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“Overseas aid” and “international development” are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities—and abuses. This guide explains what “development” actually is—and explores its political and economic roots. It shows what can happen in the name of development and argues for a more organic, social approach with those it seeks to serve as equal partners in the process.

Maggie Black has written books for the Oxford University Press, UNICEF, and Oxfam. She has worked as a consultant for UNICEF, Anti-Slavery International, and WaterAid, among others, and has written for the Guardian, The Economist, and BBC World Service.

Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants. This is a timely guide to a major issue that is never far from the political headlines.

Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who now works as a consultant to a number of UN agencies. He has written two books on migration for the International Labor Organization.

This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war.

Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America?

Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.

Religion is a term that is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a different meaning for every person; religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue and narrow-mindedness.

Symon Hill’s No-Nonsense Guide to Religion tries to explain what religion means, how we relate to it, how it was created, and how it affects us culturally, politically, and spiritually today.

Drawing on a wide range of sources, The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion does not just concentrate on the popular and well-established traditions, which normally over-emphasize powerful figures. The guide also focuses on the diversity within religions as well as the similarities between them.

The globalization of communications has made more people aware of religious conversion, with more people than ever before belonging to a different religious community from their parents. The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion considers how religion has shaped our culture as well as how our culture is shaping religion today.

Symon Hill is a tutor in practical theology, a writer, a trainer, and an activist. He has written comment pieces for newspapers ranging from the Sunday Herald to The Daily Mail and contributes regularly to the Guardian's website, The Friend, and Ekklesia.

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.

In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings, and current limitations. The book includes the creation of the UN and its early history, how it is structured, and whether it is well constituted in its functions. Black also considers possibilities for reform to make it more democratic, effective, and fit for its purpose.

Maggie Black has written books for Oxford University Press, UNICEF, and Oxfam and articles for The Economist and BBC World Service. She has worked as a consultant for UNICEF and Anti-Slavery International.

This guide demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world, from labor conditions to development by stealth, to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited.

It also takes in themes such as the gap year and the role of travel and vacations in Western cultures, and examines the “happy smiling faces” syndrome and asks whether this is just a reworking of old colonial relationships.

Pamela Nowicka is a journalist and consultant writing on numerous tourism and ethics subjects.

Has the battle for women’s rights been won? Not when women still make up 70 percent of the world’s poor. This guide examines the advances that have been made and looks beneath the surface to find out what the reality is for women all around the world. It shows how, in this “post-feminist” age, women’s rights are still very much an issue.

Nikki van der Gaag is a freelance writer, editor, and evaluator on development issues. Prior to this, she was editorial director at the Panos Institute and co-editor of the New Internationalist magazine.

Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world.

Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. Author and columnist for NOW Magazine, he's on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world.

Covering fast food, organic food, junk food, institutional food, and more, this guide shows how “real food” has become increasingly scarce, with production and distribution increasingly dominated in the West by agri-business. The guide goes on to present the alternatives that are emerging based on the concept of community food security.

Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. An author and columnist for NOW Magazine, he’s on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world.

A clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, and gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into current politics of health in the contexts of big business and private health provision, media, gender, and the environment.

Shereen Usdin is a medical doctor and a public health specialist. She is co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Soul City for Health and Development Communication in South Africa and works in the areas of development communication, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, and human rights.

Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This updated No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional history books—from the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the history of women. The new final chapter includes material on the financial crisis and the world response to climate change.

Chris Brazier is co-editor at New Internationalist. His previous books include Vietnam: The Price of Peace. He is principal writer for UNICEF's The State of the World's Children report.

"World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions.

Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, and why. Through chapters that focus on specific areas of music, such as rembetika, fado, trance music, and new folk, Gray explores the genres that have emerged from marginalized communities, music in conflict zones, and music as escapism.

In this unique guide, which combines the seduction of sound with politics and social issues, the author makes the case for music as a powerful tool able to bring individuals together.

Louise Gray is a writer and editor whose work on music and performing arts has appeared in the New Internationalist, The Wire, The Independent on Sunday, the Guardian, and Art Review. She co-edited Sound and the City (British Council, 2007), a book exploring the changing soundworld of China.

