A manifesto, an investigation, a travel book: an introduction to the new politics of resistance which shows there's much more to the anti-globalisation movement than trashing Starbucks.

Paul Kingsnorth was born in 1972, and is a writer and campaigner. He studied history at Oxford University and was formerly Deputy Editor of the ECOLOGIST, the world's longest-running and most widely-read environmental magazine. In July 2001 the NEW STATESMAN identified him as one of Britain's 'Top 10 Troublemakers'.