[PDF] Lords Of The Harvest eBook

Author : Dan Charles
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0786723769

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Once confined to the research laboratory, the genetic engineering of plants is now a big business that is changing the face of modern agriculture. Giant corporations are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to plants that act as miniature drug factories, churning out everything from vaccines to insulin. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers, more productive agriculture-even an end to world hunger. But the vision has a dark side, one of profit-driven tampering with life and the possible destruction of entire ecosystems. In Lords of the Harvest, Daniel Charles takes us deep inside research labs, farm sheds, and corporate boardrooms to reveal the hidden story behind this agricultural revolution. He tells how a handful of scientists at Monsanto drove biotechnology from the lab into the field, and how the company's opponents are fighting back with every tool available to them, including the cynical manipulation of public fears. A dramatic account of boundless ambition, political intrigue, and the quest for knowledge, Lords of the Harvest is ultimately a story of idealism and of conflicting dreams about the shape of a better world.

Author : T. A. Powell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category :
ISBN : 9780692825716

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While it is not my intention to begin this book with a riddle for levity's sake, it is my intention to ask you to use your intellect from page one. You see, some murders are prompted by basic emotions that render a killer's motivation most obvious. Other murders are committed out of a need to serve a higher purpose such as personal or ideological loyalty, and/or religious martyrdom. But the Columbus Stocking Strangler murders will never rise to the elegance of such, no matter how much the perpetrators of these atrocities might insist. These graphic slayings of seven elderly white women were executed for a series of reasons that for over almost four decades have gone undecipherable and in the end, were simply part of a much larger puzzle that until now has remained hidden.So let us continue with the riddle.What is another word for Thesaurus?Thought provoking, isn't it?For how do you describe something that in essence exists only to describe everything else, but not itself? I think you would agree with me then, that sometimes there simply isn't a better word or group of words to describe a thing other than the words that originally describes it the best. The word harvest is defined as the process of gathering mature crops from the fields, to be used as provisions for a later time. In like token, reaping is the cutting of mature grains or produce for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle or reaper. Thus, you have the reason why the title for this book could be nothing other than:LORDS OF THE HARVEST--A TRUE CRIME INVESTIGATIVE MEMOIR.This investigative memoir begins with my introduction to the murders in Columbus, Georgia in 1977, where the word harvest took on another meaning and the tools that were used to harvest these 'matured' victims will not only shock you...but lead you to other horrors, once shrouded in mystery and considered as stand-alone or disconnected serial murders, until my discovery of the key that unlocks them all.

Author : Brian Lander
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 030025508X

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A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China's political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data This book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China's early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China's agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states in ancient China, and elsewhere, was based on their ability to exploit the labor and resources of those who harnessed photosynthetic energy from domesticated plants and animals. Focusing on the state of Qin, Lander amalgamates abundant new scientific, archaeological, and excavated documentary sources to argue that the human domination of the central Yellow River region, and the rest of the planet, was made possible by the development of complex political structures that managed and expanded agroecosystems.

Author : Calestous Juma
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190237236

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African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.

Author : M. Betham-Edwards
Publisher : Isis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2002-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780753164839

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Elisha Sage is chosen each year to be Lord of the Harvest, with absolute authority for the duration of the reaping. But he is about to suffer a fall from grace. At the top of the social ladder is Captain de Medue, the absentee landlord, who wields his manipulating power from afar, granting leases on a whim...