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A unique large-format landscape calendar featuring striking and colourful photographs presenting a positive world view.
Award-winning activist and bestselling author Vandana Shiva exposes the unaccountable actions of the ultra-rich and takes her place at the forefront of the fightback.
This diary/planner combines a practical weekly diary with images of action and activism - an exciting collection of photos and illustrations to reflect the cultural richness of our world.
The illustrated Women of the World Calendar 2022 features 12 women of color who are rewriting the rules.
For this sixth collection of stories seeking the most innovative writing emerging from the continent, we asked for stories of Africa''s hotels: grand and shabby, real and imaginary, pulsating with life and abandoned. Here, it''s not just the walls that speak (and weep); the corridors, kitchens, lobbies, bars and beds all have stories to tell. But none more so than the array of characters jostling each other across these pages: tourists, cleaners, children, beggars, honeymooners, cooks, soldiers, those travelling hopefully.
Two families share their expertise and passion for innovative, vegetarian and vegan cuisine, focusing on Hiltl, the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the world in Zurich, and Tibits, the award-winning restaurant chain in London and Switzerland. This successful partnership presents 80 recipes with influences from all over the world , beautiful photography and information about some of the key ingredients in vegan cuisine.
Are we heading for a population 'explosion'? How many people can the planet sustain?
With space for entries by up to five people, the One World Family Calendar 2021 is the ultimate calendar for you to plan your family year.
A sparkling anthology of short stories featuring the first twenty winners of the Caine Prize, Africa''s premier literary competition. This prestigious collection reflects the richness and diversity of African experience and features stories from Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
Vanni is a graphic novel focusing on the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the ''Tamil Tigers'', from the perspective of a single family. Inspired by Dix''s experience of working in Sri Lanka for the UN during the war, Vanni draws upon over four years of meticulous research, first-hand interviews, official reports, and cross-referencing with experts in the field. Elegantly drawn by Lindsay Pollock, Vanni takes readers through the otherwise unimaginable struggles, horrors and life-changing decisions families and individuals are forced to make when caught in conflict.
The explosive tale of Peterloo, told ''verbatim'' style through the voices of those who were there. More than 15 people died and 600 were severely wounded by sabre-wielding troops at a peaceful pro-democracy rally. This is a visual account of the 16 August, 1819 massacre, to be published as part of the 200th anniversary commemorations. The entire narrative is drawn exclusively from the direct testimony of the time much of it newly unearthed by leading historian Professor Robert Poole, including letters, memoirs, journalist s accounts, spies'' reports and courtroom evidence.
If you thought we had defeated the big trade and investment deals like TTIP and TPP think again. Privatized Planet exposes the myths about 'free trade' in this new age of globalization.
Links and networking between Far-Right politicians all over the world are causing widespread alarm but the Left can also pool its own experience and offer inspiration as it seeks to turn the tide back towards justice, equality and human rights.Dissidents of the International Left features interviews with progressives, leftists, liberals, leaders of social movements, dissidents, anarchists and feminists from across the globe. Their views, in their own words.Lesser-known thinkers and activists have the same platform as the pre-eminent figures on the Left, giving a nuanced insight into the different strands of the international and domestic leftist currents pulsing throughout the world.How have the Kurdish revolutionaries in Rojava ended up putting into practice US thinker Murray Bookchin's idea of libertarian municipalism? Why have the policies of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch offended activists in North Africa? Are US military interventions ever justifiable from a leftist viewpoint? 'The discussions in this book can be a model for our future course. They provide an example of the best kind of globalization - globalization from below.' - John Feffer, Institute of Policy Studies
Collects together the shortlisted stories from the Short Story Day Africa, exploring identity, gender identity and sexuality.
Now in its 19th year, this collection brings together the five 2018 stories shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary award. The winner will be announced on 2nd July 2018.
Queer Africa is a collection of unapologetic, tangled, tender, funny, bruising and brilliant stories about the many ways in which we love each other on the continent.
Heroes in the Evening Mist is the previously unpublished novel by the Texas-born author William Ash. His repeated attempts to escape German prisoner-of-war camps made him one of the models for the character played by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape. This, his final novel, evokes heroism, romance, comradeship - and ultimately betrayal.
Confidante of Tyrants is the memoir of a young US woman who gained an insider view of the most vilified and secretive world leaders of modern history.
An essential graphic reconstruction of some of the most important episodes in our shared labour history
Well-known cartoonist Kate Evans takes a punchy pop at six ''classic'' fairytales: The Princess and the Pea, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White,Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel and The Little Mermaid. A sassy child narrator chooses six well-known fairy tales involving princesses. With simple rhyme and lively pictures, she takes the stories apart with incredulous humour and charm. This is a book to inspire children and adults of all ages to think beyond the superficial.
Each year, the One World Calendar Group collaborates to produce this best-selling calendar. It portrays positive and inspiring images of people around the world. The photographs are taken by some of the world's leading photographers, and increasingly by photographers from the Majority World.
A boy's traumatized father comes home from the Second World War, but can't make the transition to civilian life. This is a beautifully crafted graphic portrayal of PTSD and the consequences it can have on everyone around the person affected, especially if not acknowldeged and understood. A historical graphic novel of utmost relevance now.
The Memory We Could Be attempts to move beyond the sterile, technical language that has pervaded discussions around climate change and ecology. It seeks to counter the bureaucratic prose of our conversations, to humanise the abstraction of global warming, and bring different voices into the conversation. Drawing on a variety of sources - from anthropology to hydrology, botany to economics, agronomy to astrobiology, medicine to oceanography, physics to history - the author weaves a concise, lyrical and powerful story of our relationship with nature.
A collection of plays born from the great struggles of the Trade Union movement
This collection of essays challenges us to move trade union education forward through new theory and examples of best practice.
Border Lives is award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai''s landmark book in the reporting of Europe''s migrant crisis - and a cry from the heart about an asylum system that is simply not fit for purpose. Whilst the headlines about Europe''s migration crisis have now subsided, they continue to influence the political agenda all over the continent. Pai travels to meet migrants and asylum-seekers who have just been washed up on the shores of Lampedusa or Sicily and have been absorbed into dismal reception camps.
Raises awareness of modern slavery in the fashion industry and shows how it can be eradicated by business and consumers
High in the death zone of K2, the 'Savage Mountain', Liam Doyle makes a discovery that could have catastrophic consequences.
A career guide aimed at anyone who wants to do something meaningful with their working life, for both jobseekers and career switchers.
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