Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world. From the antibiotics routinely give...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 菲利普•林伯里 （Philip Lymbery） 国际知名公益组织──世界农场动物福利协会（Compassion in World Farming, CIWF）首席执行官，温彻斯特大学访问教授，欧洲动物联盟（Eurogroup for Animals）副主席，为戳破“只有工业化的农业才能养活全球七十多亿人口”的迷思，他走访美国、欧洲、中国、秘鲁、阿根廷各地，深入挖掘工业化农业对人类带来的危害，并在英国国会举办新书发表会。他的努力曾数次改变英国的农业政策，在其领导下，世界农场动物福利协会曾荣获“观察家伦理奖”（Observer Ethical Award）年度活动家奖，以及“BBC Radio 4 食物与农业奖”（BBC Radio 4 Food and Farm Award）最佳活动家暨教育者奖，以及国际金鸽和平奖（Golden do...(展开全部)

Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the cost of real sex, and in turn slow the de...(展开全部)

"Cheap Meat" follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called 'flaps', from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua Ne...(展开全部)

America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqu video, or pay our kids" nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstay...(展开全部)

Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as it gets. And it turns out these seemingly unimportant consumer goods offer unique insights into ourselves—our values and our desir...(展开全部)

Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as it gets. And it turns out these seemingly unimportant consumer goods offer unique insights into ourselves—our values and our desir...(展开全部)

拉杰·帕特尔(Raj Patel)，美国知名记者、作家、社会活动家和学者。拉杰拥有牛津大学政治经济学与哲学学士学位、伦敦政治经济学院硕士学位和康奈尔大学发展社会学博士学位。 詹森·W.摩尔(Jason W. Moore)，美国纽约州立大学宾汉顿分校地理学者和世界历史学家，是“资本纪”理念和世界生态学观点方面的主要理论学家。时常撰写环境史、全球危机和经济变革等相关文章，创作以及参与过七部作品，其中包括《生命网络中的资本主义：生态与资本的累积》。

拉杰·帕特尔(Raj Patel)，美国知名记者、作家、社会活动家和学者。拉杰拥有牛津大学政治经济学与哲学学士学位、伦敦政治经济学院硕士学位和康奈尔大学发展社会学博士学位。 詹森·W.摩尔(Jason W. Moore)，美国纽约州立大学宾汉顿分校地理学者和世界历史学家，是“资本纪”理念和世界生态学观点方面的主要理论学家。时常撰写环境史、全球危机和经济变革等相关文章，创作以及参与过七部作品，其中包括《生命网络中的资本主义：生态与资本的累积》。

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing ...(展开全部)