Resistance Is Fertile

Author : Wilhelm Peekhaus
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780774823104

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"For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media have extolled the virtues of biotechnology. Their dominant message -- that biotechnology can improve everything from our health and diet to our environment and economy -- is unmistakably celebratory. We hear about biotechnology's power to reverse environmental degradation, help medical researchers identify disease genes, and increase industrial efficiency, output, and jobs. Government and industry rarely tell us about biotechnology's negative side effects. Not only are genetically engineered crops still failing to deliver consistently higher yields; there is also mounting evidence that genetically engineered organisms come with a host of safety and environmental risks. Focusing on agriculture, Resistance Is Fertile challenges the dominant rhetoric surrounding biotechnology by offering a critical analysis of the role of capital and the state in the development of this technoscience. In particular, Wilhelm Peekhaus analyzes the major issues around which opponents of agricultural biotechnology in Canada are mobilizing -- namely, the enclosure of the biological commons and the knowledge commons, which together form the BioCommons. What emerges is an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of topics such as Canada's regulatory regime, the corporate control of seeds, the intellectual property system, and attempts to construct and control public discussions about agricultural biotechnology." -- Publisher's description.

Author : Michael Howell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780557345229

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Young people need protection from technology. Creating a more human future is a fertile, not futile exercise. We can decide what the world should be like.

Author : Desmond Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Benicia (Calif.)
ISBN : 1727671791

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Resistance Is Fertile! by Desmond Rutherford Pdf

Desmond Rutherford's "Resistance is Fertile!" provides hope in an era of uncertainty. The role of poetry is to dip into the well that keeps truth relevant, especially when language and truth are distorted daily. This collection of poems follows a long tradition of poetry that emerges when social and political climates become toxic. We seek the language of hope and the power that comes from resistance.

Author : Oso Sabio
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1291838775

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A collection of political poetry. The poems in this book speak about the social and economic conditions in today's world (and yesterday?s). They are dedicated to the exploited of our planet and to those who seek to free themselves (and/or others) from mental, physical, or spiritual slavery. Culture? ought to free our minds and get us to take a look around us. This is the purpose of Resistance Is Fertile. Through independent, critical reflection, cooperation, and mutual respect, I am convinced we can end the exploitation of the Many at the hands of the Few and create a more just, dignified future for both people and the world in which we live.

Author : Margaret Walters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805102

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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret Walters Pdf

This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.

Author : Jani White
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781783019137

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Fertile Fizz by Jani White Pdf

Today, one in four of us trying for a baby will encounter difficulties, so there could be no better time for The Fertile Fizz. Essentially, a very sexy biology lesson, this ground-breaking book by Jani White, the UK's leading fertility expert in integrative medicine, teaches us that in order to conceive we need to embrace the fizz in our relationships.Offering sound advice and warm wisdom about the unspoken side of procreation, Jani delivers powerful and practical ways to approach these highly emotive issues, with her characteristic honesty and charm.Beautiful erotic illustrations by Carolyn Weltman and sensual poetry by Rebecca Deacon combine with Jani's expert advice to get you back in the mood and take the tension out of trying to conceive.

Author : Jeremy Groll,Lorie Groll
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781416589808

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Fertility Foods by Jeremy Groll,Lorie Groll Pdf

Dr. Jeremy Groll is an expert in reproductive endocrinology and fertility treatment. Fertility Foods presents his groundbreaking, noninvasive, nutritionally based method, which increases ovulation, reduces miscarriage, and significantly improves your chances of successfully getting and staying pregnant. Dr. Groll's specialized research has proven that there is a powerful link between a body's insulin resistance and fertility problems. Resistance to insulin increases the body's insulin levels, hindering normal ovulation either by limiting the maturation process of the released egg or by preventing ovulation altogether. High insulin levels can also impede the fertilized egg's ability to attach to the uterus, leading to implantation failure and miscarriage. In fact, women with insulin resistance problems are four to five times as likely as other women to suffer miscarriages -- meaning they have as high as a 50 percent chance of miscarriage. Dr. Groll has developed an insulin-reducing diet based on balancing protein and complex carbohydrate intake to create insulin levels most conducive to ovulation. He combines his nutritional plan -- which includes nutritional charts, food suggestions, and recipes -- with a specific exercise program that enhances insulin metabolism and an emotional support system that you can draw on during your quest to become parents. This three-pronged approach increases the rates of spontaneous ovulation and significantly improves the uterine environment, decreasing the potential for miscarriage. One in every ten couples in America is affected by infertility. Yet, only 5 to 10 percent of patients actually need high-tech procedures such as in vitro fertilization. Whether you are taking your first steps in combating infertility or searching for effective methods to support more advanced fertility treatments, Fertility Foods is your helpful and rewarding guide.

