8vo. pp 240. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the title page, "December 2011 - love from Louise." ISBN: 1846684250 Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Titre

CALORIES AND CORSETS: A HISTORY OF DIETING OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS. (SIGNED)

�diteur

Profile Books Ltd., London

Date de parution

2012

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

1846684250

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9781846684258

Reliure

Couverture rigide

�dition

Edition originale

�tat de la jaquette

Jaquette

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An enlightening and entertaining social history of how we have tried (and failed) to battle the bulge over two millennia.

� propos de l?auteur

Louise Foxcroft has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. Her book Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A history of the modern menopause was winner of the Longman/History Today Prize, 2009. Calories & Corsets: A history of dieting over 2,000 years was shortlisted for a Food Writer's Guild Prize 2013. She has written for the Times, Independent, Observer, Guardian, andLondon Review of Books among others; has appeared on BBC, ITV, RTE and Al Jazeera English; and has contributed to BBC R4 programmes, including The Medicalisation of Normality, Am I Normal?, Woman's Hour, Open Country, You & Yours, Inside Science and The Long View. She is company secretary of Village Underground, a non-profit space for creativity and culture in the heart of East London, and a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. www.louisefoxcroft.com

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