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  • The Waste Between Our Ears

    The Missing Ingredient to Disrupt Climate Change is in the Trash

    by Gerry Gillespie ...
    We know the dire situation:Due to industrial agriculture and the overuse of chemicals, we are actively degrading soils to the point that only a few decades of farming seasons are left;The World Wildlife Fund reported that our way of living has wiped out 60 percent of all mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles since 1970; andChemical destruction of biological processes poisons our soils, our air, and ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Waste Between Our Ears, The

    The Missing Ingredient to Disrupt Climate Change is in the Trash

    by Gerry Gillespie ...
    Narrated by Gerry Gillespie ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    The time for effective change is shrinking.In this book, writer, researcher and advocate Gerry Gillespie outlines how we can create a global solution, and it starts between our ears. In order to restore our world ecosystems and our vital soils, he wants to change how we think about our trash. Readers will learn why we all need to change our mind about waste management systems, how to reconnect our ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Tuberculosis

    Laboratory Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies

    by Andrew Ramsay, Clare Ling, Leonor Amaral, Leonid Heifits, Ajit Lalvani, Marc Lipman, Pablo Bifani, Ruth McNerney, Dick van Soolingen, Mike Barer, Isobel Honeyborne, Simon Waddell, Gerry Davies, Paul van Helden, Stephen Gillespie, Helen McShane, Michael Hoelscher, M Boeree, Geoff Coxon ...
    Series series Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology
    Tuberculosis is a global health threat and the unique features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and emergence of drug-resistant strains highlight the challenge it presents. Covering a wealth of state-of-the-art knowledge from active international experts, this book captures the latest developments in the advent of bacteriological, immunological and molecular tools for diagnosis and the development of ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Values Deliberation and Collective Action

    Community Empowerment in Rural Senegal

    by Beniamino Cislaghi, Diane Gillespie, Gerry Mackie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book describes how a program of values deliberations–-sustained group reflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussions of how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collective empowerment in communities in rural Senegal. The study explains what happens during the deliberations and shows how they bring about a larger process ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    Making Global Economic Policy

    by Richard Peet ...
    This work looks at how contemporary global economic policies are made: by which institutions, under what ideologies, and how they are enforced. The author reveals the central roles played by organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank in supervising the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people. He shows that neoliberal economic policy is enforced by a few thousand unelected and unaccountable ... Read more

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  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

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  • Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization

    Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory

    by José Maurício Domingues ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the "multiple modernities" approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with other civilizations, and also aims at a renewal of critical theory that is not US-centric and Eurocentric ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in North India

    by Lakhwinder Singh, Kesar Singh Bhangoo, Rakesh Sharma ...
    This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed socio-economic overview of agrarian distress in India which has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. Using empirical research and field data from rural India, especially Punjab, this book examines the underlying causes of farmer suicide and steps which can mitigate the crisis.Covering nearly 1,400 rural households, the ... Read more

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  • UN Millennium Development Library: Environment and Human Well-being

    A Practical Strategy

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    The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if ... Read more

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  • China and Global Capitalism

    Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics

    by L. Chun ...
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  • Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Asia

    Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development

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  • The Aesthetics of Development

    Art, Culture and Social Transformation

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