Fast Food Nation, Eric SchlosserEric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the worstsafety records in the world. He explores the links between Hollywood and the fast food trade, and the tactics used to target ever younger consumers. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued

His book is a passionate plea for biodiversity and the protection of butterflies

beneath which reside some profoundly serious intentions regarding the morality of how we live and the power of love and immanent death to transform us into vastly better creatures

(Shuyu has country ways

with the support of animal-assisted therapy

colloquial and rhapsodic

and what we can do about it

" —Library Journal (starred review)

or argued quite so insistently that the "free press" is part of a stultifying conformity that pervades all aspects of American intellectual life

— Cathy Alter

But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow

still unable to consummate his relationship with Manna

A refreshing approach to understanding dog behaviour