We a good story
Quick delivery in the UK

Books in the Global Issues series

Filter
Filter
Sort bySort Series order
  • - The Threat of GM Crops to Farmers
    by Robert Ali Brac de la Perriere & Franck Seuret
    £19.49

    Consumers have taken the lead in rejecting genetically modified crops. Giving a voice to farmers who are being pressured by half a dozen giant corporations to grow these crops, this book provides an explanation of what is happening and what is at stake, and a statement of principles.

  • - The Failure of American Leadership
    by Malcolm R. Dando
    £47.99

    The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states.

  •  
    £93.99

    Over the past one hundred years in particular, there has been a steady process by which natural resources (such as ground-water, forests, fishing grounds and grazing land) have been increasingly managed by centralised institutions.

  •  
    £47.99

    Attempts to manage natural resources through collaboration rather than competition, by agreements rather than conflict, have become the touchstone for many who see these efforts as the harbinger of global sustainable development.

  • - Institutions and Procedures
     
    £47.99

    In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths.

  • - Prospects for Effective International Verification
    by John Mathiason & Berhanykun Andemicael
    £93.99

    The events of September 11 2001 have altered the course of arms control intended to eliminate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has made the role of international organizations controversial.

  • by Simon Whitby
    £47.99

    Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents. It shows that all biological warfare programmes have included a component concerned with the development of anti-crop biological warfare agents and munitions.

  • by O. Richmond
    £93.99

    This study explores three generations of approaches to ending conflict in the context of the failings of the Westphalian international system. It asks what role such approaches have played and are playing in replicating an international system prone to intractable forms of conflict.

  • - International Dissidence
     
    £114.49

    This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions.

  • by Malcolm Dando
    £47.99

    During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses.

  • - From Research Agendas to Global Strategy
     
    £83.99

    This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and the implications for ethics, policy and society.

  • - Corporations versus People
    by Ann-Christin Sjölander Holland
    £24.49

    The story of water business around the world.

  • - Ideas for a New World Economy
    by Walden Bello
    £19.49 - 88.99

    A landmark work in dissecting global capitalism's multitude of failings and offering a viable, more equitable, alternative.

  • - Social Justice in the Age of the Market
    by Koen De Feyter
    £24.49

    An examination of how globalisation has harmed human rights.

  • - Ethnicity, Nation-building and Compromise in Mauritius
    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
    £34.49 - 123.99

    Mauritius is the focus for this study of social identity and political culture. The book seeks to enhance comparative understanding of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.

  • - An Alternative Economic Policy Manual
    by Ha-Joon Chang & Ilene Grabel
    £18.49

    After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.

  • - The Politics of Wealth, Health and Air Pollution
    by Judith A. Cherni
    £93.99

    Cherni presents a critical text of interdisciplinary research and a theoretical argued case for analyzing a physical/social problem with a political economic approach. The author identifies the convergence of global economic growth trends and the localization of environmental and health risks.

  • by Moira Feil
    £45.49 - 47.99

    Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods. Feil highlights the discrepancies between political and theoretical expectations of corporate engagement and governance contributions.

  • - Britain, Trident and the Challenges Ahead
    by Nick Ritchie
    £38.49 - 47.99

    President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK finds itself embarked on a controversial and expensive programme to renew its Trident nuclear weapons system. What does the UK process tell about the prospects for disarmament?

  • - Science and Its Uses
    by Robert Boardman
    £38.49 - 47.99

    Science and politics are closely connected in today's global environmental issues. This book focuses on these links in relation to climate change, the threats to wildlife species, and natural hazards and disasters. Study of these reveals the need for more effective international cooperation and the limits of global governance.

  • - Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers
    by Gabriel Torres
    £34.49

    As part of the "Global Issues" series, this volume examines such areas as: searching for new ways of understanding farmworkers; plunging into the garlic - methodological issues and challenges; tomato work; and the politics of tomato work - agribusiness in Autlan history.

  • - Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice
    by Judith Kapferer
    £34.49 - 123.99

    In a postcolonial age of globalizing economies, the political quest for national identity has become increasingly urgent. This text traces the ways the Australian state and people struggle to represent social and cultural practices to which class, gender and ethnicity are fundamental.

  • - Racism and the End of Anthropology
    by Peter Rigby
    £36.49 - 123.99

    Features an African response to the stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. This work highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, and demonstrates how some of America's revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses.

  • by Robert Deliege
    £40.99 - 124.49

    Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

  • - Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador
    by Eduardo P. Archetti
    £34.49 - 123.99

    Presents a description of the range of cultural practices surrounding the guinea pig, ranging from the way the animals are reared, through a cuisine, to their role in ritual life. This book highlights the way the gender dimension is central to understanding resistances to 'modernization' and the power of 'experts'.

  • - The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
    by Christopher C. Taylor
    £34.49 - 123.99

    In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. This text attempts to understand the atrocities of the genocide.

  • - Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology
    by Gavin Smith
    £36.49

    Shrinking distances and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically relevant anthropology?

Join thousands of book lovers

Sign up to our newsletter and receive discounts and inspiration for your next reading experience.