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Food by Jennifer Clapp
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Resources Series
Food is one of the most basic resources that humans need for daily survival. Forty percent of the world's population gains a livelihood from agriculture and we all consume food. Yet control over this fundamental resource is concentrated in relatively few hands. The 2008 food price crisis illustrated bot ...Show more
Food by Jennifer Clapp
$31.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: PRS - Polity Resources series
We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world's population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy over the past decade - including the food price crisis, intensification of land grabs, and ...Show more
Gore Vidal's America by Dennis Altman
$41.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Celebrities Series
Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty years. He is both a serious writer and a televisi ...Show more
Land by Derek Hall
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Resources Series
Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to t ...Show more
Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation by Zygmunt Bauman
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Conversations Series
'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public plac ...Show more
Oil by Gavin Bridge
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Polity Resources Series
Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices ...Show more
Prador Moon by Neal Asher
$21.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Novel of the Polity
The Polity Collective, which benignly rules numerous star systems, has come up against a chilling opponent. The crablike Prador are bloodthirsty aliens bent on crushing the Polity and stealing its runcible technology...and they possess a frightening superiority in space warfare. Two wild-card humans, a ...Show more
Shadow of the Scorpion (Polity #3) by Neal Asher
$21.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Polity
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't remember. In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Cent ...Show more
Timber by Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister
$27.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: PRS - Polity Resources Series
Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, the disposable diapers for our babies and the boxes that contain our cereal, detergent and new appliances. The way we produce and consume timber, however, ...Show more
Water by David Lewis Feldman
$26.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Polity Resources Series
Water is our planet's most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world's population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles ...Show more
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