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Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Slavoj Zizek
Verso, 2002
a great book
~~~I truly enjoyed this book, which provides great insight while analyzing the current situation of the States. Not "with us or against us," as Bush constantly stated,but we are against them, since both military leaders in the US and Bin Laden's terrorists are ...
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Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies ...
D. G. Webster
The MIT Press, 2008
The rapid expansion of the fishing industry in the last century has raised major concerns over the long-term viability of many fish species. International fisheries organizations have failed to prevent the overfishing of many stocks but succeeded in curtailing harvests for some key fisheries. In Adaptive Governance, D. G. Webster proposes a new ...
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition ...
Marion Nestle
University of California Press, 2007
Amazing
Amazing, well thought out and researched book. I found it to be an interesting book as well. One of the best in the type of genre.
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A Time Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-related Terrorism in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Michael Richardson
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004
This is a good study of the state of current maritime security affairs.
Terror has broken out on all continents across the world. Inner cities have further decayed. The poor have sunk even deeper. The world's underclass has not risen either socially or materially. How can the ruling group keep the lid on civil unrest?
The controlling ...
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World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development (World Development Report) (World Development ...
World Bank
World Bank Publications, 2007
World Bank's View of Agriculture
For those who do not follow this field the World Bank is the main international funder of development projects in the Third World. Every year it produces a kind of annual report on development usually focusing on a certain subject. The World Bank has many fine ...
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Pain Killer: A "Wonder" Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
Barry Meier
Rodale Books, 2003
My son My heart & OXYCONTIN murder
I have recently finished this book & I believe every word. Purdue are murderers & they know it!!! www.oxyabusekills.ca my web site in memory of my son Chad Gregory Gardiner
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Gail A. Eisnitz
Prometheus Books, 2006
Confirming the gross-ness
This book just confirms the other reading I have done on the subject. Read it if you are ready to get the facts and stop ignoring what I like to refer to as the "gross-ness" of the meat and dairy industry (both in terms of the animals' treatment, and the impact for ...
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The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why
Erik Millstone
University of California Press, 2008
Extremely useful compendium to think deeper about food
Erik and Tim succeed in neatly presenting the extremely complex environment of the food supply chain as well as the substantial misconceptions that society has about food, its entire production and consumption chain as well as its consequences. For anyone even slightly ...
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An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique (Cognitive Neuroscience)
Steven J. Luck
The MIT Press, 2005
Excellent and Enlightening EEG introduction
The text is well written and packed with insightful commentary about EEG research. I think it is a great book for those of us trying to add EEG research to our toolbox of neuroimaging techniques. He is very forthright about his biases, so it seems clear about where ...
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Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (Studies in Comparative ...
Gavin Fridell
University of Toronto Press, 2007
Just the Facts Man...
I bought this book and pushed through it in a matter of about a week of free time. The book is mostly facts, heavy facts of the past and present. It is presented in such a way that even those against fair trade would be even more wary of stepping into the moral market ...
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The Words of Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
Texas A&M University Press, 2002
Beating the odds: A REAL American success story
The story of Cesar Chavez is one of a little guy beating the odds and winning. But it's not a typical American dream, rags-to-riches story. The foe that Chavez beat was systematic racist and economic oppression, and the uphill victory he finally achieved was justice. ...
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Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
Linda Faillace
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007
not just about sheep
If I had told friends I was reading about alleged disease in sheep they would have missed the true significance of this book. It's about big government intervention against the rights of citizens. It's about a Vermont family's creativity and dedication and how all of ...
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The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean
Lawrence S. Grossman
The University of North Carolina Press, 1998
This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere?capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment ...
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Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Carey McWilliams
University of California Press, 2000
Factories in the Field
An excellent book for anyone interested in California History, US History, the Great Depression or the history of corporate agriculture. Originally released the same year as Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, McWilliams' book relates the history of not only migrant farm ...
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Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India
Akhil Gupta
Duke University Press, 1998
a huge success - no more famines
The book is fundamentally one of a huge historical success. For the first time in its history, India was able to adequately feed its huge population. There have not been famines for decades.
The text has details about how agriculture developed, after the British ...
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