Natural resources such as spices, grains, oils, fish, fertilizers, fuels, narcotics, forest products, fibers, metals, precious metals, and gemstones are analyzed in terms of location, worth, uses, and who controls them

Who Owns the Earth

Business & Money

RIDGEWAY, James

Economics

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Excerpts from books, articles, and government reports trace the history of the energy industry and examine the future of coal, oil, nuclear, and alternative energy

Powering Civilization: The Complete Energy Reader

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Pantheon Books

POWERING CIVILIZATION

Pantheon

In this heavenly picture book, presented in a handsome gift box and paired with a porcelain ornament, M.I. Hummel's delicate paintings shine beside lyrical musings on the special power and wonder of angels. It's a glowing celebration of Christmas that will be cherished by Hummel collectors of all ages.

The Politics of Ecology

E.P.Dutton

Five companies dominate the U.S. petroleum industry. Five control the worldwide trade in grain. Two have a corner on the private market for drinking water. In terms of actual dollars, trade in heroin, cocaine, and tobacco ranks alongside that in grain or metals. There are more slaves in the world today than ever before. Resource by resource, It’s All for Sale uncovers and discloses who owns, buys, and sells what. Some resources—such as fuel, metals, fertilizers, drugs, fibers, food, forests, and flowers—have, for better or worse, long been thought of as commodities. Others—including fresh water, human beings, the sky, the oceans, and life itself (in the form of genetic codes)—are more startling to think of as products with price tags, but, as James Ridgeway shows, they are treated as such on a massive scale in lucrative markets around the world. Revealing the surprisingly small number of companies that control many of the basic commodities we use in everyday life, It’s All for Sale confirms in specific detail that globalization has been accompanied by an extraordinary concentration of ownership. At the same time, it is about much more than what company has cornered the market in corn or diamonds. Corporations and captains of industry, wars and swindles, oppressors and the oppressed, empires and colonies, military might and commercial power, economic boom and bust—all these come alive in Ridgeway’s canny and arresting reporting about the global scramble for power and profit. It’s All for Sale is an invaluable source for researchers, activists, and all those concerned with globalization, corporate power, and the exploitation of individuals and the environment.

It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources

Duke University Press Books

Five companies dominate the U.S. petroleum industry. Five control the worldwide trade in grain. Two have a corner on the private market for drinking water. In terms of actual dollars, trade in heroin, cocaine, and tobacco ranks alongside that in grain or metals. There are more slaves in the world today than ever before. Resource by resource, It’s All for Sale uncovers and discloses who owns, buys, and sells what. Some resources—such as fuel, metals, fertilizers, drugs, fibers, food, forests, and flowers—have, for better or worse, long been thought of as commodities. Others—including fresh water, human beings, the sky, the oceans, and life itself (in the form of genetic codes)—are more startling to think of as products with price tags, but, as James Ridgeway shows, they are treated as such on a massive scale in lucrative markets around the world.  Revealing the surprisingly small number of companies that control many of the basic commodities we use in everyday life, It’s All for Sale confirms in specific detail that globalization has been accompanied by an extraordinary concentration of ownership. At the same time, it is about much more than what company has cornered the market in corn or diamonds. Corporations and captains of industry, wars and swindles, oppressors and the oppressed, empires and colonies, military might and commercial power, economic boom and bust—all these come alive in Ridgeway’s canny and arresting reporting about the global scramble for power and profit. It’s All for Sale is an invaluable source for researchers, activists, and all those concerned with globalization, corporate power, and the exploitation of individuals and the environment.

Essays discuss the Reagan administration, the role of the press in his election, modern journalism, Ireland, new books, and politics

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

History

Cockburn, Alexander

Americas

Verso Books

Energy-efficient community planning: A guide to saving energy and producing power at the local level [Jan 01, 1979] Ridgeway, James

Energy-efficient community planning: A guide to saving energy and producing power at the local level

JG Press

Cast a Cold Eye

Gathers independent columns and commentary from the past year concerning world events, the environmental crisis, American politics, and the Persian Gulf War

Literature & Fiction

Casella, Jean

United States

Thunder's Mouth Pr

History & Criticism

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Books by RIDGEWAY, James

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Who Owns the Earth

Powering Civilization: The Complete Energy Reader

POWERING CIVILIZATION

The Politics of Ecology

It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources

It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Energy-efficient community planning: A guide to saving energy and producing power at the local level

Cast a Cold Eye

Cast a Cold Eye