2023 New Resources: Non Fiction: General

Find your way around our world and take a journey through mapping you wouldn't expect with this interesting look at maps and mapping. Not just for directions, maps are used to track and study weather, people, money and more. In this fascinating series, human and physical geography combines with technology and science to look at how we map the world around us, and our lives within it.

[the author] takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization's inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN's many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN's institutional ills might be 'cured.' Weiss's remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible