Competitive Advantage and Competition Policy in Developing by Paul Cook, Raul V. Fabella, Cassey Lee

Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

Howard Lyman's testimony at the Oprah Winfrey express published the lethal influence of the cattle on our healthiness. It not just ended in Oprah's statement that she'd by no means devour a burger back, it despatched surprise waves via a involved and susceptible public.
A fourth-generation Montana rancher, Lyman investigated using chemical compounds in agriculture after constructing a spinal tumor that almost paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts throughout the propaganda of pork and dairy pursuits -- and the govt businesses that safeguard them -- to reveal an animal-based vitamin because the fundamental reason for melanoma, middle ailment, and weight problems during this nation. He warns that the cattle is repeating the blunders that resulted in Mad Cow disorder in England whereas at the same time inflicting severe harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, simple, and whole of the down-home strong humor and optimism of a son of the soil, Mad Cowboy is either an inspirational tale of non-public transformation and a resounding name to motion for a plant-based nutrition -- for the great of the planet and the overall healthiness folks all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

IS GLOBALIZATION AN unintentional RECIPE FOR struggle?
Taking this query as its place to begin, James Macdonald's whilst Globalization Fails deals a wealthy, unique account of battle, peace, and exchange within the 20th century—and a cautionary story for the twenty-first.

In the past due 19th century, liberals exulted that the unfold of foreign trade may bring in prosperity and peace. An period of financial interdependence, they believed, might render wars too high priced to salary. yet those desires have been dashed through the carnage of 1914–1918. looking the security of financial self-sufficiency, international locations became first to protectionism after which to territorial enlargement within the 1930s—leading back to devastating clash. Following the second one international struggle, the globalists attempted once again. With the communist bloc disconnected from the worldwide financial system, a brand new overseas order was once created, buttressing unfastened alternate with the casual supremacy of the USA. yet this benign interval is coming to an finish.

According to Macdonald, the worldwide trade in items is a combined blessing. It makes international locations wealthier, but additionally extra weak. And whereas fiscal interdependence pushes towards cooperation, the ensuing feel of financial lack of confidence pulls within the contrary direction—toward repeated clash. In Macdonald's telling, the 1st international War's naval blockades have been as very important as its trenches, and the second one international conflict may be understood as an inevitable fight for important uncooked fabrics in an international that had rejected unfastened exchange. at the present time China's fiscal and armed forces growth is undermining the Pax Americana that had stored financial insecurities at bay, threatening to resurrect the aggressive multipolar global of the early 20th century with all its attendant risks. Expertly mixing political and financial historical past and enlivened by means of vibrant citation, whilst Globalization Fails recasts what we all know concerning the earlier and increases important questions on the longer term.

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World (California Series in Public Anthropology)

Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of worldwide crime during this wonderful paintings of anthropology that has the facility to alter the best way we predict concerning the global. to write down this booklet, she spent 3 years touring to sizzling spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the USA investigating the dynamics of unlawful exchange round the world--from blood diamonds and palms to prescribed drugs, exotica, and staples like nutrition and oil.

Improving Adult Literacy Outcomes: Lessons from Cognitive Research for Developing Countries (World Bank Directions in Development)

There are nearly a billion grownup illiterates on this planet. grownup literacy courses in constructing nations are usually ineffectual and fairly constrained results. to enhance results, a lot emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental enterprises, expanding learner motivation, and reinforcing social merits.