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The Food Network Recipe - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Food Network Recipe - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

When the Television Food Network launched in 1993, its programming was conceived as educational: it would teach people how to cook well, with side trips into the economics of food and healthy living. Today, however, the network is primarily known for splashy celebrity chefs and spirited competition shows. These new essays explore how the Food Network came to be known for consistently providing comforting programming that offers an escape from reality, where the storyline is just as important as the food that is being created. It dissects some of the biggest personalities that emerged from the Food Network itself, such as Guy Fieri, and offers a critical examination of a variety of chefs'' feminisms and the complicated nature of success. Some writers posit that the Food Network is creating an engaging, important dialogue about modes of instruction and education, and others analyze how the Food Network presents locality and place through the sharing of food culture with the viewing public. This book will bring together these threads as it explores the rise, development, and unique adaptability of the Food Network.

DKK 571.00
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Food for Thought - Lawrence C. Rubin - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food for Thought - Lawrence C. Rubin - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Historically, few topics have attracted as much scholarly, professional, or popular attention as food and eating--as one might expect, considering the fundamental role of food in basic human survival. Almost daily, a new food documentary, cooking show, diet program, food guru, or eating movement arises to challenge yesterday''s dietary truths and the ways we think about dining. This work brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating practices, contemporary and historic, local and global. Nineteen essays cover a vast array of food-related topics, including the ever-increasing problems of agricultural globalization, the contemporary mass-marketing of a formerly grassroots movement for organic food production, the Food Network''s successful mediation of social class, the widely popular phenomenon of professional competitive eating and current trends in "culinary tourism" and fast food advertising. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 334.00
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The Food Film - James R. Keller - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Food Film - James R. Keller - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. In many films, culinary imagery is central enough to constitute a new subgenre, defined by films in which food production, preparation, service, and consumption play a major part in the development of character, structure, or theme. This book defines the food film genre and analyzes the relationship between cinematic food imagery and various cultural constructs, including politics, family, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and religion. Chapters examine these themes in several well-known food films, such as The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Chocolat, Babette''s Feast , and Eat Drink Man Woman , and lesser-known productions, including Felicia''s Journey, Kitchen Stories, Magic Kitchen , and Chinese Feast . The work includes a filmography of movies within the food genre. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 334.00
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Living the Food-Allergic Life - Mark S. Ferrara - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Living the Food-Allergic Life - Mark S. Ferrara - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

If you had an allergy so severe that accidentally eating a forbidden food could kill you in minutes--how would it change your life, and your relationship to food? For people with food-induced anaphylaxis, the severest form of allergic response, simply eating in restaurants, accepting invitations to dinner, going on overnight field trips, or traveling through foreign countries means facing one''s mortality with every meal. In this book, Mark S. Ferrara weaves history, science, and psychology to recount the story of his struggles with allergic asthma and a life-threatening allergy to nuts--and his difficulties living and working in the Far East and Near East--to show how the quest for self-actualization can lead to an acceptance of transience that borders on the mystical. Along the way, he guides parents in keeping food-allergic children safe at home and at school and offers strategies that adolescents and adults may use to negotiate social spaces involving food. He explains how survivors of anaphylaxis can cope with the sometimes-irrational fears of food that follow that traumatic experience, so they may live happy, healthy, meaningful lives.

DKK 193.00
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Cat Island - John Cuevas - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cat Island - John Cuevas - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Just off the coast of the Gulf Islands National Seashore lies Cat Island, an isolated, T-shaped sliver of sand with a remarkable past. A coveted hiding place for Jean Lafitte''s pirate treasure in the late eighteenth century and illegal booze during Prohibition, Cat Island also witnessed the first shots of the Battle of New Orleans, an encampment for Seminoles during the Trail of Tears and the first lighthouses on the Mississippi coast. As a child, author John Cuevas learned that his family had owned and lived on the island for three generations beginning with his ancestor, Juan de Cuevas, referred to as "The King of Cat Island," who received it by way of a Spanish land grant. In this engaging work, Cuevas chronicles the historic events that occurred on the island''s shores and offers a tribute to the legacy of one of the Gulf Coast''s pioneer families.

