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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table $11.12 The author of this book worked at a California farm, in a Wal-Mart grocery section and an Applebee’s in order to report on how food is grown, sold and consumed in America. She also observes how and what the working poor buy, cook and eat….

Food Chemistry $43.75 The 3rd edition has been extensively re-written and a number of new topics, many of which will be of particular interest to food technologists, have been introduced or completely revised. The book now comprises more than 620 tables and 472 figures, including the structural formulae of around 1.100 food components. This well-known and world-wide accepted advanced text and reference book is logicall…

Opportunities in the Nutrition and Food Sciences: Research Challenges and the Next Generation of Investigators $22.09 Thanks to increased knowledge about nutrition, many threats to human health have been curbed. But there is much more to be learned. This new volume identifies the most promising opportunities for further progress in basic and clinical research in the biological sciences, food science and technology, and public health. The committee identifies cross-cutting themes as frameworks for investigation an…