Free Download The Mouth that Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China By Gang Yue
1999 | 459 Pages | ISBN: 0822323419 | PDF | 29 MB
The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narrative of desire that moves from lack to satiation and back again. In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented in literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalizing. At the core of Gang Yue's argument lies the premise that the discourse surrounding the most universal of basic human acts-eating-is a culturally specific one. Yue's discussion begins with a brief look at ancient Chinese alimentary writing and then moves on to its main concern: the exploration and textual analysis of themes of eating in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth period through the post-Tiananmen era. The broad historical scope of this volume illustrates how widely applicable eating-related metaphors can be. For instance, Yue shows how cannibalism symbolizes old China under European colonization in the writing of Lu Xun. In Mo Yan's 1992 novel Liquorland, however, cannibalism becomes the symbol of overindulgent consumerism. Yue considers other writers as well, such as Shen Congwen, Wang Ruowang, Lu Wenfu, Zhang Zianliang, Ah Cheng, Zheng Yi, and Liu Zhenyun. A special section devoted to women writers includes a chapter on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang, and another on the Chinese-American women writers Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan. Throughout, the author compares and contrasts the work of these writers with similarly themed Western literature, weaving a personal and political semiotics of eating.The Mouth That Begs will interest sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and everyone curious about the semiotics of food.

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Free Download N S Nash, "Hunger: Food Deprivation as a Military Weapon"
English | ISBN: 1399040596 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 77 MB + 26 MB
Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb.

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Free Download Caroline Carpenter, "Guide to the Hunger Games"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0859654869 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 4.2 mb
Guide to the Hunger Games offers a new way to interact with the enthralling world of the Young Adult publishing phenomenon that is Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. This companion provides deeper insight into the inspiration behind the thrilling adventure series, as well as the contemporary themes at its root. Profiling the main characters and providing coverage of the 74th and 75th Hunger Games tournaments, long-standing fans can refresh their knowledge while new ones can explore the dystopian setting of Panem in illuminating detail. Complete with beautiful illustrations, all the most fascinating elements of Collins' creation are covered here, from muttations to the amazing designs of Katniss' stylist, Cinna.

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English | 2010 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0060909919, 0060804645, 0060147687 | EPUB | 2,0 mb
A continuation of Black Boy, Wright's acclaimed autobiographical work, calls attention to his first years in the North, his struggle to become a writer, and his brief association with the Communist party

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Free Download Lucie Brock-Broido, "A Hunger: Poems"
English | 2005 | pages: 72 | ISBN: 0394758528, 0394563379 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
"Brock-Broido's talismanic words open into a magical territory of 'Domestic Mysticism' . . . A violently skewed portrait of the female poet and her Muse, a hyped-up version of Stevens and his interior paramour, locked in a soliloquy 'in which being there together is enough' . . . Something in Brock-Broido likes stealth, toxicity, wildness, neon-'perfect mean lines' . . . The poems lead off the page."

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Free Download Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YMZFS6 | 2024 | 11 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Emmeline Clein
Narrator: Karissa Vacker

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Free Download The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop by Judson Brewer
English | January 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1785305719 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 0.66 MB
A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.

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English | January 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 0593543254 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 2.96 MB
A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.

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Free Download Judson Brewer (Author, Narrator), "The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop"
English | ASIN: B0C4BPCHR1 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:42:00 | 247 MB
A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.
Sometimes it feels as if there are as many ways to struggle with food as there are foods to eat. Craving, habit, emotions, boredom, stress, anxiety, or just the simple fact that a box of donuts seems to be omnipresent in the break room (free food!) can lead to feeling out of control around food. While anxiety feels like something that happens to us, the pull of food seems like something we should be able to handle. After all, we have to eat! But it's not that simple. The result of this constant struggle-and then giving in or giving up-is a toxic cocktail of shame and self-judgment that makes it feel like it is impossible to change our behavior.
The Hunger Habit is based on Judson Brewer's deeply researched plan proven to help us understand what is going on in our brains so that we can heal the guilt and frustration we experience around eating. This is not a diet book pretending not to be a diet book. The step-by-step program focuses on training our brains to tap into awareness to change our relationship with food and eating-shifting it from fighting with ourselves to befriending our minds and bodies. There is no willpower, calorie-counting, or restricted eating. Setbacks are a good thing! The key is to learn how to work with our brains rather than resisting our impulses, and to adopt an attitude of self-kindness rather than self-judgment.

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Free Download Hunger and the Sword: Warfare and Food Supply in Roman Republican Wars (264-30 B.C.) By Paul Erdkamp
1998 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 905063608X | PDF | 67 MB
Roman wars, like those of later times, took place in a landscape - a landscape not only consisting of mountains, plains and rivers, but also of men tilling the soil, travelling across sea or land, or employing other means in their struggle for survival (and even happiness). This book undertakes to examine Roman wars in this context of the natural and human environment. Roman warfare is generally examined from the vierpoint of the ancient authors on whose narratives our understanding depends. As a consequence, however, Roman wars seem to have become events that took place on the pages of a book rather than in the environment of the Mediterranean world. The way Roman wars were fought was determined by the geography and climate of the Mediterranean peninsulas, by the ecological restraints on agriculture and transport, and by the economic and social structures of the society of which the armies were a significant part. This book relates warfare to one of the main conditions of survival: it examines on the one hand the food supply of the many thousands that manned the Roman armies, and on the other the impact of war on the food supply of those people not waging war.

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