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“professor robert chambers”

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  • Into the Unknown eBook

    Explorations in development practice

    by Professor Robert Chambers ...
    Development is about change, and lives immersed in researching international development should be prepared for exploration, for discovering the unexpected, and for questioning the direction that ‘development’ is taking. Robert Chambers reflects on experiences, which led him to examine personal biases and predispositions, and he challenges readers to examine the pervasive significance of power in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Provocations for Development eBook

    by Professor Robert Chambers ...
    Do we use obscure or fashionable words to impress our colleagues or win research proposals? Are many of our actions against poverty simple, direct and wrong? Provocations for Development is an entertaining and unsettling collection of writings that questions concepts, conventions and practices in development. It is made up of short and accessible writings by Robert Chambers reflecting on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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 Central Liberal Truth

    How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, child-rearing practices, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Ecological Hoofprint

    The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

    by Tony Weis ...
    The exploding global consumption of meat is implicated in momentous but greatly underappreciated problems, and industrial livestock production is the driving force behind soaring demand.Following his previous ground-breaking book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis explains clearly why the growth and industrialization of livestock production is a central part of the accelerating biophysical ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Business and the Sustainability Challenge

    An Integrated Perspective

    by Peter N. Nemetz ...
    It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Hidden Hunger

    Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods

    by Aya Hirata Kimura ...
    For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • What Does It Mean to Be White?

    Developing White Racial Literacy – Revised Edition

    by Robin DiAngelo ...
    Series Book 497 - Counterpoints
    What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that make this question so difficult: mis-education about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning

    How to Create and Implement Sustainability Plans in Any Business or Organization

    by Darcy Hitchcock, Marsha Willard ...
    Sustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren‘t an expert?From the authors of the award-winning handbook The Business Guide to Sustainability comes this highly practical guide to designing and implementing a customized sustainability plan in any business, organization or government department of any type and ... Read more

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  • The Future of Development

    A Radical Manifesto

    by Gustavo Esteva, Salvatore J. Babones, Philipp Babcicky ...
    On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as "underdeveloped" and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Ethno-ornithology

    Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society

    Edited by Andrew Gosler, Sonia Tidemann ...
    Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Geography of Power

    Making Global Economic Policy

    by Richard Peet ...
    This work looks at how contemporary global economic policies are made: by which institutions, under what ideologies, and how they are enforced. The author reveals the central roles played by organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank in supervising the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people. He shows that neoliberal economic policy is enforced by a few thousand unelected and unaccountable ... Read more

    $32.39 USD