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spring 2012 From the Director Here at UC Press we are strongly focused on fostering discussion and debate by offering readers the latest results of important scholarship undertaken around the world. This season we’re particularly excited to welcome back Marion Nestle. Her new book with Malden Nesheim—Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics—arms readers with critical knowledge to evaluate and understand common claims about diet and food. We’re also pleased to offer a slimmer, more portable edition of our all-time bestselling book, Volume 1 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain. Other highlights include provocative titles such as David Healy’s Pharmageddon, a forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, and Sarah Schulman’s Gentrification of the Mind, which explores how AIDS changed New York’s creative landscape. On the following pages you’ll find diverse perspectives on the art, culture, and natural history of California and the West. New regional titles include studies of California artists Stephen De Staebler and David Park, the innovative People’s Guide to Los Angeles, and a thoroughly updated edition of The Jepson Manual, which has been a standard reference for teachers and students since 1925. This is just a small sampling of the titles we’re proud to bring you this spring. Be sure to visit www.ucpress.edu for author podcasts, sample chapters, blog updates, and many more great books. Contents General Interest Poetry California & the West Academic Trade Food & Culture Art Music Cinema History Classics Flashpoints Religion Anthropology Health Science Paperbacks Huntington Library Press Ordering Information Author Index Title Index 2 15 17 24 33 34 35 36 37 41 42 43 43 45 47 50 58 60 62 63 Alison Mudditt Director
General interest Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim Why Calories Count From Science to Politics Calories—too few or too many—are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically. As they take readers through the issues that are fundamental to our understanding of diet and food, weight gain, loss, and obesity, Nestle and Nesheim sort through a great deal of the misinformation put forth by food manufacturers and diet program promoters. They elucidate the political stakes and show how federal and corporate policies have come together to create an “eat more” environment. Finally, having armed readers with the necessary information to interpret food labels, evaluate diet claims, and understand evidence as presented in popular media, the authors offer some candid advice: Get organized. Eat less. Eat better. Move more. Get political. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of many books. Malden Nesheim is Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He is coauthor (with Marion Nestle) of Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat. California Studies in Food and Culture, 33 APRIL 303 pages, 6 x 9”, 16 b/w photographs, 9 line illustrations, 26 tables Food & Culture/Health Care/Disease World cloth 978-0-520-26288-1 $29.95/£19.95 bestselling books by Marion Nestle: Food Politics How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION California Studies in Food and Culture, 3 World paper 978-0-520-25403-9 $21.95/£14.95 Pet Food Politics The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine World cloth 978-0-520-25781-8 $35.00tx/£24.95 paper 978-0-520-26589-9 $19.95/£13.95 4 | University of California Press
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