Author: Howard Markel Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307907287 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 545
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***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction*** "What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing Crosby From the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction (“Absorbing, vivid”—Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)—the story of America’s empire builders: John and Will Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg was one of America’s most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America’s notion of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet. The Kelloggs were of Puritan stock, a family that came to the shores of New England in the mid-seventeenth century, that became one of the biggest in the county, and then renounced it all for the religious calling of Ellen Harmon White, a self-proclaimed prophetess, and James White, whose new Seventh-day Adventist theology was based on Christian principles and sound body, mind, and hygiene rules—Ellen called it “health reform.” The Whites groomed the young John Kellogg for a central role in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and sent him to America’s finest Medical College. Kellogg’s main medical focus—and America’s number one malady: indigestion (Walt Whitman described it as “the great American evil”). Markel gives us the life and times of the Kellogg brothers of Battle Creek: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium medical center, spa, and grand hotel attracted thousands actively pursuing health and well-being. Among the guests: Mary Todd Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Booker T. Washington, Johnny Weissmuller, Dale Carnegie, Sojourner Truth, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and George Bernard Shaw. And the presidents he advised: Taft, Harding, Hoover, and Roosevelt, with first lady Eleanor. The brothers Kellogg experimented on malt, wheat, and corn meal, and, tinkering with special ovens and toasting devices, came up with a ready-to-eat, easily digested cereal they called Corn Flakes. As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs’ fascinating, Magnificent Ambersons–like ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades—changing the lives of millions and helping to shape our industrial age.
Author: Lois A. Glewwe Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625854137 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
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Incorporated in 1887, South St. Paul grew rapidly as the blue-collar counterpart to the bright lights and sophistication of its cosmopolitan neighbors Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its prosperous stockyards and slaughterhouses ranked the city among America's largest meatpacking centers. The proud city fell on hard economic times in the second half of the twentieth century. Broad swaths of empty buildings were razed as an enticement to promised redevelopment programs that never happened. In 1990, South St. Paul began to chart out its own successful path to renewal with a pristine riverfront park, a trail system and a business park where the stockyards once stood. Author and historian Lois A. Glewwe brings the story of the city's revival to life in this history of a remarkable community.
Author: Conrad Von Orelli Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267498383 Category : Languages : en Pages : 424
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Excerpt from The Twelve Minor Prophets Literature - Expositions of the entire book of the Minor Pr0phets: Patristic commentaries by Jerome, Theodore of mopsuestia, Cyril of Alex, Theodoret; Rabbinical, by Rashi (rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, T1105), Ibn Ezra (t1167). D. Kimchi in the Reformation period; Oecolam padins Calvin See post Reformation exposition in Kleinert on Obad. To Zephaniah. Of modern expositors may be mentioned: F. Hitzig (1838, 4 Aufl., set ting aside untenable positions; revised by H. Steiner, 1881) H. Ewald, Prophets of 0. T. (5 vols, Williams Norgate); P. Schegg (catholic); E. B. Pusey, The Minor Prophets Keil, ditto, 2 vols. (clark); Speaker's Comm. Vol. Vi.; Farrar, The Minor Prophets (nisbet) Lange's Commentary, by Schmoller, Kleinert, and 'j. P. Lange; J. Wolfendale, Homt'let. Comm. On Minor Prophets, 1880. I have a college course on Hosea to Jonah by Fr. Delitzsch, which I took down in the winter of 1868 - 69, which has constantly been of special value to me in the exposition of these prophets. The influence of this exposition on my own reaches, however, beyond the citations, extending Often to the translation. The best edition of the text is by S. Baer, Ltber XII. Pr0ph. 1878. Com parison of the Massoret. Text with LXX in K. A. Vollers, . Das Dodekapropheton der Alexandrt'ner, i. (nahum to Malachi), Berlin 1880; see the continuation in Zeitschr. Fur altt. We'ssensch. 1883, p. 219 ff; 1884, p. 1 if. Comparison of the Massoret. Text with the Syrian version in M. Sebok (schon berger), Die syre'sche Uebersetznng der zwolf hlez'nen Propheten, Breslau 1887. For expositions of the several writings, see in loo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Jeremy M. Wilson Publisher: RAND Corporation ISBN: 9780833049933 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 2003, Pittsburgh witnessed a 49-percent increase in homicides, prompting a grassroots creation and implementation of the One Vision One Life antiviolence strategy. This initiative has workers intervene in escalating disputes and seeks to place youth in appropriate social programs. Analysis of the program, which is modeled on similar efforts elsewhere, can help inform other efforts to address urban violence.
Author: Annalisa Marzano Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316730611 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 650
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This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.
Author: Nicolaus Seefeld Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784919306 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 545
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This research seeks to close an essential research gap – the understanding of the water management strategies of the Maya in pre-Hispanic times. It focuses on the archaeological investigation of the hydraulic system of Uxul, a medium-sized Maya centre in the south of the state of Campeche, Mexico.
Author: Linda Yueh Publisher: Picador USA ISBN: 1250180538 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 369
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An "exploration of the life and work of world-changing thinkers--from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes--and how their ideas would solve the great economic problems we face today"--Amazon.com.
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