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Food, Culture, and Survival in an African CityFood, Culture, and Survival in an African City
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A rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city,...
The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development AidThe Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid
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What's wrong with foreign aid? Many policymakers, aid practitioners, and scholars have called...
Value-based Human Resource Strategy: Developing your HR Consultancy RoleValue-based Human Resource Strategy: Developing your HR Consultancy Role
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Value-Based Human Resource Strategy demonstrates how HR strategy can be positioned and...
Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity (Arnold Publication)Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity (Arnold Publication)
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This book is really an anthology or a collection of publications on the matter of social...
Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global InequalityDevelopment and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality
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This new edition of "Development and Underdevelopment" retains the strongest...


How China Grows: Investment, Finance, and ReformHow China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform
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Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty-five years, economists...
The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive DevelopmentThe Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development
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Why have only 13 developing world economies achieved sustained, high growth since World War II?...
Political Control of the EconomyPolitical Control of the Economy
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Political Theory, Third Edition: An IntroductionPolitical Theory, Third Edition: An Introduction
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This is simply the best text on intro to political theory I've ever read. As a philosophy grad,...
A Call to ActionA Call to Action
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McKinnell, Phizer CEO, begins by pointing out that our healthcare system focuses on sickness -...


A Call to ActionA Call to Action
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McKinnell, Phizer CEO, begins by pointing out that our healthcare system focuses on sickness -...
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and MobilizationWomen and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
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Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in...
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our DemocracyAmerica Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
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The author is concerned that at this point in our history our ideals of liberty, equality, and...
Sustainable Development: An Introductory GuideSustainable Development: An Introductory Guide
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Sustainable development' is increasingly used as the benchmark and the goal of policies... but...
Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What WorksEnding Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works
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This transaction was very professional and timely. I enjoyed doing business with this business...

Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade CoffeeJavatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee
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I started reading Javatrekker over a cup of anonymous black coffee. By the time I had finished,...
Good Governance and DevelopmentGood Governance and Development
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An exploration of the implications of the 'good governance' agendas for developing and newly...
The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation ReaderThe Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader
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Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for...
The Economic Effects of Constitutions (Munich Lectures)The Economic Effects of Constitutions (Munich Lectures)
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The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they...
Liberation EcologiesLiberation Ecologies
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In the years since Piers Blaikie published his radical studiesof soil erosion in the mid 1980s...

Relational Perspectives in Organizational Studies: A Research CompanionRelational Perspectives in Organizational Studies: A Research Companion
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The contributors to this highly innovative and authoritative research companion, leading experts...
America: Who Stole The Dream?America: Who Stole The Dream?
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I have read some of these authors other works and they fall on the same side as Michael Moore of...
Reclaiming Development: An Economic Policy Handbook for Activists and Policymakers (Global Issues)Reclaiming Development: An Economic Policy Handbook for Activists and Policymakers (Global Issues)
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The author has put out another book demonstrating the uesfulness of an industrial structure...
A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the PresentA Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present
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This book is too elementary, in terms of economic history, for even an intro level undergraduate...
Competition in Telecommunications (Munich Lectures)Competition in Telecommunications (Munich Lectures)
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Probably the best summary of the economics of access regulation in the easly chapters that...

The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of  Development (Latin America Otherwise)The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Latin America Otherwise)
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Ride around your favorite roller coaster a couple of times. Pause for a breath and then strap...
The World Food EconomyThe World Food Economy
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The questions of population growth and food supply have long been of central concern to...
Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (The Contemporary Middle East)Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (The Contemporary Middle East)
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century countries in the Middle East and North Africa are...
For Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food SystemsFor Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems
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The 20th century witnessed a massive growth in urban populations. In 1990, one-third of the...
Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development)Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development)
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Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy...

