Resources, Efficiency and Globalization by Pavlos Dimitratos, Marian V. Jones (eds.)

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 healthiness. It not just ended in Oprah's announcement that she'd by no means consume 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 just about paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts in the course of the propaganda of red meat and dairy pursuits -- and the govt firms that safeguard them -- to reveal an animal-based nutrition because the fundamental reason behind melanoma, center sickness, and weight problems during this state. He warns that the cattle is repeating the blunders that ended in Mad Cow ailment in England whereas at the same time inflicting critical harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, basic, and whole of the down-home stable humor and optimism of a son of the soil, Mad Cowboy is either an inspirational tale of non-public transformation and a powerful name to motion for a plant-based nutrition -- for the nice of the planet and the well-being folks all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

IS GLOBALIZATION AN accidental RECIPE FOR battle?
Taking this query as its place to begin, James Macdonald's while Globalization Fails deals 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 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 by way of the carnage of 1914–1918. looking the security of monetary self-sufficiency, international locations grew to become first to protectionism after which to territorial growth 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 financial system, a brand new foreign order was once created, buttressing unfastened exchange with the casual supremacy of the U.S.. 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 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 vital as its trenches, and the second one global battle may be understood as an inevitable fight for important uncooked fabrics in a global that had rejected loose alternate. this present day China's fiscal and armed forces enlargement is undermining the Pax Americana that had saved monetary 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 way of bright citation, whilst Globalization Fails recasts what we all know in regards to the prior and increases important questions about 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 expect concerning the global. to write down this ebook, she spent 3 years touring to sizzling spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the us investigating the dynamics of unlawful exchange round the world--from blood diamonds and fingers to prescription drugs, exotica, and staples like foodstuff 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 the earth. grownup literacy courses in constructing international locations are frequently ineffectual and relatively constrained results. to enhance results, a lot emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental enterprises, expanding learner motivation, and reinforcing social advantages.