The result of a remarkable three-year investigation that took journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents, The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant – the world’s leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) – and how its new ‘green’ face is no less malign than its PCB- and Agent Orange-soaked past.

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Robin reports that, following its long history of manufacturing hazardous chemicals and lethal herbicides, Monsanto is now marketing itself as a ‘life sciences’ company, seemingly convinced about the virtues of sustainable development. However, Monsanto now controls the majority of the yield of the world’s genetically modified corn and soy – ingredients found in more than 95 percent of American households – and its alarming legal and political tactics to maintain this monopoly are the subject of worldwide concern. Released to great acclaim and controversy in France, throughout Europe, and in Latin America alongside the documentary film of the same name, The World According to Monsanto will change the way we think about food safety and the corporate control of our food supply.

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‘For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which we filter all subsequent information about it. Yet many of those preconceptions the same ones which, as a child, drew me towards the Arctic are wrong.’ Always lingering at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map, the Arctic has now found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition and the remaking of global trade patterns.

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We travel with him from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay to the shores of Greenland, from the northernmost settlement on earth to the militarised borderlands of northern Norway. And along the way we meet diplomats, spies, businessmen, oil-workers, fishermen, politicians and scientists. The Arctic is coming of age. This engrossing book tells the story of how that is happening and how it might happen through the stories of those who live there, those who study it, and those who will determine its destiny.

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This beautiful illustrated volume is a portfolio of some of Thomas Hamel’s favourite projects offering a breathtaking view of magnificent homes from a harbour-front villa and bayside Italianate residence in Melbourne, to a stylish retreat in Florida and a French farmhouse in Luberon. Chapters are accompanied by a description of the design process used in each transformation.

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Why are increasing numbers of boys suffering body image and self-esteem problems? Why do they feel worthless without the latest branded toy, game or item of clothing? What makes soft drinks, snacks and fast foods so attractive? Why are they drawn to countless acts of violence on TV, in movies and in computer games? What impact does our highly sexualised climate and our emphasis on success and money have on them as they grow? And why are so many boys vulnerable to cyber bullying and to porn?

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Following the success of What’s Happening to Our Girls?, this book investigates a wide range of the challenges boys and young men face as they grow up in the early 21st century. These include things such as increasing pressure on young boys to buy into consumerist culture, their exposure to violent video games, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, the particular risks they face as young drivers, drugs and alcohol, mental health issues, safety on the internet, and bullying. That all sounds terrifying, but as ever, Maggie’s emphasis is on finding solutions. As with the previous book, she talks to a number of boys and their parents and teachers as well as professionals, and compiles a vast amount of evidence from various sources.

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Travel with Charles Emmerson from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay to the shores of Greenland, from the northernmost settlement on earth to the militarised borderlands of northern Norway. And along the way we meet diplomats, spies, businessmen, oil-workers, fishermen, politicians and scientists. The Arctic is coming of age. This engrossing book tells the story of how that is happening and how it might happen through the stories of those who live there, those who study it, and those who will determine its destiny.

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‘What I have to say about this book is very simple: read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important.’ – Barbara Kingsolver, author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

Twenty years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he argues, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already underway. Our old familiar planet is melting, drying, acidifying, flooding and burning in ways humans have never seen. We’ve created a new planet, still recognisable but fundamentally different. Adapting to our new home won’t be easy. It will be expensive – and the natural resources on which our economy is built have been damaged and degraded. Our survival depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back, concentrating on essentials and creating the kinds of communities that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change – fundamental change – will be our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.

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‘Bill McKibben foresaw ‘the end of nature’ very early on, and in this new book he blazes a path to help preserve nature’s greatest treasures.’ – James E. Hansen, director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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We are destroying our natural environment at an increasing pace, and undermining the preconditions of our own existence. This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is rooted in our nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains our ecological predicament by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of humankind’s development, taking over where Darwin left off.

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The theory presented is applied to our seven-million-year history. Due to its extensiveness, its glossary and index, this book functions as a compact encyclop’dia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit many courses in the life and social sciences.

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Once dismissed as the decade of avocado suites, lava lamps and shag-pile carpets, the 1970s are now being enthusiastically mined for trends from the fashion, music, literature and vibe of the time. “70s Style and Design”, unlike other studies devoted to the decade presents the 70s as a vitally important period in the creative arts, which united such defining trends as the Art Deco craze of the 1920s and 1930s and the Pop movement of the 1960s, and continues to influence todays trend-setting taste makers, “70s Style and Design” is sure to inspire everyone from dedicated followers of fashion to even the harshest critics of the decade.

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Hislop and Lutyens have rescued the 1970s from parody, and produced a study that is sensationally illustrated, meticulously researched, and wittily written.

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From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk and Memphis to Tokyo and Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character of each place its people, its art and architecture, its government and explain the reasons for its success. Richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps and plans, this volume is nothing less that a portrait of world civilization.

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With 164 million hectares of forest the sixth largest area of any country in the world and with a geography that includes snow-covered mountains, lush rainforests, harsh deserts and rich tablelands, Australia has a variety of trees matched by few countries on earth. Forests of towering Mountain Ash, Jarrah and Karri populate our southern regions, elephantine Boabs dot the Kimberley region of Western Australia and seemingly transparent Ghost Gums stand in solitary splendour in the Northern Territory. Cattle rub against giant Bottle Trees and Ironbarks in Queensland, and strangler Figs with 40-metre girths thrive in our northern rainforests. Snow Gums and Shining Gums eke out their lives on our icy mountain tops and prehistoric-looking Bunya Pines, which once looked down on the dinosaurs, grow in a few isolated places in the north-east.

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Scattered throughout the country, except in Tasmania, are Australia’s much-loved River Red Gums, and Beeches that took root when the Roman Empire was at its height give us an idea what the Gondwana land mass looked like before it split up 70 million years ago. Meanwhile introduced species from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas Oaks, Elms, Cypresses and the like are doing their best to make a life in the foreign soil of this strange land.

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