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  • Culture, Institutions, and Development

    New Insights Into an Old Debate

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Robert Peccoud ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and values affect economic growth is of critical importance, particularly because of its policy implications. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Southeast Asia Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    There are lots of fun and religious places in Southeast Asia. Would you like to visit them? This picture book showcases all these places so you can explore them without actually leaving home. Picture books fuel your child's acceptance of learning. The use of pictures ensure universal understanding too. Your child does not need to master reading in order to appreciate this unique book. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beasts and Gods

    How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose

    by Roslyn Fuller ...
    Democracy does not deliver on the things we have assumed are its natural outcomes. This, coupled with a growing sense of malaise in both new and established democracies forms the basis to the assertion made by some, that these are not democracies at all.Through considerable, impressive empirical analysis of a variety of voting methods, across twenty different nations, Roslyn Fuller presents the ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Horn of Africa

    Intra-State and Inter-State Conflicts and Security

    Edited by Redie Bereketeab ...
    The Horn of Africa, comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, is the most conflict-ridden region in Africa. This book explores the origins and impact of these conflicts at both an intra-state and inter-state level and the insecurity they create.The contributors show how regional and international interventions have compounded pre-existing tensions and have been driven by competing ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and the Environment

    Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Lyuba Zarsky ...
    The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Justice and Development

    by J. Culp ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Defending a procedural conception of global justice that calls for the establishment of reasonably democratic arrangements within and beyond the state, this book argues for a justice-based understanding of social development and justifies why a democracy-promoting international development practice is a requirement of global justice. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

    Edited by United Nations Publications ...
    Series series The United Nations Series on Development
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Human Rights-Based Change

    The Institutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights

    Edited by Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Hans-Otto Sano ...
    This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change. Based on the understanding that HRBADs are increasingly integrated into development and governance discourse and processes in many societies and organisations, it explores how the reinforcement of human rights principles and norms has impacted the practices and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Back Door Java

    State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java

    by Janice Newberry ...
    In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as unpaid social workers. Consequently, women are a pivotal point in both state-sponsored programs of ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Bottom-Up Politics

    An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization

    Edited by D. Kostovicova, M. Glasius ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Mountain World in Danger

    Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe

    by Sten Nilsson, David Pitt ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tourist Shopping Villages

    Forms and Functions

    by Laurie Murphy, Pierre Benckendorff, Gianna Moscardo, Philip L. Pearce ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    Shopping is perhaps the most universal of tourist activities. Tourists form a separate retailing segment from the general population and place importance on different products and product attributes, contributing billions of dollars each year for both the private and public sector by which retail areas, townscapes and streetscapes can be revitalised. This volume – based on a two year research ... Read more

    $62.99 USD