The No Nonsense Guide To Sexual Diversity

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A survey of the history and geography of sexually unconventional behaviour. Includes a country to country survey of the laws affecting sexual minorities.

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Genre : Bisexuality
Author : Vanessa Baird
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2001
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1859843530


The No Nonsense Guide To Sexual Diversity

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The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty. This guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at contributions from medicine and science. It also includes a unique global survey of laws that affect sexual minorities. Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Her previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Vanessa Baird
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2007-10-01
File : 161 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781906523640


The No Nonsense Guide To World Music

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"World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions. Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities, music in conflict zones, and music as escapism. In this unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, the author makes the case for music as a powerful tool able to bring individuals together. Louise Gray is a writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in the New Internationalist, The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, and Art Review. She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.

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Genre : Music
Author : Louise Gray
Publisher : New Internationalist
Release : 2009-06-01
File : 171 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781906523701


The No Nonsense Guide To The Arms Trade

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The ending of the Cold War was supposed to increase global security and divert expenditure previously earmarked for arms purchases to more constructive ends. Instead, the arms trade has flourished. Not only conventional arms, but also police and surveillance equipment, have been provided by Western countries seeking to make a profit from conflict in unstable parts of the world. Foreign debt has remained high, development has been held back, and human rights have been systematically abused, all with the connivance of an arms trade prepared to turn a blind eye to the uses to which increasingly sophisticated weaponry is put, so long as hefty profits can be reaped. This disturbing book names the players in the arms trade and charts the impact that it has had on war, human rights, and development. The financial and trade mechanisms that permit the arms trade to continue are revealed, amid sordid tales of bribery and corruption. Gideon Burrows concludes his examination by reviewing the ways in which this trade can be controlled or even abolished.

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Genre : History
Author : Gideon Burrows
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2002
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 185984426X


The No Nonsense Guide To Terrorism

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Terrorist or freedom fighter? Analyzing the causes and contexts of terrorism the world over, Barker guides readers through the moral and political theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Jonathan Barker
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2003
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1859844332


The No Nonsense Guide To Global Media

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The power and influence of the mass media grows daily, crucially affecting the way all of us see and understand each other. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media introduces readers to the political economy of the major mediafilm, television, radio, recording, publishing and the Internet. Peter Steven looks at the ever greater concentration of ownership and at the convergence of technologies and media functions. At the same time, he emphasizes the diversity of local media production and media around the world. The media is more than the economics of ownership and the technology of production, he stresses; it is also audiences, in all their annoying and wonderful diversity.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Peter Steven
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2003
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1859845819


The No Nonsense Guide To Water

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Water sustains life: without it, humans cannot survive for more than a few days. And yet this precious fluid is becoming increasingly politicized as the debates about control and ownership of water itself, and of the many organizations which govern its use, gain force. Maggie Black explores the many roles water plays in human life and, as the defense of water rights looks set to become an explosive issue, provides a clear overview on the vital issues of distribution, technology, irrigation, land use and commodification.

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Genre : Law
Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2004
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1844675092


No Nonsense Guide To International Development

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Genre : Development economics
Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : Between the Lines
Release : 2014
File : 109 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781771130592


The No Nonsense Guide To World Poverty

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At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. International agencies are all committed to "poverty abatement." The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have renamed their structural adjustment policies "poverty reduction strategies." But can this work? No, argues Jeremy Seabrook, not if we fail to understand the meaning of poverty. Drawing on testimonies from around the world, as well as on the hard facts, he challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of "poor" is not "rich" but "self-reliant." Appealing passionately for a shared sense of "sufficiency," he gives verbal snapshots of people's lives to show how poverty shifts, changes and endures in response to the growth of wealth.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2003
File : 142 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1859845665


The No Nonsense Guide To International Migration

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Includes statistics.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Peter Stalker
Publisher : Verso
Release : 2001
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1859843549