The first contest of the scientific sport of flying paper airplanes is reported with photos and diagrams showing how to make several of the entries

The Great International Paper Airplane Book

Humor & Entertainment

Jerry Mander

George Dippel

Howard Gossage

Puzzles & Games

Fireside

A great political debate has emerged over the many unexpected and profound consequences of the rush toward the global economy. The world’s political and corporate leaders are restructuring the planet’s economy and political arrangements in ways that are affecting humans and the environment more than anything since the Industrial Revolution. Global institutions such as GATT, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, and the World Bankcreated with scant public debate or scrutinyhave moved real power away from citizens and nation-states to global bureaucracies, with grave results. The Case Against the Global Economy is the first comprehensive, point-by-point analysis of the global economy, its premises, and its social and environmental implications. Represented here are forty-three leading economic, agricultural, and environmental experts who charge that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results from what has been promised. Contributors include William Greider, Jeremy Rifkin, Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Wendell Berry, Kirkpatrick Sale, Herman E. Daly, Richard Barnet, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and more than thirty other analysts of the global economy.

The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn toward the Local

Business & Money

Edward Goldsmith

Economics

Sierra Club Books

The Wizard of " IS " : The Short, Ugly Story of the Impeachment of Billy Jeff Clinton and His Trailer Park Presidency

Humor

Jerry Mander Press

Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, Alternatives to Economic Globalization is the defining document of the antiglobalization movement. It presents both a sober critique of globalization as well as practical, thoughtful alternatives.
The authors assert ten core requirements for democratic societies, including equality, basic human rights, local decision making, and ecological sustainability, and demonstrate how globalization undermines each. Offering specific strategies for reining in corporate domination, they address alternative systems for energy, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing; ideas for weakening or dismantling the WTO, World Bank, and IMF; and rebuilding economies that are responsive to human needs.

Alternatives to Economic Globalization

John Cavanagh

Vandana Shiva

Sarah Anderson

Debi Barker

Maude Barlow

Walden Bello

Robin Broad

Tony Clarke

Randy Hayes

Colin Hines

Andrew Kimbrell

David Korten

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Sara Larrain

Simon Retallack

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Lori Wallach

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous - to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes - that TV ought to be eliminated forever.Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies are "neutral," benign instruments that can be used well or badly, is thrown open to profound doubt. Speaking of TV reform is, in the words of the author, "as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns."

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Other India Press

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