Books & Media Reviews

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Global Woman describes with firsthand insight the global patterns of relationships among people struggling to survive in the domestic service sector and in the illicit sex trade. The editors are among several others who have authored essays within, including Cheever, Salazar Parrenas, Hondagneu-Sote...
Reviewed By: Paula Smith-Vanderslice
The Politics of Food
Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. 1985. Hardcover. 238 pp.ISBN: 0871568462. Reviewed by Paula Smith-Vanderslice This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. This la...
Reviewed By: Paula Smith-Vanderslice

Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries
Thomas J. Marchione, Editor Gordon and Breach. 1999. Hardcover, paperback. ISBN: 9057005476 Reviewed by Steve Hansch ...
Reviewed By: Steve Hansch

World Hunger: 12 Myths
by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset with Luis Esparza 2nd edition, 1998. New York: Grove Press. pp. 270. ISBN 0-8021-3591-9 Reviewed by Leo Vox ...
Reviewed By: Leo Vox

Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention
By Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu, and Patrick Webb Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1998 International Food Policy Research Institute Washington D.C. Hardback, 1999. ISBN: 0801861217. Reviewed...
Reviewed By: Tom Marchione
Contested Frontiers in Amazonia
by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood New York: Columbia University Press. 1992. 387 pp. ISBN: 0231076606 Reviewed by Keith Forbes This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. This book deals with the colonization of ...
Reviewed By: Keith Forbes

Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God’s World
By David Beckmann and Arthur Simon Paulist Press, 997 Macarthur Boulevard, Mahwah, New Jersey, 07430. 1999. Paperback. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-8091-3866-2. Reviewed by Berard L. Marthaler ...
Reviewed By: Berard L. Marthaler

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 N...
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. ...

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 ...