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Staying Alive (Paperback original)
Women, Ecology and DevelopmentVandana Shiva
Released 2010-11-01
“Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientists . . . in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the oppression of women. It is a scholarly and polemical plea for the rediscovery of the ‘feminine principle’ in human interaction with the natural world, not as a gender-based quality, rather an organizing principle, a way of seeing the world.” —The Guardian
Biopiratería (Paperback original)
El Saqueo de la Naturaleza y del ConocimientoVandana Shiva
Released 2010-08-01
Biopiratería (Biopiracy) charts the impacts of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat. Since the original English-language publication, Shiva has successfully fought to overturn Monsanto’s seed patents and help create a global food movement. Examining the politics of genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, and aquaculture in an increasingly “go green” economy, this classic book will continue to inform our understanding of what sustainability really means.
Soil Not Oil (paperback original)
Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate CrisisVandana Shiva
Released 2008-10-01
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
In Kashmir (Paperback original)
Gender, Militarization, and the Modern Nation-StateSeema Kazi
Released 2011-01-01
Breaking the long silence on one of the most dangerously misunderstood crises of our time, Kazi boldly holds up a mirror in one hand and a warning in the other: The world may continue to ignore Kashmir, but only at our peril.
