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  • The Blood Bankers

    Tales from the Global Underground Economy

    de James S Henry ...
    Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and the financial collapse of nations throughout the developing world. A rogues' gallery of international criminals owes its existence ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Oil Curse

    How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

    de Michael L. Ross ...
    Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?

    The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism

    de Milford Bateman ...
    Since its emergence in the 1970s, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty in developing and transition countries. It is beloved of rock stars, movie stars, royalty, high-profile politicians and 'troubleshooting' economists.In this provocative and controversial analysis, Milford Bateman reveals that microfinance doesn't actually work. In fact, the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edición de John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • How to Be a Better Birder

    Travel Stories

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Sending Them Home

    Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13

    de Robert Manne ...
    Series Libro 13 - Quarterly Essay
    In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine thousand refugees who remain in limbo on temporary protection visas.Sending Them Home also contains a ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • What Does It Mean to Be White?

    Developing White Racial Literacy – Revised Edition

    de Robin DiAngelo ...
    Series Libro 497 - Counterpoints
    What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Human Ecology

    Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development

    de Gerald G Marten ...
    'The scope and clarity of this book make it accessible and informative to a wide readership. Its messages should be an essential component of the education for all students from secondary school to university... [It] provides a clear and comprehensible account of concepts that can be applied in our individual and collective lives to pursue the promising and secure future to which we all aspire ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Edición de J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Biofuels and Rural Poverty

    de Joy Clancy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Bioenergy
    Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries.Three key concerns are examined from a North-South perspective: ecological ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Translation Theory and Development Studies

    A Complexity Theory Approach

    de Kobus Marais ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first section’s argument that societies emerge out of, amongst others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualising translation from a complexity and emergence point of view and relating this view on emergent ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Growth, Inequality and Social Development in India

    Is Inclusive Growth Possible?

    de R Nagaraj ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    With six essays exploring different aspects of economic growth, poverty, inequality and social security, this book offers a critical perspective on India's development experience since independence. Incisive and empirically rich, the book opens up new vistas in development discourse and informs current policy debates. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD