Growing Stories from India. Religion and the Fate of Agriculture, Paperback - Vandana Shiva

Lessons from the Hindu culture are used to teach the world methods of sustainability.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Vandana ...

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Reducere. The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement-unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have fo...

In this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vandana ShivaFor the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which cul...

Reducere. Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural...

Smallholder farmers produce seventy per cent of the world's food, but they're often overlooked, and their livelihoods are under threat from large s...

Reducere. This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians ha...

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A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the re...

Floods, Famines and Emperors. El Nino and the Fate of Civilisations - Brian Fagan

Reducere. Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age...

Inspired by women s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows ho...

Dealing with the imminent decline of cheap oil, this book shows how oil and war have been closely related in the 20th century. Tracing the crucial ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flo...

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eva RosenIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x ...

Reducere. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Rise...

DescriptionGet a new perspective from the 'other half' of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and...

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, benefi...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

Reducere. In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "the ...

The sixth and penultimate book of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series For years the Garde have fought the Mogadorians in secr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Reducere. The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic.Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on t...

A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans and ourselv...

Reducere. Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocat...

Showcases examples of climate-smart agriculture from around the world, including the use of remote sensing to monitor water productivity and the pr...

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relatio...

Description"Homelands helps us to see ourselves in each other, and in so doing it gets at the genius of a country that has always aspired to be one...

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY - and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.By combin...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Shashi TharoorNumber of pages: 356Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 242 x 166 x 38Cover type: Hard...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Nathaniel PhilbrickNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...

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An abundantly illustrated journey through one of the world's most diverse and fascinating regions.Illustrations: 318 colour

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