DKK 334.00
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Food in the Movies, 2d ed. - Steve Zimmerman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food in the Movies, 2d ed. - Steve Zimmerman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Although food has been part of motion pictures since the silent era, for the most part it has been treated with about as much respect as movie extras: it''s always been there on the screen but seldom noticed. For the most part filmmakers have settled on three basic ways to treat food: as a prop in which the food is usually obscured from sight or ignored by the actors; as a transition device to compress time and help advance the plot; as a symbol or metaphor, or in some other meaningful way, to make a dramatic point or to reveal an aspect of an actor''s character, mood or thought process. This hugely expanded and revised edition details 400 food scenes, in addition to the 400 films reviewed for the first edition, and an introduction tracing the technical, artistic and cultural forces that contributed to the emergence of food films as a new genre--originated by such films as Tampopo, Babette''s Feast and more recently by films like Mostly Martha, No Reservations and Ratatouille . A filmography is included as an appendix.

DKK 429.00
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Food in the American Military - Carol Fisher - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food in the American Military - Carol Fisher - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American soldiers and sailors have progressed from simple campfire and ship''s deck cooking to today''s nutritionally sound, menu diverse, high tech, and ethnically correct feeding options. This book describes in great detail the development of rations used by America''s military war by war from the Revolutionary period to the present, especially the challenges of preserving and transporting the food. It discusses research into rations, the evolution of the training of cooks and bakers and others, and various methods of storage, preparation, and distribution of food. Numerous first-person accounts appear throughout. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 259.00
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Food Fight! - Julie L. Lautenschlager - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Fight! - Julie L. Lautenschlager - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Whether served in a lunch pail, on a cafeteria plate, from a fast food restaurant, or with two martinis, lunch is an important historical and sociological indicator of American culture. Although the modern three-meal-a-day pattern may seem divinely ordained, it has undergone profound changes in the last century. Prior to the American industrial revolution, an agrarian society necessitated a hearty breakfast, a large noon meal called "dinner," and a light evening repast known as "supper." As the nineteenth century came to a close, and factories increasingly replaced farms as primary employers, the new American lifestyle forced a change in eating patterns, and a new, light, publicly consumed midday meal called "lunch" emerged. This book studies the contentious history of the American lunch, and explains how divergent forces, from food processors and advertisers to social workers, doctors, government representatives and mothers, have carved out overlapping territories in the contest to influence America''s eating habits. Early chapters explore the shift from agrarianism to industrialization and the pursuant lunch revolution, and cover early reform efforts to improve lunch in schools and workplaces. Several chapters describe World War II as a watershed event for the American lunch, covering lunchtime militarization and government intrusion into daily nutrition, changing attitudes toward traditional women''s roles in food preparation, and the resulting postwar meal. Final chapters cover the "colonization" of school lunch by agribusiness, government and media, and explain how magazine and advertising treatments of lunch provision have constructed new models of femininity.

DKK 334.00
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Food and Wine - Harry Haff - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food and Wine - Harry Haff - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

We all taste--but what are we tasting? Knowing the factors involved in how we taste can help us develop our individual palette. Unlike the many critical reviews of food and wine pairings, this book gives a systematic approach based on personal tastes. Covering the most common international and regional wines, the author explains how they relate to the foods we eat. Fun "homework" assignments that match specific wines with recipes and variations help readers learn how they taste as individuals. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 287.00
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Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games - R.v. Kelly 2 - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games - R.v. Kelly 2 - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book is about the fastest growing form of electronic game in the world--the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). The evolution of these self-contained three-dimensional virtual worlds, often inhabited by thousands of players, is described here. This work also delves into the psychology of the people who inhabit the game universe and explores the development of the unique cultures, economies, moral codes, and slang in these virtual communities. It explains how the games are built, the spin-offs that players create to enhance their game lives, and peeks at the future of MMORPGs as they evolve from a form of amusement to an educational, scientific, and business tool. Based on hundreds of interviews over a three-year period, the work explores reasons people are attracted to and addicted to these games. It also surveys many existing and upcoming games, identifying their unique features and attractions. Two appendices list online addiction organizations and MMORPG information sites.

DKK 334.00
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The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914 - Lorine Swainston Goodwin - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914 - Lorine Swainston Goodwin - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Under a likeness of President Theodore Roosevelt in the Library of Congress, a plaque lists the Pure Food and Drink Law of 1906 as one of the three landmark achievements of his administration. Few authorities would disagree. Designed to ensure the safety of foods, drinks and drugs, the law was one of the first pieces of social legislation enacted in the United States. Among the most enthusiastic and persistent crusaders for the bill''s passage were a wide array of women''s groups, many politically active for the first time. Based in large part on primary sources, this work examines the many groups involved in the passage of the Pure Food and Drink Law and how their work affected American society. Part One examines the origins of the movement and why women became so involved. Part Two focuses on the primary groups involved in the law''s passage, such as the National Woman''s Christian Temperance Union and the General Federation of Women''s Clubs. How it was that such diverse groups rallied around this issue is also explored. The industrial and political opposition to the law and how the crusaders overcame it is covered in Part Three, along with details on how the law''s proponents were able to pressure the U.S. Congress into passing it and how they worked to see it fully implemented.