With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic. This book explodes some of the common myths, looks at what the numbers really mean, and addresses nine topics, such as why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what will happen to our societies as we all live longer, and how having babies relates to climate change.

Vanessa Baird is co-editor at New Internationalist magazine. Her previous books include The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity and, as compiler and editor, Eye to Eye Women.

This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty—is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency?

Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history.

Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist.

The One World Almanac is a practical, week-to-view diary that features a diverse and eclectic collection of world photography, giving a unique insight into the lives of people around the globe. The fold-out cover creates a display stand for the photographs while leaving the diary page flat to write on.

The One World Calendar portrays positive and inspiring images of people around the world. The theme of the 2016 edition is Water; many of the photographers featured are from countries in the Majority World. The dual-purpose design gives owner the choice of wall calendar or appointment calendar.

Each year, New Internationalist’s One World Calendar portrays positive and inspiring images of people around the world. The photographs are taken by some of the world’s leading photographers, many from countries in the global South. The theme of the 2017 edition is Home.

This large-format wall calendar is a collaboration between New Internationalist and a consortium of aid agencies worldwide. Photographs are accompanied by thoroughly researched text, giving background information and context to the subject of each photograph. The dual-purpose design gives a choice of displays: photos and dates only, or photos and appointments calendar.

The One World Family Calendar is full of colorful images from around the world and is designed to keep the family updated on the activities of the months to come. With space for entries by up to five people, it is the ultimate calendar for you to plan your family's year.

The One World Family Calendar is full of colorful images from around the world and is designed to organize the family in the months to come. With space for entries by up to five people, it is the ultimate calendar for you to plan your family’s year.

This is the diary for those who swim against the tide. The Plan B Diary is a week-to-view diary with street art, photographs, illustrations, and more—all submitted by young artists and activists from around the world. Includes international festivals, events, activist organizations, and subway maps.

"Plan B" indicates an alternative and unconventional view of the world, and this is the diary for those who swim against the tide. It's a weekly diary with street art, photographs, illustrations, and more—all submitted by young artists and activists from around the world.

The diary is designed for students and young people who want a diary that reflects aspects of counterculture, dissent, and protest. It presents a quirky and creative way to illustrate the injustice, success, ironies, humor, and tragedy of politics, love, and life in the world today. Includes international events and holidays, lists of campaigning organizations, and subway maps.

It is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles, working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings (and purse strings) of people in the West.

Aided by Anne Chaffey, an experienced nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for many years, he locates a young, malnourished Afar man called Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back to London.

The world's media are then invited to witness a skeletal Mujtabaa making a week-long walk from Heathrow to a rally in Trafalgar Square. In fundraising terms, this us a great success—but the ethics of the exercise, the human impact on all concerned and the ultimate result are all profoundly to be questioned.

The Walk is a provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of charity, the media and public relations. Situated in one single week it explores how far you can go to prick the public conscience.

Peter Barry was born in England, brought up in Scotland and now lives in Australia. He is the author of two other novels, I Hate Martin Amis Et Al and We All Fall Down and has had many short stories published in literary journals. He was shortlisted for Australia Book Review's Calibre essay prize. He has been a copywriter in both the UK and Australia and has also written three corporate books.

“A highly recommended reference book that gives readers a unique opportunity to see what the world looks like ‘from the South.’”—WorldViews Resource Center, Michigan

“An impressive reference source.”—The Times (London)

Drawing on United Nations’ and other mainstream data, The World Guide includes all the facts, history, and political and economic analysis you would find in a conventional reference work. But it is unique in also offering information on the issues central to the lives of people in the Southern Hemisphere, such as child health, literacy, maternal mortality, and land use.

The World Guide is written by the Third World Institute in Uruguay, using research from across the countries of the South. With a clear, country-by-country format, it is the most accessible work of reference for specific country studies, comparative studies, and travel research.

