Resultaten gefilterd op "Zed Books"

Ancient Roots, New Shoots

John Van T Creedy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Knowledge is the buzzword of the age. But whose knowledge is being referred to? This remarkable collection reveals the manifest inappropriateness of W... Lees meer

Circumcision of Women

Olayinka Koso-Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels
• African women have begun in recent years to research and campaign against the practice of female circumcision. Dr. Koso-Thomas shows that female circu... Lees meer

Female Well-Being

• Hardcover | Engels
• This global survey starts from the assumption that the significant transformations in women's lives deserve to be fully documented and interpreted. Ja... Lees meer

Ageing and Development

• Paperback | Engels
• That we all live longer is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of human progress. Yet increased life expectancy and lower fertility rates across ... Lees meer

Jordan

Alan George

• Hardcover | Engels
• Jordan has played a bigger role in Middle Eastern affairs than its size and economy might warrant, due to its huge Palestinian population, its strateg... Lees meer

Decolonizing Methodologies

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

• Hardcover | Engels
• 'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is confl... Lees meer

The United States in Africa

Raymond W Copson

• Hardcover | Engels | African Arguments
• The George W. Bush administration maintains that in sub-Saharan Africa it is making major new contributions in fighting disease, promoting development... Lees meer

The Saudi Enigma

Pascal Ménoret

• Paperback | Engels
• Saudi Arabia is a major piece on the world geopolitical chessboard. Despite the suspicion that has enveloped the country since September 11, 2001, Sau... Lees meer

Crisis and Class War in Egypt

Sean F McMahon

• Paperback | Engels
• In 2011, capital's crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the worki... Lees meer

Just War and the Responsibility to Protect

Robin Dunford, Michael Neu

• Paperback | Engels
• Despite the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and ever more visible evidence of the horrors of war, the concepts of 'Humanitarian Intervention' an... Lees meer

Secrets and Siblings

Mari Manninen

• Paperback | Engels
• Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace. Mrs Wang Maochen from Beijing has seven chi... Lees meer

System in Crisis

James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer

• Paperback | Engels
• Mounting hostility to the hegemony of the United States - as dramatically highlighted by September 11, but existing in far wider circles than simply t... Lees meer

Sex Traffic

Paola Monzini

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Issues
• Paola Monzini's new book focuses on the experiences of migrant women and girls who have very little choice or control over their lives. They can be di... Lees meer

Postcolonial Economies

• Paperback | Engels
• Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisatio... Lees meer

Children as Partners for Health

Pat Pridmore, David Stephens

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book critically reviews the innovative approach to health education known as Child-to-Child, now being used in over 80 countries. This approach a... Lees meer

Thirsty Planet

Constance Elizabeth Hunt

• Hardcover | Engels
• By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should th... Lees meer

Omnia Sunt Communia

Massimo De Angelis

• Paperback | Engels | In Common
• In this weaving of radical political economy, Omnia Sunt Communia sets out the steps to postcapitalism. By conceptualising the commons not just as com... Lees meer

A Threat from Within

Yakov M Rabkin

• Hardcover | Engels
• A Threat from Within presents a history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, and challenges the myths that lie at the very root of contemporary or 'new' a... Lees meer

What the Market Does to People

David Macarov

• Paperback | Engels
• This exposé of poverty the world over reveals its shocking extent, the forms it takes, and its results. It probes the origins of poverty in attitudes ... Lees meer

Global Health Watch 5

Global Health Watch

• Hardcover | Engels
• For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health. This new edition addresses the key challenge... Lees meer

Migration, Health and Inequality

• Hardcover | Engels
• Should migrants have the same rights as citizens to health care services? What do we mean by rights and by health? And how do we uphold such rights wh... Lees meer

North Korea

Paul French

• Hardcover | Engels
• This reissue of Paul French's acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of th... Lees meer

The Duel in European History

Victor Kiernan

• Paperback | Engels
• For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ... Lees meer

Land and Sustainable Development in Africa

Kojo Sebastian Amanor

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth ca... Lees meer