"Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing "war on terror" amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears of overpopulation. Making Threats: Biofe ..."
"Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has been the principal domain of citizenship. This volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the current renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging. Just as relations between na ..."
"Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears of overpopulation. Making Threats: Bio ..."
"In his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan wrote the famous words: "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." As predicted by the renowned Canadian media theorist, satellite telecommunications, beginning with the first Sputnik launch in 1957, united humanity under a vast "cosmic membrane." An immense web of waves echo information around the planet, and distance and time are ab ..."
"Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, "Traces on the Rhodian Shore, " first published in 1976, details the ways in which perceptions of the natural environment have profoundly influenced human enterprise over the centuries while, conversely, permitting humans to radically alter the Earth. Although Glacken did not publish a comparable book befor ..."
"Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, "Traces on the Rhodian Shore, " first published in 1976, details the ways in which perceptions of the natural environment have profoundly influenced human enterprise over the centuries while, conversely, permitting humans to radically alter the Earth. Although Glacken did not publish a comparable book befor ..."
"Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of manuscripts each year -- from submission to review to rejection or acceptance -- all while continuing their own scholarly pursuits. Tenure decisions often turn on who has published what in which journals, but editors can accept only a fraction of t ..."
Through a Glass Darkly A Crisis Considered by MichaelWatts Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 1993 by Gracewing, Gb ISBN-13: 978-0-85244-240-1, ISBN: 0-85244-240-8
"A. Slow. But. Deadly. Fuse. Hugh. Craig. This chapter is an attempt to set out the
implications of the decision to ordain women to the priesthood for evangelical
churchfolk, and especially their laity. The first problem is to define an 'evangelical'
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Living Under Contract Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Peter D. Little, MichaelWatts Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-14064-9, ISBN: 0-299-14064-4
"Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. Living Under Contract, however, highlights the dynamic, changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organizing peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops—from flowers to coco ..."
"This comprehensive volume advances heterodox reconstructions of agrarian Marxism on the occasion of Marx's 200th birth anniversary."
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