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With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.

Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm: their greater productivity, their greater potential for social justice as they put more resources into the hands of the poor, and the biodiversity that is inherent to the traditional farming practiced in small-scale agriculture. What we need most in a time of changing climates and millions hungry, she argues, is sustainable, biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease, drought, and flood. In her trademark style, she draws solutions to our world's most pressing problems on the head of a pin: "The solution to climate change," she observes, "and the solution to poverty are the same."

Using Shiva's organization Navdanya-praised by Barbara Kingsolver as "a small, green Eden framed against the startling blue backdrop of the Himalayas"-as a model, Soil Not Oil lays out principles for feeding the planet that are socially just and environmentally sound. Shiva then expands her analysis to broader issues of globalization and climate change, arguing that a healthy environment and a just world go hand in hand. Unwavering and truly visionary, Soil Not Oil proposes a solution based on self-organization, sustainability, and community rather than corporate power and profits.

A world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva is the author of many books, including Earth Democracy, Water Wars, and Staying Alive. She is the editor of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed.

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In the early 1970s, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens promised Cordova fishermen "not one drop" of oil would be spilled in Prince William Sound from proposed tanker traffic and the trans-Alaska pipeline project. Fishermen knew better. Spanning nearly 40 years, Not One Drop is an extraordinary tale of ordinary people who take on the world’s richest oil companies and most powerful politicians to protect Prince William Sound from oil accidents.

Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon "fisherma'am" and PhD marine biologist, describes the firsthand impact of this broken promise when the Exxon Valdez oil spill decimated Cordova, Alaska, a small commercial fishing community set in 38,000 square miles of rugged Alaska wilderness.

Ott illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry'’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that led to the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community for the next 10 years. In vivid detail, she describes the human trauma coupled inextricably with that of the Sound's wildlife and its struggle to recover.

Contrasting hard-won spill prevention and response measures in the Sound to dangerous conditions on the trans-Alaska pipeline, Ott critically examines shifts in scientific understanding of oil spill effects on communities and ecosystems, exposing fundamental flaws in governance and the legal system. Her varied background, professional training, and activist heart lead readers confidently and clearly through the maze of laws, back-story, and government red tape as large as that of the five billion dollar lawsuit itself, instilling a new-found sense of understanding of this environmental tragedy..
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A look at the fortunes and misfortunes of the Wyatt/Sakowitz family describes how the heir to a department store fortune sued his rich uncle and began a family feud that involved murder, drugs, adultery, and divorce. 65,000 first printing. $65,000 ad/promo..
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This digital document is an article from Arena Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1902 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: Oil-slicked diplomacy: China's quest for energy resources, whatever the human rights cost, is taking it where western nations will not go.(China)
Author: James Clasper
Publication:Arena Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 78 Page: 41(2)

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This digital document is an article from Business Perspectives, published by University of Memphis on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1594 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: To drill or not to drill.(oil well drilling environmental and economic prespective)
Author: Lamar Alexander
Publication:Business Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: University of Memphis
Volume: 17 Issue: 1 Page: 12(2)

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This digital document is an article from WWP- Report on Oil Gas & Petrochemicals in the Developing World, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1078 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: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD FOR PLANNED 5,000 TON PER DAY METHANOL PLANT, LURGI AG [GERMANY] - Order #: 0382200.(Brief Article)
Publication:WWP- Report on Oil Gas & Petrochemicals in the Developing World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Worldwide Projects, Inc.
Volume: 9 Issue: 3 Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin (Northwest Public Power Association), published by Northwest Public Power Association on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1231 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: Congress Not Likely to Pass Restructuring or Nuclear Waste Bills this Session.
Author: Deborah Sliz
Publication:Bulletin (Northwest Public Power Association) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Northwest Public Power Association
Volume: 54 Issue: 3 Page: 20

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This digital document is an article from APS Review Gas Market Trends, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on September 3, 2001. The length of the article is 1619 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: QATAR - The North Field.
Publication:APS Review Gas Market Trends (Newsletter)
Date: September 3, 2001
Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
Volume: 57 Issue: 10 Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Chemical News, published by Chemical Institute of Canada on February 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2683 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: Thermal Cracking of Used Oil to Produce Distillate Gasoil: A Process Overview.
Author: Don Kress
Publication:Canadian Chemical News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2000
Publisher: Chemical Institute of Canada
Volume: 52 Issue: 2 Page: 29

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This digital document is an article from WWP-Report on Mining, Metal Making and Conversion, published by Worldwide Projects, Inc. on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1247 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: INDONESIA: CONSTRUCTION START-UP ON PLANNED $163,000,000 NICKEL REFINERY AND ASSOCIATED $50,000,000 POWER PLANT IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO BEGIN IN JUNE 2001, TESSAG AG [GERMANY] & NATION ENERGY INC. [CANADA] - Order #: 014001.(International Pages)
Publication:WWP-Report on Mining, Metal Making and Conversion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Worldwide Projects, Inc.
Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Page: NA

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