Globalization and National Security by Jonathan Kirshner

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

Howard Lyman's testimony at the Oprah Winfrey exhibit printed the lethal impression of the cattle on our overall healthiness. It not just resulted in Oprah's announcement that she'd by no means consume a burger back, it despatched surprise waves via a involved and weak 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 during the propaganda of pork and dairy pursuits -- and the govt. organisations that defend them -- to reveal an animal-based vitamin because the fundamental reason behind melanoma, center affliction, and weight problems during this kingdom. He warns that the cattle is repeating the blunders that ended in Mad Cow disorder in England whereas concurrently inflicting severe harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, basic, and entire 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 vitamin -- for the nice of the planet and the well-being people all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

IS GLOBALIZATION AN unintentional RECIPE FOR conflict?
Taking this question as its place to begin, James Macdonald's while Globalization Fails bargains a wealthy, unique account of warfare, 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 overseas trade might bring in prosperity and peace. An period of monetary 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, countries became first to protectionism after which to territorial enlargement within the 1930s—leading back to devastating clash. Following the second one global battle, 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 us. yet this benign interval is coming to an finish.

According to Macdonald, the worldwide trade in items is a combined blessing. It makes countries wealthier, but in addition extra susceptible. And whereas monetary interdependence pushes towards cooperation, the ensuing experience 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 warfare might be understood as an inevitable fight for important uncooked fabrics in an international that had rejected unfastened exchange. at the present time China's monetary and army enlargement 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 hazards. Expertly mixing political and financial historical past and enlivened via shiny citation, whilst Globalization Fails recasts what we all know concerning the prior 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 gorgeous paintings of anthropology that has the facility to alter the way in which we expect in regards to the international. to put in writing this e-book, she spent 3 years touring to scorching spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. investigating the dynamics of unlawful alternate round the world--from blood diamonds and hands to prescription 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 1000000000 grownup illiterates on the earth. grownup literacy courses in constructing international locations are frequently ineffectual and fairly constrained results. to enhance results, a lot emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental corporations, expanding learner motivation, and reinforcing social advantages.