Books published by New Internationalist Publications Ltd

Award-winning activist and bestselling author Vandana Shiva exposes the unaccountable actions of the ultra-rich and takes her place at the forefront of the fightback.

For this sixth collection of stories seeking the most innovative writing emerging from the continent, we asked for stories of Africa''s hotels: grand and shabby, real and imaginary, pulsating with life and abandoned. Here, it''s not just the walls that speak (and weep); the corridors, kitchens, lobbies, bars and beds all have stories to tell. But none more so than the array of characters jostling each other across these pages: tourists, cleaners, children, beggars, honeymooners, cooks, soldiers, those travelling hopefully.

A sparkling anthology of short stories featuring the first twenty winners of the Caine Prize, Africa''s premier literary competition. This prestigious collection reflects the richness and diversity of African experience and features stories from Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda and Sierra Leone.

Vanni is a graphic novel focusing on the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the ''Tamil Tigers'', from the perspective of a single family. Inspired by Dix''s experience of working in Sri Lanka for the UN during the war, Vanni draws upon over four years of meticulous research, first-hand interviews, official reports, and cross-referencing with experts in the field. Elegantly drawn by Lindsay Pollock, Vanni takes readers through the otherwise unimaginable struggles, horrors and life-changing decisions families and individuals are forced to make when caught in conflict.

Links and networking between Far-Right politicians all over the world are causing widespread alarm but the Left can also pool its own experience and offer inspiration as it seeks to turn the tide back towards justice, equality and human rights.Dissidents of the International Left features interviews with progressives, leftists, liberals, leaders of social movements, dissidents, anarchists and feminists from across the globe. Their views, in their own words.Lesser-known thinkers and activists have the same platform as the pre-eminent figures on the Left, giving a nuanced insight into the different strands of the international and domestic leftist currents pulsing throughout the world.How have the Kurdish revolutionaries in Rojava ended up putting into practice US thinker Murray Bookchin's idea of libertarian municipalism? Why have the policies of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch offended activists in North Africa? Are US military interventions ever justifiable from a leftist viewpoint? 'The discussions in this book can be a model for our future course. They provide an example of the best kind of globalization - globalization from below.' - John Feffer, Institute of Policy Studies

An essential graphic reconstruction of some of the most important episodes in our shared labour history

The Memory We Could Be attempts to move beyond the sterile, technical language that has pervaded discussions around climate change and ecology. It seeks to counter the bureaucratic prose of our conversations, to humanise the abstraction of global warming, and bring different voices into the conversation. Drawing on a variety of sources - from anthropology to hydrology, botany to economics, agronomy to astrobiology, medicine to oceanography, physics to history - the author weaves a concise, lyrical and powerful story of our relationship with nature.

A career guide aimed at anyone who wants to do something meaningful with their working life, for both jobseekers and career switchers.

The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns. Anyone who cares about climate change can draw on the lessons of the book to help build a climate majority.

Now entering its seventeenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.

A graphic introduction to the most important radical critiques of violence, from Fanon to Chomsky, Foucault to Sontag.