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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • Dear Development Practitioner

    Advice for the Next Generation

    Edited by Simon Milligan, Lee Wilson ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves. Sharing their successes and failures, the challenges and barriers they have encountered, and the changes and continuities within their work, these deeply personal accounts provide an invaluable window into the world of development practice.The authors come from nearly ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • It’s Not That Radical

    Climate Action to Transform Our World

    by Mikaela Loach ...
    From a star of the climate justice movement, a fresh, radical perspective for real climate action and “an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists” (Naomi Klein).For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted to be made compatible with capitalism. In It’s Not That Radical, Loach addresses head-on the issues at ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • How to Run A Government

    So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy

    by Michael Barber ...
    Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Why is this? And what can we do about it? In this groundbreaking book Michael Barber draws on his wealth of international experience advising political leaders, to show how those in power can make good on their promises.'Refreshingly ruthless ... has an uplifting brio to it' Economist'Michael Barber is a source of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Out of the Wreckage

    A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

    by George Monbiot ...
    A leading environmental and political commentator draws a roadmap towards new politics—offering a rallying cry for a new vision of what a ‘good’ society can be—in this “dazzling command of science and relentless faith in people” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine)What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the 21st century?A toxic ideology of extreme competition and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Citizens - Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

    by Jon Alexander ...
    Citizens by Jon Alexander is a bold, uplifting wake‑up call for anyone who feels that democracy, community, and everyday life have been reduced to clicking, buying, complaining — and waiting for "them" to fix it. If you're tired of politics-as-performance, brands-as-saviours, and institutions that treat people like customers or problems to manage, this book hands you a different lens: the Citizen ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations with my sons and daughters

    by Mamphela Ramphele ...
    Where did we lose our idealism and why and at what cost?' In these conversations with people of a younger generation Mamphela Ramphele responds to the growing despair among young South Africans about the cracks that are appearing in our system of governance and threatening the idealism of the country that reinvented itself with the dawn of democracy in 1994. She shows incisively how successive ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Economist: The Future of Jobs

    The Great Mismatch

    by The Economist Publications (PUK Rights) ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Penguin Economist Special reports delve into the most pressing economic issues of the day: from national and global economies, to the impact of trade, industry and jobs. Written to be read on a long commute or in your lunch hour - be better informed in under an hour.Globalisation and technology are changing the structure of the labour market. Now, companies have the choice to recruit from ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Ocean In A Drop, The - Singapore: The Next Fifty Years

    by Kwon Ping Ho ...
    The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The Fellowship was set up to fund further research into public policy, with the S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivering between four and six lectures each year. These lectures aim to advance public understanding and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • How Change Happens

    by Duncan Green ...
    Human society is full of would-be 'change agents', a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. ... Read more

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  • Left Behind

    A New Economics for Neglected Places

    by Paul Collier ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, the fate of the poorest regions of the world–some of which exist in the richest nations–is examinedA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year**Using examples of the “left behind” regions, renowned development economist Paul Collier shows that centralized western economies have been the most ineffective to alleviate poverty—even if nationally the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Omoluwabi 2.0

    A Code of transformation in 21st century Nigeria

    by Adewale Ajadi ...
    In Omoluwabi 2.0, Adewale Ajadi lays out a new way of organising and transforming, organisations, countries and continents, based on the Yoruba principle of Omoluwabi, updated for the 21st century. "There are not many original thinkers who dare to explore new territories with creative mental tools and attentiveness to details and still come up with a reader-friendly book. Adewale Ajadi's book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A World Without Racism

    Building Antiracist Futures

    Edited by Joshua Virasami ...
    What is antiracist activism? And how do we organise for power around antiracist principles? In this groundbreaking collection, long-time activist Joshua Virasami gathers the voices of some of our most inspirational organisers, thinkers and collectives.A World Without Racism offers a set of clear-eyed, radical and accessible principles and strategies for building working-class power through ... Read more

    $17.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus