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Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How we've made such a mess of our money system is explained, from the earliest banks right through to «collateralized debt obligations.» The author suggests the framework for a fairer financial world: the practical ideas, required regulations, and real-life examples. [b]Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the [i]New Internationalist who now works as a consultant to a number of UN agencies. His books include [i]Workers without Frontiers: The Impact of Globalization on International Migration and the [i]No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration.
NoNonsense ISIS and Syria
By leading American journalist, activist, and political commentator, Phyllis Bennis, who has written numerous books about the Middle East. Written in accessible Frequently Asked Questions format, suitable for the general reader and students. Very timely given UK involvement in strikes on Syria. It covers the Paris attacks. The rise of ISIS has been so fast and dramatic that there is a demand for robust and balanced commentary and analysis in order to understand how it came into being and where it fits in this incredibly complex region. Puts ISIS in a global context, and examines the role of other nations.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at new levels of environmental sustainability without having turning the clock back to the Dark Ages. A title for anyone interested in economics, the psychology of consumerism and progressive change. Wayne Ellwood is former co-editor of New Internationalist magazine. He is author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (over fifty thousand sold).
Why Things Are Going to Get Worse - And Why We Should Be Glad
The free-market capitalist system is in the process of collapse and we must now adjust to the reality of declining prosperity in the West. We should forget about growth and concentrate instead on the creation of jobs and reducing fossil fuel use—and it isn't impossible to achieve these two apparently conflicting aims.This is the thrust of the author's arguments and through the use of clear consistent charts he builds his case up from first principles. He graphically illustrates every important point and creates a compelling and powerful picture of why it's bad, why it's going to get worse, and why this presents an opportunity to make things better.This is a vision of life in which we will be forced to confront the real issues. Among other things, we must recognize that all wealth comes from the earth, we must concentrate on creating jobs and sharing earnings more fairly, and we should have more regulation especially in relation to banks and corporations and reducing competition between nations. And most of all we must return to the real values of real industry away from the current obsession with making money from money. Mike Roscoe is a journalist with many years' experience in the interpretation of data and the illustration of such information in graphic form, accompanied by clear and concise text. He has worked at the Financial Times , the Economist , the Daily Telegraph , and the Independent .
Haifa Fragments
Debut novel from young Palestinian feminist writer.An illuminating story of a young Palestinian of Christian background living in Israel, regularly crossing the border into the Occupied Territories.
Integrity
Vera is a nurse from Sweden who, while delivering a dangerous birth in the Colombian jungle, makes contact with indigenous people who give her a wholly different outlook on life. A traumatic experience takes her home, her life in pieces, just like the world as she now sees it. Her quest to put her life back together becomes tied up with her vision of a more sustainable world.She meets the corporate heir to a company specializing in luxury travel who has a predatory attitude to women. Could such opposites really attract? And, if they came together, could they actually do something to halt the global march to self-destruction? An exploration of the inter-connectedness of human life and an unexpected love story, [i]Integrity delves deep into the choices and emotions of a woman trying to change the world, and a man trying to change with her.This genre-bending novel has achieved cult status in Sweden where Anna Borgeryd heads one of the country's most progressive companies. [b]Anna Borgeryd has a PhD in conflict management and is chair of a multi award-winning family business. She is a musician and filmmaker and this, her first novel, started life as a screenplay which won several awards in Sweden. She has been an advisor to the Swedish government's Future Commission. She has given a TEDx lecture on [i]The Dawn of a New Economy and in 2014 she was named among the fifteen most influential environmentalists in Sweden. She blogs at Wood and Blue (annaborgeryd.tumblr.com).
The Walk
It is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles, working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings (and purse strings) of people in the West. Aided by Anne Chaffey, an experienced nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for many years, he locates a young, malnourished Afar man called Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back to London. The world's media are then invited to witness a skeletal Mujtabaa making a week-long walk from Heathrow to a rally in Trafalgar Square. In fundraising terms, this us a great success—but the ethics of the exercise, the human impact on all concerned and the ultimate result are all profoundly to be questioned. The Walk is a provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations. Situated in one single week it explores how far you can go to prick the public conscience. Peter Barry was born in England, brought up in Scotland and now lives in Australia. He is the author of two other novels, I Hate Martin Amis Et Al and We All Fall Down and has had many short stories published in literary journals. He was shortlisted for Australia Book Review's Calibre essay prize. He has been a copywriter in both the UK and Australia and has also written three corporate books.
The Bleeding Edge
Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better, more equal worlds, and still can. Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the bones of the idea that 'another world is possible', using as evidence the technology that capitalism claims as quintessentially its own: the computer in all its forms. Contrary to popular belief capitalism does not do innovation well – instead suppressing or appropriating it. This book shows that great innovations have never emerged from capitalism per se, but always from the utopian moments that occur behind the capitalist's back. And when it does embrace an innovation, the results are often the diametric opposite of what the innovators intended. In this thorough and meticulous work Hughes argues that if we only prioritized equality over materialism then superior and more diverse technologies would emerge leading to a richer more sustainable world. Bob Hughes is an academic, activist, and author. Formerly he taught electronic media Oxford Brookes University and now spends his time researching and campaigning against inequality. He is author of Dust or Magic, a book for digital multimedia workers, about how people «do good stuff with computers.» He is a member of No One is Illegal, which campaigns for the total abolition of immigration controls, for whom he has written many articles.
Portraits of Violence
Bringing together established academics and award-winning comic book writers and illustrators, Portraits of Violence illustrates the most compelling ideas and episodes in the critique of violence. Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Paolo Freire, Michel Foucault, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, and Giorgio Agamben each have ten pages to tell their story in this innovative graphic title. Dr. Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist and author from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Sean Michael Wilson is an acclaimed comic book writer with more than a dozen books published with a variety of US, UK, and Japanese publishers.
S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism
Capitalism is increasing at odds with public opinion and action, and there is a growing understanding that globalized capitalism goes hand-in hand with gross inequality.Capitalism's traditional political opponents have not proposed credible and practical alternatives yet movements such as Occupy indicate the appetite for change is real.So there is great need for books such as this that propose practical alternatives.The book is not partisan to any particular political ideology, but is about grassroots change, building on the thesis of 'One No, Many Yeses'. Transformational but also practical and pragmatic – it advocates approaches that are locally-rooted, participatory and co-operative.Identifies the elements necessary for a program to address if an alternative to capitalism is to have a chance of succeeding. Economy: Work and Income. Politics: State and democracy. Environment: Living within our means. Culture: Identity or celebrity.