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What is Consciousness? A Debate

What is Consciousness? A Debate

What is consciousness and why is it so philosophically and scientifically puzzling? For many years philosophers approached this question assuming a standard physicalist framework on which consciousness can be explained by contemporary physics biology neuroscience and cognitive science. This book is a debate between two philosophers who are united in their rejection of this kind of standard physicalism - but who differ sharply in what lesson to draw from this. Amy Kind defends dualism 2. 0 a thoroughly modern version of dualism (the theory that there are two fundamentally different kinds of things in the world: those that are physical and those that are mental) decoupled from any religious or non-scientific connotations. Daniel Stoljar defends non-standard physicalism a kind of physicalism different from both the standard version and dualism 2. 0. The book presents a cutting-edge assessment of the philosophy of consciousness and provides a glimpse at what the future study of this area might bring. Key Features Outlines the different things people mean by consciousness and provides an account of what consciousness is Reviews the key arguments for thinking that consciousness is incompatible with physicalism Explores and provides a defense of contrasting responses to those arguments with a special focus on responses that reject the standard physicalist framework Provides an account of the basic aims of the science of consciousness Written in a lively and accessibly style Includes a comprehensive glossary | What is Consciousness? A Debate

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What Is A 'Good' Teacher?

What Is A 'Good' Teacher?

Based on the experiences of teachers who make a difference this book offers valuable insights into becoming the best teacher you can be for your students. Grounded in the latest research you will find real-life examples of professional excellence in practice. Beginning with developing your teacher identity and getting to know your students the book goes on to show you how to implement effective strategies and techniques in your classroom and gain a better understanding of how effective schools work. | What Is A 'Good' Teacher?

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What Painting Is

What Painting Is

In this classic text James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio—the smells the mess the struggle to control the uncontrollable the special knowledge only painters hold of how colors will mix and how they will look. Written from the perspective of a painter-turned-art historian this anniversary edition includes a new introduction and preface by Elkins in which he further reflects on the experience of painting and its role in the study of art today. | What Painting Is

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What is Music Literacy?

What is Music Literacy?

What is Music Literacy? attempts to redefine music literacy with a more expansive meaning than is commonly in use and to articulate the potential impact of these ideas on music teaching practice. The notion of music literacy has involved the ability to read and write music scores. However this understanding does not extend theory to identify all music texts nor to offer a thorough treatment of what impact an expanded notion of music literacy might have on music instruction in the classroom and in ensembles. This book provides a formal expansive redefinition of music literacy. The author offers practical ideas for attending more effectively to music literacy in classroom instruction. The book highlights common elements in the music classroom: the music score the conductor surrounding ensemble members the musical model the musical instrument and presentations/recordings. It also describes four orientations that correspond to the National Core Music Standards (2014) and that characterize humans’ interactions with music: creator performer responder and connector. What is Music Literacy? uses these orientations along with a focus on authentic music texts and literacies to present literacy-based guidelines for music education along with numerous vignettes that describe actual literacy instructional events. | What is Music Literacy?

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What is Colonialism?

What is Colonialism?

What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science affective science and social psychology along with Marxism and related forms of analysis. Hogan begins with some fundamental conceptual distinctions such as the degree to which a group shares beliefs dispositions and skills versus the degree to which they share identification with a category. Building on these distinctions he defines colonialism in terms of political economic and cultural autonomy clarifying the nature of culture and autonomy particularly. He goes on to articulate an invaluable systematic account of the varieties of colonialism. The final chapters outline the motives of imperialists differentiating these from their ideological rationalizations and sketching the harms caused by colonialism. The book concludes by considering when or if one can achieve a genuinely postcolonial condition. Hogan illustrates these analyses by examining influential literary works—by European writers (such as Joseph Conrad) and by non-Europeans (such as Athol Fugard Kamala Markandaya and Wole Soyinka). This accessible and informative volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire.

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What Even Is Gender?

What Even Is Gender?

