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  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    de Betsy Hartmann ...
    "Those involved in women's health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought" ( Kirkus Reviews).This is an updated edition of the "influential study" ( Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs.Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The America Syndrome

    Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness

    de Betsy Hartmann ...
    Has apocalyptic thinking contributed to some of our nation's biggest problems—inequality, permanent war, and the despoiling of our natural resources? From the Puritans to the present, historian and public policy advocate Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but—until now—invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of the world is nigh. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Last Place Called Home

    A Novel

    de Betsy Hartmann ...
    As the secret federal sting operation Snakehead targets the fentanyl trade, the small mill town of Stanton, Massachusetts, becomes a battlefield in the war on drugs. In the midst of this turmoil, three mothers—newspaper reporter Laura Everett, businesswoman Mimi Sullivan, and machinist Angie Gillen—must overcome their differences and confront their pasts to keep their troubled teenagers out of the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Threats

    Biofears and Environmental Anxieties

    de Alan Goodman, Jeanne Guillemin, Hugh Gusterson, Anne Hendrixson, Larry Lohmann, Emily Martin, Richard Matthew, Jackie Orr, Paul A. Passavant, Heather Turcotte, Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Michael Watts ...
    Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing "war on terror" amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Too Many People?

    Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis

    de Ian Angus, Simon Butler ...
    Too Many People? provides a clear, well-documented, and popularly written refutation of the idea that "overpopulation" is a major cause of environmental destruction, arguing that a focus on human numbers not only misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the movement for real solutions.No other book challenges modern overpopulation theory so clearly and comprehensively, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Women, Gender and Development Reader

    de Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White, Diana L. Wolf, Deepa Shankaran, Lourdes Beneria, Aysan Sev'er, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Beth Herzfeld, Aili Mari Tripp, Kalpana Wilson, Susie Jolly, Sylvia Chant, Diane Elson, Gita Sen, Betsy Hartmann, Peggy Antrobus, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Jennifer Fluri, Anesu Makina, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Needleman, Alice Mungwa, Jean Pyle, Sonia Corra, Ayesha M. Imam, Amy Lind, Jennifer L. Fruri, Samanthi Gunawardana, Haejin Kim, Paula Voos, Gulay Toksoz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Annette Desmarais, Shirin M. Rai, Ruth Pearson ...
    The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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    de Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a ... Leer más

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  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

    The Political Economy of the Global Environment

    de Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
    A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes.This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental ... Leer más

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  • Sustainability

    A History

    de Jeremy L. Caradonna ...
    The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • State of the World 2013

    Is Sustainability Still Possible?

    de The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets—but with so much labeled as “sustainable,” the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging than the conventional alternative. Is it time to abandon the concept altogether, or can we find an accurate way to ... Leer más

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  • Globalization and the Environment

    de Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley ...
    Series series Globalization
    This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors ... Leer más

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  • Ethical Water

    Learning to Value What Matters Most

    de Robert William Sandford ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened natural landscapes that surround us. And yet, society seems to continually ignore the need for a common-sense approach to—and appreciation of—our freshwater resources and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD