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Nicola Twilley's 'Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves' explores the profound impact of refrigeration on the global food system. The book delves into the history, technological advancements, and societal implications of refrigeration. Twilley highlights how refrigeration has transformed food production, distribution, and consumption, making perishable goods available year-round and reshaping diets and economies worldwide. The narrative covers various facets of the cold chain, from refrigerated warehouses to the development of domestic fridges, and examines the environmental and health consequences of this technology. Aimed at a broad audience, including food enthusiasts, environmentalists, and general readers, the book offers a comprehensive understanding of the invisible infrastructure that underpins modern food logistics.
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'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times' Best Books of the Year 'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something hidden inside of us will be revealed. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the hallways of the CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt the widespread quarantine imposed by Covid-19 before the next pandemic hits through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. Yet quarantine is more than just a medical tool: Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to nothing but protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet NASA's Planetary Protection Officer tasked with saving the Earth from extraterrestrial infections. The result is part travelogue, part intellectual history - a book as compelling as it is definitive, and one that could not be more urgent or timely.
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