Better World
Handbook: From Good Intentions to Everyday Actions
Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler & Brett Johnson
New Society: BC, Canada, 2001.
Ethics for the New Millennium
Dalai Lama
Riverhead Books: New York, NY, 1999.
Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age
David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda
Middleway Press: Santa Monica, CA, 2002.
Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace
Howard Zinn (ed.)
Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 2002.
One Makes the Difference
Julia Butterfly Hill
Harper: San Francisco, CA, 2002.
Respecting Our Differences:
A Guide to Getting Along in a Changing World
Lynn Duvall
Free Spirit Publishing Inc: Minneapolis, MN, 1994.
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
Brooks Brown & Rob Merritt
Lantern Books: New York, NY, 2002.
Free the Children
Craig Keilburger
HarperCollins: New York, NY, 1998.
Gandhi
Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with
Truth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, and Sissela Bok
Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 1993.
Gandhi
David Arnold
Pearson Education: Essex, UK, 2001.
Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi
Stanley Wolpert
Oxford University Press: London, 2002.
Mahatma Gandhi: His Life & Ideas
Charles Andrews
Skylight Paths Publishing: Woodstock, VT, 2003.
Dorothy
Day
The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day & Brandt (ed)
HarperCollins Publishers: New York, NY, 1981.
Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her
Rosalie Riegle
Orbis Books: Maryknoll, NY, 2003.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech That Inspired
a Nation
Drew Hansen
Gale Group: Farmington Hills, MI, 2004.
I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Michael Eric Dyson
Simon & Schuster: New York, NY, 2001.
To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Battle
for the American Soul
Stewart Burns
HarperCollins Publishers: New York, NY, 2003.
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
David Garrow
William Morrow & Company Inc.: New York, NY, 1999.
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. & Clayborne Carson (ed.)
Warner Books, Inc.: Victoria, Australia, 2000.
Mkhuseli Jack
film: "A Force More Powerful"
Alice
Paul
Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel Rosenberg
Amy Butler
State University of New York Press: Albany, NY, 2002.
From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the
National Women's Party, 1910 - 1928
Christine Lunardini
Universe Inc.: 2000.
Cesar
Chavez
Words of Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez, Richard Jensen & John Hammerback (eds.)
Texas A&M Press: College Station, TX, 2002.
Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez
Frederick Jo Dalton
Orbis Books: Maryknoll, NY, 2003.
Cesar Chavez: Labor Leader
Maria Cedeno
Lerner Publishing Group: Minneapolis, MN, 1994.
Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice
Richard Griswold del Castillo
Arte Publico Press: Houston, TX, 2002.
Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit
Richard Griswold del Castillo
University of Oklahoma Press: OK, 1997.
Neoliberalism
If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World’s
People
(kid's picturebook, but worth reading!)
David Smith
Kids Can Press, Limited: Tonawanda, NY, 2002.
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
Peter Menzel, Charles Mann, Paul Kennedy
Sierra Club Books: San Francisco, CA, 1995.
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Theodore Dalrymple
Ivan R. Dee Publisher: Chicago, IL, 2003.
Mystery of Capital
Hernando de Soto
Basic Books: New York, NY, 2003.
New Rulers of the World
John Pilger
Verso: London, 2003.
No-Nonsense Guides
New Internationalist Publications and Verso: London, various years
(especially the No-Nonsense Guides to
Globalization [Wayne Ellwood, 2001],
Arms Trade [Gideon Burrows, 2002],
World Poverty [Jeremy Seabrook, 2003],
Indigenous Peoples [Lotte Hughes, 2003],
Fair Trade [David Ransom, 2001],
International Development [Maggie Black, 2002]).
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Kevin Bales
University of California Press: CA, 2001.
Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our
Lives – and What We Can Do About It
Charles Dreber
St. Martin’s Press: New York, NY, 2000.
World Guide 2003-2004
New Internationalist
Garamond Press: Ontario, Canada, 2003.
People's History of the United States, 1492 - present
Howard Zinn
HarperCollins Publishers: New York, NY, 2003.
Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of
Political, Economic and Environmental Change
Robert Schneffer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.: Lanham, MD, 2002.
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Vandana Shiva
South End Press: Cambridge, MA, 1999.
Water Wars, Vol. 1
Vandana Shiva
South End Press: Cambridge, MA, 2001
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street
Lee Stringer
Simon & Schuster: New York, NY, 1999.
Global Inc: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporations
Medard Gabel & Henry Bruner
The New Press: New York, NY, 2003.
Free
Trade
Trading Freedom: How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work
and Environment
John Cavanaugh, Melanke, Karen Baker, and John Gershman (eds.)
Between the Lines: Toronto, Canada, 1992.
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the
Globalization Debate
Naomi Klein
Picador USA: New York, NY, 2002.
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
Naomi Klein
Picador USA: New York, NY, 2002.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Erenreich
Owl Books: New York, NY, 2002.
Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the
Work Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Kevin Danaher
Common Courage Press: Monroe, ME, 2001.
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Chalmers Johnson
Metropolitan Books: New York, NY, 2000.
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and
the Theft of Human Rights
Thomas Hartmann
Rodale Books: 2002.
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust
World
Bill Bigelow and Bob Petersen (eds.)
Rethinking Schools Press: Milwaukee, WI, 2002.
Silent Revolution: The Rise & Crisis of Market Economics
in Latin America
Duncan Green
Monthly Review Press: New York, NY, 2003.
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American
Rich
Kevin Phillips
Broadway Books: New York, NY, 2003.
Does Globalization Lower Wages & Export Jobs?
Matthew Slaughter
International Monetary Fund: Washington, DC, 2004.
NAFTA
Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the US/Mexico Border
David Bacon
University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2004.
Child Labor
Kaye Stearman
Raintree Publishers: Oxford, UK, 2003.
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
Peter Singer
Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2002.
Holy Water from the West
K.R.Ranjith
2004
Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: New York, NY, 2002.
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor
Tara Herivel and Paul Wright (eds.)
Taylor & Francis Inc.: London, 2002.
Ending Poverty as We Know It: A Constitutional Right to
a Job at a Living Wage
William Quigley
Temple University Press: Philadelphia, PA, 2003.
Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor
and Proves That Children Can Change the World
Craig Kielburger
Harper Perennial: New York, NY, 1998.
Working Poor: Invisible in America
David Shipler
Alfred Knopf: New York, NY, 2004.
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds
Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Amy Chua
Doubleday: New York, NY, 2004.
The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of
Democracy
Noreena Hertz
HarperCollins: New York, NY, 2003.
Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Powers
Basic Books: New York, NY, 2002.
Private Planet: Corporate Plunder and the Fight Back
David Cromwell
Jon Carpenter Publishing: Oxon, UK, 2002.
Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
David Bollier
Taylor & Francis, Inc.: London, 2003.
Power Politics
Arundhati Roy
South End Press: Cambridge, MA, 2002.
The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian
South End Press: Cambridge, MA, 2004.
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Richard Heinberg
New Society Publishers: BC, Canada, 2003.
Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization
at the World Social Forum
William Fisher and Thomas Ponniah
Zed Books: London, 2003.
Economic Warfare: Sanctions, Embargo Busting and Their Human
Cost
R. Thomas Naylor
Northeastern University Press: Boston, MA, 2001.
Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the
Republic
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt & Company, Inc.: New York, NY, 2004.