Author: Pamela Nowicka
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 190445660X
Category : Ecotourism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. From labour conditions to development by stealth to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. |The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works.| - George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of Captive State
The No-nonsense Guide to Tourism
Author: Pamela Nowicka
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 190445660X
Category : Ecotourism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. From labour conditions to development by stealth to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. |The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works.| - George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of Captive State
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 190445660X
Category : Ecotourism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. From labour conditions to development by stealth to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. |The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works.| - George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of Captive State
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
Author: Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty—is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist.
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty—is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
Author: Vanessa Baird
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
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 guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at contributions from medicine and science. It also includes a unique global survey of laws that affect sexual minorities. Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Her previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
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 guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at contributions from medicine and science. It also includes a unique global survey of laws that affect sexual minorities. Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Her previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health
Author: Shereen Usdin
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1904456650
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
A history of modern healthcare shows that public health is largely determined by socio-economic factors.
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1904456650
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
A history of modern healthcare shows that public health is largely determined by socio-economic factors.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523622
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war. Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523622
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war. Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.
The No-nonsense Guide to International Migration
Author: Peter Stalker
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1904456944
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Social sciences.
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1904456944
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Social sciences.
No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
Author: Maggie Black
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771130598
Category : Development economics
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771130598
Category : Development economics
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, 3rd Edition
Author: Sally Blundell
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771131187
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producersat the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771131187
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producersat the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.
No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism, 2nd Edition
Author: Jonathan Barker
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771130547
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Terrorism and counter-terrorism have become key points in political talk and government policy. This No-Nonsense Guide has been revised and updated to take account of the major changes in global terrorism over the past seven years. Jonathan Barker presents a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at examples from the Middle East and elsewhere, instances of state terrorism, and the terrorist fringes of political movements. He also delves beneath the surface, offering political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism, the theories that justify and guide terrorist acts, and the battle of images that accompanies them.
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771130547
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Terrorism and counter-terrorism have become key points in political talk and government policy. This No-Nonsense Guide has been revised and updated to take account of the major changes in global terrorism over the past seven years. Jonathan Barker presents a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at examples from the Middle East and elsewhere, instances of state terrorism, and the terrorist fringes of political movements. He also delves beneath the surface, offering political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism, the theories that justify and guide terrorist acts, and the battle of images that accompanies them.
The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music
Author: Louise Gray
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523703
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
"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 to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities, music in conflict zones, and music as escapism. In this unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, the author makes the case for music as a powerful tool able to bring individuals together. Louise Gray is a writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in the New Internationalist, The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, and Art Review. She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1906523703
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
"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 to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities, music in conflict zones, and music as escapism. In this unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, the author makes the case for music as a powerful tool able to bring individuals together. Louise Gray is a writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in the New Internationalist, The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, and Art Review. She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.