Key features include:

• Up-to-date information on all countries of the world, including East Timor, Palestine, Somaliland, West Papua, and Western Sahara
• Clear, easy-to-use, two-color layout
• In Focus box, which gives at-a-glance information on each country’s human rights, indigenous peoples, health, education, and HIV/AIDS prevalence
• Twenty-five new reports on topical global issues, such as the arms trade, HIV/AIDS, forced labor, climate change, and human rights
• The World in Figures—a comprehensive section of data and statistics on child health, literacy, maternal mortality, land use, public expenditure, and other issues
• More than twenty tables of factual information on food, education, arms, population, women in government, corruption, debt, employment, and the environment.

“If you believe we are one world and our survival depends on inter-dependency rather than independency, then, in terms of food and cooking, this is the book for you . . . the most delicious recipes even a novice can make—it’s all in The World in your Kitchen.”—Julie Christie

“Troth Wells makes a valuable contribution to moving towards a more sustainable world with The World in your Kitchen.”—Marilyn Borchardt, Food First (Institute for Food and Development), San Francisco

The World in your Kitchen brings people together in the same way that food does. This fascinating collection of vegetarian recipes shows how every non-Western culture developed its own vegetarian cuisine. It gives you the chance to enjoy some of the vast range of different foods eaten in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.

With historical and cultural background, personal stories, and people photography, The World in your Kitchen brings color and context to global delights like quibebe (pumpkin soup from Brazil), coconut curry from Malaysia, and avocado and zucchini enchiladas from Mexico. Includes:

• One hundred fifty easy-to-cook vegetarian dishes
• Clear, step-by-step cooking method
• Personal recipes from around the world
• Full-page color photographs
• Food facts and a glossary of foods

Troth Wells has been with the New Internationalist since 1972. She has written a number of world food books.

Beautiful bold illustrations fill your kitchen with the colors of the world, while the vegetarian recipes will inspire any cook to produce the delicious aromas and tastes of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Each month there's a new recipe, specially commissioned artwork and space for your appointments.

Jem Robinson creates award-winning images which have been published worldwide. Art director, picture researcher, lecturer, and currently head of visual design for a digital agency, her work is characterised by bold and limited use of color, often inspired by urban environments and cityscapes.

Beautiful bold illustrations fill your kitchen with the colors of the world, while the vegetarian recipes will inspire any cook to produce the delicious aromas and tastes of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Each month there's a new recipe, specially commissioned artwork, and space for your appointments.

Beautiful, bold illustrations fill your kitchen with the colors of the world while vegetarian recipes inspire any cook to produce the delicious aromas and tastes of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Each month there’s a new recipe, specially commissioned artwork, and space for your appointments.

This is the book to take the taste buds traveling. Arepas from Venezuela, tom yam soup from Thailand, delicious mezze from the Middle East—The World of Street Food offers the best in fast food from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. Over a hundred recipes have been chosen for their popularity at street stalls and markets around the world.

A collective effort by the author and fans of street food worldwide, this book combines thorough research with personal stories from the people and places the recipes come from: for instance, how the South African bunny chow was invented through a combination of Asian curry, European bread, and apartheid; or the stories from Penang, Malaysia, said by many to be the street food capital of the world.

Each recipe is accompanied by award-winning food photography and evocative travel pictures. The majority of recipes are vegetarian, and many are vegan or vegan-adaptable. As with all New Internationalist food books, The World of Street Food includes information on nutrition and organic and fair-trade ingredients.

Troth Wells has been with the New Internationalist since 1972. She has written a number of world food books, and is an editor of The World Guide, a global reference source that focuses on majority-world issues.

The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there—an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human.

The Sahel—the "shore" of the Sahara—is where cultures, customs, and climates meet, merge, and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people, with whom he now runs agricultural projects, we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest, most marginalised, but also quietly inspiring corners of the world.

Searingly honest and refreshing, this is a superbly written piece of travel writing about a little-known part of the world. The author gets under the surface and gives a sensitive account of what life is like. He understands not just the culture and complex social dealings but also how economics and geo-political forces that can profoundly affect the lives of people in a remote community.

Illustrated with maps and line drawings, Under an African Sky is a unique journey for the armchair traveler and those interested in development, climate change, global politics, and economics.

Peter Hudson has traveled widely in Mauritania and other parts of West Africa and has written several books including Leaf in the Wind, Travels in Mauritania, and Two Rivers.

