ilość książek w kategorii: 466
Taking Charge: On Responsibility and Personal Identity
ISBN: 9781441147752 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A prominent philosopher's investigation into the questions of responsibility and personal identity that explores the proliferation of identities and the need to "take charge."
A prominent philosopher's investigation into the questions of responsibility and personal identity that explores the proliferation of identities and t...
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669,12 zł |
Local Peacebuilding and National Peace: Interaction Between Grassroots and Elite Processes
ISBN: 9781441157881 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiatives. The book looks at violent and protracted struggles in which local people have sought to make their own peace with local combatants in a variety of ways, and how such initiatives have affected and have been affected by national level strategies. Chapters on theories of local and national peacemaking are combined with chapters on recent efforts to carry out such processes in warn torn societies such as Africa, Asia, and South... Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiat... |
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669,12 zł |
Local Peacebuilding and National Peace: Interaction Between Grassroots and Elite Processes
ISBN: 9781441160225 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiatives. The book looks at violent and protracted struggles in which local people have sought to make their own peace with local combatants in a variety of ways, and how such initiatives have affected and have been affected by national level strategies. Chapters on theories of local and national peacemaking are combined with chapters on recent efforts to carry out such processes in warn torn societies such as Africa, Asia, and South... Local Peacebuilding and National Peace is a collection of essays that examines the effects of local peacebuilding efforts on national peace initiat... |
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180,10 zł |
Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism
ISBN: 9781441188663 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Attempts by people to enact their political beliefs in their daily lives have become commonplace in contemporary US culture, in spheres ranging from shopping habits to romantic attachments. This groundbreaking book examines how collective social movements have cultivated individual practices of "lifestyle politics" as part of their strategies of resistance, and the tensions they must navigate in doing so. Drawing on feminism and other movements that claim that "the personal is political," the book explores how radical anarchist activists position their own lifestyles within projects... Attempts by people to enact their political beliefs in their daily lives have become commonplace in contemporary US culture, in spheres ranging fro... |
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617,65 zł |
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
ISBN: 9780393079531 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern scientific agriculture. In the mid-twentieth century, an unprecedented agricultural advancement known as the Green Revolution brought hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, and improved irrigation that drove the greatest population boom in history--but left ecological devastation in its wake. In The End of Plenty, award-winning environmental journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr. puts our race to feed the world in dramatic... When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the succes... |
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119,14 zł |
Food Security and Industrial Clustering in Northeast Asia
ISBN: 9784431552819 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the regional food industrial cluster in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning innovation to a core concept, with the basic problem of food security as the horizontal axis and the areas of Northeast Asia as the vertical axis. Specifically, the principle of collaborative advantage as a key factor is extracted from case studies on food industrial clustering in each area. As a final objective, a practical policy recommendation is...
This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science and related fields to draw up a strate...
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196,31 zł |
Food & Freedom: How the Slow Food Movement Is Changing the World Through Gastronomy
ISBN: 9780847846856 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini began the Slow Food organization, he has been constantly engaged in the fight for food justice. Beginning first in his native Italy and then expanding all over the world, the movement has created a powerful force for change.
The essential argument of this book is that food is an avenue towards freedom. This uplifting and humanistic message is straightforward: if people can feed themselves, they can be free. In other words, if people can regain... Inspiring the global fight to revolutionize the way food is grown, distributed, and eaten. In the almost thirty years since Carlo Petrini bega...
