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“tabatha wallington”

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  • Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

    Edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons, Tabatha Wallington ...
    As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production and food access are of particular concern in the context of climate change, 'peak oil', biofuels, and land grabs by wealthy nations.Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability offers ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

    by Linsey McGoey ...
    Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more ... Read more

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  • NoNonsense International Development

    Illusions and Realities

    by Maggie Black ...
    "Development" is often misunderstood and can embrace everything from large infrastructure projects to small-scale environmental initiatives. The idea can often mask confusion, contradiction, deceit and corruption. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know what development actually is. It covers all the key themes and critically suggests ways to bring the poor and marginalised into ... Read more

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  • Supply Chain Excellence

    The AIM and DRIVE Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results

    by Jimmy ANKLESARIA ...
    This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers.For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated?and then doing so effectively?can prove impossible without the right method. Using real-life case ... Read more

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  • Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction

    Edited by Irene Dankelman ...
    Although climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon.This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Inside China's Automobile Factories

    The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance

    by Lu Zhang ...
    In Inside China's Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world's largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories in various regions of China, Zhang provides an inside look at the daily factory life of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Revivals: Development and Social Change in the Pacific Islands (1989)

    Edited by A.D. Couper ...
    First published in 1989. The Pacific Islands are amongst the poorest countries of the developing world. The special problems of their small size, immense distance from major centres and, for many, very poor agricultural possibilities make development extremely difficult. However, recent new advances in maritime technology in a wide range of different areas present substantial new opportunities. ... Read more

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  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    by Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... Read more

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  • Mega-Urbanization in the Global South

    Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state

    Edited by Ayona Datta, Abdul Shaban ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say. Mega ... Read more

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  • The Social Economics of Poverty

    Edited by Christopher B. Barrett ...
    Series series Priorities for Development Economics
    A unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behaviour in developing countries, this book calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, and shows how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread disparity in incomes. This book will prove to be essential for students studying development economics. ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • We're Not Supposed to Tell You: Sex Slavery, Drugs, and Other Secrets of Thailand’s Prostitution Industry

    by Noi Thawattana ...
    The neon lights hide a cage.To the tourist, Thailand's red-light districts look like a party. The girls are smiling, the music is loud, and the alcohol flows freely. If you ask a bargirl if she is happy, she will tell you yes. If you ask if she is forced to work, she will say no.She is lying. She has to.In We're Not Supposed To Tell You, former insider Noi Thawattana breaks the ultimate code of ... Read more

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  • Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World

    Governance Beyond the Center

    Edited by M. Bouziane, C. Harders, A. Hoffmann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The contributors link innovative analytical concepts and ethnographic in-depth case studies from the Arab world. Based on the debates on politics from below and dynamic concepts of state, all the chapters focus on informal institutions, non-elite actors, and the dynamic and contradictory relationship between state and society. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD