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  • Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis
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    Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis

    Compared to 20 years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic...
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  • Economics of Agricultural Development Economics of Agricultural Development
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    Economics of Agricultural Development

    Economics of Agricultural Development examines the causes, severity, and effects of poverty, population growth, and malnutrition in developing countries. It discusses potential solutions to these problems, progress made in many countries in recent years,...
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  • Creating Great Places Creating Great Places
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    Creating Great Places

    This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places. Imagining and designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary task, and in this compelling narrative, Cushing and Miller remind us that theory is a powerful...
    $96.82

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  • OPEC and the Third World OPEC and the Third World
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    OPEC and the Third World

    Originally published in 1984 this book focuses principally on the use of foreign aid by the members of OPEC in the 1970s and demonstrates how the divisive elements both within OPEC and between OPEC and the rest of the developing world prevented OPEC from...
    $91.86

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  • Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness
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    Microfinance, Debt and Over-Indebtedness

    Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has brought to light the problem of over-indebtedness, a topic which has been previously...
    $121.63

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  • The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management
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    The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management

    The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management offers "Lasting Lessons from the Best Leadership Minds of Our Time." Compiled by Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, this is the definitive guide to how to be a successful...
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  • Wars, Guns, and Votes Wars, Guns, and Votes
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    Wars, Guns, and Votes

    "Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion."...
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  • New Directions in Development Ethics New Directions in Development Ethics
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    New Directions in Development Ethics

    Development ethics is a growing discipline that deals both academically and practically with the moral assessment of the ends, means, and processes of development. The essays in this collection honor and build on the pioneering work of Denis Goulet...
    $109.65

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  • The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress
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    The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress

    Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century. Ecological disorder and inequity is at the heart of our food system. This thoughtful and confronting book tells the story of how the...
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  • Migration and New Media Migration and New Media
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    Migration and New Media

    How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant...
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  • The Changing Face of Management in China The Changing Face of Management in China
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    The Changing Face of Management in China

    China is one of the fastest developing emerging economies in the world today. The country has a huge influence on a global level, both politically and economically. Despite this, very few books cover both the full range of management functions, and the...
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  • Museum Practices and the Posthumanities Museum Practices and the Posthumanities
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    Museum Practices and the Posthumanities

    This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions, methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically...
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  • The Governance of Energy in China The Governance of Energy in China
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    The Governance of Energy in China

    This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literarycultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theology, and rematerialism and performance, the essays...
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  • Health Inequality and Development Health Inequality and Development
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    Health Inequality and Development

    This book investigates issues related to health inequality with a particular interest on developing countries. It provides rigorous empirical work on both trends and causal factors behind health inequality, analyzes the implications of health...
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  • The World Bank Inspection Panel The World Bank Inspection Panel
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    The World Bank Inspection Panel

    Six years ago, the World Bank created the Inspection Panel, an independent mechanism to respond to claims by those whom the Bank intends to help the most, inhabitants of developing countries, if they believe they are being adversely affected by projects...
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  • Culture of Excellence Culture of Excellence
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    Culture of Excellence

    HOW DO CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP IMPACT THE PERFORMANCE OF A TEAM?For the past thirty years, one organization in baseball has stood taller than all the rest: the New York Yankees. In Culture of Excellence, Colin Cerniglia takes us inside baseball's most...
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  • With All Our Strength With All Our Strength
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    With All Our Strength

    With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan...
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  • Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future
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    Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future

    The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more...
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  • Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems
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    Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems

    Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully recognised and hence ecosystem considerations may not be...
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  • Ethics and Justice for the Environment Ethics and Justice for the Environment
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    Ethics and Justice for the Environment

    Examining the concepts of 'ethics' and 'justice' as they apply to the environment, this book starts from the observation that environmental ethics and environmental justice appear to have few points of contact. It attempts to find a common ground between...
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  • Local Climate Change and Society Local Climate Change and Society
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    Local Climate Change and Society

    Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society's relationship with the environment and the resulting structural changes in local communities to adapt to and mitigate climate change. The book analyses the principles,...
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  • Development on the Ground Development on the Ground
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    Development on the Ground

    Edited by two leading scholars who have been instrumental in the shaping of current thinking in the field of regional and industrial economics, this volume brings together a range of theoretical and empirical contributions that analyze and explain...
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  • South Asian Economic Development South Asian Economic Development
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    South Asian Economic Development

    South Asia's developing nations have been enjoying moderate to high growth over the past decade before the global recession began. This new edition provides an up-to-date guide to the growing markets in South Asia. It offers an analysis of the changes...
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  • Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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    Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

    Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved. The text highlights HIV/AIDS as an...
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  • Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy
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    Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy

    Recent institutional changes have seen the increasing dominance of globalization and neoliberalism in the world economy. As markets have been deregulated, privatization and unproductive government spending have been promoted. Yet the greater volatility...
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  • Thailand Beyond the Crisis Thailand Beyond the Crisis
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    Thailand Beyond the Crisis

    Thailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand's economic recovery.
    $362.21

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  • Oil and Development in Ghana Oil and Development in Ghana
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    Oil and Development in Ghana

    This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana's hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries.
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  • Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa
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    Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa

    Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing public...
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  • Subjects of Intergenerational Justice Subjects of Intergenerational Justice
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    Subjects of Intergenerational Justice

    This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems. .
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  • Integral Knowledge Creation and Innovation Integral Knowledge Creation and Innovation
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    Integral Knowledge Creation and Innovation

    The focus of this book is placed on creating and developing knowledge in the world of work. It is premised on the fact that knowledge is not static, but forever evolving and by the realisation that the best way to improve knowledge is to do so as a...
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  • Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies
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    Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies

    Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention - this book fills that gap. An international team of expert academics have come...
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  • Theorizing Cohesive Development Theorizing Cohesive Development
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    Theorizing Cohesive Development

    This volume proposes an alternative development paradigm to the existing capitalist extant one, and studies how it is distinctly different from the older system. Rooted in the principles of solidarity between humans, as well as between humans and nature,...
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  • An Introduction to African Politics An Introduction to African Politics
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    An Introduction to African Politics

    This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key questions...
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  • A Quantitative Analysis of Regional Well-Being A Quantitative Analysis of Regional Well-Being
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    A Quantitative Analysis of Regional Well-Being

    Using data from the World Values Survey, this book sheds light on the link between happiness and the social group to which one belongs. The work is based on a rigorous statistical analysis of differences in the probability of happiness and life...
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  • African Environmental Crisis African Environmental Crisis
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    African Environmental Crisis

    This book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration,...
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