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Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Stuart McCook reviews a book describing the incorporation of traditional medicines from the Caribbean into European medicines in the 18th century.

BOOK REVIEW | 14 January 2005 | EN

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond's latest book looks at the factors that lead to the collapse of societies, underlining the central role of environmental decay.

BOOK REVIEW | 7 January 2005 | EN

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

BOOK REVIEW | 25 July 2003 | EN

Air Pollution & Health in Rapidly Developing Countries

BOOK REVIEW | 18 July 2003 | EN

Eating Apes

BOOK REVIEW | 10 July 2003 | EN

Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise

BOOK REVIEW | 6 June 2003 | EN

Genes for Africa: Genetically Modified Crops in the Developing World

Gordon Conway praises Jennifer A. Thomson's summary of the use of GM crops in Africa.

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analyzing and Using Agricultural Diversity

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

Population and Climate Change

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN

Securing the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops

BOOK REVIEW | 25 April 2003 | EN