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Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis advances a critique of
consumer capitalism and its role in driving environmental
degradation and climate crisis, placing a spotlight on how
marketing and distribution activities help maintain unsustainable
levels of consumption. Rather than focusing on the most visible
sites of promotional communication, Meier examines less conspicuous
facets of marketing and logistics in distinct chapters on plastic
packaging, e-commerce, and sustainability pledges in the fossil
fuel sector. These three main chapters each explore links between
ecological crisis and consumer capitalism, drawing on critical
theory and Marxist thought. The topics of consumer convenience,
speed, and economic growth - and the role of fossil fuels as
guarantor of these logics of consumer society - unite the critical
analysis. Situated in the field of media and communication studies
and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be of
interest to academics, researchers, and students in the areas of
media and communication studies, cultural studies, sociology,
geography, philosophy, political science, and advertising.
Metal-based anticancer drugs are among the most successful
therapeutic agents, as evidenced by the frequent prescription of
selected platinum and arsenic compounds to patients. Metal-based
Anticancer Agents covers the interdisciplinary world of inorganic
drug discovery and development by introducing the most prominent
compound classes based on different transition metals, discussing
emerging concepts and enabling methods, as well as presenting key
pre-clinical and clinical aspects. Recent progress on the unique
features of next-generation targeted metal-based anticancer agents,
including supramolecular coordination complexes used for both
therapy and drug delivery, promise a bright future beyond the
benefits of pure cytotoxic activity. With contributions from global
leaders in the field, this book will serve as a useful reference to
established researchers as well as a practical guide to those new
to metallodrugs, and postgraduate students of medicinal chemistry
and metallobiology.
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Kathleen Meier; Emily M Meier
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R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Co-edited by the Vice President of the World Bank, this volume offers cutting edge work from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics.
The study of economic development is one of the newest, most
exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline
of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that
Adam Smith was the first "development economist," the systematic
study of the problems and processes of economic development in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America has emerged only over the past five
decades. This biography of the subject of economic development will
focus on the essential ideas in the evolution of development
thought and policy over the subject's half-century of life. In
concise form and avoiding undue technicality, it highlights the
influence of development theory on policymaking and on the mixed
record of successes and failures in promoting development efforts.
The interpretation of theory, policy, and the lessons of experience
are covered in three periods: early development economics of the
1950s-60s; orthodox reaction of the 1970s-80s; and the new
development economics of the 1980s-90s. Gerald Meier-one of the
world's most prominent leading thinkers in the economics of
development - interprets the past treatment of development problems
with the present and future in mind. He re-interprets the past two
generations of development economists in a contemporary voice. And
in a forward-looking fashion, the book's perspectives should make
the next generation of development problems-and development
economists-more intelligible. The reader is invited to consider
whether development economists really know how to put matters
right.
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