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      • Fondo de Cultura Económica

        With 86 years publishing books covering a broad range of subject areas, Fondo de Cultura Económica is one of the leading publishing houses in Latin America. Over the course of the last twenty-nine years, the ten series of books for children and young adults published by our Children’s book division have included titles of the highest literary and visual quality, aimed at a critical and demanding readership. Our most innovative books have received important awards such as the New Horizons Award, and some of our titles have been listed in the White Ravens Catalogue and in the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) 50 Books/50 Covers. Several of our books for children and young adults have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Galician, Czech, Slovenian, German, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Swedish, Romanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek and Turkish.

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      • Guangdong Economy Publishing House Co., Ltd.

        Guangdong Economics Publishing House Co., Ltd. is a leading professional publisher in China who aims at deliver engaging and adaptive solutions to readers in the fields of business management, investment, marketing & advertising, personal finance,military and scholarly monography in print and electrically.       Located in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province, the publishing house takes editing, publishing and distributing books, magazines, digital publication as well as copyright trading as its major business.Founded in 1995, we now publish over 500 books annually and provide our diversified products to readers all over China as well as overseas customers in Asia and Europe,.  We joined the Guangdong Publishing Group in 1999 and now as a member of the Southern Publishing and Media Company Ltd., which went to the market in 2016, we look to a brighter future and greater marker globally.

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      • Geography & the Environment

        Eradicating Ecocide

        Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet

        by Polly Higgins

        Eradicating Ecocide highlights the need for enforceable, legally binding mechanisms in national and international law to hold to account perpetrators of long term severe damage to the environment. At this critical juncture in history it is vital that we set global standards of accountability for corporations, in order to put an end to the culture of impunity and double standards that pervade the international legal system. Higgins advocates the introduction of a new international law, Ecocide: ‘damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems’, as the 5th Crime Against Peace. This would hold to account heads of corporate bodies that are found guilty of damaging the environment; it would present corporations with a new choice: they could choose to be part of the solution, part of the salvation of the planet’s future, by complying with the new law of Ecocide. The opportunity to implement this law represents a crossroads in the fate of humanity; we can accept the change, or we can continue to allow its destruction, risking future brutal war over disappearing natural resources.This is the first book to explain that we all have a commanding voice and the power to call upon all our governments to change the existing rules of the game.Higgins presents examples of laws in other countries which have succeeded in curtailing the power of governments, corporations and banks and made a quick and effective change, demonstrating that her proposal is not impossible. Eradicating Ecocide is a crash course on what laws work, what doesn’t and what else is needed to prevent the imminent disaster of global collapse.Eradicating Ecocide provides a comprehensive overview of what needs to be done in order to prevent ecocide. It is a book providing a template of a body of laws for all governments to implement, which applies equally to smaller communities and anyone who is involved in decision-making. --- The author is becoming a world figure in promoting the idea that ecocide should become an international crime like genocide. Here is a link to a talk she gave recently in Vienna, suggesting that a German language edition might be a prospect. ERDgespräche//EARTHtalks 2013: Polly Higgins on Vimeo.

      • Hot Season

        by Susan DeFreitas

        2017 Gold IPPY Award Winner   “A brisk read with a potent mix of wit and edge.”  ⎯Arizona Daily Sun   “DeFreitas carries this laidback realism through Hot Season, from seemingly minor details that build her rich universe—the color of a sunset, the horrible white-people dreads of college manarchists, the yerba maté beside the soil science textbook—to the book’s complicated, relatable women characters."  ⎯Portland Mercury   “One of 25 Oregon writers every Oregonian must read” –The Oregonian   Featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB Public Radio), with her writers group,  ⎯The Guttery   One of the most-listened to interviews on ‘Today’s Best Writers in Conversation with Host David Naimon’ ⎯KBOO 90.7 FM Between the Covers podcast   Hot Season was recently featured on the Rose City Reader book blog 3-27-17: Mailbox Monday   4.20.17 at 7 pm Group Reading at Another Read Through (3932 N Mississippi Ave) Portland, OR

