Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Tourism written by Pamela Nowicka and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide to Tourism written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people like to take a break by exploring somewhere new, whether it’s with just a backpack or with a fleet of luggage. But there is more to a holiday that visiting “attractions,” sampling local foods, and napping in a hammock. Being a tourist is easy - tourism is complex. In this No-Nonsense Guide, Pamela Nowicka explores the third largest industry in the world (after oil and narcotics) and its profound economic, social, and environmental impacts. Taking the reader on a trip from the early days of travel to the first package tours and on to today’s mass tourism, she argues that without a greater commitment to equitable and sustainable practices, tourists of all stripes will continue to be part of the problem, not the solution.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity written by Vanessa Baird and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to World Health written by Shereen Usdin and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of modern healthcare shows that public health is largely determined by socio-economic factors.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to Islam written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to International Migration written by Peter Stalker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social sciences.
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide to International Development written by Maggie Black and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2014 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade 3rd Edition written by Sally Blundell and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2013 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book No Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism 2nd Edition written by Jonathan Barker and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to the United Nations written by Maggie Black and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the United Nations, including its history, structure, and organization; successes and failures; and suggestions for reform to address some of its limitations.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism written by Jonathan Barker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly accessible history of terrorism looking at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism and terrorist fringes of political movements. Covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them, including: the proliferation of terrorist activities over recent years and international hotspots, the war on terror', terrorist acts carried out by states and the constraints on democracy and political and civil liberties that so often characterise the response to terrorism.'
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade written by David Ransom and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the people who grow our bananas and cocoa and make our clothes, this No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade tells the human story behind what we consume. Examin-ing the global contest between “free” and “fair” trade, David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people. And as fair trade products are being turned into brands by large corporations, a new contest opens—it is no longer just a question of fair versus free, but what kind of fair trade.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to World Music written by Louise Gray and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to International Development written by Maggie Black and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building dams in India, planting trees in Burkina Faso, rescuing street children in Brazil - these are images of aid and international development with which we can all identify. However, what passes for development all too often improves life for the better off while actively hurting the very people the venture was meant to support. Maggie Black exposes the hypocrisy and reveals a more accurate picture of what is happening in development's name, arguing for a process to be put inplace that trule defends the interests of poor people.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Global Finance written by Peter Stalker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic concepts of finance are introduced and explained in this No-Nonsense Guide. Includes information on how money is created as well as how decisions by banking and other financial service corporations determine the fate of billions of people. In today's turbulent economical climate, this guide makes for essential reading.
Download or read book The No nonsense Guide to Animal Rights written by Catharine Grant and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows why the promotion and protection of animal rights is more critical than ever.
