One boy, one boat, one tiger...

A practical guide to healthy animal-free nutrition and easy family meals.

Letters and accounts of cures through the herbal, 'Health Through God's Pharmacy'.

Starting with the notion of our decision to cook our food, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces us to the revolutions which influenced our culinary habits, and he describes how food changed and changed us through the centuries, on the way explaining why "You are what you eat".

The author went to live in China in 1994, and vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed. This memoir tells about her relationship with China and its food, from her first encounter with the delicious cuisine of Sichuan Province, to brushes with corruption, environmental degradation and greed.

When a hungry old wolf gets an unexpected visit from a little lamb, he starts planning a delicious lamb hotpot. But the lamb doesn't want to be the wolf's dinner, she wants to be his friend.

Botox, bulimia, breast implants, stomach tucks - Eve Ensler is back, with another round of poignant and hilarious stories about the secret lives of women.

As Spring approaches, Mother Earth wakes her children, below the earth, the children yawn and stretch. Soon their hands are busy, stitching clothes in bright spring colours. The dust of the bumblebees, scrub the beetles and paint splendid new coats on ladybirds. The children jubilantly emerge from the earth where they become the flowers of Spring.

From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. This book celebrates various aspects of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the ice cream.

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater's multi-award-winning food memoir 'Toast', this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are the British at Table.

Examines what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat, rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens. This title is suitable for those trying to decide which diet - low-fat or low-carbohydrate - is truly the healthy diet.

Bestselling author Peter Walsh uses techniques to help readers tackle how to turn the tide on over-eating so that they can finally live the happier, healthier life they imagine.

Talks about the hidden complexities and terrifying simplicities of a planet squeezing itself dry in order to make half its citizens obese and the other half malnourished.

Presents an account of the author's journey, who embarks on a picaresque global odyssey in search of culinary extremes.

A magical, utterly delicious debut that will cast its charm over everyone who loved Chocolat or Fried Green Tomatoes. Be enchanted by a delicious international bestseller!

Traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Exploring why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious, this book is useful for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness, and sociology of the body.

In the modern jungle of burgers, couches and remote controls, obesity is a growing epidemic. This title aims to tackle the obesity and fitness crisis from an evolutionary standpoint. It tells us how to reprogramme our bodies, break food addictions and ignore our attraction to supernormal stimuli .

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Featuring information and photographs, this illustrated encyclopedia contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and including the botanical and common names as well as ecological information on endangered species.

From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the drive-through diner, Martin Jones unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.