Send Me a Message
Author: Daphne Mackey
With the expansion of global business and the Internet, communicating clearly in written English has become essential. The step-by-step approach in Send Me A Message allows students to develop a core set of expressions and techniques that they can use to communicate clearly and appropriately in a variety of formats.
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Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines
Author: Robert Broad
This gripping portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Traveling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are disappearing along with their country's natural resources. The result is an inspiring, informative account of how peasants, fishers, and other laborers have united to halt the plunder and to improve their lives.
These people do not debate global warming--they know that their very lives depend on the land and oceans, so they block logging trucks, protest open-pit mining, and replant trees. In a country where nearly two-thirds of the children are impoverished, the reclaiming of natural resources is offering young people hope for a future. Plundering Paradise is essential reading for anyone interested in development, the global environment, and political life in the Third World.
Table of Contents:
Foreword, by Barbara EhrenreichAcknowledgments
Generation Lost
Nature's Revenge
The Last Rainforests
"The First Environmentalists"
Life Along the Death March
The Wall
Hearts and Minds
"The Bastards of Bataan"
From Plunder to Sustainability
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