Now the subject of a film by Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser's explosive bestseller Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World tells the story of our love affair with fast food. Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it[...]
Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling "Fast Food Nation", this is the shocking truth about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, what goes on in the slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merchandising in UK schools,[...]
A myth-shattering expose of America's nuclear weapons
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, "Comman[...]
A myth-shattering expose of America's nuclear weapons
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, "Comman[...]
"New York Times" Bestseller, With a New Afterword
"Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . "Fast Food Nation" points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours."--"Los Angeles Times"
In 2001, "Fast Food Nation" was[...]
The" New York Times" bestseller that blew the lid off the fast food industry--exposing how it has malled our landscape, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad--with a new afterword from the masterful muckraker who star[...]
The author of Fast Food Nation takes readers on a fascinating tour of the underground economy in America, exploring the markets for pot, pornography, and illegal immigrants that have shaped American life over the past three decades. Reprint. 100,000 ad/promo.[...]
A captivating expose of the fast food industry by the author of Fast Food Nation presents some new and startling facts geared to the number one consumer of fast food: children. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.[...]
A myth-shattering expose of America's nuclear weapons
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, "Comman[...]
A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur "Genius Award" winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed--and heal--broken communities.
The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an e[...]
At the height of the Cold War in the American heartland, a combination of human error, aging equipment, mismanagement, and bad luck threatened to set off a nuclear weapon far more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Schlosser uses this long-forgotten incident to examine the nuclear near[...]
Smaken och doften på din hamburgare och dina pommes frites tillverkas kemiskt på särskilda »smakfabriker«. I Snabbmatslandet gör Eric Schlosser en fascinerande resa i snabbmatens hemland USA. Han granskar den minst sagt tvivelaktiga processen kring produktionen av snabbmat, men han tar också [...]
Den glömda historien om mänsklighetens farligaste uppfinning Med sovjetunionens fall försvann inte bara en av världens, dåvarande två stormakter. Även mänsklighetens rädsla för kärnvapenkrig tycktes borta. Men vapnen fanns och finns kvar. I "Bomben", som redan hyllats i USA, gräver jo[...]