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91,83 zł |
Varietals of Capitalism: A Political Economy of the Changing Wine Industry
ISBN: 9781501700439 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier Itcaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and effects of a radical reform adopted at the EU level in 2008. Regulatory change politically transformed the rationale of EU support to the wine industry, from shaping the supply side to encouraging producers to adapt to the demands of a supposedly "new consumer." To explain the... Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on ... |
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247,07 zł |
Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
ISBN: 9780691154930 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy--the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube--has been at the center of contentious battles between animal rights activists, artisanal farmers, industry groups, politicians, chefs, and foodies. In Contested Tastes, Michaela DeSoucey takes us to farms, restaurants, protests, and political hearings in both the United States and France to reveal why people care so passionately about foie gras--and why we should care too. Bringing together fieldwork,... Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy--the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been ... |
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151,70 zł |
The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals, and Rogue Politicians
ISBN: 9780996973915 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, the award-wining Sierra Leonean journalist, political activist and human rights advocate Chernoh Alpha M. Bah presents an in-depth investigation that challenges the official narrative surrounding the origin and widespread transmission of the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic - one of the most catastrophic human tragedies in the twenty first century. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, the award-wining Sierra Leonean journalist, political activist and human rights adv... |
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146,06 zł |
The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals, and Rogue Politicians
ISBN: 9780996973922 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, the award-wining Sierra Leonean journalist, political activist and human rights advocate Chernoh Alpha M. Bah presents an in-depth investigation that challenges the official narrative surrounding the origin and widespread transmission of the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic - one of the most catastrophic human tragedies in the twenty first century. In The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, the award-wining Sierra Leonean journalist, political activist and human rights adv... |
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97,38 zł |
Occurrences, Structure, Biosynthesis & Health Benefits Based on Their Evidences of Medicinal Phytochemicals in Vegetables & Fruits: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781631177538 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vegetables and fruits with diverse natural colours contain abundant functional phytochemicals such as carotenoids, anthocyanins and betalains. Additionally, these phytochemicals also contain vitamins, essential amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, minerals, food enzymes and other plant components. This book describes the relationship of evidence-based functions and mechanisms of the phytochemicals in vegetables and fruits, and foods including cereal crops, nuts, beans, seafood and others. Research has been found that a higher intake of fruits and vegetables has been epidemiologically...
Vegetables and fruits with diverse natural colours contain abundant functional phytochemicals such as carotenoids, anthocyanins and betalains. Additio...
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1096,28 zł |
Contradictions of Neoliberal Agri-Food: Corporations, Resistance, and Disasters in Japan
ISBN: 9781943665198 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism. They also examine related changes that have occurred after the triple disaster of March 2011.
Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have bee...
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143,41 zł |
Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945-1972
ISBN: 9780875807416 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,68 zł |
What I Stand On: Practical Advice and Cantankerous Musings from a Pioneering Organic Farmer
ISBN: 9780997043402 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before he died in 2012, organic farmer Bill Dow sat down to tell this account of his lifelong food activism and path-breaking farming methods. Raised on a family farm in Mississippi, Bill went to medical school in the sixties. Running into injustice at every turn, he combined his knowledge of farming with a passion for public health to focus on healthy, organic food. Decades before the blossoming of the food movement, he founded farmers' markets, sold directly to restaurants and experimented with organic methods. Bill was the first certified organic farmer in North Carolina. As a farmer,... Before he died in 2012, organic farmer Bill Dow sat down to tell this account of his lifelong food activism and path-breaking farming methods. Rais... |
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69,51 zł |
Escwa Water Development Report 6: The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus in the Arab Region
ISBN: 9789211283808 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers an analytical framework and a series of case studies for understanding the water-energy-food security nexus in the Arab region. The analytical framework considers the inter-linkages that affect the achievement of water security, energy security and food security through the lens of sustainable development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Offers an analytical framework and a series of case studies for understanding the water-energy-food security nexus in the Arab region. The analytical ...
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144,54 zł |
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
ISBN: 9781522516293 / Angielski / Twarda / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book is a compendium of emerging perspectives on the development of an effective agricultural value chain and the optimization of supply chain management within the agriculture and food sectors, highlighting theoretical frameworks, real-world applications, and future outlooks"--Provided by publisher.
"This book is a compendium of emerging perspectives on the development of an effective agricultural value chain and the optimization of supply chain m...
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1734,45 zł |
Food Systems and Health
ISBN: 9781786350923 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising concern about rates of obesity, food systems have attracted the attention of state actors, leading to both innovative and controversial public health interventions, such as citywide soda bans, -veggie prescription- initiatives, and farm-to-school programs. At the same time, social movement activism has emerged focused on issues related to food and health, including movements for food justice, food safety, farm worker's rights, and community control of...
In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising concern...
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525,49 zł |
GUYANA--for the taking or the making?
ISBN: 9781926926728 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Development study of Guyana, suggestions for economic and social reform, Third World development model. Author is of Caribbean (Trinidadian) and Canadian citizen, a development geographer, economist. Study of Guyana post-colonial, possibilities and opportunities for development. Question posed: is Guyana for the taking or the making? Development study of Guyana, suggestions for economic and social reform, Third World development model. Author is of Caribbean (Trinidadian) and Ca... |
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52,16 zł |
Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany
ISBN: 9780190605094 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately intertwined with waging war, and starvation claimed more lives than any other weapon. As Alice Weinreb shows in Modern Hungers, nowhere was this new reality more significant than in Germany, which struggled through food blockades, agricultural crises, economic depressions, and wartime destruction and occupation at the same time that it asserted itself as a military, cultural, and economic powerhouse of...
During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing ec...
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303,74 zł |