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Explains and examines globalization from all angles - and explores strategies for redesigning the global economy in the common interest.

'For all who seek to think past corporate slogans to life-responsible government, this is a concise and valuable overview.' - Professor John McCurtry, University of Guelph, Canada.

Paperback, 144 pages.

This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand both the illusions, and the realities, of development’s promises. With over 50,000 copies sold, this is fast becoming one of the most accessible and influential books on the subject - fully revised and updated.

'A brilliant overview, comprehensive but succinct, radical but realistic, critical but balanced. It fills a gap in development writing.' - Robert Chambers, IDS Sussex.

Paperback, 144 pages.

Explains solar, wind, hydro, wave, geothermal and other technologies, and how to break the barriers to a 100-per-cent renewable world.

'An essential read for anyone who is planning to be part of the energy revolution.' - Kim Bryan, Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales.

Paperback, 160 pages.

A combination of deregulation, incompetence and greed create has created the conditions for boom and bust. This concise book not only provides an understanding of these factors but also offers strategies for taking them out of the equation, so that governments can bring money back under control.

'Peter Stalker's concise explanation of the money crisis does an excellent job of deconstructing finance.' - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South, Philippines.

Paperback, 144 pages.

This acclaimed series relaunch in 2015 showcases topical issues, cover designs, clearer-than-ever layout with incisive writing for the students and the general reader.

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Author: Sally Blundell

A completely new investigation of the fair trade phenomenon, from the origins to what it is likely to become.

In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world.

The Science, The Solutions, The Way Forward. An accessible and friendly pocket-sized overview of this complex mega-subject, combining all the basics with the latest facts and analysis.

A completely revised edition on the politics of climate in a post-Copenhagen world.

Size: 18cm x 11cm, 192 pages, paperback.
Publication date: 1 March 2011

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Foreword, Contents and Introduction

Globalization is all around us. Every aspect of life is affected by global economics and communications. This new edition of the No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization condenses this complex world into a clear, concise commentary.

Paperback, 152 pages, Size: 18cm x 11cm.