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  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development eBook

    Playing the game to change the rules?

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Irene Guijt, Chris Roche, Cathy Shutt ...
    Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change – change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900

    by Alfred W. Crosby ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation

    The Relentless Invention of Modern India

    by Adam Roberts ...
    Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The parrot also foretold that India would win the soccer World Cup.Parrots may not be the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Fighting for Darfur

    Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide

    by Rebecca Hamilton, Mia Farrow ...
    Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can make a difference. When we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, we promised to never let such a thing happen again. But nine years later, as news began to trickle out of killings in western Sudan, an area known as Darfur, the international ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges

    How Foreign Aid became a Casualty of War

    by Peter Gill ...
    'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.'LSE Review of BooksThe war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate.From the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the unending struggle in Helmand, Peter Gill travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 2 Appeasing Jakarta

    Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy

    by John Birmingham ...
    Series Book 2 - Quarterly Essay
    In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Confronting the Weakest Link

    Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies

    by Thomas Carothers ...
    Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world. A large and ever-growing number of U.S., European, and multilateral assistance programs seek to help parties become effective pro-democratic actors. But given the depth of the problems, is ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Coffee Paradox

    Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development

    by Benoit Daviron, Stefano Ponte ...
    Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Great African Land Grab?

    Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System

    by Lorenzo Cotula ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns ... Read more

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  • Health and Poverty

    Global Health Problems and Solutions

    by Gijs Walraven ...
    There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable development.Using a novel combination of the personal studies of patients and description of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Decolonizing Global Mental Health

    The psychiatrization of the majority world

    by China Mills ...
    Series series Concepts for Critical Psychology
    Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange irony. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Movement for Global Mental Health are calling to ‘scale up’ access to psychological and psychiatric treatments globally, particularly within the global South. Simultaneously, in the global North, psychiatry and its often chemical treatments are coming under increased criticism (from ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gendered Agency in War and Peace

    Gender Justice and Women's Activism in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina

    by Maria O’Reilly ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local activists’ responses to official discourses surrounding them. Extending Nancy Fraser’s tripartite model of justice to peacebuilding ... Read more

    $89.09 USD