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Author: Wayne Roberts
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1780261314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world food system is put under the microscope in this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food.
Author: Wayne Roberts
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2013-09-23
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1780261322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWayne 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.
Author: Wayne Roberts
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1906523673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering fast food, organic food, junk food, institutional food, and more, this guide shows how “real food” has become increasingly scarce, with production and distribution increasingly dominated in the West by agri-business. The guide goes on to present the alternatives that are emerging based on the concept of community food security. Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. An author and columnist for NOW Magazine, he’s on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world.
Author: Chris Brazier
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2011-08-16
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1780260350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This updated No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional history books—from the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the history of women. The new final chapter includes material on the financial crisis and the world response to climate change. Chris Brazier is co-editor at New Internationalist. His previous books include Vietnam: The Price of Peace. He is principal writer for UNICEF's The State of the World's Children report.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maggie Black
Publisher: Between the Lines
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 1771130598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wayne Ellwood
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1906523479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalisation has become one of the most used and encompassing words over the past decade, of undeniable influence in economics, politics and activism. Globalisation is literally all around; every aspect of life is affected by a global structure of communication and economy. This fully revised and updated guide condenses this complex subject into clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt trap, the acceleration of neoliberalism, competition for energy resources, the links between the war on terror, the arms trade and the alternatives to corporate control.
Author: Olivia Ball
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1906523592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum? This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the legal advances that have led to some rights abusers facing justice, and the conflicts that can occur when rights collide with culture.
Author: Wayne Ellwood
Publisher: New Internationalist
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1780261233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by progressives as the only possible solution for our economic and social woes. This no-nonsense guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth - to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful.
Author: Gideon Burrows
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781859844267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ending of the Cold War was supposed to increase global security and divert expenditure previously earmarked for arms purchases to more constructive ends. Instead, the arms trade has flourished. Not only conventional arms, but also police and surveillance equipment, have been provided by Western countries seeking to make a profit from conflict in unstable parts of the world. Foreign debt has remained high, development has been held back, and human rights have been systematically abused, all with the connivance of an arms trade prepared to turn a blind eye to the uses to which increasingly sophisticated weaponry is put, so long as hefty profits can be reaped. This disturbing book names the players in the arms trade and charts the impact that it has had on war, human rights, and development. The financial and trade mechanisms that permit the arms trade to continue are revealed, amid sordid tales of bribery and corruption. Gideon Burrows concludes his examination by reviewing the ways in which this trade can be controlled or even abolished.
