Books & Media Reviews

The Globalization of Poverty

By Michel Chossudovsky Zed Books Ltd. London and New Jersey. 1997. Paperback. 288 pp. ISBN: 1856494020. Reviewed by Leo Vox This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. In countries as diverse as Russia, India, and Rwanda, Michel Chossudovsky's The Globalization of Poverty takes ...

Reviewed By: Leo Vox

Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

by Janet Poppendieck New York: Penguin Putnam Books. 1999. Hardcover. 354 pp. ISBN 0670880205. This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Many anti-hunger food programs in the United States have been driven by supply considerations, principally the need to dispose of U.S. food ...

Changing Politics of Hunger: 1999

by James V. Riker Bread for the World Institute, Silver Spring, MD. 1998. Paperback. 138 pp. ISBN: 1884361072. This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Bread for the World's new report on hunger-- celebrating BFW's 25th anniversary-- stakes the claim that we know how to elimi...

Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda

by Peter Uvin Kumarian Press, West Hartford, CT. 1998. 288 pp. (Paperback) ISBN: 1565490835, (Cloth) ISBN: 1565490843. This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Peter Uvin shifts focus from the role played by the international community in responding to the Rwandan genocide of...

Human Nutrition in the Developing World

by Michael C. Latham Pub.: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), (Food and Nutrition Series, V. 29, No. 2). FAO Bookshop, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, ITALY. Year: 1997. Paperback. 508 pp. ISBN: 925103818X. E-mail: Publications-sales@fao.org. Reviewed by Joan Allen-Peters This book...

Reviewed By: Joan Allen-Peters

Attacking Poverty: The World Bank World Development Report

By The World Bank Group. Oxford University Press. 2000. English version. Also available in Spanish/Espanol and French/Francais. Paperback. 544 pp. ISBN: 0195211294. Reviewed by Diane Ray This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Attacking Poverty, the World Bank’s 2000/2001 ...

Reviewed By: Diane Ray

Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge

Douglas Johnston, editor Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Washington, D.C. 1996. 176 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 0892062924. Reviewed by Andrew E. Rice This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. "We move into the 21st century much too unfocused as to our nation's...

Reviewed By: Andrew E. Rice

Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

by Lester R. Brown New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Worldwatch Institute, Environmental Alert Series. 1995. 163 pp. (Hardcover) ISBN: 0-393-03897-1, (Paperback) ISBN: 0-393-31409-X. Reviewed by Cate Johnson, Ph.D., RD This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. NI CHELE FAN...

Reviewed By: Cate Johnson

The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid International Charity

New York: The Free Press, 1997. Hardcover, 287 pp. ISBN: 0684828006. Every few years, a major publication critiques the aid industry not merely on the merits of specific projects, but on the principles on which aid agencies do their business. The Road to Hell, by Michael Maren, a former relief worke...

Reviewed By: Steven Hansch

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits

New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.). 1995. Hardcover. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-465-09125-3. Reviewed by Ellen E. Wasserman, Consultant This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. A communitarian by conviction and contrarian by nature, John McKnight uses both probe ligh...

Reviewed By: Ellen Wasserman