Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“fred magdoff”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fred magdoff”
Skip side bar filters

  • Fanshen

    A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

    by William Hinton, Fred Magdoff ...
    More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

    by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Fanshen

    A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

    by William Hinton, Fred Magdoff ...
    More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

  • Hungry for Profit

    The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

    Edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, Frederick H. Buttel ...
    Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture

    Edited by Fred Magdoff, Ray R. Weil ...
    Recognition of the importance of soil organic matter (SOM) in soil health and quality is a major part of fostering a holistic, preventive approach to agricultural management. Students in agronomy, horticulture, and soil science need a textbook that emphasizes strategies for using SOM management in the prevention of chemical, biological, and physic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Hungry for Profit

    The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

    Edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, Frederick H. Buttel ...
    The agribusiness/food sector is the second most profitable industry in the United States — following pharmaceuticals — with annual sales over $400 billion. Contributing to its profitability are the breathtaking strides in biotechnology coupled with the growing concentration of ownership and control by food’s largest corporations. Everything, from decisions on which foods are produced, to how they ... Read more

    $18.59 USD

  • What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

    by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act. What is less clear is how humanity should respond. The contemporary environmental movement is the site of many competing plans and prescriptions, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Creating an Ecological Society

    Toward a Revolutionary Transformation

    by Fred Magdoff, Chris Williams ...
    Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life. Capitalism’s imperative—to make profit at all costs and expand without end—is destabilizing Earth’s ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The ABCs of the Economic Crisis

    What Working People Need to Know

    by Fred Magdoff, Michael D. Yates ...
    The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called "experts"—still cling to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Agriculture and Food in Crisis

    Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal

    by Fred Magdoff, Brian Tokar ...
    The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world’s population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an ... Read more

    $18.29 USD

  • Agriculture and Food in Crisis

    Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal

    by Fred Magdoff, Brian Tokar ...
    The failures of “free-market” capitalism are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the production and distribution of food. Although modern human societies have attained unprecedented levels of wealth, a significant amount of the world's population continues to suffer from hunger or food insecurity on a daily basis. In Agriculture and Food in Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar have assembled an ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • The ABCs of the Economic Crisis

    What Working People Need to Know

    by Fred Magdoff, Michael D. Yates ...
    The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called "experts"—still cling to ... Read more

    $9.49 USD