Tag: Fuelling

Badvertising Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos


Free Download Badvertising: Polluting Our Minds and Fuelling Climate Chaos by Andrew Simms, Leo Murray
English | November 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 0745349145 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 4.37 MB
‘Why do we allow adverts that actively promote our own destruction? Halting climate catastrophe is hard enough without ads selling things that pollute more. With Badvertising, Simms and Murray have done the world an urgent favour. Funny and readable, it will make us all see advertising in a very different way’ Dr Chris van Tulleken, doctor, broadcaster and author of Ultra-Processed People

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Unprocessed How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis [Audiobook]


Free Download Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BCFZ9VP5 | 2023 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Kimberley Wilson
Narrator: Kimberley Wilson

We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don’t know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution-what we eat-is being ignored. Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Yet mental health disorders are overwhelmingly treated as ‘mind’ problems as if the physical brain-and how we feed it-is irrelevant. Someone suffering from depression is more likely to be asked about their relationship with their mother than their relationship with food.

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Fuelling the World Economy Seaports, Coal, and Oil Markets


Free Download Fuelling the World Economy: Seaports, Coal, and Oil Markets by Daniel Castillo Hidalgo, Cezar Honorato
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 211 Pages | ISBN : 3031325648 | 9.6 MB
This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the second half of the nineteenth century. Each chapter includes case studies from different parts of the world, explaining the role played by coal in the expansion of the shipping industry. This book also explores regions usually neglected by the mainstream scholarly literature in this field. The relationship between steam engine technology and imperial expansion, how the emergence of global security was driven by maritime technological revolutions, and the connection between global seaports and the spread of global economic and political systems are also discussed.

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