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“fiona adshead”

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  • The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change

    Diagnosis and Cure

    Edited by Fiona Adshead, Jenny Griffiths, Mala Rao, Allison Thorpe ...
    Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design healthy, sustainable communities. The book: - provides an introduction for health practitioners ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The Elephant, The Tiger, and the Cellphone

    India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tharoor, one of the subcontinent’s most respected writers and diplomats, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its dazzling diversity of languages, customs, and cultures remains-more than sixty years after its founding-the world’s largest democracy. He describes the vast changes that have transformed this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Economist's Tale

    A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank

    by Peter Griffiths ...
    What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank.In this ruthlessly honest, day by day account of a mission he undertook in Sierra Leone, he uses his diary to tell the story of how the World Bank, obsessed with the free market, imposed a secret agreement ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Brazil

    Neoliberalism versus Democracy

    by Alfredo Saad-Filho, Lecio Morais ...
    Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years.However, as protests during ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy

    by Doctor Thiven Reddy ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Anthropology, Theatre, and Development

    The Transformative Potential of Performance

    by Alex Flynn, Jonas Tinius ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider collectives. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

    Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel. Yet in other cases, environmental green agendas are the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa

    Governance Below the State

    Edited by Nicholas Awortwi, Gregor Walter-Drop ...
    Series series African Governance
    For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire. Over half of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and about a quarter are undernourished. If factors such as armed conflicts in the region, the impact of climate change, or the widespread presence of a broad range of infectious agents are considered, it shows a large number of Africans ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Determinants of Small Firm Growth

    An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90

    by Richard Barkham, Graham Gudgin, Mark Hart ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    One of the most striking trends in economic development since the 1970s has been the rising importance of the small firm. Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth, this book explores the literature of this area. Moving from an analysis of measures of growth to the effects of both internal and external variables - arguing that the owner ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • White Settlers

    The Impact of Rural Repopulation in Scotland

    by Charles Jedrej, Mark Nuttall ...
    First Published in 1996. Feelings about the repopulation of remote rural areas are nowadays expressed in rather alarming terms, so that in the word of a Skye land-owner: 'the filling of empty glens with people, regardless of origin, is dangerous...because it can destroy the ancient culture which is so precious'. Yet it is remarkable that the depopulation which characterized the previous centuries ... Read more

    $66.99 USD