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Football
Chris Brazier s Trigger Issues book explores football in an era of globalization showing how it reflects some of the major trade-offs between wealth and poverty while also having an almost limitless capacity to transcend geography, culture and class. "
The No-nonsense Guide to World History
This guide integrates concisely the conventional narratives of history with the stories of the continents and communities of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing 2020
Now in its 21st year, the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is African’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection brings together the five stories on the 2020 shortlist. The authors shortlisted for the 2020 AKO Caine Prize are: - Jowhor Ile (Nigeria) for Fisherman’s Stew - Rémy Ngamije (Rwanda/Namibia) for The Neighbourhood Watch - Irenosen Okojie (Nigeria) for Grace Jones - Erica Sugo Anyadike (Tanzania) for How to Marry an African President - Chikodili Emeladu (Nigeria) for What to do when your child brings home a Mami Wata The 2020 judging panel comprises: - Kenneth Olumuyiwa Th...
Brief Histories of Almost Anything
Here are fifty concise, entertaining histories on a broad, eclectic range of ideas (borders, feminism), global issues (migration, world trade), commodities (bananas, jeans), regions (Africa, Ireland), and institutions (corporations, the World Bank). Lucid and irreverent, Brief Histories of Almost Anything challenges common perceptions associated with the subjects by going behind the facts. Each history has been selected from the New Internationalist magazine, a leading authority on alternative history and “Best International Coverage” winner in the Utne Reader Independent Press Awards. Edited by Chris Brazier, author of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guide to World History.
No-Nonsense Guide to World History, 3rd Edition
Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China's history? Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This updated No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks from the civilizations of Africa, Asia and Latin America to the history of women. This updated and revised edition of one of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guides includes a new chapter from the perspective of the end of the first decade of the 21st century and includes material on the financial crisis and the world response to climate change. A perfect read for someone who wants to embrace the whole of history, rather than disconnected dynasties and events all in one slim volume.
Letters from the Edge
The best and most timeless examples of New Internationalist magazine's acclaimed Letters From series, in which women writers have homed in on the nuances and resonances of everyday life and culture in 12 different locations around the world. Examples include villages in Mongolia, Cairo, the Colombian rainforest, Lahore and a provincial city in China. Each section has a brief biography of the writer, followed by a summary of the relevant country's political situation at the time of writing.
Raging Against the Machine
For over thirty years, the core concerns of New Internationalist have been: Anger at the world's ever-growing divide between rich and poor; concern at the state of the environment and the damage done by consumer culture; and resistance to the economic sway of transnational corporations and the IMF/World Bank axis that backs them up. This collection of the most influential pieces of writing published by the magazine is far more than just a retrospective, but a reflection of the evolution of the international movement of resistance to Washington-led globalisation.
One World Two
One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to One World and another globe-trotting collection of stories. But it is more than simply an anthology of short fiction, as it contains representative literature from all over the world, conveying the reader on thought-provoking journeys across continents, cultures and landscapes. One World Two is even more ambitious than Volume One in its geographic scope, featuring twenty-one writers drawn from every continent. Most of the stories are unique to this volume, while others are appearing for the first time in English (Egypt's Mansoura Ez-Eldin and Brazil's Vanessa Barbara). The themes and writing styles are as richly diverse as their writers' orig...
Building the Future
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by the international community in 2015 represent an ambitious effort to set a global agenda for development that is both equitable and sustainable, in social, economic and environmental terms. The earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) prioritized the reduction of poverty, as well as progress in related social indicators. The 17 goals of the SDGs add to this a series of outcomes associated with inequality, economic development, the environment and climate change, as well as peace and security. In contrast to the MDGs, which primarily applied to low- and middle-income countries, the ambitious agenda of the SDGs is of necessity universal; it thus applies to rich countries, as well as poor.
Political Animals
The wily fox...the sibilant snake...the fawning dog. They're all out there in the political arena. This little gift book for the political cynic marries quotations with images for an entertaining jaunt through a zoo of political characters that everyone will recognise. The perfect gift book with political punch.
