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The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why
Erik Millstone
University of California Press, 2008
Extremely useful compendium to think deeper about food
Erik and Tim succeed in neatly presenting the extremely complex environment of the food supply chain as well as the substantial misconceptions that society has about food, its entire production and consumption chain as well as its consequences. For anyone even slightly ...
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A Time Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-related Terrorism in an Age of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Michael Richardson
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004
This is a good study of the state of current maritime security affairs.
Terror has broken out on all continents across the world. Inner cities have further decayed. The poor have sunk even deeper. The world's underclass has not risen either socially or materially. How can the ruling group keep the lid on civil unrest?
The controlling ...
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health, Revised and Expanded Edition ...
Marion Nestle
University of California Press, 2007
Amazing
Amazing, well thought out and researched book. I found it to be an interesting book as well. One of the best in the type of genre.
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An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique (Cognitive Neuroscience)
Steven J. Luck
The MIT Press, 2005
Excellent and Enlightening EEG introduction
The text is well written and packed with insightful commentary about EEG research. I think it is a great book for those of us trying to add EEG research to our toolbox of neuroimaging techniques. He is very forthright about his biases, so it seems clear about where ...
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World Development Report 2008: Agriculture and Development (World Development Report) (World Development ...
World Bank
World Bank Publications, 2007
World Bank's View of Agriculture
For those who do not follow this field the World Bank is the main international funder of development projects in the Third World. Every year it produces a kind of annual report on development usually focusing on a certain subject. The World Bank has many fine ...
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Event-Related Potentials: A Methods Handbook (Bradford Books)
The MIT Press, 2004
The study of event-related potentials (ERPs)?signal-averaged EEG recordings that are time-locked to perceptual, cognitive, and motor events?has increased dramatically in recent years, but until now there has been no comprehensive guide to ERP methodology comparable to those available for fMRI techniques. Event-Related Potentials meets the need ...
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Gail A. Eisnitz
Prometheus Books, 2006
Confirming the gross-ness
This book just confirms the other reading I have done on the subject. Read it if you are ready to get the facts and stop ignoring what I like to refer to as the "gross-ness" of the meat and dairy industry (both in terms of the animals' treatment, and the impact for ...
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
Slavoj Zizek
Verso, 2002
a great book
~~~I truly enjoyed this book, which provides great insight while analyzing the current situation of the States. Not "with us or against us," as Bush constantly stated,but we are against them, since both military leaders in the US and Bin Laden's terrorists are ...
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Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies ...
D. G. Webster
The MIT Press, 2008
The rapid expansion of the fishing industry in the last century has raised major concerns over the long-term viability of many fish species. International fisheries organizations have failed to prevent the overfishing of many stocks but succeeded in curtailing harvests for some key fisheries. In Adaptive Governance, D. G. Webster proposes a new ...
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Famine, Conflict and Response: A Basic Guide
Frederick C. Cuny, Richard B. Hill
Kumarian Press, 1999
*A practical guide to underlying causes and immediate, lasting solutions for famine *Explains efficient use of resources in a crisis *Written by a well-known disaster relief practitioner and humanitarian Fred Cuny adopts an economic approach to wartime famine that is still considered innovative and challenging by field experts. His ...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Thorndike Press, 2005
It Is Your Responsibility as a Human Being to Read this Book and Make a Difference in The World
Thomas Friedman brilliantly shows how the forces of globalization have connected the world in ways never possible before. The walls, ceilings, and even floors that once separated people, societies, and countries have been flattened out. Now, a single individual has ...
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Pain Killer: A "Wonder" Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
Barry Meier
Rodale Books, 2003
My son My heart & OXYCONTIN murder
I have recently finished this book & I believe every word. Purdue are murderers & they know it!!! www.oxyabusekills.ca my web site in memory of my son Chad Gregory Gardiner
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The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History
James G. Lewis
Forest History Society, 2006
Great Greatest Good
My Dad grew up in Northern Idaho and the Pacific NW and was in the CCC's and worked for the Forest Service as a young man and then went on to become a Marine and served in the Pacific during WW-2. My childhood was filled with stories of these years and the life my Dad ...
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The Words of Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
Texas A&M University Press, 2002
Beating the odds: A REAL American success story
The story of Cesar Chavez is one of a little guy beating the odds and winning. But it's not a typical American dream, rags-to-riches story. The foe that Chavez beat was systematic racist and economic oppression, and the uphill victory he finally achieved was justice. ...
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Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (Studies in Comparative ...
Gavin Fridell
University of Toronto Press, 2007
Just the Facts Man...
I bought this book and pushed through it in a matter of about a week of free time. The book is mostly facts, heavy facts of the past and present. It is presented in such a way that even those against fair trade would be even more wary of stepping into the moral market ...
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