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Amazon.com Review: Book DescriptionEvery day, millions of families around the world gather--at the table or on the floor, in a house or outdoors--to eat together. Ever wondered what a typical meal is like on the other side of the world? Or next door? Cultural geographers Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio visited twenty-five families in twenty-one countries to create this fascinating look at what people around the world eat in a week...read more
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9781582462462 | Tricycle Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. HUNGRY PLANET profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France--and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries...read more
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9781580088695 | Ten Speed Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide.
9780984074426 | Ten Speed Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide.

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A vivid collection of full-color photographs profiles the homes and meals of average families in countries around the world and documents each family's lifestyle, their weekly food purchases, their culinary traditions, and what they eat over the course of a single week. 35,000 first printing.
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9781580086813 | Ten Speed Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: 'A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries surrounded by a week's worth of food'--Provided by publisher.

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Product Description: Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist -- automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will be something else: smart machines that act like living creatures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780262133821 | Mit Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Highlights intelligent robots created in the form of spiders, crabs, dogs, and vehicles, and discusses robots' human-like ability to move, speak, think, and act.

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9780262632454 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot.

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A collection of 375 full-color photographs, accompanied by candid first-person chronicles, statistics, and insights, reflects the status of women around the world, offering a rich portrait of the lives, aspirations, feelings, and beliefs of women from a wide range of cultures. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9780871563989 | Sierra Club Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Photographs, first-person chronicles, and statistics reflect the status of women around the world, offering a portrait of the lives, feelings, and beliefs of women from many cultures

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9780871569844 | Sierra Club Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Photographs, first-person chronicles, and statistics reflect the status of women around the world, offering a portrait of the lives, feelings, and beliefs of women from many cultures

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9781574530766 | Abridged edition (Audio Literature, December 1, 1997), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Based on the original interviews collected for "Material World", the bestselling book that puts a human face on the international issues of population, environment, social justice, and consumption, "Women in the Material World" examines these same problems, focusing on women's work and roles in an increasingly changing world.

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Product Description: THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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9781580080514 | Ten Speed Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the consumption of spiders, crickets, grubs, scorpions, and dragonflies in thirteen different countries, including Australia, Japan, China, Venezuela, and the United States

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9780984074419 | Ten Speed Pr, September 24, 1998, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Amazon.
9781580080224 | Ten Speed Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explores the consumption of spiders, crickets, grubs, scorpions, and dragonflies in thirteen different countries, including Australia, Japan, China, Venezuela, and the United States

Prebinding:

9781435246645 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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