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity a biological fact or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it? What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. The authors distinguish a range of phenomena that established vocabulary often lumps together. This sheds light on the equivocations and false dichotomies of gender talk and how they deny many of us the tools to make our needs experiences and concerns intelligible to others or even to ourselves. The authors develop a conceptual toolkit that helps alleviate the harms that result from the limitations of familiar approaches. They propose a pluralistic concept of gender feels that distinguishes among our experiences of diverse facets of gendered life. They develop a flexible approach to gender categories that reflects the value of self-determination. And they suggest that what we need is not one universal language of gender but an awareness of individual variation and a willingness to adjust to changing contexts and circumstances. A bold and thought-provoking approach to thinking about gender What Even Is Gender? will be of great interest to those in philosophy gender studies sociology and LGBTQIA+ studies.

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What is Ahead of Us?

What is Ahead of Us?

First published in 1937 What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic despair the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable alternatives to capitalism. The authors offer socialism as a solution but what is more interesting is their criticism of capitalism and the connections they draw between capitalism and fascism using examples from the West. This book will be of interest to students of history economics and political science.

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What UX is Really About Introducing a Mindset for Great Experiences

What UX is Really About Introducing a Mindset for Great Experiences

In this not-too-long and easy-to-read book author Celia Hodent presents a clear overview of the challenges demands and rewards of becoming a user experience professional. If this field interests you there’s no better place to start than with the volume you now hold in your hand. Alan Cooper Ancestry Thinker Software Alchemist Regenerative Rancher Author of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity The main objective of What UX is Really About: Introducing a Mindset for Great Experiences is to provide a quick introduction to user experience (UX 101) for students professionals or simply curious readers who want to understand this trendy yet commonly misunderstood practice better. Readers will learn that UX is much more than a set of techniques guidelines and tools. It is a mindset; a philosophy that takes the perspective of the humans that will use a product. It is about solving their problems offering them a pleasurable experience and building a win-win long-lasting relationship between them and the company developing the product. Above all it is about improving people’s lives with technology. What UX is Really About is informative concise and provides readers with a high-level overview of the science design and methodologies of UX. KEY FEATURES: • The most approachable and concise introduction book about UX. • Easy to read and aims to popularize the UX mindset while debunking its main misconceptions. • Small format size makes it easy to carry around. • Includes content relatable and meaningful to the readers by taking many examples from everyday life with a conversational and light writing style. • Tackles the psychology design research process strategy and ethics behind offering the best experience with products systems or services. • Includes a glossary. Celia Hodent holds a PhD in psychology and is a leading expert in the application of cognitive science and psychology to product development with over 13 years of experience in the development of UX strategy in video game studios such as Ubisoft LucasArts and Epic Games (Fortnite). She currently leads an independent UX consultancy working with a wide range of international media and enterprise companies to help ensure their products are engaging successful and respectful of users. Celia conducts workshops and provides guidance on the topics of game-based UX playful learning (gamification) ethics implicit biases and inclusion in tech. Celia is the author of The Gamer’s Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design and The Psychology of Video Games. | What UX is Really About Introducing a Mindset for Great Experiences

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What is Pluralism?

What is Pluralism?

Is pluralism inherent to the human condition? Does it have its origins in the diversity of cultures? Are disagreements among individuals the same as disagreements among societies? Focusing on these critical questions essential to the understanding of modern societies this book traces the origins of pluralism in contemporary political thought and presents new original interpretations of the idea by contemporary philosophers. The chapters in the volume bring clarity into an ongoing fractious debate and reveal the underlying roots and fissures in our understanding of a dynamic and contested idea. Drawing on the works of John Rawls Jürgen Habermas and other major political philosophers they delve into the different strands of the concept their possible real-world political outcomes and popular misconceptions. A key text this volume will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of politics political theory and philosophy and social theory. | What is Pluralism?

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Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet. With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done this book argues that the best solution to health environmental and ethical problems concerning animals is raw veganism—the human diet. The human diet is what humans are naturally designed to eat and that is a raw vegan diet of fruit tender leafy greens and occasionally nuts and seeds. While veganism raises challenging questions over the ethics of consuming animal products while also considering the environmental impact of the agriculture industry raw veganism goes a step further and argues that consuming cooked food is also detrimental to our health and the environment. Cooking foods allows us to eat food that is not otherwise fit for human consumption and in an age that promotes eating foods in ‘moderation’ and having ‘balanced’ diets this raises the question of why we are eating foods that should only be consumed in moderation at all as moderation clearly implies they aren’t good for us. In addition from an environmental perspective the use of stoves ovens and microwaves for cooking contributes significantly to energy consumption and cooking in general generates excessive waste of food and resources. Thus this book maintains that living well and living a noble life that is good physical and moral health requires consuming a raw vegan diet. Exploring the scientific and philosophical aspects of raw veganism this novel book is essential reading for all interested in promoting ethical healthful and sustainable diets. | Raw Veganism The Philosophy of The Human Diet

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What is Soul?