DKK 429.00
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Sowing the Seeds of Victory - Rose Hayden Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sowing the Seeds of Victory - Rose Hayden Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sometimes, to move forward, we must look back. U.S. involvement in WWI (1917-1919) is vital to understanding and informing our current work in agriculture and food systems. While most are familiar with the Victory Gardens of WWII, few realise that their origins lie in the Liberty Garden programme that enjoyed widespread participation during WWI. This book examines three programmes: the National War Garden Commission, the United States School Garden Army, and the Woman's Land Army (which some women used to press for suffrage). The urgency of wartime mobilisation enabled proponents to promote food production as a vital national security issue. The connection between the nation's food readiness and national security resonated within the context of America's political and cultural life, as the nation struggled to synthesise urban and rural interests, grappled with the nation's plurality and the challenges and opportunities presented by millions of immigrants, and considered the role of America in a global context. Could the same message - that food production is vital to national security - resonate today? These WWI programmes resulted in a national gardening ethos that transformed the American food system for the duration of the war; these historical models may help transform today's food system.

DKK 429.00
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Soup Through the Ages - Victoria R. Rumble - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Soup Through the Ages - Victoria R. Rumble - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As cooking advanced from simply placing wild grains, seeds, or meat in or near a fire to following some vague notion of food as a pleasing experience, soup--the world''s first prepared dish--became the unpretentious comfort food for all of civilization. This book provides a comprehensive and worldwide culinary history of soup from ancient times. Appendices detail vegetables and herbs used in centuries-old soup traditions and offer dozens of recipes from the medieval era through World War II.

DKK 429.00
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Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics - Lou Mougin - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics - Lou Mougin - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

 When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in a string of imitators--Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains or Hitler--like the Shield, the Black Terror, Crimebuster, Cat-Man, Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Black Cat and even Frankenstein? These and other four-color fighters crowded the newsstands from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. Most have since been overlooked, and not necessarily because they were victims of poor publication. This book gives the other superheroes of the Golden Age of comics their due.

DKK 523.00
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Basic Library Skills, 5th ed. - Carolyn E. Wolf - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Basic Library Skills, 5th ed. - Carolyn E. Wolf - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This brand new edition of Wolf''s acclaimed work provides a self-contained, short course in essential library skills for patrons of college, high school and public libraries. The intent is to provide a quick and easy way to learn to do library research. The exercises contained herein give students hands-on experience by applying rules stated in the text to situations that approach real "research problems." Subjects addressed include a brief tour of the library; card catalogs and cataloging systems; filing rules; online public access catalogs; subject searching; bibliographies; book reviews and parts of a book; dictionaries; encyclopedias; handbooks; atlases; gazetteers; periodicals; newspapers; online database searching and reference sources; literature and criticism; e-books; government information and government documents; biographies; business, career and consumer information; non-print materials and special services; online computer use in libraries and schools; and hints for writing term papers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 334.00
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The Writer's Guide to Self-Editing - Naveed Saleh - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Writer's Guide to Self-Editing - Naveed Saleh - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed. This new efficiency, however, has increased editors'' workloads, limiting the amount of detailed editorial feedback that they can provide authors. In turn, writers must become self-editors, ensuring that their text is nearly perfect on submission. This book serves as a guide to self-editing nonfiction print and online publications, including articles for general and academic audiences. It is both prescriptive and descriptive, drawing from stylebooks, dictionaries, research, and more to provide a full picture of both style and grammar. Also provided are techniques that boost search-engine optimization and engagement of Internet audiences.

DKK 334.00
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Blood on the Table - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Blood on the Table - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues, such as the provision of intra-, peri- or paratextual recipes, the aesthetics and ethics of food, eating rituals as indications of cultural belonging, and regional, national and supranational identities. It also tackles eating disorders and other seemingly abnormal habits as signs of "Otherness." Also mentioned are the television productions of the Inspector Montalbano series (1999-ongoing), the Danish-Swedish Bron/Broen (2011, The Bridge ), and its remakes The Tunnel (2013, France/UK) and The Bridge (2013, USA).

