"For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides"Handy guides published by New Internationalist magazine
(Howard Zinn, historian & activist)
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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780260716 | ISBN 10: 1780260717
The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe, including many from the UK. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906523848 | ISBN 10: 1906523843
Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA and MI5, has become part of everyday life. Governments routinely trawl our emails, CCTV cameras follow us on every street, while state databases of our DNA become larger all the time. Ideal for stud ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906523176 | ISBN 10: 1906523177
Guns, landmines, bombs and rockets - the arms trade brings death and destruction to millions of people around the world, many of them civilians. Yet most of these weapons are made in countries which are members of the UN Security council. E ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904456605 | ISBN 10: 190445660x
This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labour conditions to development by stealth; to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. &n ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456407 | ISBN 10: 1904456405
You might think that the protection of animals' rights is a modern, Western concern. In fact, people all over the world and down the ages have cared what happens to animals, and not just the cute mammals. Today animals need protecting more than ever: ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456476 | ISBN 10: 1904456472
Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. We know bits without always understanding how they fit together. This No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing what's hidden by conventional textbooks - from the civi ... more
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