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Global Issues and Challenges Books

Learn more about the important issues and challenges happening in the world today with the books below. Also refer to the Global Issues Learning Resources area of our Global Action Corner.

• Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. C. Queen.
• Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. David C. Korten.
• An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore.
• A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mary Ann Glendon.
• Banker to The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. Muhammad Yunus.
• The Beautiful Tree: A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People are Educating Themselves. James Tooley.
• The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference. Ellis Jones, Ph.D.
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Janine M. Benyus.
• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World. Paul Hawken.
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Paul Collier.
• Building Peace: Practical Reflections From the Field. Craig Zelizer and Robert A. Rubinstein, eds.
• Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World. Stuart L. Hart.
• The Challenge for Africa. Wangari Maathai.
• Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Jeffrey Sachs.
• Community: The Structure of Belonging. Peter Block.
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. William McDonough.
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. Muhammad Yunus.
• Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Bill McKibben.
• Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. Miriam Horn and Fred Krupp.
• The Ecology of Commerce. Paul Hawken.
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Jeffrey Sachs.
• Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. Hazel Henderson.
• The Evolution of International Human Rights. Paul Gordon Lauren.
• For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr.
• Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. Alan Weisman.
• Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations in the New World Order. Richard J. Barnet.
• Global Refugee Crisis: A Reference Handbook. Mark Gibney.
• Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet. Sally and Sadie Kneidel.
• The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. David C. Korten.
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America. Thomas L. Friedman.
• The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World: How to Turn Your Good Intentions into Actions that Make a Difference. Idealist.org and Stephanie Land.
• It's All Connected: A Comprehensive Guide to Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions. Benjamin Wheeler, Gilda Wheeler, and Wendy Church.
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Paul Hawken.
• The New Atlas of Planet Management. Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent.
• One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. William Greider.
• Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Phil Testemale.
• Our Global Environment: A Health Perspective. Anne Nadakavukaren.
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Paul Farmer and Amartya Sen.
• Planetary Citizenship: Your Values, Beliefs and Actions Can Shape A Sustainable World. Hazel Henderson.
• The Plundered Planet: Why We Must—and How We Can—Manage Nature for Global Prosperity. Paul Collier.
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, 25th Anniversary Edition. E. F. Schumacher.
• Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know. David Bornstein.
• The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy. William Greider.
• State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. Published annually in January. The Worldwatch Institute.
• Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest. Peter Block.
• Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. John C. Ryan and Alan Thein Durning.
• The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift. Andres R. Edwards.
• Three Cups of Tea: One Mans Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time. Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
• Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Andres R. Edwards.
• Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development. Chad Holliday, Stephan Schmidheiny and Philip Watts.
• When Corporations Rule the World. David C. Korten.
• World Development Report. Published annually in July. The World Bank.
• The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Thomas L. Friedman.