Author : Gord Hill
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781458784711

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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (Large Print 16pt) by Gord Hill Pdf

An alternative and unorthodox view of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is offered in this concise history. Eurocentric studies of the conquest of the Americas present colonization as a civilizing force for good, and the native populations as primitive or worse. Colonization is seen as a mutually beneficial process, in which ''civilization'' was brought to the natives who in return shared their land and cultures. The opposing historical camp views colonization as a form of genocide in which the native populations were passive victims overwhelmed by European military power. In this fresh examination, an activist and historian of native descent argues that the colonial powers met resistance from the indigenous inhabitants and that these confrontations shaped the forms and extent of colonialism. This account encompasses North and South America, the development of nation-states, and the resurgence of indigenous resistance in the post-World War II era.

Author : Harryette Mullen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520927834

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Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Pdf

Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

Author : Robin E. Jensen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271078212

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Infertility by Robin E. Jensen Pdf

This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive children has been explained by discrepant views: that women are individually culpable for their own reproductive health problems, or that they require the intervention of medical experts to correct abnormalities. Using doctor-patient correspondence, oral histories, and contemporaneous popular and scientific news coverage, Robin Jensen parses the often thin rhetorical divide between moralization and medicalization, revealing how dominating explanations for infertility have emerged from seemingly competing narratives. Her longitudinal account illustrates the ways in which old arguments and appeals do not disappear in the light of new information, but instead reemerge at subsequent, often seemingly disconnected moments to combine and contend with new assertions. Tracing the transformation of language surrounding infertility from “barrenness” to “(in)fertility,” this rhetorical analysis both explicates how language was and is used to establish the concept of infertility and shows the implications these rhetorical constructions continue to have for individuals and the societies in which they live.

Author : M. Alcorn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137318565

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Resistance to Learning by M. Alcorn Pdf

Alcorn examines qualities of student resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for teachers to work productively with such resistance. Drawing on research from numerous disciplines showing how emotion grounds human reason, he outlines an agenda that makes emotional experience central to educational practice.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Emerging Infections
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309168304

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The Resistance Phenomenon in Microbes and Infectious Disease Vectors by Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Emerging Infections Pdf

The resistance topic is timely given current events. The emergence of mysterious new diseases, such as SARS, and the looming threat of bioterrorist attacks remind us of how vulnerable we can be to infectious agents. With advances in medical technologies, we have tamed many former microbial foes, yet with few new antimicrobial agents and vaccines in the pipeline, and rapidly increasing drug resistance among infectious microbes, we teeter on the brink of loosing the upperhand in our ongoing struggle against these foes, old and new. The Resistance Phenomenon in Microbes and Infectious Disease Vectors examines our understanding of the relationships among microbes, disease vectors, and human hosts, and explores possible new strategies for meeting the challenge of resistance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89038528279

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Yearbook of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008795

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.

Author : Giorgio Cavallini,Giovanni Beretta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9783319085036

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Clinical Management of Male Infertility by Giorgio Cavallini,Giovanni Beretta Pdf

This book provides andrologists and other practitioners with reliable, up-to-date information on all aspects of male infertility and is designed to assist in the clinical management of patients. Clear guidance is offered on classification of infertility, sperm analysis interpretation and diagnosis. The full range of types and causes of male infertility are then discussed in depth. Particular attention is devoted to poorly understood conditions such as unexplained couple infertility and idiopathic male infertility, but the roles of diverse disorders, health and lifestyle factors and environmental pollution are also fully explored. Research considered stimulating for the reader is highlighted, reflecting the fascinating and controversial nature of the field. International treatment guidelines are presented and the role of diet and dietary supplements is discussed in view of their increasing importance. Clinicians will find that the book’s straightforward approach ensures that it can be easily and rapidly consulted.