What is Soul?

Rooted in the metaphysics of bygone times the notion of soul in our Western tradition is packed with associations and meanings that are incompatible with the anthropological and naturalistic thinking that prevails in modernity. Whereas treatises of old conceived of the soul as an infinite immaterial substance which was the ground of man’s hope for eternal salvation modern psychology has for the most part discarded the concept in favor of more tangible touchstones such as the emotions desires and attachments which characterize man as a finite bodily-existing positive fact. An exception to this trend has been the analytical psychology of C. G. Jung. Against the positivistic spirit of his times Jung insisted upon a ‘psychology with soul ’ that is a psychology based upon the hypothesis of an autonomous mind. In this volume Wolfgang Giegerich once again takes up the Jungian commitment to a psychology with soul. Agreeing with Jung that the soul concept is indispensable for a truly psychological psychology he supplements and re-orients the Jungian approach to both this concept and the phenomenology of the soul by means of a whole series of nuanced discussions that are as rigorous as they are thoroughgoing. The result is nothing short of a tour de force. Tarrying with the negative Giegerich’s particular contribution resides in his showing the movement against the soul to be the soul’s own doing. In animus moments of itself consciousness in the form of philosophy and Enlightenment reason turned upon itself as religion and metaphysics. Far from abolishing the soul however these incisive negations were themselves negated. As if dancing upon its own demise the soul came home to itself not as an invisible metaphysical substance but more invisibly still as the logically negative evaporation of that substance into the form of subject or even better said into psychology. | What is Soul?

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What is Financialization?

What is Financialization?

This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining understanding and explaining financialization. It provides a precise and quantifiable definition of financialization disaggregating financialization into its three varieties. These are examined through the lens of financial development both before and after the Great Recession providing the most in-depth analysis of the finance-real economy-labor nexus. It provides a historical perspective looking at financialization as a key dynamic that has shaped real economic structures in terms of both growth and inequality of income over the last four decades in high-income upper-middle-income and lower-middle-income countries. The book makes its multidisciplinary content readily accessible to non-economists by providing economics background information and to economists by providing social-theoretical context. It will be essential reading for academics researchers analysts and students of economics business finance sociology politics and international relations. It will also serve as a vital resource for policy-makers and bureaucrats in determining formulating implementing and revising policy alternatives to govern the pros and cons of financial development in terms of its effects on real output and income inequality. | What is Financialization?

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What is Food? Researching a Topic with Many Meanings

What is Food? Researching a Topic with Many Meanings

This volume brings together contributions that provide a snapshot of current food research. What is Food? acknowledges the many dimensions of food including its social cultural symbolic and sensual qualities while also being material in that it is fundamental to our survival. The collection addresses contemporary challenges and reflects the concerns of funders and researchers working in the broad field of the sociology of food: dietary health sustainability food safety and food poverty. Reflecting broader academic trends the chapters are moreover concerned with interdisciplinarity the analysis of change data reuse and the use of social media as data. The book includes empirical evidence from around the UK Denmark Sweden Switzerland and Taiwan and addresses food both as a lens through which to examine these wider social relationships processes and social change and as a primary subject. The contributions will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers looking for a cutting-edge insight into how to frame and study food in areas related to the sociology of food health risk poverty sustainability and research methods. | What is Food? Researching a Topic with Many Meanings

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What is this thing called Metaethics?

What is this thing called Metaethics?

