A highly original and provocative examination of 'no borders politics' and what this means within current contentious debates on migration. In No Borders, Natasha King draws on more than a decade of experience as a migrant rights activist as well as extensive research in Greece…
Ullman tries to balance her life, "close to the machine" as a computer programmer with the social and philosophical repercussions of her work.
Exposes the increasing levels of structural discrimination against women in post-socialist China, and the broader damage this has caused to China's economy, politics, and development. --From publisher description.
In 1983, a small group of Mexicans traveled to the Lacandón Jungle in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, with the dream of organizing a national revolution. For the next ten years they lived with the indigenous Mayan communities there, listening, learning and blending with them…
Ranging over subjects as diverse as genetic engineering, biotechnology, medicine and military science, Ravets shows that seeing science as a process involving funding, research, reputations, publication and social and cultural concerns, gives us the best basis for effective acti…
"This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against Black, Brown, Indigenous and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures. It also makes a compelling and provocative argument against cal…
This is one in a series of 'No Nonsense Guides' that cut through the confusion and spin, presenting the facts and arguments, history and strategies surrounding Islam in as accessible way as possible.
An account of the major religions of the world and their role in the daily lives of believers--who constitute most of the globe's inhabitants. Discusses what religion means, how we relate to it, how it was created, and how it affects us culturally, politically, and spiritually t…
Discusses the history of the zinester videogame scene and advises the reader on how best to make their own videogames.
"This No-Nonsense Guide looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the advances in international law that have led to some rights abusers facing justice, and the conflicts that can occur when rights …
Presenting the entire history of the United Nations, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings and limitations.
"Each new scientific report on climate change makes increasingly alarming predictions about global warming. The threat is impossible to ignore. Or is it? Most governments have responded slowly, if at all, betraying an attitude of denial and a reluctance to instigate change." "Fu…
"The No-Nonsense Guide is excellent for students, peace groups and activists. With tables, maps, case studies and quotes it looks at how conflict escalates and ways it can be prevented. It examines the changing types of war, including the 'War on Terror' and ethnic conflict such…
Explores the diversity of world media, from the corporate to the independent. Introduces readers to the political economy of the major media outlets, looking at the concentration of ownership and the convergence of technologies and media functions. Encourages us to question how …
"From coffee farms in Peru and cocoa production in Ghana to jeans manufacture in China and the Banana War of Guatemala and the Caribbean, this fully revised No-Nonsense Guide tells the human story behind the products we consume. Examining the contest between 'free' and 'fair' tr…
A pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The location of vast quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs, in the last decade Arctic…
Bands including Dead, Euronymous, and Varg Vikernes -- along with sociologists, police officers, theologians, and occultists -- recount how the satanic Black Metal, a spin-off of the heavy metal underground, devolved into acts of church burning, murder, and suicide in Scandinavi…
At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. Drawing on sources from around the world, as well as on hard facts, the author challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite…
