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The Vandana Shiva Reader

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146992
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Vandana Shiva Reader written by Vandana Shiva and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity."—Wendell Berry, from the foreword Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty. In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration. This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.

The Vandana Shiva Reader

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146984
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Vandana Shiva Reader written by Vandana Shiva and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings—with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry. Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential environmental and anti-globalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty. In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. This essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration. This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.

Staying Alive

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623170516
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Staying Alive written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.

Oneness vs. the 1%

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645020401
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Oneness vs. the 1% written by Vandana Shiva and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new epilogue about Bill Gates’s global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires’ war on life “This is what globalization looks like: Opportunism. Exploitation. Further centralization of power. Further disempowerment of ordinary people. . . . Vandana Shiva is an expert whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.”—Russell Brand Widespread poverty, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet―and all its people―to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaire dictators of Gates, Buffet, and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires like Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control―over finance, food, energy, information, healthcare, and even relationships. Basing her analysis on explosive facts, Shiva exposes the 1%’s model of philanthrocapitalism, which is about deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarian ideas based on One Science, One Agriculture, and One History. Instead, Shiva calls for the resurgence of: Real knowledge Real intelligence Real wealth Real work Real well-being With these core goals, people can reclaim their right to: Live Free. Think Free. Breathe Free. Eat Free.

Stolen Harvest

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166799
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Stolen Harvest written by Vandana Shiva and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an incredible diversity of plants that provide life-sustaining nutrition. In India alone, the ingenuity of farmers has produced over 200,000 varieties of rice, many of which now line store shelves around the world. This productive tradition, however, is under attack as globalized, corporate regimes increasingly exploit intellectual property laws to annex these sustaining seeds and remove them from the public sphere. In Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Shiva explores the devastating effects of commercial agriculture and genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who grow it, and the soil that sustains it. This prescient critique and call to action covers some of the most pressing topics of this ongoing dialogue, from the destruction of local food cultures and the privatization of plant life, to unsustainable industrial fish farming and safety concerns about corporately engineered foods. The preeminent agricultural activist and scientist of a generation, Shiva implores the farmers and consumers of the world to make a united stand against the genetically modified crops and untenable farming practices that endanger the seeds and plants that give us life.

The Violence of the Green Revolution

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166810
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Violence of the Green Revolution written by Vandana Shiva and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating effects of monoculture and commercial agriculture and revealing the nuanced relationship between ecological destruction and poverty. In this classic work, the influential activist and scholar also looks to the future as she examines new developments in gene technology.

Vandana Shiva

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775730419
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Vandana Shiva written by Vandana Shiva and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die indische Physikerin und Aktivistin Vandana Shiva (*1952) legt anhand nüchtern präsentierter Fakten dar, wie Konzerne die Kontrolle über unser Leben erlangen. Die Patentierung von Leben – von Bakterien über Pflanzen bis hin zu Klontieren mit bestimmten genetischen Eigenschaften – führt zu seiner Verdinglichung und Kommerzialisierung. Ein Abkommen der Welthandelsorganisation erlaubt es Konzernen auf alles nur Erdenkliche Patente anzumelden. Eine der Folgen ist Biopiraterie, die Reklamierung teils uralter traditioneller Verwendungen und Züchtungen von Pflanzen als eigene »Erfindung«, wie Shiva anhand der Beispiele des Niembaumes und des Basmatireises zeigt. Die Monopolisierung von Saatgut hat in weiten Teilen Indiens die Bauern in die Abhängigkeit der Konzerne gezwungen und ihnen die Lebensgrundlage entzogen. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

GO TO CLAT Guide with Passage based Questions

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9389645328
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book GO TO CLAT Guide with Passage based Questions written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

GO TO Guide for CLAT & other Law Admission Tests with Passage based Questions 3rd Edition

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9391551874
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book GO TO Guide for CLAT & other Law Admission Tests with Passage based Questions 3rd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GO TO Guide for CLAT & other Law Admission Tests with latest-pattern Passage based Questions, as the name suggests, is a One Stop Solution for all your requirements for all the Law Admission Tests - CLAT, AILET, SLAT etc. The new edition is now empowered with 2021 CLAT & AILET Papers. The DISTINCT and MOST VALUABLE feature of the book comprises newly created passage based questions on General Knowledge, Logical Reasoning (Puzzles, Problem Solving), Elementary Mathematics (Data Interpretation & Data Analysis) exactly in the LATEST pattern of CLAT which will not be found in any other book till date. The book also covers the Passage- based Questions in the various sections as per the latest pattern of CLAT. The book covers different sections of the exams divided into more than 50 chapters - Legal Aptitude (8 chapters), English Language (10 chapters), Logical Reasoning (16 chapters), Elementary Mathematics (15 chapters) & General Knowledge (5 chapters). A separate section - Indian Constitution and Polity – divided into 10 chapters has been provided in the book to help aspirants master the topic. Special emphasis has been laid on this section for the purpose of building the aspirants’ basic foundation for the Legal Aptitude section. It will help the aspirants understand every legal aspect, implication and relevance of Indian Constitution and Polity, so that cracking the Legal Aptitude section of CLAT becomes a cakewalk for them. The book covers Previous Years’ Questions of CLAT as well as AILET from 2015 - 2021 in the respective chapters of the different sections. A large number of questions for extensive practice have been given under every chapter with the solutions provided at the end of the chapter. In all the book contains 3300+ MCQs.

Monocultures of the Mind

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781856492188
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Monocultures of the Mind written by Vandana Shiva and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.