What makes something morally right? Where do our ethical standards come from? Are they relative to cultures or timeless and universal? Are there any objective moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts how do we learn about them? What do we mean when we say someone ought to do something? These are all questions in metaethics the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality the nature of ethical value the possibility of ethical knowledge and the meaning of ethical statements. To the uninitiated it can appear abstract and far removed from its two more concrete cousins ethical theory and applied ethics yet it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of ethics. What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time. Beginning with a brief overview of metaethics and the development of a conceptual toolkit Matthew Chrisman introduces and assesses the following key topics: ethical reality: including questions about naturalism and non-naturalism moral facts and the distinction between realism and antirealism ethical language: does language represent reality? What mental states are expressed by moral statements? moral psychology: the theory of motivation and the connection between moral judgement and motivation moral knowledge: intuitionist and coherentist moral epistemologies and theories of objectivity and relativism in metaethics prominent metaethical theories: naturalism nonnaturalism error-theory and expressivism new directions in metaethics including non-traditional theories thick ethical concepts and extensions to metaepistemology and metanormative theory The Second Edition has been completely revised and updated throughout. This includes a new thematic organization of the core chapters many new examples a newly written final chapter including discussion of thick ethical concepts and all-things-considered normativity updated references to recent scholarly literature improved learning resources an expanded glossary of terms and much more. Additional features such as chapter summaries questions of understanding and suggestions for further reading make What is this thing called Metaethics? an ideal introduction to metaethics.

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What is Europe?

What is Europe?

This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its historical development. This fully updated edition adds material on recent developments such as Brexit and the migrant and Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora of social cultural economic and political meanings. Throughout history and still today scholars writing on Europe and politicians involved in national or European politics often disagree on the geographic limits of this space and the defining elements of Europe. Europe is therefore first and foremost a concept that takes different shapes and meanings depending on the realm of life on which it is applied and on the historical period under investigation. At a given point in time depending on the perspective we adopt and the situation in which we find ourselves Europe may represent very different things. Thus we should better talk about ‘Europes’ in plural. What is Europe? explores these evolving conceptions of Europe from antiquity to the present. This book is all the more timely as Europe responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Britain’s departure from the European Union financial slump refugee emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers a fully updated introduction to European studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is a crucial companion to any undergraduate or graduate course on Europe and the European Union. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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Tolstoy on Aesthetics What is Art?

Tolstoy on Aesthetics What is Art?

This title was first published in 2001: Tolstoy's view of art is discussed in most courses in aesthetics particularly his main text What is Art? He believed that the importance of art lies not in its purely aesthetic qualities but in its connection with life and that art becomes decadent where this connection is lost. This view has often been misconceived and its strength overlooked. This book presents a clear exposition of Tolstoy's What is Art? highlighting the value and importance of Tolstoy's views in relation to aesthetics. Mounce considers the problems which exercised Tolstoy and explains their fundamental importance in contemporary disputes. Having viewed these problems of aesthetics as they arise in a classic work Howard Mounce affords readers fresh insights not simply into the problems of aesthetics themselves but also into their contemporary treatment. Students and interested readers of aesthetics and philosophy as well as those exploring the works of Tolstoy in literature will find this book of particular interest and will discover that reading What is Art? with attention affords something of the excitement found in removing the grime from an oil painting - gradually from underneath there appears an authentic masterpiece. | Tolstoy on Aesthetics What is Art?

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What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

To complete an album a producer needs to know what goes into capturing great music and teasing out inspirational performances from artists. As a producer you are guiding not only the music but also the business and the technical aspects of an album. What Is Music Production? is a guide to this guidance. Formed from a blend of solid information extracted from detailed interviews the book focuses on the process of music production providing insight into how the producer guides this process and molds the final product. Whether you are a student or just starting your professional career What is Music Production? explains what you need to know-from working with artists songs pre-production mixing and mastering to the finance and budgeting-to glean a professional result. Combining the how to with online assets and interviews this book arms you with vital insight into the business of being a music producer. | What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

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What is the Theatre?

What is the Theatre?

What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is above all spectacle. It is a fleeting performance delivered by actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body an exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience most often in a specific location and with a unique setting. This entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and expected – a particular and unique performance witnessed by spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the performance but it is also to take into account the printed text as readable object and a written proposition. In this book Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the theatre experience on one hand and analysing the dramaturgy of a production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to read represent and stage a text on the other. This approach allows us to better understand the ties that link those who participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create theatrical entertainment.

