Subject Tag: world issues

Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell

Filed under: Nonfiction, Reviews

A few weeks ago, I overheard an eight-year-old girl say to an adult in all seriousness, “I’m so hungry, I’m going to die!”
I couldn’t help thinking to myself that she had no idea what true hunger was; nor do I. In Hunger: An Unnatural History, Sharman Apt Russell details what it means, physiologically, to be [...]

Material World by Peter Menzel

Filed under: Nonfiction, Reviews

In a similar manner to What the World Eats (reviewed here), Material World by Peter Menzel attempts to illustrate the material wealth (or material poverty) of various families around the globe by photographing a family’s household belongings and illustrating the family’s daily life in photographs.
Using full-color photography, each country is highlighted first with a two-page [...]

What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

Filed under: Nonfiction, Reference Books, Reviews

What do you eat in one week? What does a typical American eat? What does a typical Brit eat? What does a family in the Darfur Refugee Camp in Chad eat? What do the people of the world eat?
These are the questions that photographer Peter Menzel seeks to answer through his coffee table book of [...]

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