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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
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In "Stolen Harvest", Vandana Shiva charts the impact of globalized, corporate, agriculture on small farmer, the environment and the quality of the food we eat. With chapters on genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, mad cows and sacred cows and the debate on shrimp farming, this is a book that is designed to shape the debate about genetic ...
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Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
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World-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva boldly confronts the neoconservative Project for the New American Century with her own plan, describing what Earth democracy "could" look like, and outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies.
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Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
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With "Soil Not Oil," Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm: ...
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit
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The "colour line" defined American society in the 20th century. Will the same be true for the 21st? This work discusses the state of Black America today and the prospects for achieving full civil rights and equality.
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
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Vandana Shiva shows how Western powers, following in the footsteps of Columbus, are using patenting and genetic engineering to re-colonize the Third World. Denying the value of indigenous knowledge developed over many generations, the West is attempting to colonize life itself. She argues that we must struggle to protect biological and cultural ...
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Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource
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Tara Lohan (Editor), Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva
"Water Consciousness" is designed to change the way people think about water. It explores all aspects of the water crisis and what we can do about it. Compelling contributions by Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Wenonah Hauter, Sandra Postel, Tony Clarke and other top environmental writers explain the problems and inspire readers to ...
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Ecofeminism
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Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva
Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is ...
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Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed
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Vandana Shiva (Editor), Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan
"Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power."-The Progressive Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed is a short, pocket-sized collection that goes to the heart of our existence-what we eat and how we grow it. It covers the questions: How are seeds cultivated and saved? How far must food travel before reaching our plate? Who ...
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Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
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John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto, Vandana Shiva (Foreword by)
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development
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Vandana Shiva
Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin. Finally Janet must face the far-reaching decision of whether to undergo a preemptive mastectomy ...
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Animals Inc: A Business Parable for the 21st Century
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Kenneth A. /Miller Tucker
"Animals, Inc."'s compelling and timeless parable is poised for the same success as the business classics "Who Moved My Cheese?" and "Fish!"
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Protect or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights
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Vandana Shiva
Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. Vandana Shiva shows how the Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the ...
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Global Sense: Awakening Your Personal Power for Democracy and World Peace
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Judah Freed, Vandana Shiva (Afterword by), Thom Hartmann (Foreword by)
For those feeling fear and anger from the war on terrorism, the loss of civil liberties and the assault on the environment, Freed empowers readers with a hopeful vision of mindful self rule and personal democracy rooted in a sense of our global unity. People can change the world by changing themselves.
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The companion to development studies
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Dr. Vandana Desai (Editor), Robert B Potter (Editor)
The Companion to Development Studies is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with an interest in development studies. Over 100 international experts have been brought together to present a comprehensive overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Building on the success of the first ...
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Developing Microsoft ASP.Net Server Controls and Components
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Nikhil Kothari, Vandana, Vandana Datye
Here's the essential book for developers who want to learn how to author controls for ASP.NET applications. Combining conceptual details with practical how-to information, this guide provides the solid understanding developers need to get controls up and running. Topics include Web services, HTTP runtime programming, packaging, deployment, ...
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Costumes, Textiles and Jewellery of India
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Dr. Vandana Bhandari
An essential book for those interested in Indian style and culture.
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Close to Home
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Vandana Shiva (Editor)
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Younguncle Comes to Town
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Vandana Singh, B M Kamath (Illustrator)
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The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics
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Vandana Shiva
Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position oachieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates in its wake, the author looks to the future in an ...
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Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology
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Vandana Shiva (Editor), Ingunn Moser (Editor)
While the commercial and scientific publicity around biotechnology has stressed the potential gains, scientists, thinkers and activists have been warning of the grave risks and difficult ethical issues at stake. This reader assembles critiques of biotechnology. The contributors explore the hidden implications and likely consequences of defining ...
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The Village in India
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Vandana Madan (Editor)
The village has epitomized Indain civilisation and been the subject of study and contemplation. This volume attempts to address a wide number of interests - economic, political, cultural, social, gender - and presents a profile of processes and change in Indian villages based on publications over the last 50 years of the 20th century. The essays ...
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Companion to Development Studies
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Robert Potter (Editor), Dr. Vandana Desai (Editor)
"The Companion to Development Studies" is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with an interest in development studies. The editors of this new volume have brought together an impressive range of international experts in the field to present an interdisciplinary and comprehensive overview of contemporary development studies. With more than ...
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Jewels on the Crescent: Masterpieces of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India
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Kalpana Desai, Vandana Prapanna, B V Shetti (Contributions by)
Situated on the famous crescent site near Gateway of India in Mumbai is the landmark heritage building that houses the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India. It is one of the most exquisite examples of the Indo-Saracenic architectural style for which the architect, George Wiltet, is well known. Designed in 1909, it filled the need for a quality ...
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Heterocyclic Chemistry II
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Radha R Gupta, Vandana Gupta, Mahendra Kumar
The present advanced text-cum-reference book presents a comprehensive account of the syntheses, reactions, properties and applications of all the most significant classes of heterocyclic compounds. "Heterocyclic Chemistry" has been organised in three volumes. This second volume contains six chapters: Introduction, Five-membered Heterocycles with ...
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