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  • Megacommunities

    How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today's Global Challenges Together

    by Mark Gerencser, Reginald Van Lee, Fernando Napolitano, Christopher Kelly ...
    A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment--such problems are too large for any one authority to solve alone. Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world calls for a new type of tri-sector leadership in which business, government and nonprofits work together in a state of permanent negotiation. To be effective, tomorrow's leaders will ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • No One's World

    The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn

    by Charles A. Kupchan ...
    The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil and other emerging powers rise. Although most strategists recognize that the dominance of the West is on the wane, they ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Globalizers

    The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

    by Ngaire Woods ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy.—from the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Reproach of Hunger

    Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century

    by David Rieff ...
    Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for nine billion people in 2050, especially the bottom poorest in the Global South? Some of the most ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Learning to Change the World

    The Social Impact of One Laptop Per Child

    by Walter Bender, Charles Kane, Jody Cornish, Neal Donahue ...
    UNESCO estimates that eleven percent of primary school–age children—seventy-two million worldwide—are not enrolled in or attending school. Children who do attend may find themselves in schools that lack adequate space, facilities, or resources—impossible situations for learning. It is against this backdrop of profound need that One Laptop per Child (OLPC) emerged in 2005. The mission of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Keepers of the Flame

    Understanding Amnesty International

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a prison, it is Amnesty International. Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truth—bearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."—from the PrefaceThe first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics

    Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines

    by Joel F. Ariate Jr, Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Ma Glenda S. Lopez Wui, Thandika Mkandawire, Ronald C. Molmisa, Sharon M. Quinsaat ...
    The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society sector. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Expose, Oppose, Propose

    Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice

    by William K. Carroll ...
    Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework?Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of a different sort, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Financing Nonprofits

    Putting Theory into Practice

    by Woods Bowman, Arthur Brooks, Joseph Cordes, Charles M. Gray, Janet Greenlee, Mark Hager, Renee Irvin, Estelle James, Kevin M. Kearns, Elizabeth Keating, Anne Preston, Patrick Rooney, Michael Rushton, Richard Sansing, Roxanne Spillett, Richard Steinberg, Howard Tuckman, Robert Yetman ...
    Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory to offer a conceptual framework for understanding this diverse mix of financing sources. By applying ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Resilient Sector Revisited

    The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

    by Lester M Salamon ...
    Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions being buffeted by a withering set of challenges, yet still finding ways to survive and prosper. These ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Chairing Multilateral Negotiations

    The Case of the United Nations

    by Spyros Blavoukos, Dimitris Bourantonis ...
    Series series Routledge Research on the United Nations (UN)
    This book examines the important role of the chairmanship office in multilateral negotiations within the UN setting. Although chairmanship is a generic feature of international politics, negotiations, and decision-making, it has been scarcely researched. The neutrality and impartiality assumptions that have been long associated with the chair have veiled the chair’s potential in moulding ... Read more

    $72.99 USD