The sweeping changes that make a 'full world' work-involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction-will transform global culture, agriculture, and ultimately the human race. Eleven is a call to consciousness. Only an 'ethical...
Moral and ethical aspects
- Author:Hanley, PaulSummary:
- Author:Goodman, Peter S.Summary:
Journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative members of the billionaire class and chronicles how their exploitation of Covid-19 has hastened a fifty-year trend of wealth centralization.
- Author:Frayn, MichaelSummary:
The Tony Award—winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.
In 1941 the German...
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- Author:Gibson, RosemarySummary:
Examination of the manufacturing process and government trade policies related to pharmaceuticals sold in the United States. Uses specific cases to illustrate the differences in regulations, companies' moves to China, and the risks of...
- Author:Bakan, JoelSummary:
In the tradition of Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death, an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby’s life, showing how the mother...
- Author:Bullough, OliverSummary:
This program is read by the author. In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the...
- Author:Mapes, LyndaSummary:
In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest...
- Author:Tucker, RebeccaSummary:
How did farmers' markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole Foods become synonymous with 'good food'? And are these practices really producing food that is morally, environmentally, or...
- Author:Hirsch, Moshe, Kotwal, Ashok, Ramaswami, BharatSummary:
Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn development goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is different from implementing them. A...