Author: Gideon Burrow
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: nonsense, guides, guide, trade
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 185984426X
ISBN-13: 9781859844267
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 s
Author: Jonathan Barker
Publisher: New Internationalist
Keywords: nonsense, guides, terrorism, global, guide
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1904456987
ISBN-13: 9781904456988
This is a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism, and terrorist fringes of political movements. It covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them.Jonathan Barker has taught political science at the universities of Toronto, Arizona, and Dar es Salam. He has researched local politics in Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and India. His other books include Street-Level Democracy and Rural Communities under Stress.
Author: Maggie Black
Publisher: New Internationalist
Keywords: nonsense, guides, development, international, guide
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1904456634
ISBN-13: 9781904456636
Author: Wayne Ellwood
Publisher: New Internationalist
Keywords: nonsense, guides, guide, globalization
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1904456448
ISBN-13: 9781904456445
Globalization is all around us. From the richest country to the poorest, every aspect of life is affected by global economics and communications. We all benefit...or do we? This No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization distills the arguments into a clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt trap, the acceleration of neo-liberalism and the “free trade” model, competition for energy resources, and the links between the war on terror, the arms trade, and privatization. It looks at civil society alternatives to corporate globalization and the latest trade justice initiatives.
Author: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: nonsense, literature, victorian, intuitions, philosophy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-04-04
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415076536
ISBN-13: 9780415076531
Jean-Jacques Lecercle’s amusing yet rigorous account of how the genre of nonsense was constructed, and why such writers as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear are of enduring significance to both philosophy and linguistics.
Author: Frank Smith
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: nonsense, reading
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 080774686X
ISBN-13: 9780807746868
"Reading Without Nonsense" remains a groundbreaking, humanistic antidote to the managed "systems" approach to reading instruction. In his extensively revised fourth edition, Frank Smith brings teachers and teacher educators up to date on how reading should not be taught. It is a necessary reminder that reading and learning to read are natural activities. There is a massive assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. Now more important than ever, Rea
Author: Andy Rooney
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: nonsense, common
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-10-16
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1586482009
ISBN-13: 9781586482008
A New York Times, USA Today and BOOKSENSE bestseller, now in paperback in time for the holidays. Andy Rooney’s Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution. With millions of viewers tuning in every week, Rooney shapes the way people see everything from coffee percolators to the state of the nation. Rooney’s fans get a treat for the holidays: The paperback edition of his smash bestseller Common Nonsense. Here is Andy Rooney at his best--acerbic, teasing, witty, insightful, and wise. Each section of the book is devoted to a topic close to his heart--foo
