Vandana Shiva shows how Western powers, following in the footsteps of Columbus, are using patenting and genetic engineering to re-colonize the Third World. Denying the value of indigenous knowledge developed over many generations...more details Format:Paperback
This book is Vandana Shiva's most extensive treatment of the struggles, she has helped bring to international attention in genetic food engineering...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Shiva Vandana
ISBN:9781583225400
Bringing together historical, philosophical and scientific thought, this volume from physicist turned environmental, human rights and anti-globalisation activist Dr. Vandana Shiva investigates the crises of war...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Shiva Vandana
ISBN:9781842771082
Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes...more details Format:Hardback
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Shiva Vandana
ISBN:9781842771099
Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Shiva Vandana
ISBN:9780500282397
It is received wisdom for today's politicians and scientists that the only way to produce enough food for a growing global population is to clear and claim more land for agriculture...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
In this intelligently argued and ethically principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:148
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896085558
Shiva exposes the "new colonies" in the North's assault on the South's biological resources -- the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants and animals -- and convincingly argues that international agreements enable Northern capital to appropriate biodiversity from its original owners by defining as "non-science" the seeds...more details Format:Paperback Pages:148
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9781856493352
Biotechnology is the single most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development. It is also the most intrusive and determinative technology relating to nature generally and the human body specifically...more details Format:Hardback
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9781856493369
Biotechnology is the single most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development. It is also the most intrusive and determinative technology relating to nature generally and the human body specifically...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Shiva Vandana
ISBN:9781853831904
It is 20 years since environmental issues were first put on the international agenda at the Stockholm Conference, and concern for planetary survival has shifted from desertification to acid rain to ozone depletion to biodiversity. The official responses to all the various crises...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896087460
Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds with "Earth Democracy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:205
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896087453
A leading voice in the struggle for global justice, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental activist and physicist. In Earth Democracy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:205
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Maria Mies;Vandana Shiva VandanaShiva
ISBN:9781856491563
Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Judah Freed;Thom Shiva VandanaHartmann
ISBN:9780972890526
Winner of the 2005 Evvy Award for the "Best Personal Growth Book of the Year," GLOBAL SENSE by international journalist Judah Freed updates "Common Sense by Thomas Paine to renew hope in these times that try our souls.
GLOBAL SENSE is for all of us feeling fear...more details Format:Paperback Pages:177
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Judah Freed;Thom Shiva VandanaHartmann
ISBN:9780972890540
The award-winning GLOBAL SENSE by Judah Freed reveals how our natural global connectivity empowers each of us to change the world by changing ourselves. Inspired by Thomas Paine's "Common Sense...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896087828
With "Soil Not Oil," Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.
Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster...more details Format:Paperback Pages:147
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9781848134003
Considering the violation of nature with the violation and marginalization of women in the global south, this book argues that the impact of science...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9781848133983
Positions the violation of nature with the violation and marginalization of women in the global south. This book argues that the impact of science...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780862328238
Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896087934
"Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientists . . . in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises...more details Format:Paperback Pages:239
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896086081
Stolen Harvest The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Vandana Shiva "The South's best known environmentalist () and 1993 Right Livelihood Award winner...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:150
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896086074
"Contents"
Introduction Chapter 1 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local...more details Format:Paperback Pages:140
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Vanadana Shiva;Gitanjali Shiva VandanaBedi
ISBN:9780761995432
Sustainable agriculture is based on the sustainable use of natural resources land, water and agricultural biodiversity, including that of plants and animals. The sustainable use of these...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:514
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780862329655
Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position oachieved 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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9783775728614
Indian physicist and activist Vandana Shiva addresses corporate biopiracy in which plants, for example, can be claimed as a corporation's own invention...more details Format:Paperback Pages:44
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896086517
While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match -- or even surpass -- the oil wars of the twentieth. In Water Wars: Privatization...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:158
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Vandana Shiva
ISBN:9780896086500
While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match-or even surpass-the oil wars of the twentieth. In "Water Wars: Privatization...more details Format:Paperback Pages:156