The No-nonsense Guide to Tourism
The No-nonsense Guide to Tourism

Author: Pamela Nowicka

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 190445660X

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Demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. From labour conditions to development by stealth to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. |The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works.| - George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of Captive State

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty

Author: Jeremy Seabrook

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2007-09-01

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1906523711

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This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty—is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity

Author: Vanessa Baird

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1906523649

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The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty. This guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at contributions from medicine and science. It also includes a unique global survey of laws that affect sexual minorities. Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Her previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health

Author: Shereen Usdin

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1904456650

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A history of modern healthcare shows that public health is largely determined by socio-economic factors.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam
The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam

Author: Ziauddin Sardar

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1906523622

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This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war. Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.

No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, 3rd Edition
No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, 3rd Edition

Author: Sally Blundell

Publisher: Between the Lines

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1771131187

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An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producersat the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.

No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism, 2nd Edition
No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism, 2nd Edition

Author: Jonathan Barker

Publisher: Between the Lines

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1771130547

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Terrorism and counter-terrorism have become key points in political talk and government policy. This No-Nonsense Guide has been revised and updated to take account of the major changes in global terrorism over the past seven years. Jonathan Barker presents a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at examples from the Middle East and elsewhere, instances of state terrorism, and the terrorist fringes of political movements. He also delves beneath the surface, offering political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism, the theories that justify and guide terrorist acts, and the battle of images that accompanies them.

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food

Author: Wayne Roberts

Publisher: New Internationalist

Published: 2013-09-23

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1780261322

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Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world.