'Rocks and Hard Places brings to the surface the disparities of economy, and the resilience and tenacity of indigenous communities, in the face of generation after generation of exploitation. It makes us deeply aware of the cycles of colonialism which continue to lie at the heart of the global mining industry.' - Winona LaDuke, Author, environmentalist, founder of the Indigenous Womens Network

'Moody's reputation as a fair and judicious critic makes his most recent book a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the globalization of mining.' - Stuart Kirsch, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan

'This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the current trade in food maintains the global status quo.' - Tribune

'...makes the case, with clarity and passion, for rebuilding the global food system beyond the unequal and devastating consequences of the WTO 'free trade' regime...guides us through the thicket of rules and regulations, explaining their irreversible impact on social and ecological sustainability and engaging us with a powerful and compelling catalogue of alternatives, captured in the concept of "food sovereignty."' - Philip McMichael, Cornell University

'This book demands a place on the shelf of all those who are involved in food, farming, agriculture, and development—specialists and activists alike.' - Sharon Wyrrick, Gastronomica

'A clear and accessible account of the impact of trade liberalisation on farming.' - Food Ethics

'Toby Shelley and Zed are to be applauded for bringing the importance of the subject to the attention of a radical audience. The book is both thoughtful and timely and demonstrates that no adequate appreciation of the future course of international and national societies is complete without some consideration of nanotechnology.' - John Daniels, a member of the Editorial Board of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd.
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This richly documented book asks the major questions about the enormously important political and geostrategic issue of water. It makes the case for a society that is more economical with water, and calls for global management of water resources in a spirit of solidarity, openness, and respect for the rules of democracy.

‘Speaks powerfully of the need to address [water] inequalities and to relearn what our ancestors knew: that the water cycle ties us to one another as well as to Mother Nature’ - The Guardian

'An interesting new approach to global trade issues - part textbook, part critique of mainstream policies and part alternative perspective on where we might go from here. All of these angles are desperately needed and they rarely come together in mainstream texts. Here they do...this makes the book extremely valuable.' - Graham Dunkley, author of The Free Trade Adventure: The WTO, the Uruguay Round and Globalism: A Critique (2000) and Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives (2004)
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'A growing number of developing countries are taking back control over economic policy from the IMF and the World Bank. The wide range of policy suggestions contained in this book provides a rich mine of concrete and practicable alternatives from which to choose in taking advantage of whatever room globalization still allows developing countries and reshaping economic policy in their own interests.' - Martin Khor, Director, Third World Network
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"As this fine study demonstrates, the debt that is strangling much of the world is largely a "scam"...the authors unravel the layers of deceit and distortion that conceal the ugly reality...a very important achievement." - Noam Chomsky
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'This absorbing, thoughtful and elegantly written book gives readers a major insight -both empathetic and analytical - into the demand, supply and contextual mechanisms that underlie the traffic in women and other forms of living off prostitution that have spread along with it.' - Professor Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
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"The free movement of goods and capital across borders has been hotly debated for decades, with phalanxes of scholars, activists, and politicians arrayed on all sides of the debates. But the free international movement of people is widely regarded as undesirable or impossible, or both. In this courageous book, Jonathon Moses presents a sustained argument for free international immigration." - Jeffry Frieden, Professor of Government, Harvard University

How the Poor Pay for Free Trade
"An important resource for the growing debate on trade and agriculture and the review of the WTO rules that promote trade at the cost of livelihood and food security...combines the perspectives of people in the south and north to create another agenda for food based on justice and human rights." - Vandana Shiva
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"This book combines clear language with a deep understanding of the processes of water privatisation. Ann-Cristin Sjölander Holland has done a great job." - David Hall, Business School, University of Greenwich
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Everywhere the market society is producing more crime. Vivien Stern argues that the trends towards more criminalization and more imprisonment are not making for more effective crime control or safer communities.

