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  • Whatever Happened to Class?

    Reflections from South Asia

    by Christopher Candland, Leela Fernandes, John Harriss, Patrick Heller, Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Vivek Chibber ...
    Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • State Capture in South Africa

    How and why it happened

    by Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Peter Vale, Karl von Holdt, Robyn Foley, Ryan Brunette, Jonathan Klaaren, Cherese Thakur, Devi Pillay, Luke Spiropoulos0, Reg Rumney1, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh2, Michael Marchant3, Hennie van Vuuren4, Patrick Heller5, Barney Pityana6 ...
    A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Bootstrapping Democracy

    Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva ...
    Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bootstrapping Democracy

    Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva ...
    Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Deliberation and Development

    Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

    Edited by Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...
    Series series Equity and development
    This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study of deliberation—which explores normative and practical questions around group-based decision making through discussion or debate—has emerged as a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the field of development has seen a spurt of interest in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey

    Prohibition in Memphis

    by Patrick O'Daniel ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country—but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city made on the rest of the state and country.Prohibition ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Deliberation and Development

    Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

    Edited by Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...
    Series series Equity and development
    Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond a narrow focus on participatory projects. Deliberation, if properly instituted, has the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Hell or High Water

    Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River

    by Peter Heller ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-running challenge, the remote Tsangpo is relentlessly unforgiving, more difficult than any stretch of river ever attempted. Its mysteries have withstood a century's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead ...
    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Learning Disobedience

    Decolonizing Development Studies

    by Amber Murrey, Prof. Patricia Daley ...
    ‘This is a must-read for current struggles for dignity and pluriversal, decolonized solidarity. The authors invite us to abolish development, not as simple rejection, but as a life-affirming pathway into liberation and freedom beyond coloniality’ Rosalba Icaza, Professor, Erasmus University of Rotterdam‘Murrey and Daley take no prisoners in their sharp decolonial analysis’ Sabelo J. Ndlovu ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Power

    Where Is It?

    by Donald Savoie ...
    In this informative critique of contemporary leadership, renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located, and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power, making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD