Автор: Fine Cordelia Название: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference ISBN: 0393340244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393340242 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: [Fine s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is. The New York Times
Автор: Ferguson Название: This Is Our Land ISBN: 0813565634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565637 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 87780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. This is Our Land documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups - in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.
Автор: Hill Название: Our Common Land ISBN: 1108024580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108024587 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Octavia Hill (1838-1912) was a social reformer, appalled by London slum conditions. In these essays and talks, first published in 1877, she argues the importance of access to the countryside for the health of city dwellers, and of creating green areas and amenities in towns.
Автор: Ferguson Название: This Is Our Land ISBN: 0813565626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565620 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. This is Our Land documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups - in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.
Автор: Thottathil Sapna E. Название: India`s Organic Farming Revolution: What It Means for Our Global Food System ISBN: 1609382773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382773 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 21250.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Should you buy organic food? Is it just a status symbol, or is it really better for us? Is it really better for the environment? What about organic produce grown thousands of miles from our kitchens, or on massive corporately owned farms? Is “local” or “small-scale” better, even if it’s not organic? A lot of consumers who would like to do the right thing for their health and the environment are asking such questions.Sapna Thottathil calls on us to rethink the politics of organic food by focusing on what it means for the people who grow and sell it—what it means for their health, the health of their environment, and also their economic and political well-being. Taking readers to the state of Kerala in southern India, she shows us a place where the so-called “Green Revolution” program of hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and rising pesticide use had failed to reduce hunger while it caused a cascade of economic, medical, and environmental problems. Farmers burdened with huge debts from buying the new seeds and chemicals were committing suicide in troubling numbers. Farm labourers suffered from pesticide poisoning and rising rates of birth defects. A sharp fall in biodiversity worried environmental activists, and everyone was anxious about declining yields of key export crops like black pepper and coffee.In their debates about how to solve these problems, farmers, environmentalists, and policymakers drew on Kerala’s history of and continuing commitment to grassroots democracy. In 2010, they took the unprecedented step of enacting a policy that requires all Kerala growers to farm organically by 2020. How this policy came to be and its immediate economic, political, and physical effects on the state’s residents offer lessons for everyone interested in agriculture, the environment, and what to eat for dinner. Kerala’s example shows that when done right, this kind of agriculture can be good for everyone in our global food system.
Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn t happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, "American Insecurity" sheds light on the public s inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding these issues is actually self-undermining. By their nature, the very arguments intended to mobilize individuals asking them to devote money or time to politics remind citizens of their economic fears and personal constraints, leading to undermobilization and nonparticipation.
Adam Seth Levine explains why the set of people who become politically active on financial insecurity issues is therefore quite narrow. When money is needed, only those who care about the issues but are not personally affected become involved. When time is needed, participation is limited to those not personally affected or those who are personally affected but outside of the labor force with time to spare. The latter explains why it is relatively easy to mobilize retirees on topics that reflect personal financial concerns, such as Social Security and Medicare. In general, however, when political representation requires a large group to make their case, economic insecurity threats are uniquely disadvantaged.
Scrutinizing the foundations of political behavior, "American Insecurity" offers a new perspective on collective participation."
Автор: Eldredge Niles, Horenstein Sidney Название: Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future ISBN: 0520270150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520270152 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world`s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity.
Автор: Fernandez-Armesto Felipe Название: Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States ISBN: 0393239535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393239539 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23220.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation.
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