Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help
Rakuten Kobo
Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Global Issues eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Reclaiming Development

    An Alternative Economic Policy Manual

    by Ha-Joon Chang, Ilene Grabel ...
    Series series Global Issues
    There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004. Many of the same driving assumptions - monetarism and globalization - remain within the international development policy establishment. Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel confront this neoliberal development model head-on by combining devastating economic critique with an array of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable."-Observer (UK)If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Aid Triangle

    Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity

    by Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart Carr, Eilish McAuliffe ...
    The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance.Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • People's Knowledge and Participatory Action Research eBook

    Escaping the white-walled labyrinth

    by The People's Knowledge Editorial Collective ...
    The world of research run by universities and other institutions is dominated by a culture that is white, upper-middle class and male. When people from communities that have previously been excluded are asked to take part in research – even participative research -- they are seldom able to do so on equal terms. Instead of being supported to draw on the expertise that they have gained from their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Identity Destabilised

    Living in an Overheated World

    Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Elisabeth Schober ...
    The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’ world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A State Built on Sand

    How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

    by David Mansfield ...
    Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • From Infrastructure to Services

    Edited by Ton Schouten ...
    From Infrastructure to Services reveals important breakthroughs in country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies; ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery; monitoring the finance needed for service delivery; monitoring for sanitation and hygiene; and building coherence in global–regional–national monitoring. It asks: does project monitoring emphasize donor ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Beyond the Profits System

    Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era

    by Harry Shutt ...
    Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with. All have willfully ignored its long-term, systemic causes and are thus unable to chart a way to survival. As explained by Harry Shutt - who was almost alone in foreseeing such a disaster in the 1990s (in The Trouble with Capitalism) their continued denial stems ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Health and Poverty

    Global Health Problems and Solutions

    by Gijs Walraven ...
    There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable development.Using a novel combination of the personal studies of patients and description of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Food Sovereignty

    Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today

    Edited by Remy Herrera, Kin Chi Lau ...
    The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads. This collection explores the multiplicity of problems faced by global family agricultures in the current neoliberal era.The contributors, including include Samir Amin, Joao Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, argue that an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for their social emancipation and legitimate ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feminist Ecologies

    Changing Environments in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Peta Tait, Denise Varney, Lara Stevens ...
    This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational ... Read more

    $134.99 USD