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  • Market Education

    The Unknown History

    by Andrew Coulson ...
    Discontent with public education has been on the rise in recent years, as parents complain that their children are not being taught the basics, that they are not pushed to excel, and that their classrooms are too chaotic to encourage any real learning. The public has begun to reject school bond levies with regularity, frustrated by what it perceives to be mounting education costs unaccompanied by ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Local Government in Central and Eastern Europe

    The Rebirth of Local Democracy

    Edited by Andrew Coulson, Adrian Campbell ...
    Advocates of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989 placed great emphasis on community self-government as the basis of civil society and democracy. After theVelvet Revolutions of 1989 and the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the new states created an elected local government, whereby cities, towns and villages elected the ... Read more

    $331.99 CAD

  • Tanzanian Development

    A Comparative Perspective

    by David Potts, Faustin Kamuzora, Honest Prosper Ngowi, Hossein Jalilian, John Weiss, Joseph Kuzilwa, Julia Jeyacheya, Kifle Wondemu, Michael F. Lofchie, Michael Tribe0, Moses Emanuel Mnzava1, Andrew Coulson2, Nicola Banks3, Olivia Howland4, Peter Lawrence5, Vesa-Mati Loiske6, Anna Mdee7, Bahati Ilembo8, Brian Van Arkadie9, Christine Noe0, Dan Brockington1, Daniel Mpeta2 ...
    Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    The Collapse and Revival of American Community

    by Robert D. Putnam ...
    Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone*,* which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement."Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from ... Read more

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  • The Teacher Wars

    A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

    by Dana Goldstein ...
    In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Capitalism's Last Stand?

    Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity

    by Walden Bello ...
    'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineIn this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration ... Read more

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  • Fair Trade for All

    How Trade Can Promote Development

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton ...
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

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  • State of the World's Forests 2016 (SOFO): Forests and Agriculture: Land Use Challenges and Opportunities

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Forests and trees support sustainable agriculture. They stabilize soils and climate, regulate water flows, give shade and shelter, and provide a habitat for pollinators and the natural predators of agricultural pests. They also contribute to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, for whom they are important sources of food, energy and income. Yet, agriculture remains the major driver ... Read more

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  • Leadership Without Easy Answers

    by Ronald A. Heifetz ...
    The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don’t deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing do, we do them and ourselves a grave disservice. We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis of leadership, Ronald Heifetz avows, but it stems ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • Africa First!

    Igniting a Growth Revolution

    by Jakkie Cilliers ...
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Aid

    Why Less Could Mean More for Africa

    by Jonathan Glennie ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments to double aid to Africa and help put an end to such shameful inequality.It seems simple. But it isn't. ... Read more

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