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What is this thing called Metaphysics?

What is this thing called Metaphysics?

How did our universe come to be? Does God exist? Does time flow? What are we? Do we have free will? What is truth? Metaphysics is concerned with the nature of ourselves and the world around us. This clear and accessible introduction covers the central topics in metaphysics in a concise but comprehensive way. Brian Garrett discusses the crucial concepts and arguments of metaphysics in a highly readable manner. He addresses the following key areas of metaphysics: • God • Existence • Modality • Universals and particulars • Facts • Causation • Time • Puzzles of material constitution • Free will & determinism • Fatalism • Personal identity • Truth This third edition has been thoroughly revised. Most chapters include new and updated material and there are now two chapters devoted to attacks on free will and fatalism. What is this thing called Metaphysics? contains many helpful student-friendly features such as a glossary of important terms study questions annotated further reading and a guide to web resources. Text boxes provide bite-sized summaries of key concepts and major philosophers and clear and interesting examples are used throughout.

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An Analysis of Michel Foucault's What is an Author?

An Analysis of Michel Foucault's What is an Author?

Michel Foucault’s 1969 essay “What is an Author?” sidesteps the stormy arguments surrounding “intentional fallacy” and the “death of the author ” offering an entirely different way of looking at texts. Foucault points out that all texts are written but not all are discussed as having “authors”. So what is special about “authored” texts? And what makes an “author” different to other kinds of text-producers? From its deceptively simple titular question Foucault’s essay offers a complex argument for viewing authors and their texts as objects. A challenging thought-provoking piece it is one of the most influential literary essays of the twentieth century. | An Analysis of Michel Foucault's What is an Author?

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What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

In 1921 a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young doctor's notes to think about Freud and his methods. The discovery of the diary marks a small sensation for the history of social science. Three factors make the document unique: first it records not a training analysis but the analysis of an actual patient second the analysis took place before Freud fell ill with cancer and third the analysand obviously noted down what was said in the practice word by word. | What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

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What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

In this volume scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development its human costs and consequences. This critique of the idea of a Pacific rim also seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the region in terms of human interactions. | What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

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Special Education What It Is and Why We Need It

Special Education What It Is and Why We Need It

Special Education: What It Is and Why We Need It provides a thorough examination of the basic concept of special education a discussion of specific exceptionalities and constructive responses to common criticisms of special education. Whether you’re a teacher school administrator teacher-educator or simply interested in the topic you will learn just what special education is who gets it or who should get it and why it is necessary. The second edition of this brief yet powerful primer will help you build the foundation of a realistic rational view of the basic assumptions and knowledge on which special education rests. | Special Education What It Is and Why We Need It

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Korean Food Systems Secrets of the K-Diet for Healthy Aging

Korean Food Systems Secrets of the K-Diet for Healthy Aging

The Republic of Korea (ROK) is projected by 2030 to have the longest living population compared to any nation on earth. A girl born in the ROK in 2030 will live up to 90. 8 years on average. What are the reasons for this improvement in longevity? Among many insights for longevity among the people of the ROK is the diverse Korean ethnic diet with roots in a traditional diet that has been preserved for centuries. Korean Food Systems: Secrets of the K-Diet for Healthy Aging provides an integrated and holistic approach towards the understanding how food systems of the ROK and experiences of the last 60-plus years has been sustained by traditions and ecology integrated with contemporary advances in technology and the economy. Key Features: Discusses the rationale and basis of food systems traditions of healthy eating and healthy aging in the Korean population and why by 2030 they will be the longest living population on the planet Reflects on the role of historical cultural and traditional food and dietary concepts of Korea and how they have influenced healthy eating habits contributing to health and longevity Discusses the relevance of the modern genetic concepts of nutrigenomics and epigenetics metabolic concepts such as circulation and food concepts such as fermented and functional foods in advancing healthy food concepts and longevity Provides insights how a large population can advance an integrated holistic food-based approach to longevity and wellness As a collaboration between various outstanding authors the insights from this book can provide global examples to align similar approaches and policies in other countries in different ecologies of planet earth. | Korean Food Systems Secrets of the K-Diet for Healthy Aging

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