Books & Media Reviews
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
This book is an interesting and worthwhile discussion of how to help the world's poorest people. It combines an intellectual history of Sachs and how he came to understand key development factors, an introduction to economic development issues, an explanation of why the poorest people and countries...
Reviewed By: Lane Vanderslice
The World’s Banker
This is a very entertaining and very informative book about international development. This book is about James Wolfensohn, the President of the World Bank, the World Bank itself, the largest institution charged with assisting the development of poorer countries, and the development challenges the B...
Reviewed By: Lane Vanderslice
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
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