China Live: People Power and the Television Revolution by Mike Chinoy, ISBN 084769318X
China Live offers a unique insider's view of two of the most important forces shaping our era--the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China. Exploring not only how events shape television, but how TV can shape the news as it unfolds, CNN Hong Kong bureau chief Mike Chinoy recounts his experiences in key political conflicts around the world, from Northern Ireland, Lebanon, and Afghanistan to Indochina, the Philippines, and North Korea. Chinoy focuses especially on China, where he was instrumental in CNN's unprecedented live broadcasts of the student uprising and army crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989--a turning point in modern journalism that played a critical role in shaping international perceptions of China.
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva, ISBN 0896085562
In this intelligently argued and ethically principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, she argues, Northern capital is now carving out new colonies to exploit for gain: the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals.
Under agreements such as GATT, she argues, the North claims a need to be "protected" from the South so it can continue its uninterrupted theft of the Third World's genetic diversity. This theft, Shiva shows, has profoundly disturbing consequences for women, the Third World, and the environment.
With specific considerations of gene-patenting, genetic engineering, and biotechnology, Biopiracy is essential reading for anyone concerned with technology, imperialism, feminism or the environment.
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That Bad, Bad Cat! by Claire Masurel, ISBN 0448426226
A troublesome feline tears the pillows, eats the plants, and scratches the furniture. Will his family love him anyway? Full-color illustrations.
That Bad, Bad Cat! by Claire Masurel, ISBN 0448426226
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