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Brand: Cabi Publishing
This book offers a wide, in-depth study of the gender-climate change-agriculture nexus. Despite more than 40 years of research exploring this nexus, there is still ambiguity around the foundations, connections, and approaches for planning gender-inc..
108.03£
Brand: Beacon Press
This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's table, "[blending] a passion for sustainable living with compassion for the poor" (Dr. Jane Goodall) In Closing the Food Gap, food acti..
20.40£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tou..
18.66£
Brand: Random House
'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done' Express on SundayThe Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based ..
14.60£
Brand: Beacon Press
In the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court's veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to uphold. Code of Silence tells the story of federal court employee Cathy ..
20.72£
Most young people in Uganda involved in the coffee value chain are casual laborers with low pay. To enhance their employment, the study suggests developing by-laws to enable access to land and supporting small businesses through revolving funds. ISB..
91.10£
For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories shared by communities. As technologies and methodologies have advanced, the ..
50.30£
Brand: University of Toronto Press
Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. Si..
34.86£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Commodifying Seniors is an East-West perspective on seniors. The writing emphasizes different lenses and different perceptions of seniors and caregivers in a conversational and experiential format. Issues are presented and solutions sought. The idea..
16.69£
Brand: Unicorn Publishing Group
Commodore the Inside Story contains David's personal stories and experiences gathered from over a decade at the company in senior positions all over the globe. It also gather insights from other senior management and engineering employees, suppli..
41.67£
Brand: Polity Press
When we talk about media and the economy, 'the economy' is usually understood as the macro economy or GDP, while 'the media' usually refers to television and print news, or the digital output of mainstream news providers. But communication about mon..
25.10£
At the beginning of the 21st century the three most important concerns in the developed nations are remarkably convergent - unemployment, the environment and community breakdown. As emerging technologies and booming birth rates promise to keep unemp..
22.34£
Community in Urban-Rural Systems Theory, Planning, and Development - Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics
Brand: Lexington Books
Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban-rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban-rural systems, Fulkerson walks th..
99.94£
Brand: Rutgers University Press
The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The..
56.65£
Brand: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Where did the Coronavirus outbreak originate and was the pandemic predicted? Did aliens help to build the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, and what were they trying to tell us? Is the food industry colluding to make us addicted to sugar? Prepar..
12.66£
Brand: University of Michigan Press
Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique argues that conspiracy theories, including those that conflict with official accounts and suggest that prominent people in Western democracies have engaged in appalling behavior, should be..
136.20£
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and views of the previous day, we're consuming and produci..
18.00£
Brand: Peter Lang
Dan Ben-Amos famously ushered in the performance turn in folklore studies in the 1970s with his paradigm-changing definition of folklore as "artistic communication in small groups." He went on to make profound contributions to issues of folktale, fo..
90.08£
Brand: Polity Press
As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested. Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce re..
28.57£
Multi-award-winning scientific futurist Dr. Catherine Ball presents insights into how technology and science are providing answers to many of the challenges the world is facing today-food shortages, war and conflict, the decline in local manufacturi..
20.46£
Besides being one of America's most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, t..
30.14£
Arriving in New York at the tail end of what has been termed the "Golden Age" of Broadway and the start of the Off Broadway theater movement, Terrence McNally (1938-2020) first established himself as a dramatist of the absurd and a biting social cri..
28.37£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Celebrity chef Stuart O'Keeffe and comedian Amy Phillips razz the Real Housewives in this gorgeous cookbook filled with recipes inspired by iconic moments in the franchise's rich history. With a foreword by Andy Cohen."Cook It, Spill It, Throw It is..
25.67£
In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed..
26.37£