Z Books
Recent Z Books
Tokar: Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger
Jan 21, 2008
Seven international authors show how the interplay of trade policy, “development” politics and biotechnology increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities.
Tokar: Earth For Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate ...
Jan 21, 2008
Examines official, corporate-funded environmentalism and numerous grassroots alternatives. Traces the implications of the struggles of the 1990s for a renewed ecological movement in the 21st century.
Tokar: The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future
Oct 12, 2007
The first book to fully explore the emergence of grassroots Green politics in the US, first published in 1987, and revised in 1992.
Tokar: Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Oct 12, 2007
Twenty-six internationally respected critics offer their analysis of the issues, their social and ethical implications, and the stories behind the headlines that have brought genetic engineering to the forefront of public controversy worldwide.
Talen: Reverend Billy in My Store
Nov 01, 2003
Reverend Billy is a revivalist preacher who leads the Church of Stop Shopping, an anti-consumerist communion devoted to putting the "Odd into God." Created by the actor Bill Talen, the Reverend first appeared alongside the sidewalk preachers in New York's Times Square during the Giuliani years, bringing his new post-religious theology to startled crowds. Before long he was pulpit thumping in the ninth circle of hell, otherwise known as the Disney Store on 42nd Street, where his spontaneous guerrilla theater led to something he describes as the "Exalted State of True Embarrassment," generally followed by the arrival of the police. The Reverend's corporate targets have since expanded to include The Gap, Starbucks, and NYU, indeed anywhere that the Church of the Stupefied Consumer holds sway.
