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Product Description: No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page) With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic. This book explodes some of the common myths, looks at what the numbers really mean, and addresses nine topics, such as why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what will happen to our societies as we all live longer, and how having babies relates to climate change...read more
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9781906523466 | New Internationalist Pubns Inc, August 16, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page) With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic.
Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy? People First Economics takes a long, hard look at the mess globalized capitalism is in, and shifts the focus back to where it belongs â putting the needs of people and the environment first.People-First Economics looks at what recent events mean and could mean for us all. It's about economicsâand about a lot more. It's about radical changes that are social, moral, ecological, and philosophical, tooâchanges that are already beginning to happen.In a series of plain-speaking contributions, David Ransom brings together exciting and radical activists and thinkers, such as Naomi Klein, Walden Bello, and Susan George, to set the agenda for "economic democratization." Launching New Internationalist's World Changing imprint, People-First Economics covers everything from the green revolution and feminist economics to what we can learn from history and a ten-step economic detox. In doing so, it provides the opportunity to rethink what really matters in life.David Ransom has been a co-editor of the New Internationalist since 1989. He is the author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade.Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author. Her latest book is the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.Walden Bello is a campaigner, academic, environmentalist, and journalist. He is senior analyst of Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines.Susan George is a political scientist and fellow of the Transnational Institute. She has written many books, including Another World is Possible If...
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9781906523831 | 2 rev upd edition (World Changing, March 15, 2011), cover price $16.95
9781906523237, titled "People First Economics: Making a Clean Start for Jobs, Justice and Climate" | World Changing, October 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty.
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9781906523213 | Gift edition (New Internationalist Pubns Inc, October 1, 2009), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Quotations and extracts providing the essence of the big ideas that have shaped our world.
Product Description: The world is changing and especially so for lesbians, gays, and people who are bisexual and transgendered. In some countries, hard-won battles for equality are bearing fruit in non-discrimination legislation. In others, being gay incurs the death penalty...read more
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9781897071342, titled "No-nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity" | Between the Lines, October 30, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The world is changing and especially so for lesbians, gays, and people who are bisexual and transgendered.
9781904456643 | 1 edition (New Internationalist Pubns Inc, October 1, 2007), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The treatment of sexual minoritiesâwhether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenderâvaries significantly in different parts of the world.
9781859843536 | Verso Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Is there a gay gene?
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9788488052087 | Egales Editorial, May 30, 2006, cover price $22.95
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9781873328576 | Amnesty Intl British Section, June 30, 2004, cover price $15.00
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9781869847982 | Gardners Books, August 23, 2001, cover price $6.20 | About this edition: Here are the subversive, wilful, frivolous, provocative words of rebels from all over the world - people who are not happy with the way things are and think they can change them.
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