Описание: Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful manifesto calling for agricultural justice and genuine sustainability, drawing upon Shiva’s thirty years of research and accomplishments in the field. Instead of relying on genetic modification and large-scale monocropping to solve the world’s food crisis, she proposes that we look to agroecology—the knowledge of the interconnectedness that creates food—as a truly life-giving alternative to the industrial paradigm.
Shiva succinctly and eloquently lays out the networks of people and processes that feed the world, exploring issues of diversity, the needs of small famers, the importance of seed saving, the movement toward localization, and the role of women in producing the world's food.
Описание: Boeing 727 pilot Scott McKay discovers a strange crate in the cargo hold little suspecting that it carries a thermo-nuclear bomb. Who is responsible? Can it be disposed of before it detonates? The clock has started ticking...From the author of `Pandora`s Clock` a gripping thriller, of the Tom Clancy genre. Previously announced in March `98 Guide. Publisher has raised the stakes on this one and will promote heavily.
Автор: Kulkarni, Atul P Agarwal, Vandana Patil, Vijaya P Divatia, Jigeeshu V Название: Comprehensive clinical anesthesia ISBN: 9354652042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789354652042 Издательство: JayPee Brothers India Рейтинг: Цена: 10157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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This book is a comprehensive guide to clinical anaesthesia for practitioners and trainees.
Divided into eleven sections, the text begins with a general overview, followed by discussion on anaesthesia delivery systems, monitoring, and equipment. A complete section is dedicated to different drugs used in anaesthesia.
The next section covers anaesthesia for different types of surgeries in various body systems. The remaining chapters detail more subspecialty-specific anaesthesia including cardiac, obstetric, neuro, paediatric, transplant, and regional.
The book concludes with a section on postoperative care.
Authored by highly experienced experts in the field, the text is further enhanced by illustrations and figures to assist learning.
Key points
Comprehensive guide to clinical anaesthesia for practitioners and trainees
Covers numerous types of anaesthesia for different surgeries and body systems
Includes sections on pharmacology and postoperative care
Highly experienced, expert author team
Автор: Pal Vandana Название: Alfresco for Administrators ISBN: 1782175032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782175032 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Few people actively engaged in India’s water sector would deny that the Indian subcontinent faces serious problems in the sustainable use and management of water resources. Water resources in India have been subjected to tremendous pressures from increasing population, urbanization, industrialization, and modern agricultural methods. The inadequate access to clean drinking water, increase in water related disasters such as floods and droughts, vulnerability to climate change and competition for the resource amongst different sectors and the region poses immense pressures for sustainability of water systems and humanity. Water Security in India addresses these issues head on, analyzing the challenges that contemporary India faces if it is to create a water-secure world, and providing a hopeful, though guarded, road-map to a future in which India’s life-giving and life-sustaining fresh water resources are safe, clean, plentiful, and available to all, secured for the people in a peaceful and ecologically sustainable manner.
Автор: Nittoor MS Vandana Название: Banks of the Tamasa: A Story of Sita ISBN: 0692464239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692464236 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Shiva, Vandana Название: Water wars ISBN: 0745318371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745318370 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A world-renowned environmentalist , Shiva examines the `water wars` of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatisation by the multinationals of communal water rights.
Описание: The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement-unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.
Описание: i-D began as a fanzine dedicated to the street style of punk-era London in 1980 and quickly earned its position at the vanguard of fashion and style, abiding by the premise of `originate-don`t imitate`. This anniversary volume is the ultimate tribute to the irreverent and forward-thinking magazine that revolutionized not only the world of fashion publishing but fashion itself.
Автор: Shiva Vandana Название: Making Peace with the Earth ISBN: 0745333761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745333762 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5886.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Demolishes the myths of corporate globalisation and shows its devastating environmental impact.
Автор: Shiva, Vandana Название: Violence of the green revolution ISBN: 0862329655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780862329655 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 7601.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As the agricultural systems of many countries are poised, as a result of the recent advances in biotechnology for what may soon come to be called the Second Green Revolution, this book is particularly appropriate. Vandana Shiva examined the impact of the first Green Revolution on the breadbasket of India. In a cogent empirical argument, she shows how the 'quick fix' promise of large gains in output pushed aside serious pursuit of an alternative agricultural strategy grounded in respect for the environmental wisdom of peasant systems and building an egalitarian, needs-prientated agriculture consistent with the village-based, endogenous political traditions of Gandhism. Dr Shiva documents the destruction of genetic diversity and soil fertility that resulted and in highly original fashion shows how the Green Revolution also contributed to the acute social and political conflicts now tearing the Punjab apart.
Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position achieved 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 analysis of a new project to apply the latest Gene Revolution technology to India and warns of the further environmental and social damage which will ensue.
Автор: Shiva Vandana Название: Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply ISBN: 0813166551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813166551 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5162.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an incredible diversity of plants that provide life-sustaining nutrition. In India alone, the ingenuity of farmers has produced over 200,000 varieties of rice, many of which now line store shelves around the world. This productive tradition, however, is under attack as globalized, corporate regimes increasingly exploit intellectual property laws to annex these sustaining seeds and remove them from the public sphere.
In " Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply," Shiva explores the devastating effects of commercial agriculture and genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who grow it, and the soil that sustains it. This prescient critique and call to action covers some of the most pressing topics of this ongoing dialogue, from the destruction of local food cultures and the privatization of plant life, to unsustainable industrial fish farming and safety concerns about corporately engineered foods. The preeminent agricultural activist and scientist of a generation, Shiva implores the farmers and consumers of the world to make a united stand against the genetically modified crops and untenable farming practices that endanger the seeds and plants that give us life.
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