Globalization and health by Hanefeld, Johanna

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

Howard Lyman's testimony at the Oprah Winfrey exhibit published the lethal effect 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 substances in agriculture after constructing a spinal tumor that just about paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts in the course of the propaganda of pork and dairy pursuits -- and the govt. organisations that guard them -- to show an animal-based vitamin because the fundamental reason behind melanoma, center illness, and weight problems during this nation. He warns that the cattle is repeating the blunders that ended in Mad Cow sickness in England whereas concurrently inflicting severe harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, user-friendly, and whole of the down-home solid 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 nice of the planet and the healthiness folks all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

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

In the overdue 19th century, liberals exulted that the unfold of foreign trade might herald prosperity and peace. An period of monetary interdependence, they believed, may render wars too high priced to salary. yet those desires have been dashed via the carnage of 1914–1918. looking the protection of financial self-sufficiency, international locations grew to become first to protectionism after which to territorial enlargement within the 1930s—leading back to devastating clash. Following the second one global struggle, the globalists attempted once again. With the communist bloc disconnected from the worldwide economic system, a brand new overseas order was once created, buttressing unfastened exchange 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 susceptible. 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 global War's naval blockades have been as very important as its trenches, and the second one global warfare will be understood as an inevitable fight for very important uncooked fabrics in a global that had rejected loose exchange. this present day China's fiscal and army growth is undermining the Pax Americana that had stored monetary insecurities at bay, threatening to resurrect the aggressive multipolar international of the early 20th century with all its attendant hazards. Expertly mixing political and fiscal heritage and enlivened by way of bright citation, whilst Globalization Fails recasts what we all know in regards to the earlier and increases very important questions on the long run.

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 beautiful paintings of anthropology that has the facility to alter the way in which we predict in regards to the international. to jot down this e-book, she spent 3 years touring to scorching spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. investigating the dynamics of unlawful exchange round the world--from blood diamonds and fingers to prescribed drugs, exotica, and staples like nutrients 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 particularly constrained results. to enhance results, a lot emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental businesses, expanding learner motivation, and reinforcing social advantages.