New Internationalist: 88 books
Juliana's Bananas
Where Do Your Bananas Come From?
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
An educational resource to help children explore the issue of fair trade by allowing them to see through the eyes of the children of banana farmers in the Windward Islands. The author spent time with the farmers' families and she uses the real-life narratives of two young children going about their...
The Ethical Careers Guide
How to find the work you love
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
How do you find a job that makes you happy one that fits with your morals, makes you feel good about going to work, and isn’t just about making money? This guide is aimed at anyone who wants to do something meaningful with their working life.
by Wayne Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Covering 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...
Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects...
The Great Climate Robbery
How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In The Great Climate Robbery highly respected non-profit Grain connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change.The collected articles in this book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations...
by Danny Dorling
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe, including many from the United States. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth. Danny Dorling considers,...
Confidante of 'Tyrants'
The Story of the American Woman Trusted by the US's Biggest Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
When US lawyer Eva Golinger first spent some time in Venezuela uncovering her ancestral roots, she little realized how the country was going to change her life. Within a few years she had become an enthusiast for the Bolivarian Revolution and a close confidante of its charismatic leader, Hugo Chávez....
by Pamela Nowicka
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labor conditions to development by stealth, to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited.
It also takes in themes such as the gap year...
by Wayne Ellwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Globalization is all around us. From the richest country to the poorest, every aspect of life is affected by global economics and communications. We all benefit...or do we?
This No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization distills the arguments into a clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt...
NoNonsense Rethinking Education
Whose knowledge is it anyway?
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
What is knowledge? Who decides what is important? Who owns it? These are central themes that run through this title that aims to change perceptions and understanding of education. Using historical and contemporary examples, the authors examine the motivations, conflicts, and contradictions in education....
by Maggie Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“Overseas aid” and “international development” are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities—and abuses. This guide explains what “development” actually is—and explores its political and economic roots. It shows what can happen in the name of development and argues for a...
80:20
Development in an Unequal World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injustices in an accessible and understandable fashion, with infographics, figures, graphs, photographs and cartoons. Now in its seventh edition, it is extensively...
Slow Fashion
Aesthetics Meets Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Slow Fashion offers creatives, entrepreneurs, and ethical consumers alike a glimpse into the innovative world of the eco-concept store movement, sustainable design, and business that puts people, livelihoods, and sustainability central to everything they do.Safia Minney argues that the future of...
by Shereen Usdin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
A clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, and gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into current politics of health in the contexts of big business...