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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of coloniali...

This book is an authoritative but uniquely accessible and highly illustrated guide to good acoustic design practice for architects, interior designers and acoustic professionals. It provides a user-friendly introduction to architectural acoustics and acoustics technology where the market is crowded with dense and technical texts.

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Ogni volta che compriamo una banana, il 45% di ciò che paghiamo va al rivenditore, il 18% all'importatore, il 19% è assorbito dai costi di trasporto, mentre alla compagnia che controlla la piantagione spetta circa il 15%. Al contadino resta meno del 3%. Evidentemente, c'è qualcosa che non va in un modello così iniquo di distribuzione, che non riguarda peraltro solo i beni alimentari. Il prezzo da noi pagato per ogni cosa, dal cibo ai beni di c...

Wir sind in einem Zeitalter angekommen, in dem der Mensch verschwinden könnte - und mit ihm die Welt, die er so gnadenlos ausbeutet. Denn was ist heute für uns nicht billig und schnell zu haben - auf Kosten der vielen Menschen, die weniger privilegiert sind als wir? Wir ruinieren unsere Erde, wenn wir nicht schleunigst kooperative Wege des Zusammenlebens und Wirtschaftens finden und den westlichen Raubtierkapitalismus bändigen. Das ist die Bot...

A revised new edition that reveals the hidden complexities and terrifying simplicities of a planet squeezing itself dry in order to make half its citizens obese and the other half malnourished. 'A magisterial account of the global food system' "Independent

Melt-In-mouth (MIM) technology is an innovative technology, which allows tablet to disintegrate rapidly, usually in a matter of seconds, without the need for water, providing optimal convenience to the patient. Topiramate is antiepileptic drug prescribed extensively for the patient of partial onset seizures, or primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures in both children and adults, is extremely bitter resulting in poor patient compliance. Recen...

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¿Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.¿Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic, the gears of the world economy have ground to a halt.Yet despite its failures, the same market-driven ideas are being applied to everything from famine to climate change. We need to ask again one of the most fundamental questions a society ever addresses: why do things cost what they do? Radical, original, nimbly argued, The Valu...

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This Indian book, a Festschrift in honour of Alice Thorner, consists of thirty-one essays by prominent social scientists in India, Europe and the U.S.

Oral route of drug delivery system has become ever more important as pharmaceutical scientists acquire a better understanding of physio-chemical and biological aspects related to their performances. Matrix and sustained release formulations have further added new realms in conventional drug delivery. Emerging megaloporous inert matrix system can be viewed principally as a single-unit device that comprises two phases, which operate together to ...

Circa un miliardo di persone nel mondo è denutrito. Un altro miliardo è obeso. Quasi metà della popolazione mondiale vive quotidianamente il problema di un'alimentazione insufficiente. L'altra metà soffre dei tipici problemi legati a un'alimentazione sovrabbondante e alle disfunzioni che ne derivano: diabete, eccesso di peso, problemi cardiocircolatori. È un paradosso? Solo apparente, argomenta Raj Patel, perché questo stato di cose è l'inevit...

A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineOpening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing, " Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks...

Revised and Expanded Edition"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable." -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's DilemmaIt's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight. To find out...

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