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This addition to the British Dietetic Association Advanced
Nutrition and Dietetics book series is written for clinicians and
researchers who work with any aspect of obesity and its comorbid
conditions. Featuring contributions from leading researchers and
practitioners from around the globe Advanced Nutrition and
Dietetics in Obesity offers a uniquely international perspective on
what has become a worldwide public health crisis. Chapters cover a
full range of new ideas and research on the underlying drivers of
obesity in populations including discussions on the genetic and
clinical aspects of obesity, along with expert recommendations on
how to effectively manage and prevent this chronic and persistent
disease. Providing a comprehensive overview of the key literature
in this field, Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity is an
invaluable resource for all those all those whose work should or
does embrace any aspect of obesity.
At a moment when nationalism is resurgent and stubbornly refuses to
obey past predictions of its imminent demise, a scholarly return to
the inaugurating eighteenth-century debates about nationalism,
nations and the nation state seems not only desirable but
necessary. This collection of essays surveys the issues under eight
headings, with the French Revolution as a recurring reference point
– not least because of the tension within the Revolution between
national interests and universal aspirations, a tension that
arguably continues to beset modern ideas of the nation. The volume
offers a broad survey of current thinking on the eighteenth-century
nation and the emerging nationalisms of the age. Clusters of essays
provide extended treatment of the certain major topics, while
others give unexpected sidelights involving figures as diverse as
John Toland (Irish philosopher) and Brillat-Savarin (French
gastronome and cosmopolitan nationalist). All combine to provide a
clear focus on an area of eighteenth-century studies of continuing
relevance to the modern reader in Europe and beyond.Â
If the 1790s can be seen as the pivotal decade in the evolution of
modern Ireland, then an understanding of it is not just of
scholarly interest, but has repercussions for current political and
cultural debates. Precisely because of that enduring relevance, the
1790s have never passed out of politics into history. These essays
look again at the window of opportunity which opened towards a
non-sectarian, democratic and inclusive politics, adequately
representing the Irish people in all their inherited complexities.
These four new essays by this gifted and authoritative writer
explain why that project was defeated and remains uncompleted.
Understanding the reasons for its momentous defeat in the 1790s can
help in ensuring that history does not repeat itself in the 1990s.
Relieved of the disabling weight of confused meanings, the 1790s
cease to be divisive. As the bicentenary of 1798 approaches the
creation of an hospitable approach to all that it symbolizes
becomes both desirable and necessary.
Four independent but interlocking essays revolving around the
1790s, arguably the pivotal decade in the evolution of modern
Ireland.
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