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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health

    Edited by Ross G. White, Sumeet Jain, David M.R. Orr, Ursula M. Read ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This handbook incisively explores challenges and opportunities that exist in efforts aimed at addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. Drawing on various disciplines across the humanities, psychology, and social sciences it charts the emergence of Global Mental Health as a field of study. It critically reflects on efforts and interventions being made to globalize mental ... Read more

    $472.69 CAD

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  • Planet of Slums

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Let's Explore Japan (Most Famous Attractions in Japan)

    Japan Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Sakura and sushi are only two things about Japan that the world knows about. There are so many more to love about the country, and this book will give you a glimpse of what those other reasons are. Picture books not only make learning fun but also encourages self-awareness. They provide the opportunity for children to associate with the world. Order your copy now! ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale

    Women in the International Division of Labour

    by Maria Mies ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.'First published in 1986, Maria Mies's progressive book was hailed as a ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

    From the Margins to the Centre

    by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • How to Be a Better Birder

    Travel Stories

    by Michael A. Ketover ...
    With his first book, Better Birder, Michael Ketover emerges as an exciting voice in travel writing. Ketover, an expert in poverty reduction and social justice, chronicles inspiring, outrageous, and mundane assignments in international development work and his reflections on the resilience of the poorest of the poor. These interactions reveal his flaws and slowly remake him into someone better than ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Why States Recover

    Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

    by Greg Mills ...
    State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other hand, is at the other end of the scale. During President Bingu's second term in office, the country's ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Future of Development

    A Radical Manifesto

    by Gustavo Esteva, Salvatore J. Babones, Philipp Babcicky ...
    On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Accounting for Sustainability

    Practical Insights

    Edited by Anthony Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman, Jessica Fries ...
    If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into their decision-making and reporting. However, the translation of this aspiration into effective action is often inhibited by the lack of systems and procedures that take sustainability into account ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Antipsychotic Long-acting Injections

    Edited by Peter Haddad, Tim Lambert, John Lauriello ...
    Antipsychotic Long-acting Injections (LAIs) were introduced in the 1960s to improve treatment adherence in schizophrenia. Subsequently, first-generation antipsychotic LAIs became widely used in many countries. Since the initial publication of Antipsychotic Long-acting Injections in 2010, new trial data have been published on long-acting injection (LAI) preparations of the drugs Risperidone, ... Read more

    $40.19 CAD

  • Unexpected Outcomes

    How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo, Saori N. Katada, Carol Wise ...
    This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced a decade-long recession in Latin America or when the Asian financial crisis dramatically slowed ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa

    Potential and Limitations of Democracy in Cementing Multiethnic Societies

    by D. Bigman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political problems that divided the continent. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD