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Negotiation Dynamics of the WTO
An Insider’s Account
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The book aims at informing and educating the public at large about the intricacies of the Negotiation Dynamics at the WTO. It traces the period from the launch of the Uruguay Round in 1986 to its conclusion at Marrakesh in 1994 and the subsequent entry into force of the WTO on 1 January 1995.
The...
by Paul Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2020
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
-Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist
World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
Did you know...
Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000...
Verbal Judo
The Gentle Art of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth that can show you how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy (the most powerful word in the English language), avoid the most common conversational disasters, and use proven...
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are...
The Race for What's Left
The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium,...
Climate Governance at the Crossroads
Experimenting with a Global Response after Kyoto
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The global response to climate change has reached a critical juncture. Since the 1992 signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the nations of the world have attempted to address climate change through large-scale multilateral treaty-making. These efforts have been heroic,...
Unsettling Canada
A National Wake-Up Call
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Unsettling Canada is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.
Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the...
Blood and Earth
Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo’s Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking—and an inspiring, bold...
A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe
Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating...
His Panic
Why Americans Fear Hispanics in The U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
An account of the Hispanic population’s growth and the changing face of America from world-renowned journalist Geraldo Rivera—now updated with a new Foreword.
Since his infamous confrontation with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor, Emmy® award winner Geraldo Rivera has examined...
The Fire Next Door
Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country’s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. In The Fire Next Door, Ted Galen Carpenter boldly conveys the growing horror overtaking Mexico and makes the case...
Basic Income
A Transformative Policy for India
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context...