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  • The Trouble with Africa

    Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

    by Robert Calderisi ...
    After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's misfortunes are self-imposed, and why the world must now deal differently with the continent.Here we learn that Africa has steadily lost markets by its own mismanagement, that even ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Quebec in a Global Light

    Reaching for the Common Ground

    by Robert Calderisi ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    To the outside world, Quebec is Canada’s most distinctive province. To many Canadians, it has sometimes seemed the most troublesome. But, over the last quarter century, quietly but steadily, it has wrestled successfully with two of the West’s most daunting challenges: protecting national values in the face of mass immigration and striking a proper balance between economic efficiency and a sound ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Earthly Mission

    The Catholic Church and World Development

    by Robert Calderisi ...

    $25.99 USD

  • Cecil Rhodes and Other Statues

    Dealing Plainly with the Past

    by Robert Calderisi ...
    Like the Pharaohs he admired, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) hoped to be remembered for 4,000 years. Barely 120 years later, many people want him expunged from history altogether. A major figure in the British Empire, he has been the subject of a bitter international controversy. This book sheds new light on a complicated story, relates the history of the Rhodes Scholarships, and suggests common ... Read more

    $12.95 USD

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  • The Changing Face of Empire

    Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Tomorrow's Battlefield

    U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today." In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Shackled Continent

    Power, Corruption, and African Lives

    by Robert Guest ...
    A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic.Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Bleeding Continent

    How Africa Became Impoverished and Why It Remains Poor

    by Venatius Chukwudum Oforka ...
    This book tells the story of the sorry state of Africa. Although it acknowledges how Europe especially initiated and has surreptitiously maintained the ongoing predation on and the impoverishment of Africa, its major attention is on Africas self-betrayal, how Africas political leaders and elites have contributed in the present predicament of Africa. Beginning from the dishonourably sadistic roles ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Classic Spurgeon Sermons Volume I: 50 sermons from 1855 (Illustrated Edition)

    by Charles Spurgeon ...
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody was to America. Although Spurgeon never attended theological school, by the age of twenty-one he was the most ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Magnificent and Beggar Land

    Angola Since the Civil War

    by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira ...
    Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Business Guide to Sustainability

    Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations

    by Darcy Hitchcock, Marsha Willard ...
    Winner of Choice Magazine - Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Sustainability promises both reduced environmental impacts and real cash savings for any organization - be it a business, non-profit/NGO or government department. This easy-to-use manual has been written by top business consultants specifically to help managers, business owners, organizational leaders and aspiring environmental ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Origins and Solutions to Africa’S Rebel Conflicts (The Seirra Leone Chapter)

    Politicians Centered Approach

    by MOHAMED SANNOH ...
    What are the origins and solutions of Africas civil conflicts? Putting straight answers to this question, the origins of Africas civil conflicts are the very corrupt politicians who think that members of the civil society are at their mercy and can do nothing to stop their lootings and unfairness. They buy houses overseas to send their children there to study, including transferring money into ... Read more

    $3.99 USD