The World Guide: Global Reference Country by Country (11th ed.)

Several competing periodicals describe the current state of the word, country by country. What distinguishes this one is that, as the editors declare, it attempts to “highlight the view of the ‘Third World’ [or] […] the ‘Global South’: the excluded majorities, the victims of globalization, the unheard voices of the poor, of women, of indigenous peoples”. These words demonstrate that the writers of the Guide (which began life 20 years ago as the Third World Guide but later took in the first two as well) does not, as most such books do, maintain a posture of editorial impartiality. Its editors...