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Water Defenders, Broad, Robin


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Автор: Broad, Robin
Название:  Water Defenders
ISBN: 9780807029022
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:
ISBN-10: 0807029025
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 23.03.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 155 x 23
Основная тема: History/Social Science
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award

Named one of The Progressives Favorite Books of 2021 and one of the Best of Books 2021 by Foreign Affairs

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the countrys main water source

At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations--from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras--The Water Defenders tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic victories.

In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water to the majority of Salvadorans was in danger of catastrophic contamination. With a group of unlikely allies, local and global, they committed to stop the corporation and the destruction of their home.

Based on over a decade of research and their own role as international allies of the community groups in El Salvador, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh unspool this untold story--a tale replete with corporate greed, a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, violent threats, murders, and--surprisingly--victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in the lives of the Salvadoran villagers, the journeys of the local activists who sought the truth about the effects of gold mining on the environment, and the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of the corporate mining executives and their lawyers. The Water Defenders demands that we examine our assumptions about progress and prosperity, while providing valuable lessons for those fighting against destructive corporations in the United States and across the world.



Abroad in Japan

Автор: Broad, Chris
Название: Abroad in Japan
ISBN: 1787637077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787637078
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 3140.00 р.
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Описание: John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 - April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. A Unitarian minister, he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity School, and he later became involved in politics as a State Representative and U.S. Congressman. This book, "History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty, Volume 2", by John Gorham Palfrey, is a replication of a book originally published before 1860. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.

Abroad in Japan

Автор: Broad, Chris
Название: Abroad in Japan
ISBN: 1787637085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787637085
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 1979.00 р.
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Interesting insects

Автор: Broad, Gavin Kirk-spriggs, Ashley Telnov, Dmitry H
Название: Interesting insects
ISBN: 056509503X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780565095031
Издательство: Frances Lincoln
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Цена: 1972.00 р.
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Описание: Interesting Insects presents striking and surprisingly photogenic insect portraits, each specially selected from the oldest and most important entomology collection in the world - 34 million specimens held by London`s Natural History Museum.

Автор: Evans Claire L.
Название: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
ISBN: 0593329449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593329443
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 1471.00 р.
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Описание: If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now.

"This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man.

The history of the internet is more than just alpha nerds, brogrammers, and male garage-to-riches billionaires. Female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation.

In fact, women turn up at the very beginning of every important wave in technology. They may have been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize, but they have always been part of the story.

In a world where tech companies are still male-dominated and women are often dissuaded from STEM careers, Broad Band shines a much-needed light on the bright minds history forgot, from pioneering database poets, data wranglers, and hypertext dreamers to glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs.

Get to know Ada Lovelace, who wove the first computer program in 1842, and Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing after World War II. Meet Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, the New York cyberpunk who ran one of the world's earliest social networks out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s.

Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention to become leaders of the tech revolution. This electrifying corrective to tech history introduces us all to our long-overlooked tech mothers and grandmothers--showing us that if there's a "boy's club" that dominates Silicon Valley today, it's an anachronism.

More from less

Автор: Mcafee, Andrew
Название: More from less
ISBN: 1471180360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471180361
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 1582.00 р.
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Описание: The remarkable story of how business has taken us beyond a tipping point where we have passed `peak stuff`, helping us become more prosperous while using fewer raw materials.

Bear Attack in the Smokies

Автор: Grubb Jerry
Название: Bear Attack in the Smokies
ISBN: 1734753617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781734753615
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 3971.00 р.
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Описание:

Memoirs of a former career National Park Ranger, and how he began a career with the National Park Service. This body of work describes many incidents that occurred in his 26 years as a National Park Ranger and how a government bureaucracy impacted this Ranger's life in a job he loved.

This work covers how the National Park Service evolved during his career and focusing on how the park service management dealt with law enforcement issues and including the shooting deaths of three of his close colleagues that were dedicated National Park Rangers. It gives an inside perspective of how a difficult bureaucracy works and identifying mismanagement and rogue law enforcement and management officials in the National Park Service.

Also included in this work is the tragic death of a local schoolteacher killed by a black bear in the Smoky Mountains, where false and misleading information was given to the public, and reveals insights and truths about the investigation, and how and why it was covered up. It identifies the mismanagement of the National Park Service functions in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, including information and negligence regarding the 2016 Wildfires that killed 14 people.

This body of work lays out the facts as they happened. Some are sad, some humorous, and some remarkably interesting. This book will leave you with a new understanding of how the Park Service has steered away from their original mission and how they operate today.

South of Broad

Автор: Conroy Pat
Название: South of Broad
ISBN: 0385344074 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385344074
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1655.00 р.
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Описание: Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina's dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for.
Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.

The Story of Japanese Tea: a broad outline of its cultivation, manufacturing, history and cultural values

Автор: Sōsen Tyas
Название: The Story of Japanese Tea: a broad outline of its cultivation, manufacturing, history and cultural values
ISBN: 1704715679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781704715674
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 3440.00 р.
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Описание: Brings the provocative challenges of environmental law practice into the classroom. The book covers the traditional subject matter of an environmental law course but with an innovative practice-based approach. Each chapter is organized around a series of case study-style problems.

A View from a Broad

Автор: Midler, Bette
Название: A View from a Broad
ISBN: 1476773556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476773551
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Цена: 4023.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Quartet

Автор: Broad, Leah
Название: Quartet
ISBN: 0571366104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571366101
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 2640.00 р.
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Описание: The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. `Fabulous.` Sunday Times `A rare gift.` Financial Times `Passionate ...

Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

Автор: Zizek Slavoj
Название: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism
ISBN: 1609809750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609809751
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1559.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: The latest book from "the most despicable philosopher in the West" (New Republic) considers the new dangers and radical possibilities set in motion by advances in Big Tech.

In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before--and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely.

But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Žižek argues, there can be no great social triumph--because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it.
Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.

The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed

Автор: Broad Robin, Cavanagh John
Название: The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
ISBN: 0807055409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807055403
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 1559.00 р.
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Описание: Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award

Named one of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2021" and one of the "Best of Books 2021" by Foreign Affairs

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country's main water source

At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations--from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras--The Water Defenders tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic victories.

In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water to the majority of Salvadorans was in danger of catastrophic contamination. With a group of unlikely allies, local and global, they committed to stop the corporation and the destruction of their home.

Based on over a decade of research and their own role as international allies of the community groups in El Salvador, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh unspool this untold story--a tale replete with corporate greed, a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, violent threats, murders, and--surprisingly--victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in the lives of the Salvadoran villagers, the journeys of the local activists who sought the truth about the effects of gold mining on the environment, and the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of the corporate mining executives and their lawyers. The Water Defenders demands that we examine our assumptions about progress and prosperity, while providing valuable lessons for those fighting against destructive corporations in the United States and across the world.


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