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  • Rethink, Retool, Reboot eBook

    Technology as if people and planet mattered

    by Simon Trace ...
    Technology underpins human development. We need it to provide the very basics of a minimum standard of life – food, water, shelter, health and education. But a significant proportion of the world’s population do not have these basics today. And whilst a fifth of the world’s population lacks access to technologies fundamental to a basic standard of living, unfettered use of technology by those who ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rethink, Retool, Reboot

    by Simon Trace ...
    Technology underpins human development. We need it to provide the very basics of a minimum standard of life – food, water, shelter, health and education. But a significant proportion of the world’s population do not have these basics today. And whilst a fifth of the world’s population lacks access to technologies fundamental to a basic standard of living, unfettered use of technology by those who ... Read more

    $18.29 CAD

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  • Population and Development

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  • Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa

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  • Economics in the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Perspective

    by Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson ...
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  • Women and Development in the Third World

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    Series series Routledge Introductions to Development
    For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development ... Read more

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    The Dilemma of Success

    by Yufan Hao, Li Sheng, Guanjin Pan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • Water Is Life

    Edited by G. Honor Fagan ...
    A safe, adequate water supply within easy reach is still a dream for many people living in rural Africa. This book examines why such a basic service is not yet universally available by studying in detail one particular region of rural Uganda. What is the experience of women and children who have responsibility for fetching enough water for drinking, washing, cooking and feeding livestock? Are the ... Read more

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  • European Atrocity, African Catastrophe

    Leopold II, the Congo Free State and its Aftermath

    by Sir Martin Ewans, Martin Ewans ...
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