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1	Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply more books like this by Vandana Shiva In "Stolen Harvest", Vandana Shiva charts the impact of globalized, corporate, agriculture on small farmer, the environment and the quality of the food we eat. With chapters on genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, mad cows and sacred cows and the debate on shrimp farming, this is a book that is designed to shape the debate about genetic ... see all copies from £7.54! new only from £9.64!
2	Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit more books like this by Vandana Shiva 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, Pollution and Profit, Vandana Shiva, "the world's most ... see all copies from £8.02! new only from £9.64! \| first editions
3	Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace more books like this by Vandana Shiva World-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva boldly confronts the neoconservative Project for the New American Century with her own plan, describing what Earth democracy "could" look like, and outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democracies. see all copies from £8.52! new only from £10.16!
4	Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge more books like this by Vandana Shiva 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, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, ... see all copies from £5.55! new only from £9.05!
5	The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics more books like this by Vandana Shiva 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, the author looks to the future in an ... see all copies from £6.03! new only from £22.58!
6	Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development more books like this by Vandana Shiva 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, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin. Finally Janet must face the far-reaching decision of whether to undergo a preemptive mastectomy ... see all copies from £5.12! new only from £27.93!
7	Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology more books like this by Vandana Shiva see all copies from £12.48! new only from £15.61!
8	Ecofeminism more books like this by Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva 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, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is ... see all copies from £13.52! new only from £25.16! \| first editions
9	Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource more books like this by Tara Lohan (Editor), Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva "Water Consciousness" is designed to change the way people think about water. It explores all aspects of the water crisis and what can be done about it. Compelling contributions by Bill McKibben, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, and other top environmental writers explain the problem and inspire readers to action, with essays on privatization and ... see all copies from £12.43! new only from £13.07!
10	Tomorrow's Biodiversity more books like this by Vandana Shiva 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, to specialize in certain high-yield crops, and to utilize every chemical and technological aid, including genetic engineering, to promote growth. This is also highly ... see all copies from £3.25! new only from £3.25!
11 view cover	Protect or Plunder?: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights more books like this by Vandana Shiva Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - they sound technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. Vandana Shiva shows how the Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the ... see all copies from £5.12! new only from £5.12!
12	Close to Home more books like this by Vandana Shiva (Editor) see all copies from £5.96! new only from £8.28! \| first editions
13 view cover	Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed more books like this by Vandana Shiva (Editor), Carlo Petrini, Michael Pollan "Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power."-The Progressive Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed is a short, pocket-sized collection that goes to the heart of our existence-what we eat and how we grow it. It covers the questions: How are seeds cultivated and saved? How far must food travel before reaching our plate? Who ... see all copies from £7.28! new only from £7.28!
14 view cover	Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction more books like this by John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto, Vandana Shiva (Foreword by) see all copies from £9.30! new only from £11.37!
15 view cover	Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis more books like this by Vandana Shiva 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, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm: ... see all copies from £10.22! new only from £10.22! \| first editions
16 view cover	Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology more books like this by Vandana Shiva (Editor), Ingunn Moser (Editor) While the commercial and scientific publicity around biotechnology has stressed the potential gains, scientists, thinkers and activists have been warning of the grave risks and difficult ethical issues at stake. This reader assembles critiques of biotechnology. The contributors explore the hidden implications and likely consequences of defining ... see all copies from £6.66! new only from £13.07!
17 view cover	Global Sense: Awakening Your Personal Power for Democracy and World Peace more books like this by Judah Freed, Vandana Shiva (Afterword by), Thom Hartmann (Foreword by) For those feeling fear and anger from the war on terrorism, the loss of civil liberties and the assault on the environment, Freed empowers readers with a hopeful vision of mindful self rule and personal democracy rooted in a sense of our global unity. People can change the world by changing themselves. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India more books like this by Vandana Shiva This is a topical analysis of ecology movements in contemporary society and the conflicts generated over vital natural resources. The focus is on the social contradictions emerging in India in the wake of these conflicts and the author takes a Third World perspective to discuss the way in which ecology movements have questioned the dominant ... see all copies from £8.73! new only from £18.17! \| first editions
19 view cover	Biodiversity: Social & Ecological Perspectives more books like this by Vandana Shiva see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.88! \| first editions
20 view cover	Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth about Rain Forest Destruction more books like this by John Vandermeer, Vandana Shiva (Foreword by), Ivette Perfecto The vanishing of the rain forest haunts our imagination, and we urgently need to understand the root causes of a global environmental crisis. In this hardhitting, scrupulously researched book, ecologists Vandermeer and Perfecto look beyond the simplistic, blame-the-victim explanations to show exactly why biodiversity is in such jeopardy around the ... see all copies from £5.54!
21 view cover	Vedic Ecology: Practical Wisdom for Surviving the 21st Century more books like this by Ranchor Prime, W Ranchor Prime, Vandana Shiva (Contributions by) Drawing on India's ancient roots, Ranchor Prime explores the possibility of applying old world knowledge to new world problems. Discover the environmental perspective put forth by the Vedas and how it is being applied by contemporary environmental activists and thinkers today. The author presents his own conclusions about high thinking and ... see all copies from £11.59! new only from £11.59! \| first editions
22	Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide more books like this by Vandana Shiva (Editor) see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.71!
23 view cover	India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack more books like this by Vandana Shiva Shiva, "one of the world's most prominent radical scientists"("Ms. Magazine"), shows the effects of colonialism's creation of the schism between Hinduism and Islam; analyzes globalization's effects on India's resources; and proposes a new ideology called Earth Democracy that restores everyone's right to natural resources. see all copies from £4.10! new only from £4.10!
24	Patents: Myths and Reality more books like this by Vandana Shiva see all copies from £11.78! new only from £17.65!
25	Minding Our Lives: Women from the South & North Reconnected Ecology & Health more books like this by Vandana Shiva (Editor) The contemporary crisis of survival has compelled us to reject the notion of an insular divide between the environment and our bodies. Environmental hazards are health hazards, as demonstrated by Bhopal, Chernobyl, Love Canal and other disasters, and there are also health hazards in food systems. Pesticides pollute fields, and our bodies, while ... see all copies from £11.09! new only from £12.13!

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