An irreverent, engaging, and visually driven exploration of hip-hop culture through the lens of weed, from the acclaimed music producer, editor, and author of How We Roll.Boasting a wide range of how-tos, charts, graphs, quizzes, lists, interviews and more, Rolling Deep: An Illustrated Guide to Weed and Rap brings to life the edu-taining story of weed and rap—and how they've been intertwined since the very beginning. Readers will learn the answers...

An irreverent, engaging, and visually driven exploration of hip-hop culture through the lens of weed, from the acclaimed music producer, editor, and author of How We Roll.Boasting a wide range of how-tos, charts, graphs, quizzes, lists, interviews and more, Rolling Deep: An Illustrated Guide to Weed and Rap brings to life the edu-taining story of weed and rap—and how they've been intertwined since the very beginning. Readers will learn the answers...

From rolling techniques to ast-roll-ology, interviews to do's and don'ts, quizzes to charts, this lively illustrated guide to all things joints has something for potheads and casual cannabis smokers alike.From the classic joint to The Scorpion, The Braid, The Holy Cross and beyond, How We Roll brings you the best and most important rolling techniques for your favorite herbal concoction, along with interviews, quizzes, charts, and eye-catching original art througho...

Making the Table is a celebration of vegetarian cooking as a practice of love and collective liberation. Going back and forth between the kitchen and mobilizations in the streets across North Carolina, Noah Rubin-Blose noticed that cooking is full of lessons for how we create a more just world. Food offers a gathering place for people and a reminder that we need each other. Food is art that is made to be impermanent, and cooking can build our capacity for change. Food carries stories, and ...

Investment arbitration has become the primary means of settling disputes between states and foreign investors. The majority of those arbitration proceedings take place before tribunals of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). This book provides the reader with a reliable reference guide containing concise summaries of the facts and holdings of ICSID Tribunals in the years 1974-2002. This period saw some of the most controversial and interesting ICSID a...

The increasing importance of international investment has been accompanied by the rapid development of a new field of international law that defines the obligations of host states towards foreign investors and creates procedures for resolving disputes in connection with those obligations. The second edition of Investor-State Arbitration builds on the successful first edition to include developments in law and practice, and provides the reader with an even more in-depth expert cove...

“An audacious achievement.”--Jennifer Lee Carrell, Ph.D. (Harvard)New York Times Bestselling author of Interred With Their Bones/The Shakespeare Secret“Lukeman’s sequel to the Scottish play succeeds as both a fascinating literary exercise and an entertaining play in its own right….[A] poetic, well-paced drama.”—BooklistRecommended Reading, New York Magazine Fall PreviewIn 1610, The Tragedy of Macbeth was first performed. 400 years later: the seq...

In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of do...

From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle of civilisation, now has more of the world’s fastest-growing economies than any other. After ...

As we watch wave after wave of volatility threaten the global economy, it is tempting to ask, who is in charge here? The answer, journalist and economist Alan Beattie explains, is all too often no one.The crisis that began with mortgages in American suburbia has now spread around the world from banks to businesses to governments, threatening to bring decades of economic progress to a juddering halt. Globalization's strengths - its speed, breadth, and complexity - have also proved t...

For more information please visit the book website:http://greecesodiousdebt.anthempressblog.com/Jason Manolopoulos combines his experience of the global financial system, European politics and Greek society to demonstrate how one of the EU’s smaller countries played a catalytic role in a crisis that threatens the future of the euro, and possibly even of the European Union itself.

Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples. But it has also been a powerful driver of inequality, over-consumption and corporate control. This fully updated edition unpacks the complexities of globalization, examines the forces in whose interests it works, and provides the critical analysis for re-appraising the system.Wayne Ellwood is former co-editor of New Internationalist magazine...