New Internationalist: 88 books
by Olivia Ball, Paul Gready
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Since 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...
by Catharine Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Today animals need protecting more than ever: those bred for laboratories, zoos, and hunting, and also those reared intensively on farms. And out in the wild, animals are losing their habitats to environmental exploitation.Dispelling the myth that the protection of animals’ rights is a modern, Western...
by Symon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Religion is a term that is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a different meaning for every person; religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue...
Bordered Lives
How Europe Fails Refugees and Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
• From the Orwell Prize-shortlisted author of Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour and Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants which won the Bread and Roses Award in 2013. • Hsiao-Hung Pai was shortlisted for EMMA’s Best Print Journalism in...
Austerity
The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity’. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all.
by Danny Dorling
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativity and higher educational attainment. Danny Dorling delivers all evidence that is now so overwhelming that it should be changing politics and society...
by Nicholas Gilby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this book puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history and includes recent controversial deals, as well as case studies on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Darfur. It exposes the cynicism, bribery, and insider deals that characterize...
NoNonsense Legalizing Drugs
How to end the war
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The question is no longer if we should end the war on drugs but how do we do it.
This latest addition to the NoNonsense series counts the human and financial cost of fifty years drug war-and proceeds to outline a better way, looking at where drug law reform is already working, how to overcome...
Rainbow Warriors
Legendary Stories from Greenpeace Ships
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Following the lives of the three ships with the name Rainbow Warrior, this book, written by a long-serving Greenpeace activist, tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the ship's most exciting adventures and actions.It is at once a narrative of real life on board, a history...
Peace Beyond Borders (Intl)
How the EU brought peace to Europe and how exporting it would end conflicts around the world
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
How did the world’s most warlike continent become its most peaceful one? Mehta argues that the process of political integration through the European Union has eliminated the reasons for conflict, and that this same model can be exported to Africa, The Americas, Asia, Australasia, and the Middle East and North Africa region, providing a promising glimpse of world peace.
Under an African Sky
A Journey to Africa's Climate Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there—an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human.
The Sahel—the "shore"...
People Over Capital
The Co-operative Alternative to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Capitalism is failing and ordinary people are forced to pay the price. With such deep-rooted problems there is real hunger for alternative ways of organizing our economic system. Answering the question, "Is there a co-operative alternative to capitalism?" this book showcases fourteen responses...
Trade Union Education
Transforming the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Trade union education is in the doldrums. It generally lacks modern ways of teaching and is full of outdated content and avoids history, economics and politics. This book demonstrates clearly that what is delivered in trade union education, and how it is delivered, have to be reformed and modernised....
Counterpower
Making Change Happen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." Investigating the history and tactics of major movements of the past and today's global justice and human rights movements,...