America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once AgainAmerica the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
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After I highly recommended Kanter's previous book, Confidence, to just about everyone, I was...
Participation--From Tyranny to Transformation?: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in DevelopmentParticipation--From Tyranny to Transformation?: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development
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Participatory techniques have established themselves in both project implementation in...
Understanding Sustainable DevelopmentUnderstanding Sustainable Development
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Sustainable development is notoriously difficult to grasp for students and professionals....
Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development (Stanford Economics & Finance)Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development (Stanford Economics & Finance)
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An excellent text or required reading for a course in social entrepreneurship, if only for those...
Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Urban and Industrial Environments)
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This book does a wonderful job of taking different approaches and tools of looking at how...

Market Socialism: The Debate Among SocialistMarket Socialism: The Debate Among Socialist
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Aside from Post Modernism, probably the hottest topic today among socialist scholars world-wide...
The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development (Spirit Regeneration)The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development (Spirit Regeneration)
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This volume assembles for the first time in English a selection of the work which a group of...
New Britain: My Vision Of A Young CountryNew Britain: My Vision Of A Young Country
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It is a tragic truth of history that some people who have offered so much have paid such a high...
Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative DevelopmentEmpowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development
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This book provides an astute account of alternative approaches to city politics other than the...
Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (Latin America and Caribbean Studies) (Latin America and Caribbean Studies)Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (Latin America and Caribbean Studies) (Latin America and Caribbean Studies)
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This timely series seeks to provide objective information about the new trade agenda and to...

Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing WorldGive Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World
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Over the next few decades, global migration is likely to play an influential role in shaping the...
Chicago Studies in Political EconomyChicago Studies in Political Economy
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"There is no question that a well-defined 'Chicago School' of political economy has...
Technology, Institutions, and Economic GrowthTechnology, Institutions, and Economic Growth
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This volume mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth,...
Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and DevelopmentPlanet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development
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Wolfgang Sachs is one of the most thoughtful intellectuals to deal with the dual crisis in the...
The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal GovernmentThe Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government
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Is there a crisis in the relations between research universities and the federal government? Is...

From the Ground Up: The Business of Building in the Age of MoneyFrom the Ground Up: The Business of Building in the Age of Money
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For those interested in decision theory, the author does a sterling job of tracing the impacts...
Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development ExperienceBeyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience
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The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for "nation building" is at...
Multilateral Institutions: A Critical IntroductionMultilateral Institutions: A Critical Introduction
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A great deal of public attention has been focused on multilateral institutions such as the World...
The Little Black Book of Economic DevelopmentThe Little Black Book of Economic Development
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This book will give you an insiders view of just how the real world of high stakes negotiations...
The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing EconomiesThe Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies
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After World War II a select number of countries outside Japan and the West--those that Alice...

Government And Business: American Political Economy in Comparative PerspectiveGovernment And Business: American Political Economy in Comparative Perspective
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This book isn't for the average reader, since it deals with rather heavy-handed material. That...
The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India (International Food Policy Research Institute)The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India (International Food Policy Research Institute)
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China and India are the most extraordinary economic success stories of the developing world....
Thailand: Economy and PoliticsThailand: Economy and Politics
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While living in Thailand for most of the 1990's, I was determined to understand the history of...
Atlas of Global DevelopmentAtlas of Global Development
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This book is the successor to the World Bank's annual World Bank Atlas publication. While the...
Globalization, Economic Development and the Role of the StateGlobalization, Economic Development and the Role of the State
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Ha-Joon Chang evaluates the role of the state in economics and development. In this collection...

Rich Christians in Age & HungerRich Christians in Age & Hunger
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A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian BoomA Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom
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Jim Fahn details Thailand's uneasy embrace of globalization in the '90s with a Thomas...
Whats Wrong with Microfinance?Whats Wrong with Microfinance?
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I initially thought this book will have negative points of view on Microfinance. In other...
Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments, and SecurityBribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments, and Security
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Alexandra Wrage's work on cross-border bribery and corruption comes at a pivotal time. Nations...
 
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