The No Nonsense Guide To Sexual Diversity

Author : Vanessa Baird
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1906523649
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity written by Vanessa Baird and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty. This guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at contributions from medicine and science. It also includes a unique global survey of laws that affect sexual minorities. Vanessa Baird has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1986. Her previous books include, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.

Author : Vanessa Baird
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843536
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity written by Vanessa Baird and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the history and geography of sexually unconventional behaviour. Includes a country to country survey of the laws affecting sexual minorities.

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Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity, 2nd Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is changing and especially so for lesbians, gays, and people who are bisexual and transgendered. In some countries, hard-won battles for equality are bearing fruit in non-discrimination legislation. In others, being gay incurs the death penalty. This No-Nonsense Guide gives an overview of sexual diversity and reveals the hidden histories of LGBTI individuals, cross-dressers, and eunuchs across the world. It traces the strange search for the scientific "source" of homosexuality, the history of homophobia, and the role that religion and politics have played in controlling sexualities. Also included is a country-by-country global survey of the laws that affect sexual minorities.

Author : Louise Gray
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1906523126
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to World Music written by Louise Gray and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look behind the catch-all term world music' aiming to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who its audience is and why it has become such a popular genre. Through chapters on the many different genres that make up this multi-faceted area, the case for music as a powerful harmonising tool is aptly put forward.'

Author : Jonathan Barker
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1904456987
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism written by Jonathan Barker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly accessible history of terrorism looking at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism and terrorist fringes of political movements. Covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them, including: the proliferation of terrorist activities over recent years and international hotspots, the war on terror', terrorist acts carried out by states and the constraints on democracy and political and civil liberties that so often characterise the response to terrorism.'

Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1904456634
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to International Development written by Maggie Black and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building dams in India, planting trees in Burkina Faso, rescuing street children in Brazil - these are images of aid and international development with which we can all identify. However, what passes for development all too often improves life for the better off while actively hurting the very people the venture was meant to support. Maggie Black exposes the hypocrisy and reveals a more accurate picture of what is happening in development's name, arguing for a process to be put inplace that trule defends the interests of poor people.

Author : Jonathan Barker
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859844335
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Terrorism written by Jonathan Barker and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist or freedom fighter? Analyzing the causes and contexts of terrorism the world over, Barker guides readers through the moral and political theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts.

Author : Gideon Burrows
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859844267
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade written by Gideon Burrows and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sophisticated weaponry is put, so long as hefty profits can be reaped. This disturbing book names the players in the arms trade and charts the impact that it has had on war, human rights, and development. The financial and trade mechanisms that permit the arms trade to continue are revealed, amid sordid tales of bribery and corruption. Gideon Burrows concludes his examination by reviewing the ways in which this trade can be controlled or even abolished.

Author : Maggie Black
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781844675098
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Water written by Maggie Black and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water sustains life: without it, humans cannot survive for more than a few days. And yet this precious fluid is becoming increasingly politicized as the debates about control and ownership of water itself, and of the many organizations which govern its use, gain force. Maggie Black explores the many roles water plays in human life and, as the defense of water rights looks set to become an explosive issue, provides a clear overview on the vital issues of distribution, technology, irrigation, land use and commodification.

Author : Peter Steven
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859845813
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Global Media written by Peter Steven and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power and influence of the mass media grows daily, crucially affecting the way all of us see and understand each other. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media introduces readers to the political economy of the major mediafilm, television, radio, recording, publishing and the Internet. Peter Steven looks at the ever greater concentration of ownership and at the convergence of technologies and media functions. At the same time, he emphasizes the diversity of local media production and media around the world. The media is more than the economics of ownership and the technology of production, he stresses; it is also audiences, in all their annoying and wonderful diversity.