New Internationalist: 88 books

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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014

This series was edited by New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy, and co-commissioned by the writer Jonathan Glennie. The 12 reflections included in this collection originally appeared in The Internationalists blogging series onnewint.org or are transcribed from speeches made at the 40th-anniversary event held in London on 31 October 2013.
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Climate Change Denial

New Internationalist - Essential Guide

by Danny Chivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012

In this easy-to-read mini eBook, Danny Chivers presents the New Internationalist guide to debunking the myths of the climate change deniers. Sceptics are people who don't take things at face value; they demand facts, and are ready to change opinions based on the weight of evidence, even if that goes...
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The Global Bakery

Cakes from the World's Kitchens

by Anna Weston
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

The diversity of the world's cakes are represented for the first time in one thoroughly researched volume. The amateur baker is taken on a journey across the continents visiting Cote d'Ivoire, Libya, Finland, Hungary, Azerbaijan, India, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, United States, Colombia, and many...
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by Louise Gray
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

"World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions. Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts...
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by Chris Brazier
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

Most 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...
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by Wayne Ellwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014

This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive...
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NoNonsense Globalization

Buying and Selling the World

by Wayne Ellwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples. But it has also been a powerful driver of inequality, over-consumption and corporate control. This fully updated edition unpacks the complexities of globalization, examines the forces...
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Arms Trade

Essential Guide

by New Internationalist
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

Despite the fact that arms manufacturing in most Western nations ultimately represents vast fortunes of public funds flowing into private coffers for products that deal in injury or death, the industry is usually represented as a source of national pride. So pervasive is its influence that when it comes...
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10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing

Plus Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

Celebrating ten years of the leading literary prize for African fiction (dubbed "The African Booker"), 10 Years of the Caine Prize brings together the ten winning stories along with a story each from the four African winners of the Booker Prize: Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Ben...
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by Peter Steven
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010

Peter Steven explores the diversity of world media, from the corporate to the independent. He introduces readers to the political economy of the major media outlets, looking at the concentration of ownership and the convergence of technologies and media functions. In doing so, he encourages us to...
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by Vanessa Baird
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007

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...
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by Richard Swift
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Following the economic meltdown and the triumph of Barack Obama, have the chances of genuine democracy improved?In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, Richard Swift explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power brokers and a self-serving...
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NoNonsense The Money Crisis

How Bankers Have Grabbed Our Money - and How We Can Get It Back

by Peter Stalker
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How we've made such a mess of our money system is explained, from the earliest banks right through to "collateralized debt obligations." The author suggests the framework...
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by Peter Stalker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

An incisive introduction to global finance—where money comes from, the current mechanisms, and the need for control and reform. It traces the origins of money as a source of exchange and a store of value and the many weird forms it now takes—visible and invisible. The guide sets recent...
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