Leone's professional and intellectual evolution through the lens of the political.

Offering rich ethnography and a deep historical perspective, After the Dance, the Drums are Heavy is about carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti.

When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, film, and culture. It explores the world's great repertoire of film comedy, clarifying how specific national and regional traditions reflect the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring stories, its engaging characters and revealing jokes.

Dunbar takes readers through the theory of evolution and provides readers with answers to popular questions surrounding Darwin's original theory and how it has impacted science today.

Art and Science in the Choral Rehearsal explores strategies based in cognitive neuroscience and social psychology studies, supported by an understanding of good teaching practices, to increase singer engagement in both rehearsal and performance.

Socially Undocumented offers a new vision of immigration justice that focuses on "socially undocumented identity" in the United States. Reed-Sandoval argues that to be socially undocumented is to possess a real social identity that does not always track one's legal status in the United States.

Anecdotal Evidence reveals the deep intertwining of history and ecology in culture, extending to the infrastructure of streaming video media and mass image databases. An original take on Anthropocene anxieties and technological paranoia, the book proposes that the digital humanities still need the traditional skills of close reading to understand our contemporary condition.

In digitally connected middle-class households with school-going children, from toddlers through to varsity students, the practice of transcendent parenting has arisen. Transcendent Parenting addresses modern parenting in the digital world, and it reveals potential consequences for both parents and children.