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  • Land and Loyalty

    Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand

    by Tomas Larsson ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in economic benefits. But the ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • Krakatoa

    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    by Simon Winchester ...
    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Swimming to Cambodia

    by Spalding Gray, James Leverett ...
    “It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand ... Read more

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  • Land's End

    Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier

    by Tania Murray Li ...
    Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their families. Yet the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Dirty Wars and Polished Silver

    The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

    by Lynda Schuster ...
    From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world**Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school, she set out to find it.Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is Schuster’s story of her life abroad as a foreign ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Vietnam

    A New History

    by Christopher Goscha ...
    **The definitive history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past“The best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English.” —Wall Street Journal**In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of emperors, rebels, priests, and colonizers left complicated legacies in this remarkable country. Periods of Chinese, French, and ... Read more

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  • Island of Java

    by John Joseph Stockdale ...
    This is the first and most important book about the Island of Java and is essential reading for anyone interested in Javanese history and culture.Originally published in 1811, Island of Java was the first popular work in English to describe what for many centuries was the most important island in the vast Indonesian archipelago. Like most works published during this time, Island of Java recounts ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Hard Interests, Soft Illusions

    Southeast Asia and American Power

    by Natasha Hamilton-Hart ...
    In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy ... Read more

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  • Failing in the Field

    What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong

    by Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel ...
    A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach—and how to avoid themAll across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Development

    An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice

    by David Mosse ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book ... Read more

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  • Early Mapping of the Pacific

    The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean

    by Thomas Suarez ...
    Take a journey back to the uncharted oceans with the most celebrated European explorers!Interest in Southeast Asian history and culture is higher than ever before. Ancient cartography of Oceania holds mysteries as old as time—were these early ocean maps molded as much by fantasy as fact? Early Mapping of the Pacific bravely delves into all the questions surrounding the history of maps.The Pacific ... Read more

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  • Sharing Nature's Interest

    Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability

    by Nicky Chambers, Craig Simmons, Mathis Wackernagel ...
    Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness ... Read more

    $54.99 USD