Автор: Markel Howard Название: The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek ISBN: 0307948374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307948373 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: ***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.
Автор: MacDonald Charles Brown Название: The Battle of the Huertgen Forest: Great Battles of History ISBN: 1258367289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258367282 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 52660.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: Charles River Editors Название: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Britain ISBN: 1985386852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781985386853 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Charles River Editors Название: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Midway ISBN: 1985388235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781985388239 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 12810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Krisztian Ungvary Название: Battle for Budapest: 100 Days in World War II ISBN: 1350141399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350141391 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 26390.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This title is presented with a new foreword by Istvan Deak. The battle of Budapest in the bleak winter of 1944-45 was one of the longest and bloodiest city sieges of World War II. From the appearance of the first Soviet tanks on the outskirts of the capital to the capture of Buda Castle, 102 days elapsed. In terms of human trauma, it comes second only to Stalingrad, comparisons to which were even being made by soldiers, both German and Soviet, fighting at the time. This definitive history covers their experiences, and those of the 800,000 non-combatants around whom the battle raged.
Автор: Shaskan, Trisha Sue Speed Название: Betty and baxter`s batter battle ISBN: 1474791344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474791342 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Beware! There is pancake batter in the air! It`s a battle for the better batter. Will Betty beat Baxter or Baxter beat Betty?
Автор: Sember Brette Название: WWII Battle Trivia for Kids: Fascinating Facts about the Biggest Battles, Invasions, and Victories of World War II ISBN: 1646041828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781646041824 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 22870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Two families, one secret that will tear them apart. Evelyn loves Bryce, but Bryce is not who he says he is. Unbeknownst to Evelyn, neither is she. In a place where many worlds exist, Keepers guard the gates between them, and Watchers command the Keepers. However, an archaic war between Watchers and Keepers ensues, which threatens to destroy Evelyn and Bryce`s happiness if Evelyn`s best friend, Sylvia, does not come in between them first.
