The golden insect : a handbook on beekeeping for beginners by Stephen Adjare

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 future health. It not just resulted in Oprah's announcement that she'd by no means devour 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 just about paralyzed him. Now a vegetarian, he blasts throughout the propaganda of pork and dairy pursuits -- and the govt. organizations that safeguard them -- to reveal an animal-based vitamin because the fundamental reason behind melanoma, middle illness, and weight problems during this nation. He warns that the farm animals is repeating the errors that resulted in Mad Cow disorder in England whereas concurrently inflicting severe harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, straight forward, and whole of the down-home reliable 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 great of the planet and the healthiness people all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

IS GLOBALIZATION AN accidental RECIPE FOR struggle?
Taking this question as its start line, James Macdonald's whilst Globalization Fails bargains a wealthy, unique account of struggle, 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 could bring in prosperity and peace. An period of financial interdependence, they believed, could render wars too expensive to salary. yet those goals have been dashed through the carnage of 1914–1918. looking the protection of financial self-sufficiency, countries became 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 overseas order used to be created, buttressing loose 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 additionally extra weak. And whereas financial interdependence pushes towards cooperation, the ensuing experience of monetary 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 warfare could be understood as an inevitable fight for important uncooked fabrics in a global that had rejected unfastened exchange. at the present time China's monetary and armed forces enlargement is undermining the Pax Americana that had stored financial insecurities at bay, threatening to resurrect the aggressive multipolar international of the early 20th century with all its attendant hazards. Expertly mixing political and financial heritage and enlivened by way of brilliant citation, while Globalization Fails recasts what we all know in regards to the prior and increases very 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 predict concerning the global. to put in writing this publication, she spent 3 years touring to sizzling spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the us investigating the dynamics of unlawful alternate round the world--from blood diamonds and hands to prescription 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 really constrained results. to enhance results, a lot emphasis has been given to empowering nongovernmental firms, expanding learner motivation, and reinforcing social merits.