Four new faculty books from the 天美影视传媒 cover topics ranging from inequality鈥檚 effects on health to fad diets to former German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 legacy on gender equality.


Four new faculty books from the 天美影视传媒 cover topics ranging from inequality鈥檚 effects on health to fad diets to former German chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 legacy on gender equality.

In an era of Fitbits, Skinnygirl margaritas and kale mania, isn鈥檛 overeating simply a failure of willpower, an unwillingness or inability to make good choices? It鈥檚 not that simple, says Kima Cargill, a professor of clinical psychology at the 天美影视传媒 in Tacoma. In her new book 鈥淭he Psychology of Overeating,鈥 Cargill places the blame for gluttony squarely at the feet of a culture gorged on consumerism. She聽contends that abundance of variety, lax regulation and sophisticated branding and marketing…