      • Geography & the Environment
        May 2018

        The Balance Point

        A Missing Link in Human Consciousness

        by Joseph Jenkins

        The Balance Point is a story of a search for something so mysterious that the main character doesn't even know what it is, or how to recognize it if he finds it. It touches on science, mathematics, economics, and other big-ticket issues such as religion and spirituality in a manner that is both illuminating and disturbing.Based on actual occurrences and factual scientific and environmental information, The Balance Point weaves a compelling adventure story into an ominous tapestry of environmental destruction and planetary degradation. The author is reluctantly goaded into satisfying the conditions of his deceased Aunt's cryptic Last Will, sending him on a puzzling journey to perplexing destinations. What he finds is worrisome, yet hopeful: something has gone missing in our collective human consciousness.The author ingeniously delivers a critical message with a voluminous amount of valuable information, without ever missing a beat. The message is so timely while taking a most serious subject and handling it in a clever way. This is an uncommonly provocative educational and spiritual journey which captivates the reader from the beginning. The story is so engrossing and the author's writing style so light and breezy that only after finishing the book will it hit the reader just how much information had been conveyed. The book is intriguing and suspenseful; all in all, a fascinating read.The Balance Point took first place in the Science/Nature/Environment category in the the 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards! It was also a finalist in the Current Events/Social Change category. It also won the New York City Big Book Awards, also in two separate categories: Environment, and Spirituality!

      • The environment
        June 2012

        Earth Is Our Business

        Changing the Rules of the Game

        by Polly Higgins

        Earth is our Business takes forward the argument of Polly Higgins’ first book, Eradicating Ecocide. This book proposes new Earth law, but it is also about something more than law: it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues, in fact, that Earth is the business of us all, not the exclusive preserve of the executives of the world’s top corporations. Expanding on the proposal in her first book to make Ecocide an international crime, this book sets out the institutional framework for sustainable development and international environmental governance. It proposes new rules of the game to transform our economies, energy supplies and political landscape in a radical, but practical, way. The implications of Polly Higgins’ proposal are far-reaching and profound. Like her award-winning first book, Earth is our Business is written for anyone who is engaging in the new and emerging discourse about the future of our planet. Instead of merely examining the problem, Earth is our Business sets out a solution: new rules of the game. They are, says Polly Higgins, a new set of laws based on the sacredness of all life. Included as appendices are a draft Ecocide Act, a proposal for revising World Bank investment rules, and the indictment used in the mock Ecocide Trial held in the UK Supreme Court in September 2011.Eradicating Ecocide won The People’s Book Prize for non-fiction in 2011. --- Another indication of Polly Higgins, the author’s, growing world recognition is her inclusion with some of the world’s foremost environmental activists and philosophers in a feature film that sheds light upon the new Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, which has been presented by Bolivia to the United Nations for recognition. The film also features Dr. Vandana Shiva, David Holmgren, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Starhawk, Cormac Cullinan, Father Bob Maguire, John Seed and others http://indymedia.org.au/2013/06/03/united-natures-press-release

      • Self-help & personal development
        March 2016

        If Women Rose Rooted

        The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

        by Sharon Blackie

        ‘This is the core of our task: to respect and revere ourselves, and so bring about about a world in which women are respected and revered, recognised once again as holding the life-giving power of the earth itself.’ A life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection. If Women Rose Rooted has been described as both transformative and essential. Drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful female roles of native mythology and guidance from contemporary women who have re-rooted themselves in the land and taken responsibility for shaping the future, Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a path of discovery. Beautifully written, If Women Rose Rooted is a song to a different kind of femininity. It is a direct argument for the link between the strength of women and the health of the land. And it is rallying cry to awaken women’s natural power on this threatened earth.

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