If you ever wondered how cheese was invented — and where, and when, and even why — then CHEESE: A GLOBAL HISTORY is the book for you. Cheese is one of the most ancient of civilized foods and one of the most nourishing: it could even be the product with which trade began.
Global Revolt - A Guide to the Movements against Globalization
Direct Action gives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people. It provides a veritable user's guide to the key debates going on in the movement and explains the array of tactics and actions people are using around the world to put pressure on the powerful in order to defeat free market capitalism and globalization. It emphasizes the political alternatives available and stresses the positive contribution activists can make.
The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early days refused to see itself simply as the state's creature. It considers also how that nation survived shattering revolutions in industry, urban living and global conflict while at the same time retaining a softer, more humane vision of themselves and their land.
Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your Students
Eleventh grade students in Bangladesh exchange video interviews with 10th-grade students in Georgia. High schoolers in Illinois learn Japanese, Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, French, and German using online discussions with counterparts from many different countries. Students from around the world research endangered animal species from their areas and publish their findings to a shared website. Connecting globally through advances in Internet technology, including Web 2.0 tools, can now be a reality for any student in any classroom.
Trace the history of communications - from hieroglyphics to the information superhighway. An intriguing look at the secrets of the media - the way information is spread by television, radio, newspapers and the Internet. Original photography and informative text illustrate the fascinating story of how people have communicated across cultures and through the ages. See the oldest printed book in existence and ancient Roman writing implements. Learn the way a modern global advertising campaign is put together and how photographs can lie. Discover the first alphabets, how body language can betray your secret emotions, how cropping a photograph can reverse its meaning, and much, much more.