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  • Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil

    by Eve E. Buckley ...
    Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertão, plagued by chronic poverty, ... Read more

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  • National Theatre Connections 2026

    Eight Plays for Young Performers

    by Alexandra Wood, Helen Blakeman, Afsaneh Gray, Kirsty Housley, Florence Espeut-Nickless, Mr Al Smith, Sean Buckley, Eve Leigh ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    National Theatre Connections 2026 draws together eight new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights.These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD

  • From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales

    by Jeffery R. Webber ...
    Evo Morales rode to power on a wave of popular mobilizations against the neoliberal policies enforced by his predecessors. Yet many of his economic policies bare striking resemblance to the status quo he was meant to displace. Based in part on dozens of interviews with leading Bolivian activists, Jeff Webber examines the contradictions of Morales' first term in office. ... Read more

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  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Land Grabbers

    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

    by Fred Pearce ...
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    by Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Demanding Justice and Security

    Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America

    by Rachel Sieder, Adriana Terven Salinas, Emma Cervone, Cristina Cucuri, Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt, Leonor Lozano, Mariana Mora, Morna Macleod, Natalia De Marinis, Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo0, Maria Teresa Sierra1 ...
    Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Buying into the Regime

    Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States

    by Heidi Tinsman, PhD ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Buying into the Regime is a transnational history of how Chilean grapes created new forms of consumption and labor politics in both the United States and Chile. After seizing power in 1973, Augusto Pinochet embraced neoliberalism, transforming Chile’s economy. The country became the world's leading grape exporter. Heidi Tinsman traces the rise of Chile's fruit industry, examining how income from ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • World Hunger

    by Joseph Collins ...
    The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; the shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order; structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies; trade liberalization and free trade agreements; ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • The Soviet Theory of Development

    India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    Series series Heritage
    Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship. But they have rarely been analysed in their own terms and for what they are – the application of marxist-leninist ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Holding Corporations Accountable

    Corporate Conduct, International Codes and Citizen Action

    by Judith Richter ...
    At a time when the gigantic transnationals have a huge impact on human health, the environment, working conditions and the economic prospects of nations, this book explores whether it is sufficient to continue to rely on industry self-regulation alone.Before widening her focus to the general issues, the author examines the now famous case of the infant food industry. Almost two decades after the ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD