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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids & Sex Workers in the New Economy Looks at the effects of global capitalism on women's lives. In a time shaped by mass migration & economic exchange, women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, unnoticed multitudes leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines & Eastern Europe to work in the homes, nurseries & brothels of the First World. The 15 vivid pieces in this collection confront a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mailorder brides to Mexican nannies in LA, from Thai girls in Japanese brothels to Czech au pairs in the UK. Global Woman is an important & disturbing book - it reveals a new era in which the main resource now extracted from the Third World is no longer gold or silver, but love.
Regime Change Begins at Home (playing cards) 'Regime change begins at home' was a powerful slogan of the anti-war movement. These playing cards represent our 'MOST unWANTED' individuals & organisations - the warmongers and profiteers within our own countries who pose the REAL threat to peace & security on a global scale!
Vive La Revolution: A Stand-Up History of the French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie Antoinette, the guillotine & the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel it was one of the most inspirational events in human history - a moment when ordinary people became extraordinary and changed the world. It deserves better jokes. Vive La Revolution is an uproariously serious work - brilliantly funny and insightful, it banishes the stuffiness of history and tells us what happened in France between the storming of the Bastille and the rise of Napoleon, bringing to life the people behind the events.
The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order (hardback The world is not run by its people but by a handful of unelected executives who make the decisions on everyone else depends, concerning war, peace, debt, development & the balance of trade. The rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt & disaster - does it have to be this way? George Monbiot knows not only that things ought to change, but also that they can change. Drawing on decades of thinking about how the work is organised & administered politically, fiscally & commercially, he has developed an interlocking set of proposals all his own, which attempts nothing less than a revolution in the way the world is run. Fiercely controversial and yet utterly persuasive, what Monbiot offers here is a truly global perspective, a sense of history, a defence of democracy, and an understanding of power and how it might be captured from those unfit to retain it.
Leaving Mother Lake: A Childhood at the Edge of the World The extraordinary story of Yang Erche Namu - a girl growing up in the borderlands between Tibet & China, who left her remarkable childhood behind for the bright lights of Shanghai and singing stardom. Namu's home is an area so primitive that during the Cultural Revolution the Red Guards arrived and left because there was nothing left to destroy. It is a place known as the 'Country of Daughters' because of its matriarchal society: there is no word for father, property is passed on from mother to daughter, and women choose lovers for as long as they like. Full of surprise, drama & beauty, this is the lyrical story of the girl who grew out of her rural beginnings, battling against the odds to achieve extraordinary success.
Things My Mother Never Told Me In his masterpiece of family literature, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, Blake Morrison's mother appears as an intriguing but mostly silent figure. This is her startling and touching story - and a son's search to discover the truth aobut the remarkable Kerry girl who qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1942, worked in British hospitals throughout the war, and then reinvented herself again to adapt to a quieter postwar family life. At the heart of the book there's a passionate wartime love affair, seen through the eyes of the frank, funny, furious letters his parents wrote during their courtship. This is a revealing and poignant anatomy of family conflict, love, war, and finally marriage.
Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto (hardback) In 1939 Warsaw was home to the second largest Jewish community in the world. Of the 489,000 people who passed through the ghetto in the years that followed its creation in 1940, less than 10 percent survived. This book is a unique and never before published record of life in the ghetto by the men and women who experienced it. Most of the accounts were written during the war, some by anonymous authors, many by writers who later disappeared - their writings were found in ruined buildings, or else passed from hand to hand until they found their way into the archives. They describe the creation of the ghetto, how it was run, the struggle for shelter and food, collaboration and resistance, and the round-ups which led the unknowing victims to almost certain death in Treblinka. This is a collective memoir of one of modern history's darkest episodes.
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