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The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
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Nicholas Gilby |
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One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this No-Nonsense Guide puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history. Despite the cynicism, bribery, and corruption that characterize trade, it continues to receive government backing and UN Security Council member states are the biggest exporters of arms, often to repressive regimes.
Nicholas Gilby, who led Campaign Against ...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
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Peter Stalker |
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An incisive introduction to global finance, where money comes from, the current mechanisms and the need for control and reform. The book explains the basic concepts of finance, how money is created, and how decisions by banking and other financial service corporations are determining the fate of billions of people. Right from the introduction the guide sets recent events into context, indicating how the flow...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To World Health
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Shereen Usdin |
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This is 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 and private health provision, media, gender, and the environment.
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Sexual Diversity
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Vanessa Baird |
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Is there a gay gene? Do we have the right to operate on intersex children? Gay, straight, bisexual, transsexual - the world is changing for sexual minorities. This no-nonsense guide surveys the hidden history and geography of sexually unconventional behavior. And it explores the reasons behind the war being waged against sexual non-conformists by religious fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim or Hindu....
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The No-Nonsense Guide To International Development
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Maggie Black |
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The excellent short introduction traces the history of development from its post-colonial beginnings, and examines the relationship between development and economic growth, the impact development has had on the living conditions of the poor and on the environment, and whether development will have a specific role in the future, or whether it will simplly subsumed under the concept of globalization.
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The No-Nonsense Guide To World Poverty
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Jeremy Seabrook |
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Why are so many people poor in a world that's richer than ever before? Seabrook summarizes his celebrated work on the meaning of poverty, drawing on the experience of poor people themselves in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but 'sufficiency'. The relatively poor majority of the world's people do not aim to be rich, but to be safe. Economic growth will ne...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
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Dinyar Godrej |
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A Canadian Mounties boat negotiates the Arctic Northwest package without coming up against pack ice. Floods devastate Mozambique, and tinder-dry forests of the American Northwest go up in a blaze. Just blips in the world's weather systems or unmistakeable signals that human influence is to blame? As billion dollar catastrophes pile up, insurance giants are beginning to take warnings by the scientific communi...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Fair Trade
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David Ransom |
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Ransom vividly reveals the realities of trade as experienced by coffee growers in Central America or the workers making jeans in Bangladesh sweatshops. He details the conflicts between the mainly western-owned global corporations and the poorer nations whose natural resources and cheap manpower sustain corporate profits, and who are also the unwilling purchasers of overpriced and inappropriate goods. And he ...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Globalization
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Wayne Ellwood |
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"This book is a lucid explanatory map of our current condition. For all who seek to think past corporate slogans to life-responsible government (this)..is a concise and valuable overview of the world system, what has gone wrong with it - and the way ahead." [John McMurtry]
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Class, Caste & Hierarchies
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Jeremy Seabrook |
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An excellent beginners guide, from feudalism to today's 'globalization'. And how class, and stratification works, not just in Britain, but today in America, and India, and Africa... "especially valuable in the way it identifies the new class f the rich, the celebrities and others who play 'a significant role in reconciling the poor to their status.' This book is timely, authoritative...excellent." [John Pilg...
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