Bhāvanā Vandana

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bhāvanā Vandana written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

General Reasoning Ability for Competitive Exams - SSC/ Banking/ NRA CET/ CUET/ Defence/ Railway/ Insurance - 2nd Edition

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
ISBN 13 : 9355643217
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book General Reasoning Ability for Competitive Exams - SSC/ Banking/ NRA CET/ CUET/ Defence/ Railway/ Insurance - 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated 2nd Edition of the book General Reasoning Ability for Competitive Exams - SSC/ Banking/ Defence/ Railway/ Insurance contains specific topics in Reasoning Ability powered with video course;which form a part of most of the Competitive Exams - SSC, Banking, Railway, defence, Insurance and other Exams. # The book contains the exhaustive theory with examples and also covers shortcut tricks with examples in all the chapters followed by an exercise with detailed solutions. # The book covers a lot of questions from the past competitive exams. All latest exam questions till 2022 have been included in the book. # The book provides 3000+ MCQs for Practice # This book mainly focuses - High level questions of Problem Solving, Seating Arrangement, Coding & Decoding, Syllogism, Input Output, Logical and Critical Reasoning according to pattern (2018-2021) IBPS, SBI and SSC Exams. # The book is a must for all SSC/ Banking/ Railways/ defense/ Insurance and other exam aspirants.

Ambiguity Machines

Author : Vandana Singh
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618731424
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity Machines written by Vandana Singh and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip K. Dick Award finalist Praise for Vandana Singh: “A most promising and original young writer.”—Ursula K. Le Guin “Lovely! What a pleasure this book is . . . full of warmth, compassion, affection, high comedy and low.”—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses “Vandana Singh’s radiant protagonist is a planet unto herself.”—Village Voice “Sweeping starscapes and daring cosmology that make Singh a worthy heir to Cordwainer Smith and Arthur C. Clarke.”—Chris Moriarty, Fantasy & Science Fiction “I’m looking forward to the collection . . . everything I’ve read has impressed me—the past and future visions in ‘Delhi’, the intensity of ‘Thirst’, the feeling of escape at the end of ‘The Tetrahedron’...” —Niall Harrison, Vector (British Science Fiction Association) “...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF world ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange.” —Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh’s deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is as an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. In "Requiem," a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt’s disappearance. Singh's stories have been performed on BBC radio, been finalists for the British SF Association award, selected for the Tiptree award honor list, and oft reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies. Her dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within and with her unblinking clear vision she explores the ways we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.

Who Really Feeds the World?

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 162317063X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Who Really Feeds the World? written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful manifesto calling for agricultural justice and genuine sustainability, drawing upon Shiva’s thirty years of research and accomplishments in the field. Instead of relying on genetic modification and large-scale monocropping to solve the world’s food crisis, she proposes that we look to agroecology—the knowledge of the interconnectedness that creates food—as a truly life-giving alternative to the industrial paradigm. Shiva succinctly and eloquently lays out the networks of people and processes that feed the world, exploring issues of diversity, the needs of small famers, the importance of seed saving, the movement toward localization, and the role of women in producing the world's food.

India Divided

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802438
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book India Divided written by Vandana Shiva and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT centers of Bangalore to the villages of Uttar Pradesh, from the massacre at Gujarat and the popular emergence of Hindutva's narrow communalism to the decades-old battle for Kashmir, India Divided reveals a convergence of globalization and terrorism. Looking to the plights of India's Dalit communities and millions of poor subsistence farmers impoverished or displaced by biotechnology, seed patents, and the spate of mega-dam projects, Shiva argues that these silent killers form a local terror unmatched in devastation. In India Divided Shiva addresses India’s most urgent threats with gravity and hope.

Younguncle Comes to Town

Author : Vandana Singh
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9788186706961
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Younguncle Comes to Town written by Vandana Singh and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Small, Sleepy Town In Northern India, Three Children Gaze Out Onto A Rain-Drenched Street, Waiting For A Most Unusual Guest. Their Father S Younger Brother Is Coming To Stay. Who Is Younguncle? What S His Real Name? Was He Really, Truly Kidnapped By Monkeys When He Was Little? Can He Really Make A Noise Like A Sewing Machine? Will He Ever (Heaven Forbid!) Settle Down And Get Married? When He Finally Arrives, Sarita, Ravi And The Baby Know Instantly That Their Lives Will Never Be The Same Again. Meet India S Newest And Most Engaging Literary Creation, As He Outwits The Local Hoodlums, Rescues The Town S Finest Milk-Cow, Evades The Baby S Schemes To Eat His Shirts, Flummoxes Unwanted In-Laws, Plucks The Hair From A Sleeping Tiger S Tail, And Generally Turns The World Upside-Down.

The Ex-Files

Author : Vandana Shah
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351188566
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Ex-Files written by Vandana Shah and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of one woman’s journey through divorce The Ex-Files is the story of a woman, who despite her best efforts to save her marriage, found herself facing a divorce petition. But instead of wallowing in self-pity, Vandana Shah picked up the pieces of her shattered life and moved straight on. She not only found a job and became a community leader, she also started India’s first divorce support group. While being true to both the pain and challenges of divorce, Vandana’s personal stories reveal the hardships and joys of moving through emotional upheaval and emerging stronger with your positive thinking and humour intact. The book also deals with the legal and social aspects of a divorce which are so often overlooked. At once funny, tragic and uncompromisingly honest, this memoir will resonate with anyone who has endured the end of a marriage and come out changed.