Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the by Timothy Brook

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 effect of the cattle on our future health. It not just ended in Oprah's assertion 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 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 red meat and dairy pursuits -- and the govt. companies that shield them -- to reveal an animal-based nutrition because the fundamental reason for melanoma, center sickness, and weight problems during this state. He warns that the cattle is repeating the blunders that resulted in Mad Cow sickness in England whereas at the same time inflicting severe harm to the surroundings.
Persuasive, hassle-free, and whole of the down-home strong humor and optimism of a son of the soil, Mad Cowboy is either an inspirational tale of private transformation and a powerful name to motion for a plant-based vitamin -- for the great of the planet and the overall healthiness people all.

When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana

IS GLOBALIZATION AN accidental RECIPE FOR warfare?
Taking this query as its start line, James Macdonald's whilst 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 overseas trade might herald prosperity and peace. An period of financial interdependence, they believed, may render wars too high priced to salary. yet those goals have been dashed by way of the carnage of 1914–1918. looking the protection of monetary 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 global struggle, the globalists attempted once again. With the communist bloc disconnected from the worldwide economic system, a brand new overseas order used to be 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 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 global War's naval blockades have been as vital as its trenches, and the second one international conflict might be understood as an inevitable fight for important uncooked fabrics in a global that had rejected loose alternate. at the present time China's fiscal and army growth is undermining the Pax Americana that had saved 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 financial heritage and enlivened via bright citation, while Globalization Fails recasts what we all know in regards to the prior 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 world crime during this attractive paintings of anthropology that has the ability to alter the way in which we expect in regards to the international. to write down this e-book, she spent 3 years touring to sizzling spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. investigating the dynamics of unlawful exchange round the world--from blood diamonds and fingers 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 one thousand million grownup illiterates on this planet. grownup literacy courses in constructing nations are frequently 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.