Tarım konusunda çalışan Marksist sosyal bilimcilerden Henry Bernstein bu kitabında, tarımsal değişimi ekonomi politik bir yaklaşımla inceliyor. Değişik kapitalizm modellerinde köylülüğün farklı dönüşüm süreçlerini ele alıyor. Sömürgeciliğin Latin Amerika, Asya ve Afrika'da tarımı, toprak-insan ilişkilerini nasıl dönüştürdüğünü ortaya koyuyor.yüzyılda dünya çapında uygulanan farklı tarım politikalarını sergiledikten sonra neoliberal küreselleşmenin tarımsal üreticil...

Wasteful over-consumption (by some) in the developed countries and the continuing, in some cases worsening, hunger of millions in the Third World is a dramatic indication that food problems are urgent.Anger is not enough and this book, which comes from the research group on Development Policy and Practice in the Open University (DPP), aims to provide some of the analytical tools needed for serious action. Case studies to show ways in which food aid has been used by donor countries ...

Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and r...

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio BanderasA two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of do...

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to c...

Ein Toter am Strand. Schwarze "Bernsteinbrocken". Und ein Meer, das mehr verbirgt, als allen lieb ist. Als nach einem Sturm die Leiche eines deutschen Chemie-Ingenieurs am Strand von Fanø gefunden wird, wirkt zunächst alles wie ein tragischer Badeunfall. Doch in seiner Stofftasche steckt etwas, das dort nicht sein dürfte: dunkle, klebrige Klumpen, die nur auf den ersten Blick wie Bernstein aussehen. Kommissar Mikkel Holm spürt, dass hier jemand sehr gezielt Spuren verwischen will. Zur selb...

The New York Times BestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high schoo...

Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four, their Jewish heritage was electrified by...

An action-packed and hilarious picture book about a family of chickens with one member who is a little different from the rest.Edna the very first chicken is hatching her very first eggs!With long, sharp teeth and claws, one of her chicks, Sinclair, is an unusual chicken. But when Gorgosaurus threatens his family, Sinclair might just prove to be the best chicken ever.Heartfelt and humorous, this delightful picture book celebrates dinosaurs, chickens...

This is the first collection of its kind. It presents a critical political economy of the agrarian question in post-apartheid South Africa, informed by the results of research undertaken since the transition from apartheid started in 1990. The articles, by well-known South African, British and American scholars, cover a variety of topical theoretical, empirical and policy issues, firmly rooted in an historical perspective.

This collection celebrates T.J. Byres' seminal contributions to the political economy of the agrarian question. Uniting the various themes is the demonstration of the continuing relevance of a critical, historical and comparative materialist analysis of agrarian question.

While kids scrawl notes to Santa Claus, hatchlings write to Santa Claws. They ask for treats to fuel their romping. Santa better get to stomping!With bouncy, delightful rhymes, Santa Claws celebrates Christmas in the Cretaceous world. Every year, Santa Claws delivers presents, spreading cheer wherever he goes. Every dino in the land gets into the Christmas spirit: Boneheads make toys, Gallimimus trims the Christmas tree, and Tiny T-Rex makes sure Santa doe...