Beautiful, delicious, innovative vegan restaurant dishes for you to embrace at home. The Vegan Love Story comes from two families sharing their expertise and passion for vegetarian and vegan cuisine: the Hiltl family, founders, in 1898,of the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the world in Zurich , and the Frei brothers of tibits, the award-winning restaurant chain in London and Switzerland.

This successful partnership presents eighty recipes with influences from all over the world, beautiful photography and information about some of the key ingredients in vegan cooking.

Color photography throughout by top Swiss/French photographer, Juliette Chrétien. Recipes by the Frei brothers and Rolf Hiltl.

Beautiful, delicious, innovative vegan restaurant dishes for you to embrace at home. The Vegan Love Story comes from two families sharing their expertise and passion for vegetarian and vegan cuisine: the Hiltl family, founders, in 1898,of the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the world in Zurich , and the Frei brothers of tibits, the award-winning restaurant chain in London, Switzerland and Germany.

This successful partnership presents eighty recipes with influences from all over the world, beautiful photography and information about some of the key ingredients in vegan cooking.

Color photography throughout by top Swiss/French photographer, Juliette Chrétien. Recipes by the Frei brothers and Rolf Hiltl.

Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Water. This is the third in the SSDA collection of anthologies, which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling and fiction writing.

Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop, and discuss stories.

Rachel Zadok is the author of two novels: Gem Squash Tokoloshe (2005) and Sister-Sister (2013).

Nick Mulgrew is a freelance editor and a columnist for the Sunday Times, South Africa.

The free-market capitalist system is in the process of collapse and we must now adjust to the reality of declining prosperity in the West. We should forget about growth and concentrate instead on the creation of jobs and reducing fossil fuel use—and it isn't impossible to achieve these two apparently conflicting aims.

This is the thrust of the author's arguments and through the use of clear consistent charts he builds his case up from first principles. He graphically illustrates every important point and creates a compelling and powerful picture of why it's bad, why it's going to get worse, and why this presents an opportunity to make things better.

This is a vision of life in which we will be forced to confront the real issues. Among other things, we must recognize that all wealth comes from the earth, we must concentrate on creating jobs and sharing earnings more fairly, and we should have more regulation especially in relation to banks and corporations and reducing competition between nations. And most of all we must return to the real values of real industry away from the current obsession with making money from money.

Mike Roscoe is a journalist with many years' experience in the interpretation of data and the illustration of such information in graphic form, accompanied by clear and concise text. He has worked at the Financial Times, the Economist, the Daily Telegraph, and the Independent.

This essential text addresses the growing need for a dedicated coursebook for students and teachers of world development. As the source of the most respected international magazine on world development issues, the publishers have created a highly credible and accessible text to illuminate this increasingly important subject.

Thematic chapters cover globalization, population, the millennium development goals, and eleven other vital topics. It distils them down to their essentials, outlining contending viewpoints and offering background material and case studies, along with high-quality color photographs, charts, and graphs.

Barry Baker is a geography teacher in Oxford, United Kingdom.

In the heart of the Amazon basin lies the Yasuni National Park, the most biologically diverse forest on the planet. It is home to the Huaorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in the Amazon. But their ancestral lands sit on top of Ecuador’s largest undeveloped oil reserves.

At the end of 2007, the new government of President Rafael Correa offered an unprecedented proposal: Ecuador will not allow extraction of the oil fields in Yasuni if the world community can create a compensation trust to leave the oil permanently in the ground and fund Ecuador’s sustainable development into the future.

The photographs in Green Gold document and celebrate Yasuni’s unique beauty and diversity—its flora, fauna, and the last indigenous groups still living in voluntary isolation anywhere in the Amazon. The book offers a simple message to the world: Close the region to the black gold of oil exploration and instead acknowledge that Yasuni’s value is priceless, and protect it and its people—without condition.

The subject of a growing campaign by conservationists and climate change NGOs, Yasuni can become a world precedent for the new energy and development model that proposes leaving oil underground.

The photographs are the work of Mauro Burzio, Italian photojournalist and specialist in ethnography and alternative tourism, commissioned by the local government of Francisco de Orellana, in which the 1.5-million-hectare Yasuni region lies.