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Radical Brewing takes a hip and creative look at beer brewing, presented with a graphically appealing two-color layout..
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Written by respected professors of botany and pharmaceutical biology, this is the definitive account of plants and mushrooms used for poison darts, traditional medicine, ceremonial and spiritual purposes, and recreational drugs. Hazardous plants are commonly used as garden ornamentals, potted plants, or florist flowers, yet many people are unaware of the dangers posed by the toxins derived from them. In addition to exploring plants that are ingested, the authors also treat plants that cause irritation and inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes. A special focus is given to psychoactive plants, which can have stimulant, sedative, hypnotic, narcotic, or hallucinogenic properties. These include coca, opium, cannabis, and scopolamine. Mind-Altering and Poisonous Plants of the World is a must for gardeners, farmers, veterinarians, botanists, pharmacists, chemists, doctors, and poison control centers.

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The leader of the free world needs a woman head of state—but a particular woman—with the intellect and presence of mind to ponder action with an eye on the future; a human-centeredness capable of respecting difference and envisioning peaceful cooperation and coexistence with and among nations; a woman unconcerned with showing how tough she is, or how religious she is, or how fashion-setting her wardrobe.

Many of the names and the stories you’ll read in Women’s Work and Words will be unfamiliar—Rachel Corrie, Anna Politkovskaya, Claudette Colvin, and Wangari Maathai. Others—such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alice Walker, Shirley Chisholm, and Madonna—have reached deep into the human consciousness.

All of these women share a spiritual bond. They struggle. They struggle for peace, justice, and a better world. Each has had the courage to challenge the politics of spin and the inhumanity of men and to work for change. Through this stunning medley of profiles, author Carolyn LaDelle Bennett argues that war and conflicts worldwide will end only when human-centered, independent voices—unbought and unbossed—take the helm of governments and political decision-making.

Adapted from Bennett’s news and current affairs columns, this book illuminates true and deeply thoughtful voices on the critical issues of our time.

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Why environmentalists should be concerned: humans have dangerously destabilized the Earth's ecological system. If we now begin altering our evolved interdependence with nature, we will only accelerate the destabilization. (Environmentalists).
Author: Bill McKibben
Publication:World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: 15 Issue: 4 Page: 40(4)

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 713 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Hormone-altering chemicals in everyday products.(endocrine-disrupting chemicals)
Author: Paul W. McRandle
Publication:World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 20 Issue: 2 Page: 5(1)

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on January 1, 1998. The length of the article is 703 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Government officials throughout Europe are dealing with a serious problem involving the illegal trade in ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that destroy the Earth's atmosphere. While laws have banned the entry of new CFCs into Europe from abroad, they do not apply to used or recycled CFCs or to new CFCs destined for developing country. Unscrupulous brokers have exploited this law to trade cheap CFCs made in China, India or Mexico.

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Title: Europe's illegal trade in ozone-altering substances. (atmosphere-destroying chlorofluorocarbons)(Environmental Intelligence)
Author: Molly O'Meara
Publication:World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1998
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: v11 Issue: n1 Page: p6(2)

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Focusing on the six year period after the protests at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 1999 Seattle Millennium Ministerial Conference, the book offers a unique analysis of the impact of the alter-globalization movements on the policies and process of the WTO. The emergence of the protest movements labelled the 'anti-globalization movement' can be described as a Coxian counter-hegemonic structure. The alter-globalization movements, however, can be seen as distinct, because they demand reforming, rather than tearing down, the WTO. This book identifies and evaluates three strategies employed by the alter-globalisation movements to place their alternative values at the heart of the WTO agenda: demonstrations on the street; assisting developing states during negotiations; and submitting amicus briefs to the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB).Drawing on Cox's interpretation of trasformismo as central to 'passive revolution', Paterson demonstrates how cooptation and distortion are recognized as essential policies for defending hegemonic interest at the WTO. Using a wide number of primary and secondary sources, the obstacles presented by the WTO's policy of trasformismo are analysed in detail: political elites coopting the alter-globalization movement's principles into their own rhetoric; the cooption of 'Alter-NGOs' by political elites from the developing world, and the cooption of 'Alter-NGOs' and rejection of real influence by the WTO. Informing us of the problems and obstacles faced by social movements and NGOs currently attempting to reform world order, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, international relations, economics, sociology and development studies..
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