"This book sparkles with hopeful ideas about how we could reduce crimeand the prison population. It shows how the worldwide move to privately owned prisons and the ideas that flow from marketed services are leading to increased fear of crime, costly prisons and cruel regimes. It outlines very clearly how we could do better." - Clare Short, MP

'This passionate, accessible book provides a challenging critique of the conventional views of crime and imprisonment throughout the world...this is a book that everyone should read.' - Prison Service Journal

"Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary. With plainspoken history and compelling evidence, he ruthlessly exposes the opportunism, plunder, and backroom bullying that passes for global capitalism. But this is more than a critique: Bellos expert diagnosis is that the patient is sicker than we think, and the time to act is now." - Naomi Klein, author, No Logo
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'An original and thought-provoking book for the new Millennium, which rejects one of the most widely-held beliefs of the Twentieth Century that development is an inevitable process for Nation States' - Javier Perez de Cuellar (United Nations Secretary-General 1982 - 1991)
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"An incisive and informative analysis of why free trade derails development...serves as an indispensable road map for those seeking to hack their way out of the neoliberal thicket." - Walden Bello, executive director, Focus on the Global South; author of Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy
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'A succinct, bold and penetrating critique of the triumphalist ideology which insists on American domination' - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
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"Peter Robbins effectively demolishes the myth that international markets serve poor countries well, and proposes an exciting and workable new solution to the crisis facing primary commodity producers." - Dr Claire Melamed, Senior Policy Officer, Christian Aid
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'Koen De Feyter passionately argues how a human rights framework provides the best hope for the most vulnerable to achieve human dignity in the age of globalisation.' - Aye Aye Win, Dignity International

'Sets out an agenda for human rights activism in the Twenty First Century.' - Irene Khan, Secretary General, Amnesty International, International Secretariat

'A stimulating analysis ...' - Theo van Boven, former director of human rights of the United Nations and special rapporteur on torture

"Through gentle, probing questions, Noorani offers a frank assessment of ossified traditionalism and suggests a rationally satisfying way of being Muslim in the contemporary world. His analysis echoes the disquiet many Muslims feel about fanatical fundamentalism." - Professor Ziauddin Sardar, author of 'The Future of Muslim Civilisation and Introducing Islam'
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Written by a Financial Times journalist who has long covered the energy sector, this book provides the essential information for understanding the shifting structure of the global oil and gas economy - where the reserves lie, who produces what, trade patterns, consumption trends, prices.
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"David Sogge makes clear why aid, in its present incarnation, will never help the poor." - Joe Hanlon, writer
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"Antrobus gives us rich historical background, insightful personal reflection, and a keen analysis of the challenges that lie ahead for women's global organizing. This is a must read for all activists, policy makers and scholars who care about the future of equity and justice in the world." - Charlotte Bunch, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University
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"...makes a strong case for small-scale, sustainable agriculture as the means to achieve food security for the two billion people who currently lack it...covers a huge range of issues, including trade, gender, credit, land rights and the record of the World Bank and UN agencies" - New Agriculturalist
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"It is time to oppose privatizing water and turning it into a commodity...this book proposes that access to water is recognized as a human right..." - Danielle Mitterand, President, Fondation France Liberte
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"A concise, down-to-earth account of various pitfalls in the globalization process. It is an essential reading for policy makers and negotiators, especially of developing countries" Yilmaz Akyuz, Chief Economist, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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"An impressively cogent summary of the hazards of GMOs and the urgency of worldwide action." - Brian Tokar, editor of Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
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The 'war on terror' provides a new context for secret services to operate in. This up-to-date account examines the roles they have adopted in a post-cold war era of 'rogue states', 'drug wars', and 'terrorists'. Most importantly, the authors explore the unsolved contradiction between the world of these secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes of the law, and the requirements of a free and democratic society.

What is happening to the world's weather and what are the world's governments doing about it? This book takes us through the science, and behind the politics, to explore climate instability, global warming, rising oceans and shifts in rainfall patterns. Most importantly it asks what can be done to settle on effective, rather than cosmetic, action?

"Shutt argues for a restructuring of the international economic system to place more emphasis on cooperation rather than competition among nations... The idea that poverty can be solved by economic growth should no longer be admissable" - The New Statesman

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"...goes beyond the usual bleatings about the problems of globalization in order to analyse in detail the alternatives that are at last emerging." - Colin Hines, author of Localization: A Global Manifesto
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