READING LIST - GEOGRAPHY
Suggested reading material for those intending to study Geography at IB
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Philippe Legrain : Immigrants, Open World, Aftershock
Joseph Stiglitz : Globalisation and its Discontents, Making Globalisation Work
Jeffrey Sachs : The Price of Civilisation, The End of Poverty, Common Wealth
Paul Collier : The Bottom Billion
William Easterly : The White Man’s Burden
Thomas L. Friedman : The World is Flat, Hot, Flat and Crowded
Naomi Klein : No Logo, The Shock Doctrine
Charles Fishman : The Wal – Mart Effect
Richard Girling : Rubbish!
George Alagiah : A Home From Home, A Passage to Africa
Robert Winder : Bloody Foreigners
Bill Clinton : Giving
Muhammad Yunus : Banker to the Poor, Creating a World Without Poverty
Amartya Sen : Development as Freedom
Bjorn Lomborg : Cool It, The Sceptical Environmentalist, Smart Solutions to Climate
Change
Eric Schlosser : Fast Food Nation
Joe Bennett : Where Underpants Come From
Al Gore : Earth in the Balance
Harold L. Sirkin : Globality
Robert Calderski : The Trouble with Africa
Alan Greenspan : The Age of Turbulence
Giles Bolton : Aid and Other Dirty Business
Matthew Syed : Bounce
Entine : Taboo
Malcolm Gladwell : Outliers
Jonathan Watts : When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Britain's budget: This way, sir | The Economist
Jordan: Success Story of the IMF - Worldpress.org
Best Global Brands - Top 500 Brands, 2012 | Brand Rankings by Brand Finance
How containerization shaped the modern world - YouTube
BBC News - Sarkozy: France has too many foreigners
Lucy Siegle on whether buying fair trade is a waste of money | Environment | The
Observer
Nightline Tours Apple Supplier Foxconn: Get An Unprecedented Look At The Factory
(VIDEO)
BBC News - 'Lifeline' US-Somalia remittances on hold
India outsources outsourcing | Business | The Guardian
Outsourcing and out of control | Business | The Observer
The great hollowing-out myth | The Economist
Outsourced Trailer - YouTube
Tesco shake-up after £5bn battering | Business | The Guardian
Coca-Cola implicated in the propping of African dictator. The ethics of doing business with
a known tyrant.
BBC News - Romania's 'Nokia city' hopes dashed
Infographic Of The Day: Walmart Dwarfs Entire Industries And Nations | Co. Design
BBC News - Europe leaders to outline euro plans
Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion - Yahoo! News
Intermission: Watch Kiva Loans Travel the World - Business - GOOD - StumbleUpon
BBC News - Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom?
What would your 'city' look like without any outdoor advertising? Do you think the lack of
outdoor advertising will impacts how globalised São Paulo is?
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070618_505580.htm
"Progressing globalization will causing greater global disparities" Discuss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuWXfjyGhk0
The 'shrinking world' viewed in 1946. How has the world shrunk further since 1946?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwnzY2pxt4I&feature=player_embedded#at=380
Mobile phones and the expansion of their networks in a Global Interactions topic, poverty is
a Patterns and Change topic. See how one can impact the other!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixjxvzb2-Fw&feature=player_embedded
Tweets were sent. Dictators were toppled. Internet = democracy. QED. Is it that simple
when we look at the role of ICT in civil society?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/07/facebook-twitter-revolutionariescyber-utopians
Hans Rosling discussing global population growth linking into your work on Resource
Consumption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTznEIZRkLg
May help with your Hazards revision-linking tectonics with the physical causes of extreme
natural events.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZCQ-d5QDA
Interesting video from Hans Rosling - links into the Patterns and Change core unit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w
Economic flows between India and Ethiopia and Tanzania.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/india-trade-talks-africa-china
In terms of 'flows' how important are borders?
http://geocurrents.info/geopolitics/international-land-borders-hard-and-soft
What is the Internet? Where is the Internet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/28/water-yellow-river-china
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/29/sydney-pays-people-to-leave