LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john h perkins

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  • The Love Grotto
    John N.H. Perkins / John N.HPerkins
    This book introduces the reader to a feminist psychological understanding of the age-old tale of the tragic lovers Tristan and Isolde. John Perkins offers us a series of life lessons designed to heighten our appreciation of our own sensibilities as he retells and examines Gottfried von Strassburg’s twelfth century work Tristan.The central dilemma is the tension between our duty...
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    23,08 €

  • Insects, Experts, and the Insecticide Crisis
    John H. Perkins
    Science and technology are cultural phenomena. Expert knowledge is generated amid the conflicts of a society and in turn supplies fuel to fire yet further change and new clashes. This essay on economic entomology is a case study on how cultural events and forces affected the creation of scientific and technical knowledge. The time period emphasized is...
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    66,12 €

  • Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
    John H. Perkins
    Controlling the Earth explores why four different countries (U.S., India, Britain, and Mexico) each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exhange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization. Furture reform efforts i...
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    245,25 €