No-Nonsense Guides - new and fully updated

This new series makes sense of the most complex global issues. These popular guides are written in plain language and will offer a quick and easy introduction to key subjects of the modern world. They are published by New Internationalist.

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No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations
The first book to cover the history of the UN in one accessible volume. This lively guide explains how the UN works and explores its successes, failings and limitations. £6.99. For 16+.

No Nonsense to the United Nations £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to International Development
'Overseas aid' and 'international development' are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities - and abuses. Building dams in India, and rescuing street children in Brazil are images of development which we can all identify with. But aid and development often mask confusion, contradiction, and even downright deceit.

No Nonsense Guide to International Development £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to World Health
Millions of people still live without clean water, decent food and housing while elsewhere in the world billions are spent on hi-tech medicine and drugs.This guide highlights the politics of health. With climate change bringing diseases like malaria to the rich world's doorstep, where you live, how wealthy you are, and whether you are male or female all have a bearing on the diseases you may encounter - and your prospects for prevention, treatment and survival.

No Nonsense Guide to World Health £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty - is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history.

No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Islam
How can Islam reconcile itself with the 21st century? This accessible guide explains the Islamic worldview, the Qur'an and sharia law, and Islam's relationship with the West. It analyses the struggle for a more humane interpretation of the religion, examines women rights and the absence of democracy in some Muslim countries. This is a balanced portrayal: it explains what Islam has achieved and why a better understanding of Muslims is needed. But it also explores what Islam needs to reform.

New edition

No-Nonsense Guide to Islam £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism
This plain-speaking guide analyses the impact of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. From labour conditions to development by stealth; from the gap year to the role of travel in western cultures. Many people would like to consider ethical issues when going on holiday but don't know where to start - this guide points the way New edition,

No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights
This guide explains the key issues, charts the growth of the animal rights movement and looks at the welfare and protection laws. It includes a practical day-to-day guide to what you can do to minimise exploitation. 144pp.

No Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
This fully revised and updated guide looks at the latest findings on climate change, explores the options and explains key issues like carbon emissions trading and the debate over nuclear power versus renewable energy. It calls for measures to clean up our act, cut energy use, and improve energy efficiency. 144pp. 2 copies £12.98

No Nonsense Guide to Climate Change £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace
This invaluable guide is excellent for students. With tables, maps, case studies and quotes, it examines the changing types of war, including the 'War on Terror' and ethnic conflict such as in Rwanda; the role of diplomacy and the UN, and what steps ordinary people are taking to re-build communities. It offers ideas and inspiration for creating lasting peace. 144pp.

No Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
This fully revised guide tells the human story behind the products we consume. David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be master or servant of the people. 144pp.

No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Globalization
This fully revised and updated guide condenses this complex world into a clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt trap; the acceleration of neoliberalism and the 'free trade' model; competition for energy resources; the links between the 'war on terror', the arms trade and privatization. The new final chapter examines civil society alternatives to corporate globalization. 144pp.

No Nonsense Guide to Globalization £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Human Rights
How do we define human rights, and how do we protect them? Using vivid case studies from around the world, the authors illustrate how the concept of rights changes according to geography and culture. 144pp.

No Nonsense Guide to Human Rights £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to Science
Clearing away the scientific myths, this guide ranges over subjects as diverse as genetic engineering, biotechnology, medicine and military science. Seeing science as a process involving social and cultural concerns gives us the best basis for effective action in future. 144pp.

'Essential reading for all aspiring scientists - and for some older ones too!'
Tom Blundell, Professor of Biochemistry, Cambridge University

No Nonsense Guide to Science £6.99

No Nonsense Guide to World History
This guide reveals the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks - from the civilizations of Africa, Asia and Latin America to the history of women, submerged beneath accounts of politics and war. This new edition is fully updated and revised to include a section on how the key issues of the 21st century fit into the broader patterns of world history. 144pp.

No Nonsense Guide to World History £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
From the silver screen to pay-per-view TV, the media are a significant force in society; and never more so than now, in the era of globalisation. This very readable guide introduces the political economy of the major media and emphasises the diversity of local media production and audiences and their responses around the world.

No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media £6.99

No-Nonsense guide to HIV /Aids
22 million people have died from Aids-related illnesses since the disease was discovered almost 25 years ago - more than died in Europe during the Black Death. 42 million people are now infected, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa. This guide looks at the origins of the disease, examines the profits made by the drugs companies and describes how communities are fighting back.

No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Water
More than 230 million people now live in countries which are short of water. By 2025, three billion people will have less than 1,700 cubic metres a head, the point at which populations start to suffer from water stress. This very readable guide explores water in our lives: in history, health, transport, recreation, rituals, economic systems and politics.

No-Nonsense Guide to Water £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights
Many millions of women have few choices in their lives; women bear the brunt of world poverty; and more than half a million women globally still die in childbirth or of pregnancy-related causes every year. This book examines the reality of women's lives. With the help of statistics, illustrations, graphics and a wide range of personal testimonies, it attempts to answer some fundamental questions about the situation of women worldwide. Covers: Legal and Human Rights; Politics; Religion; Violence; Education; Health; Work; Technology; Women's Movements Worldwide.

No-Nonsense Guide to Womens Rights £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
This punchy guide by Jonathan Barker examines debates about September 11 and the responses to it, but also gets behind the causes and contexts of terrorism more broadly.

No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy

How democratic is democracy? This book takes the temperature of today's body politic and finds the patient in an enfeebled state. Richard Swift explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore. The rich diversity of forms of elected government are explored together with practical ideas for empowering today's voters around the world.

No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
Edited by Vanessa Baird

Why are some people gay, some straight - and many bisexual? Is there a gay gene? The world is changing for sexual minorities. In some countries battles for equality have brought non-discrimination legislation. In others, being gay incurs imprisonment - or the death penalty. This book demystifies sexual diversity and addresses the war against nonconformists being waged by fundamentalists of all denominations.

'What a wonderful book... should be in every secondary school library' DIVA magazine

No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity £6.99

No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration
Edited by Peter Stalker

Millions of people emigrate each year in search of a better life. Are they coming to steal jobs or live off welfare? And what happens to the communities they leave behind? This book assembles the latest facts and figures, and distils down the economic and social evidence - revealing exactly why rich countries need more immigrants.

'Contains a mass of useful and fascinating information' Times Literary Supplement

'An antidote to opportunist politicians' The Guardian

No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration £6.99

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