Author: Mick O Kelly File Type: pdf

Author: Chris Kanthan File Type: epub Five years ago, Monsanto and GMO were tiny blips on the radar of social conscience, with the discussion relegated to a few people on the fringes. Today, dozens of bills on GMO labeling are being considered across the country from Vermont to Oregon. Last year, Proposition 37 in California almost passed. People have suddenly become more aware of GMOs, and the demand for organic food is rising fast. People are rallying against Monsanto and other biotech companies to stop them from privatizing and monopolizing our food supply. Those are all the good news. The bad news is that most people are not quite sure about the pros and cons of GMOs. They feel ambivalent about this new technology that seems so exciting and promising. Activists, who are passionate and well-informed, are unable to change the hearts and minds of those sitting on the fence. The failure of Prop 37 shows how easy it is for Monsanto and their allies to confuse and scare people. This book is the result of my own journey in seeking to comprehend the relationship between food and health. What I found was quite shocking?our food supply and the entire ecosystem are, potentially, at a point of no return. It is imperative that we understand the GMO technology and its implications, educate people, and talk about the issues using facts and conviction. This article is in the form of a conversation between two people in reality, it is a representation of numerous conversations I have had with friends and strangers. Hopefully, this will be an informative e-book and a reference tool for those who seek to understand GMOs better passionate advocates will also find effective strategies for changing hearts and minds of friends and strangers.

Author: Kevin Doogan File Type: pdf In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation through the lens of the labour market. Major themes of the day -- globalization, technological change and the new economy, the pension and demographic timebombs, flexibility and traditional employment -- are all subject to critical scrutiny.We are often told that a new global economy has emerged which has transformed our lives. It is argued that the pace of technological change, the mobility of multinational capital and the privatization of the welfare state have combined to create a more precarious world. Companies are outsourcing, jobs are migrating to China and India, and a job for life is said to be a thing of the past. The so-called new capitalism is said to be the result of these profound changes.Kevin Doogan takes issue with these widely-accepted ideas and subjects the transformation of work to detailed examination through a comprehensive analysis of developments in Europe and North America. He argues that precariousness is not a natural consequence of this fast-changing world rather, current insecurities are manufactured, emanating from government policy and the greater exposure of the economy to market forces.New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work is sure to stimulate academic debate. Kevin Doogans account will appeal not just to scholars, but also to upper-level students across the social sciences, including the sociology of work, industrial relations, globalization, economics, social policy and business studies

Author: David Konstan File Type: epub It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient Greek literature and culture.With The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks, Konstan reexamines the traditional assumption that the Greek terms designating the emotions correspond more or less to those of today. Beneath the similarities, there are striking discrepancies. References to Greek anger or love or envy, for example, commonly neglect the fact that the Greeks themselves did not use these terms, but rather words in their own language, such as orge and philia and phthonos, which do not translate neatly into our modern emotional vocabulary. Konstan argues that classical representations and analyses of the emotions correspond to a world of intense competition for status, and focused on the attitudes, motives, and actions of others rather than on chance or natural events as the elicitors of emotion. Konstan makes use of Greek emotional concepts to interpret various works of classical literature, including epic, drama, history, and oratory. Moreover, he illustrates how the Greeks conception of emotions has something to tell us about our own views, whether about the nature of particular emotions or of the category of emotion itself.