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Author | : Andrew Kimbrell |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2002-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781597262804 |
Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer way of producing the food we eat. It gathers together more than forty essays by leading ecological thinkers including Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, David Ehrenfeld, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, and Gary Nabhan. Providing a unique and invaluable antidote to the efforts by agribusiness to obscure and disconnect us from the truth about industrialized foods, it demostrates that industrial food production is indeed a "fatal harvest"--fatal to consumers, fatal to our landscapes, fatal to genetic diversity, and fatal to our farm communities. As it exposes the ecological and social impacts of industrial agriculture's fatal harvest, Fatal Harvest details a new ecological and humane vision for agriculture. It shows how millions of people are engaged in the new politics of food as they work to develop a better alternative to the current chemically fed and biotechnology-driven system. Designed to aid the movement to reform industrial agriculture, Fatal Harvest informs and influences the activists, farmers, policymakers, and consumers who are seeking a safer and more sustainable food future.
Author | : Andrew Kimbrell |
Publisher | : Foundation for Deep Ecology |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
"Designed to be an invaluable aid to the activists, farmers, policy makers and consumers fighting for a more sustainable food system."--Cover.
Author | : John E. Ikerd |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0803217447 |
With the decline of family farms and rural communities and the rise of corporate farming and the resulting environmental degradation, American agriculture is in crisis. But this crisis offers the opportunity to rethink agriculture in sustainable terms. Here one of the most eloquent and influential proponents of sustainable agriculture explains what this means. These engaging essays describe what sustainable agriculture is, why it began, and how it can succeed. Together they constitute a clear and compelling vision for rebalancing the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of agriculture to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future. In Crisis and Opportunity, John E. Ikerd outlines the consequences of agricultural industrialization, then details the methods that can restore economic viability, ecological soundness, and social responsibility to our agricultural system and thus ensure sustainable agriculture as the foundation of a sustainable food system and a sustainable society.
Author | : James Morrow |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156180429 |
Jack Sperry is a loyal citizen of Veritas, the City of Truth, until tragedy strikes his life, and he must hide from truth in order to save his son's life.
Author | : Yasmine Galenorn |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101010568 |
Strange supernatural events have been happening to medium Emerald O?Brien. So now it?s up to her and her friends to delve into the past to reveal secrets of the dead, lay them to rest, and ring in the autumn with a harvest of bones.
Author | : Bill Fitzhugh |
Publisher | : Prelude Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788423291 |
Given a terminal diagnosis (actually two of them) thirty-five year old Miguel Padilla decides he must accomplish something meaningful before death. He seizes on the idea of donating a kidney to save someone’s life. Then he decides: why stop there? Why not donate... everything? Why not indeed? Reviews of the Transplant Tetralogy series “His wit and style are as compelling as his tightly wound thriller plots, and his thoughts on the world we live in are fascinating and, often, spot on ... An awe-inspiring feat.” Washington Post “Fitzhugh’s stuff is unique. It’s also alarmingly accurate. That’s what makes it so good.” Clarion-Ledger “Bill Fitzhugh just gets better and better.” Christopher Moore “A thrilling tale of science run amok ... laugh-out-loud send-ups of the madness of modern life.” Booklist “Fast, funny, deft action ... You have to experience it, hanging on tight and keeping those pages turning.” New Orleans Times-Picayune “Where Bill Fitzhugh earned his Ph.D. in street smarts is a mystery. The wicked sense of humor he must have been born with.” Dallas Morning News “Genuinely funny ... his satiric eye spares no one.” Publishers Weekly
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Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
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Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1668008718 |
Author | : Milton Friedman |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1994-03-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0547542224 |
The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets. In this “lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history” (Kirkus Reviews), one of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes offers a journey through history to illustrate the importance of understanding monetary economics, and how monetary theory can ignite or deepen inflation. With anecdotes revealing the far-reaching consequences of seemingly minor events—for example, how two obscure Scottish chemists destroyed the presidential prospects of William Jennings Bryan, and how FDR’s domestic politics helped communism triumph in China—as well as plain-English explanations of what the monetary system in the United States means for your personal finances and for everyone from the small business owner on Main Street to the banker on Wall Street, Money Mischief is an enlightening read from the author of Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose, who was called “the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century” by the Economist.
Author | : Mikhail Bulgakov |
Publisher | : Translit Publishing |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0981269532 |
As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov discovers an amazing ray that drastically increases the size and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious plague wipes out all the chickens in the Soviet republics. The government expropriates Persikov's untested invention in order to rebuild the poultry industry, but a horrible mix-up quickly leads to a disaster that could threaten the entire world. This H. G. Wells-inspired novel by the legendary Mikhail Bulgakov is the only one of his larger works to have been published in its entirety during the author's lifetime. A poignant work of social science fiction and a brilliant satire on the Soviet revolution, it can now be enjoyed by English-speaking audiences through this accurate new translation. Includes annotations and afterword.
Author | : Michael D'Antonio |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Inspector Casey Ruud raised questions about the concerns of people like nearby farmer Tom Bailie, and eventually went public with facts and figures on faulty plant designs, poor maintenance, sloppy engineering practices, and mismanagement.