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Barons - Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick; Eric Schlosser (Foreword by)
Category: Politics
"In this eye-opening debut study, Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stranglehold that a handful of companies have on America's food economy...It's a disquieting critique of private monopolization of public necessities." --Publishers Weekly, starred Barons ...Show more
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser
Category: Education
Based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, this is crammed with facts and information for young people about the fast food industry - how it all began, its success, what fast food actually is, the truth about slaughterhouses, meatpacking factories and flavour labs, global advertising, merch ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Category: Non-Fiction
A groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? Famed investigative journ ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Category: Politics
Command and Controlinterweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depi ...Show more
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
Category: Accessories
A myth-shattering expose of America s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, "Command and Con ...Show more
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Category: Non-Fiction
Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Scholsser's explosive bestseller, by turns funny and terrifying, tells the story of our love affair with fast food. He visits the lab that re-c ...Show more
Fast Food Nation - The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Category: Non-Fiction
New York Times Bestseller "Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours."--Los Angeles Times In 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became a ...Show more
Gods of Metal by Eric Schlosser
Category: History
'Sitting not far below my feet, there was a thermonuclear warhead about twenty times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, all set and ready to go. The only sound was the sound of the wind.' Seventy years after the bombing of Hiroshima, Eric Schlosser's powerful, chilling piece of journa ...Show more
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