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New York Times Best Seller of Hardcover NonfictionNew York Times Best Seller of Hardcover Nonfiction includes Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (2013), Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, My Beloved World.
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
No. 1 Best Seller on May 12, 2013.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
release date: Mar 11, 2013
No. 1 Best Seller on March 31, 2013.
Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
No. 1 Best Seller on March 24, 2013.
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
No. 1 Best Seller on March 17, 2013.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men's Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back. In the spring of 1999 the heads of the world's largest processed food companies—from Coca-Cola to Nabisco—gathered at Pillsbury headquarters in Minneapolis for a secret meeting. On the agenda: the emerging epidemic of obesity, and what to do about it. Increasingly, the salt-, sugar-, and fat-laden foods these companies produced were being linked to obesity, and a concerned Kraft executive took the stage to issue a warning: There would be a day of reckoning unless changes were made. This executive then launched into a damning PowerPoint presentation—114 slides in all—making the case that processed food companies could not afford to sit by, idle, as children grew sick and class-action lawyers lurked. To deny the problem, he said, is to court disaster. When he was done, the most powerful person in the room—the CEO of General Mills—stood up to speak, clearly annoyed. And by the time he sat down, the meeting was over. Since that day, with the industry in pursuit of its win-at-all-costs strategy, the situation has only grown more dire. Every year, the average American eats thirty-three pounds of cheese (triple what we ate in 1970) and seventy pounds of sugar (about twenty-two teaspoons a day). We ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, and almost none of that comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food. It's no wonder, then, that one in three adults, and one in five kids, is clinically obese. It's no wonder that twenty-six million Americans have diabetes, the processed food industry in the U.S. accounts for $1 trillion a year in sales, and the total economic cost of this health crisis is approaching $300 billion a year. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we got here. Featuring examples from some of the most recognizable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century—including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more—Moss's explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, often eye-opening research. Moss takes us inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the “bliss point” of sugary beverages or enhance the “mouthfeel” of fat by manipulating its chemical structure. He unearths marketing campaigns designed—in a technique adapted from tobacco companies—to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products: Dial back on one ingredient, pump up the other two, and tout the new line as “fat-free” or “low-salt.” He talks to concerned executives who confess that they could never produce truly healthy alternatives to their products even if serious regulation became a reality. Simply put: The industry itself would cease to exist without salt, sugar, and fat. Just as millions of “heavy users”—as the companies refer to their most ardent customers—are addicted to this seductive trio, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again.
No. 1 Best Seller on February 3, 2013.
release date: Nov 13, 2012
No. 1 Best Seller on December 9, 2012.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President's House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.
Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power “This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood “A big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before.”—Entertainment Weekly
“[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
No. 1 Best Seller on October 21, 2012.
No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy Seal: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
No. 1 Best Seller on September 23, 2012.
Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream
No. 1 Best Seller on September 16, 2012.
No. 1 Best Seller on September 9, 2012.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
No. 1 Best Seller on July 15, 2012.
No. 1 Best Seller on June 3, 2012.
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
release date: May 01, 2012
No. 1 Best Seller on May 20, 2012.
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
No. 1 Best Seller on April 15, 2012.
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
No. 1 Best Seller on February 5, 2012.
release date: Jan 03, 2012
No. 1 Best Seller on January 29, 2012.
No. 1 Best Seller on November 13, 2011.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
No. 1 Best Seller on October 16, 2011.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
No. 1 Best Seller on October 2, 2011.
In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir
No. 1 Best Seller on September 18, 2011.
release date: Jul 12, 2011
No. 1 Best Seller on July 31, 2011.
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
No. 1 Best Seller on June 19, 2011.
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
No. 1 Best Seller on June 12, 2011.
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
No. 1 Best Seller on June 5, 2011.
Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me
No. 1 Best Seller on May 29, 2011.
No. 1 Best Seller on April 24, 2011.
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
No. 1 Best Seller on April 17, 2011.
Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
No. 1 Best Seller on April 3, 2011.
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
No. 1 Best Seller on March 27, 2011.
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
No. 1 Best Seller on February 27, 2011.
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