DKK 571.00
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Digesting Foods and Fads - Judi Nath - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Digesting Foods and Fads - Judi Nath - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

It is time to tease sense out of the nonsense when it comes to eating smartly. This book offers advice on how to eat nutritiously every day without all the guilt, money, and discomfort wasted on the latest, greatest fad. Using the best scientific nutrition research available, this book will show how to navigate the complicated world of food with ease. Peppered with historical background and fascinating facts, this is an introduction to basic nutritional practices. The book covers what foods you need, how your body uses the nutrients found in those foods, disease, sustainability, weight control, and food as medicine. It exposes the lies about supplements, fad foods, fad diets, and quick fixes. Armed with the knowledge that you are making the best decisions for yourself, there will be no need to chase after the latest magic potion or remedy.

DKK 240.00
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The Elusive African Renaissance - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Elusive African Renaissance - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health and political instability--and offers prescriptions that differ from the dominant neoliberal solutions.

DKK 551.00
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Free with Every Kids' Meal - Jonathan Alexandratos - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Free with Every Kids' Meal - Jonathan Alexandratos - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

When we hear the term "fast food toys," many of us picture specific favorites. Whether they be the McDonald''s Changeables, Burger King''s expansive Lord of the Rings figurines, or the Star Wars: Episode I premiums that gripped Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut simultaneously, chances are high that you have a nostalgic go-to. But why? Perhaps the element of surprise, an unexpected toy accompanying your lunch, delighted you as a child. Maybe you loved the promotion''s source material and wanted to collect everything within its domain. Or it could be that this tiny, random plaything intersected with your life at just the inexplicably right moment. Whatever the case may be, toys tucked into kids'' meals are designed to be disposable, but many of our experiences prove them to be anything but. While there are many books devoted to cataloguing various fast food promotional products, this is the first to undertake a deep analysis of their cultural impact. By digging deep into kids'' meals past and present, this work uncovers the history of their toys. This work guides examines the ways in which these simple prizes interact with societal factors like race, gender, class, and economics by connecting their analyses with the work of top theorists. In so doing, we learn why these allegedly "forgettable" toys embed in memory--not because of the toy at the bottom of a brightly colored food container, but because, there, in the in-between space of toy-and-meal, permanent-and-temporary, meaningless-and-meaningful, we find ourselves.

DKK 427.00
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Fearing the Dark - Edmund G. Bansak - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fearing the Dark - Edmund G. Bansak - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) established Val Lewton''s hauntingly graceful style where suggestion was often used in place of explicit violence. His stylish B thrillers were imitated by a generation of filmmakers such as Richard Wallace, William Castle, and even Walt Disney in his animated Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Through interviews with many of Lewton''s associates (including his wife and son) and extensive research, his life and output are thoroughly examined.

DKK 429.00
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Mother Nature's Daughters - Paula Vw. Dail - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Mother Nature's Daughters - Paula Vw. Dail - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Nearly half of all farmland in the U.S. is owned by women--295,000 of them. In an enterprise traditionally dominated by men, they are taking a lead role in overhauling a complex, often dysfunctional food system. This book features eight stories of women farmers who persevere despite treacherous weather and erratic commodities markets. Smart, independent, hard-working and politically astute, they explain in their own words how and why they chose, and continue to choose, farming.

DKK 259.00
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Attack of the Monster Movie Makers - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Attack of the Monster Movie Makers - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films. Merry Anders, Charles Bennett, Ben Chapman, Herman Cohen, Robert Day, Val Guest, Susan Hart, Candace Hilligoss, Rose Hobart, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jacques Marquette, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Nelson, William Phipps, Vincent Price, Ann Robinson, Herbert Rudley, Harry Spalding, Kenneth Tobey, and Lupita Tovar reflect on their work in such movies as Berserk, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Cat-Women of the Moon and many others.

DKK 259.00
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Edgar G. Ulmer - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Edgar G. Ulmer - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This collection of 20 essays pays homage to a filmmaker who had a reputation for delivering the most movie for the least money. Edgar G. Ulmer, nicknamed "The King of the Bs" and "The King of Poverty Row," gave us classics like The Black Cat , starring Bela Lugosi. His stealing away the wife of a producer led to exile from Hollywood and, working outside the studio system and with low budgets, he turned out film noir, science fiction, and ethnic films that achieved cult status and critical acceptance.

DKK 334.00
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Once Upon a Time in a Dark and Scary Book - K. Shryock Hood - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Once Upon a Time in a Dark and Scary Book - K. Shryock Hood - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Contemporary American horror literature for children and young adults has two bold messages for readers: adults are untrustworthy, unreliable and often dangerous; and the monster always wins (as it must if there is to be a sequel). Examining the young adult horror series and the religious horror series for children ( Left Behind: The Kids ) for the first time, and tracing the unstoppable monster to Seuss''s Cat in the Hat , this book sheds new light on the problematic message produced by the combination of marketing and books for contemporary American young readers.

DKK 429.00
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