No-Nonsense Guides Series

36 primary works • 36 total works
The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights
3.58
· 59 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2006 · 8 editions
Today animals need protecting more than those bred…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
3.40
· 15 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2009 · 7 editions
One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of th…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
3.22
· 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
The ending of the Cold War was supposed to increas…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
4.07
· 27 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2002 · 8 editions
After nearly two centuries of industrialization, s…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
3.79
· 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 11 editions
Instances of extreme weather are becoming more fre…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace
3.93
· 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2006 · 1 edition
The twentieth century was the most bloody in histo…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Corporations

Almost everywhere we look, we can find the working…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
3.83
· 29 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2014 · 7 editions
The prevailing model of endless economic growth is…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
3.21
· 28 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2002 · 13 editions
Swift explores how democracy is constricted and de…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality
3.65
· 37 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the po…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
3.48
· 62 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2001 · 12 editions
Meeting the people who grow our bananas and cocoa …
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
3.65
· 17 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2009 · 7 editions
An incisive introduction to global finance—where m…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
3.78
· 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 11 editions
The power and influence of the mass media grows da…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
3.00
· 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA, and MI5…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization
3.69
· 183 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 2001 · 27 editions
Globalization is all around us. From the richest c…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics
3.94
· 51 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2010 · 13 editions
Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and the…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
3.09
· 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
Twenty-two million people have died from AIDS-rela…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights
3.85
· 34 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 4 editions
Since the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty y…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples
3.76
· 42 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2003 · 9 editions
Indigenous peoples have long suffered from exotici…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
3.55
· 143 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2002 · 9 editions
The popular image of development as a progressive …
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The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration
3.89
· 27 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2001 · 12 editions
Goods and money can move easily in free markets, b…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam
3.67
· 42 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2003 · 10 editions
This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, s…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
3.82
· 17 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
Religion is a term that is often used in the media…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
3.94
· 127 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2001 · 14 editions
The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian…
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The No-nonsense Guide to Science
3.54
· 26 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2005 · 7 editions
In this No-Nonsense Guide Jerome Ravetz introduces…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
3.53
· 34 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2003 · 12 editions
Since the events of September 11, 2001, the uses o…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism
2.87
· 15 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations
3.46
· 26 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 2 editions
In the first book to distill the entire history of…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Water
3.56
· 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 6 editions
Water sustains without it, humans cannot survive f…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Women's Rights
3.90
· 52 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2004 · 15 editions
How much has life really changed for women during …
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
3.98
· 85 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2008 · 13 editions
Covering fast food, organic food, junk food, insti…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health
3.91
· 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
A clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World History
3.66
· 186 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 2001 · 19 editions
Who was the first black queen? How much do you kno…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music
3.53
· 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 11 editions
"World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to descri…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population
4.00
· 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page)
Wi…
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The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
3.83
· 47 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2004 · 11 editions
At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nati…
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