Explores a wide array of political risks--including risks that stem from terrorist groups, power rivalries, weak leaders and internal strife and more--and offers methods, tools and concepts to help corporations, money managers and policy makers understand political risks. Cowritten by the author of [...]

The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic--a "battle of the bulge" of not just national, but global proportions--that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for [...]

Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores theproblems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society.Engaging with dominant ideas about 'fatness', and analysing the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the We[...]

Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today tho[...]

From the #1 national bestselling author of Befriend and Betray, an intimate expos of a criminal empire and the massacre that nearly started a global biker war.Having once infiltrated the Bandidos for three years in a landmark police operation, Alex Caine is uniquely positioned to reveal the untold s[...]

There are really only two kinds of clothes in the worldthose that make you look fat and those that don't. All the rest is just details, writes style maven Leah Feldon. If you really want the answer to 'Does this make me look fat?' this is where you'll get itwhether you're an ultra-size diva on a min[...]

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.
In his "New York Times" best seller, "Good Calories, Bad Calories, " Taubes argued that our diet's overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates--"not" fats and "not" simply excess calor[...]

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diets overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydratesnot fats and not simply excess calorieshas led direct[...]

An entire month has gone missing from Chinese records. No one has any memory of it, and no one seems to care except for a small circle of friends who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking off[...]

Gathers more than fifty recipes for low fat cookies, including Italian biscotti, meringues, and cookies that use no sugar[...]

Nine popular fantasy and paranormal romance authors celebrate marital bliss supernatural style in a collection of honeymoon tales populated by demons, vampires, shape-shifters, magic-users, and other unusual characters in an anthology featuring works by Jim Butcher, P. N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Lilith[...]