Quick view Zed Books Food versus Fuel: An Informed Introduction to Biofuels Food versus Fuel presents a high-level introduction to the science and economics behind a well-worn debate, that will debunk myths and provide quality facts and figures for academics and... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Forced Marriage: Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Foucault with Marx With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and... $30.97 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Fractured Cities: Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell n in Colombia, the booming wealth of... $51.66 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Free Trade for the Americas? The face of international trade is continuing to change rapidly. But while much attention is focused on where, post-Cancun, any new international negotiations under the auspices of the WTO may go,... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters Against all the odds, Southall Black Sisters, a poorly funded, radical women's group has become synonymous with black British feminism over the last twenty-one years. They have not merely offered... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape From Recipients to Donors examines the emergence, or re-emergence, of a large number of nations as partners and donors in international development, from global powers such as Brazil, China and... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays : 9781780326498 Four years into the unfolding of the most serious crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi's prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the destructive power of unregulated market capitalism on... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books From the Outside Looking In This book, now available in English for the first time, has become a classic since it was first published in 1982. Translated into five languages, it has had an extraordinary influence on grassroots... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis This original study examines women's activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia... $59.70 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Fuel for Change This book, with its evidence and case studies from a wide variety of countries in both the Third World and the transitional economies of Eastern Europe, examines the World Bank's new energy policies... $59.70 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Gender and Catastrophe This book explores the gendered and gendering effects of violence against women in extreme situations such as major wars, genocides, famines, slavery, the Holocaust, mass rape and ethnic cleansing... $65.45 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Gender and Migration: Feminist Interventions Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies Gender politics exist inevitably in all Islamist movements that expect women to assume the burden of a largely male-defined tradition. Even in secular political movements in the Muslim world -... $59.70 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World : 9781780320410 Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability, much of which is... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy In an age of global information structures, what scope exists for independent citizen action in media and cultural policy formation? How can audiences effectively voice critiques of media content? In... $51.66 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Gendering the Spirit: Women, Religion and the Post-Colonial Response This book is about the devotional subcultures which women have always created. Its authors draw their evidence and inspiration from the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and Christian traditions of Asia, in... $59.70 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books George W. Bush and the War on Women: Turning Back the Clock on Progress This book takes a devastating look at the actions and policies of the George W. Bush administration in terms of their impact on women in the United States and abroad. Surprisingly, this is a largely... $35.56 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development Gender and Development or Women in Development policies have been promoted in development organizations for almost three decades now. Although they have helped improve the immediate material... $59.70 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Ghana: A Political and Social History Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and... $108.03 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities Without People in the World's Most Populated Country Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women : 9781780324944 'A brilliant cultural history.'Irish Examiner Girls behave badly. If they're not obscenity-shouting, pint-swigging ladettes, they're narcissistic, living dolls floating around in a cloud of... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Give and Take: What's the Matter with Foreign Aid Foreign aid is a global endeavour with a huge turnover. But it is a troubled industry with few successes to its name, yet expected to respond to new and very complex problems. Can it do so? Supposed... $59.70 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Glamour: Women, History, Feminism How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition? This... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets In this important policy- and campaign-relevant volume, economists, intellectuals and NGO leaders from both North and South confront what has now become the central issue of the new globalized world... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security : 9781780325606 In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid... $34.41 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report In an increasingly integrated, globalised world with new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in both health and access to health care, and an unacceptable level of human suffering... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Zed Books Global Health Watch 4: An Alternative World Health Report Global Health Watch, now in its fourth edition, is widely perceived as the definitive voice for an alternative discourse on health and healthcare. It covers a range of issues that currently impact on... $136.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart