Lists of Bests: The State of Things http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6830 Learn, think, stand up. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:44:04 GMT en-us 0 50 38 0 0 China's Water Crisis (Voices of Asia) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431238 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431238"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZK74377WL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ma Jun</div> Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177597 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177597"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yRpw2ILDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirin Ebadi</div> Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79746 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/79746"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K5EPD7SFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Lewis</div> The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95049 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/95049"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YZSY0NAPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Flannery</div> No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6395 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6395"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31e-u%2BlsltL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Klein</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516H1W1ASTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26547 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26547"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419JBYXXD4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vandana Shiva</div> Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27688 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27688"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jCXwKVjFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vandana Shiva</div> The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48614 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48614"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511daSBazIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irshad Manji</div> No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94393 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oPFzxSF6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reza Aslan</div> Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/397303 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/397303"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565849647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1119913416_.jpg" /></a></div> Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World's Food Crises (The Ingenuity Project) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27456 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27456"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5131SS26ANL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025764 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025764"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gX3tqrgzL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda McQuaig</div> A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/170461 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/170461"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Uf5z9QjjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nelofer Pazira</div> The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619918 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619918"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G004AZMJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Sachs</div> Human Development Report 2005: International cooperation at a crossroads. Aid, trade and security in an unequal world (Human Development Report) (Human Development Report) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431270 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431270"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195305116.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by United Nations Development Programme</div> Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431279 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431279"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ff0ZFU3kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maude Barlow</div> Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (Global Issues) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/407615 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/407615"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AW5uHyunL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walden Bello</div> The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431291 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431291"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xenFTt%2BQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Suzuki</div> Development as Freedom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10531 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10531"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SI%2BUEF%2BfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amartya Sen</div> The Cost of Living http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73144 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73144"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I1d-Q82xL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9410"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417BQN6R8KL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Pollan</div> The Story of B http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15895 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15895"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vau2h%2BXKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974622 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/974622"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41r-81WFxAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ignatieff</div> Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435211 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2435211"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679313192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carol Off</div> Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26605 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26605"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517NjeI46QL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Braungart</div> Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1511879 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1511879"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810930951.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Steffen</div> The World Without Us http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775339 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2775339"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312347294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V23272039_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Weisman</div> Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789385 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2789385"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51g0htstcgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer Baichwal</div> The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2163831 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2163831"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805079831.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Naomi Klein</div> Pedagogy of the Oppressed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41719 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41719"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0070732183.01-A133BJ5OMDM5MC._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paulo Freire</div> The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27961 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27961"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JVA1MH8KL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexander Wilson</div> Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458615 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458615"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PTR3kFR1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Bernstein</div> IPCC Fourth Assessment Report http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458617 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458617"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Nn1SqPInL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1564633 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1564633"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4131Q9Y9D6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Ferguson</div> Male Bias in the Development Process (Contemporary Issues in Development Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458618 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458618"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414744S4Z1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Battles Over Nature - Science and the Politics of Conservation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7458619 <div id="position">38</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vasant Saberwal</div> The Intimate Commodity: Food and the Development of the Argo-Industrial Complex in Canada http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7444701 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Winson</div>